Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Bernie Sanders playing bongos...

...to Ben Harper's song “Burn One Down”

Let's burn one from end to end
And pass it over to me my friend
Burn it long, we'll burn it slow
To light me up before I go

If you don't like my fire
then don't come around
Cause I'm gonna burn one down
Cause I'm gonna burn one down...

If you don't like my fire
Then don't come around
Cause I'm gonna burn one down
Cause I'm gonna burn one down

* The Brooklyn-born senator, who began his political career in Vermont in the early 1970s, said he tried marijuana twice, but didn’t like it. Sanders said the drug is probably not as harmful as alcohol and should be largely decriminalized.

Posted by Bud Meyers at 3:20 PM
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3 comments:

  1. Bud MeyersOctober 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM

    OCT. 22, 2015 --- Washington Post:

    Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that he is open to the legalization of marijuana during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC. The senator from Vermont, who is competing against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, said he wants to learn from the experiences of Colorado and other states that have legalized recreational pot use.

    “We have more people in jail today than any other country on earth,” Sanders told Kimmel. “We have large numbers of lives that have been destroyed because of this war on drugs, and because people were caught smoking marijuana and so forth. I think we have got to end the war on drugs.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/22/bernie-sanders-says-hes-open-to-legalizing-marijuana-use/

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  2. Bud MeyersOctober 22, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    Marijuana use in the U.S. has doubled in the past decade. More than 9 percent of Americans smoked marijuana in 2013, which was up from 4.1 percent in 2002-2003, according to a new study.

    http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2464591

    A new Gallup poll shows support for legalization is at an all-time high (Pun intended.)

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/21/gallup-nearly-60-percent-of-americans-want-legal-marijuana/

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  3. Bud MeyersOctober 22, 2015 at 11:24 AM

    Philadelphia decriminalized marijuana possession, doling out citations instead of arrests, and within one year of the new policy taking effect, they are seeing positive results...

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/21/1436661/-Check-out-what-happened-when-one-of-the-biggest-cities-in-the-U-S-decriminalized-marijuana

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