Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot?

My best guess: Either Obama was never really concerned with medical marijuana and his promises during the 2008 race were just complete bullshit made up to get votes, or however much he IS actually concerned with states' rights and marijuana was crushed under the weight of the DEA, the GOP, Blue Dogs, and members of his own Administration giving him a loud, unambiguous NO.

So either our President is a liar or spineless, or just a spineless liar. Good thing for Obama a scary amount of his base will vote for him no matter what kind of Neocon bullshit he furthers.

This is an automatically generated TL;DR, original reduced by 77%.

At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.

According to Gallup, in 1996 - when California became the first state to allow for the legally sanctioned use of cannabis therapy - only 25 percent of Americans backed legalizing marijuana for all adults.

While the passage and enactment of statewide medical marijuana laws - 16 states and the District of Columbia now have laws recognizing marijuana's therapeutic use on the books - is not solely driving the public's shift in support for broader legalization, it is arguably a major factor.

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Election time is coming around.

Because they never cared about it to begin with. Why is this so hard for people to understand? He bullshitted you, plain and simple.

Sad part is, you'll likely vote for him again.

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