Last Friday, I detailed the Obama transition team's efforts to reach out to the faithful by allowing them to ask questions of the President-Elect on his website, change.gov. More than 7000 questions were submitted, with the readers then voting on their favorite questions. And the #1 question people wanted answered?
"Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?"
S. Man, Denton
I speculated that Obama would dodge the question. Turns out that I was wrong. Here is the pithy response.
President-elect Obama is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana.
Transition Team, Washington, D.C.
Seems a little brief, no? Especially in light of the fact that the rest of Obama's answers were longer and more thought out.
Looks like the pro-pot activists have their work cut out for them.
This article appears in Dec 17-23, 2008.
