POT TV - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. In this episode: We discuss Health Canada's new medical marijuana regulations with attorney Kirk Tousaw and medical marijuana patient Matt Mernagh.
Also on the show: We talk about the history of cannabis and Christmas with researcher and author Chris Bennett and discuss The End of The World (or is it The Beginning of a New World?) on today's date, December 21, 2012.
POT TV - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. In this episode: Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Allen St. Pierre joins the show to discuss President Barack Obama's comments that "it doesn't make sense" to go after marijuana users in states that have legalized.
POT TV - President Barack Obama told ABC News' Barbara Walters that "it would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal."
"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said in reference to legalization ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington passed during the last election.
Will Obama follow through on his word? Or will he continue to bust users anyway (like he did the last time he promised to leave medical marijuana users alone)?
POT TV - Get high and talk pot with with Marijuana Man and Al the Alchemist LIVE every Wednesday at 4PM Pacific on From Under the Influence. On today's show: We're Here, We're High, (It's Legal), Get Used To It.
Obama is making plans to deal with legal marijuana in Washington State and Colorado. What will the President do?
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POT TV – Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan has said states should make their own decisions when it comes to medical marijuana. Will Obama stand up for the same thing?
From The Big Picture on RT: Since he took office - President Obama has been the most radical anti-drug president in American history - despite promising otherwise. Should he continue America's failed war on drugs - or take a surprising page out of Paul Ryan's playbook? Update* Paul Ryan has now backtracked on medical marijuana.
POT TV - The Young Turks discuss a new article in GQ magazine theorizing on what Obama might do about the War on Marijuana in his second term.
From The Young Turks on YouTube:
"According to Ambinder, Obama's "aides and associates" say that the president is looking to prioritize reform, a reflection of the president's long-held beliefs that strict drug prohibition and enforcement policies have done greater damage to society than good."
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/obama-drug-war_n_1643483.html
POT TV - Internet newsies The Young Turks discuss decriminalization Rhode Island's an the ongoing crackdown on medical marijuana by President Barack Obama.
From the TYT on YouTube:
Rhode Island has decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Meanwhile in California, Los Angeles federal prosecutors are filing asset-forfeiture lawsuits in a backdoor attempt to close medical cannabis dispensaries. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss President Obama's crackdown on The Young Turks.
POT TV - It's either a lie or doublethink: Obama Administration Attorney General Eric Holder says emails specifically mentioning the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation are not actually about Fast and Furious.
Holder has come under increasing pressure over the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, where thousands of guns were exported to Mexico by the US government for use by Mexican drug cartels.