End The Prohibition: Legalize Marijuana Federally

Dear MoveOn.org Supporter:

End the Prohibition of medically prescribed marijuana and also the using of marijuana recreationally. The only effect the "War On Drugs' has, as far as pot is concerned, is to keep an increasingly vicious group of drug criminals and their international banking cohorts, also criminals, in ridiculous wealth and power to corrupt the political systems of the world even more every day. People will get pot if they want it, just as they did alcoholic beverages 90 or 100 years ago, and all that money could be accruing to the US Treasury, from taxes and direct sales, where it is obviously direly needed (instead of wasting more money on a futile and humanly destructive additional war). This is the one federal policy area where I can not agree with the rationale of the President, whatever that is, because I have asked President Obama and his staff to let me know what the rationale could possibly be for so regressive a policy) in three letters, over the last six months, and I have had no response from anyone. I am a strong supporter of the President in most other areas, and he did answer me personally when, in previous months, I advocated his landslide reelection publicly. I still hope he will do so on this important issue as well.
My personal involvement in this issue involves my father's glaucoma some years ago,
I have also suggested, if he is generally against smoking for health reasons, that he allow marijuana consumption in the liquid form known as "cannabinol."
Public attitudes are obviously changing, witness the surprising reversals in Colorado and Washington states, where marijuana was decriminalized even for recreational uses, as well as prescribed medical ones. Ask him to explain what he hopes to gain.

Terry Alden
Cupertino, California
January 22, 2013