The Democrats: Party of Pot Legalization

      You have Democrats both at the state and city level-think Andrew Cuomo and Rahm Emmanuel as well as state Democrats like the Texas Democrats putting it in their platform. There haven't been many GOPers to take the plunge-some in Colorado did.

       Largely the Dems are the Wets, the Repugs are the Drys. Two Congressional Democrats questioned Michele Leonhart, the DEA administrator about marijuana legalization. The ran into the proverbial stonewall.

      "Two Democratic congressmen who support medical marijuana pursued almost identical lines of questioning of the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday — and ran into identical stone walls."

      "Reps. Jared Polis and Steve Cohen grilled Michele Leonhart about the dangers of marijuana relative to other illegal drugs, such as heroin and methamphetamine, during a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. The DEA administrator only frustrated their efforts."

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      No matter what this woman simply cannot admit that pot is not like crack cocaine or heroin:

     "Is crack worse for a person than marijuana?” Polis asked.

     “I believe all illegal drugs are bad,” Leonhart replied.

      “Is methamphetamine worse for somebody’s health than marijuana?”

      “I don’t think any illegal drug is good.”

      “Is heroin worse for someone’s health than marijuana?”

      “Again, all drugs…”

     “It’s either ‘yes,’ ‘no,’ or ‘I don’t know.’”

      "The scene was scarcely different with Cohen asking these questions."

      “Would you agree that marijuana causes less harm to individuals than meth, crack, cocaine, and heroin?” he asked.

      “As a former police officer, as a 32-year DEA agent, I can tell you that I think marijuana is an insidious drug,” Leonhart replied.

       Mind you, I think there I would have gone on a different tact with her. Simply get her to tell us what exactly is so insidious about it. That would have been interesting. In the end this whole line of question may be threatening to a high ranking bureaucrat like her as if drugs are legalized she's out of a job. Whether or not pot is really a gateway drug it might be the gateway to further legalization.