Ok... The World Is Turnin Upside Down... Bob Barr Is Now Pro-Pot !!!

[WillyT]

Bob Barr Flip-Flops on Pot
By: Chris Frates
March 28, 2007 04:52 PM EST

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Bob Barr, who as a Georgia congressman authored a successful amendment that blocked D.C. from implementing a medical marijuana initiative, has switched sides and become a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project.

But that doesn’t mean he has become a bong-ripping hippie. He isn’t pro-drug, he said, just against government intrusion.

“I, over the years, have taken a very strong stand on drug issues, but in light of the tremendous growth of government power since 9/11, it has forced me and other conservatives to go back and take a renewed look at how big and powerful we want the government to be in people’s lives,” Barr said.

Aaron Houston, the project’s government relations director, said Barr brings a “great deal of credibility, particularly among people on the Republican side of the aisle.”

“He certainly would not have been the first person I would have expected to sign off to us, but I’m very pleased that he has,” Houston said. “I’m very pleased that he has come around, and I hope he serves as an example to his former colleagues.”

Ironically, Barr said he will help lead the fight to give District residents a say on whether to allow medical marijuana — the very thing the “Barr Amendment” denied them in 1998. He will lobby for the rights of states to set their own medical marijuana policy without federal interference.

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Link: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=95B8F233-3048-5C12-0029F56B532B8EC8


Um... Uh... :shrug:

[Error]

1. My god, it sounds like Rob K is finally winning!

[Scout1071]

2. Free Mary Jane!

Free Mary Jane!

[liberaltrucker]

3. Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore

:wow:

[Sherman A1]

4. Bob is usually

very interesting. Don't agree with him on many things, but I enjoy seeing what his pov is on issues.

[southerncrone]

5. Call me paranoid, but....

I smell a rat wrapped in sheep's clothing here. If it seems too good to be true....it probably is.
Perhaps Barr has repented his Repuke ways, but I'm just not sold. Suspect he has another agenda hidden somewhere in this.

:hide:
:yoiks:

[NightWatcher]

7. he is also a spokesman for the ACLU

does that mean that he is a true conservative and all of the current neoconmen are really phony?

[Bjorn Against]

8. I think he has an agenda too...like running for President

He recently became a Libertarian, but there is no way the Libertarians would nominate someone who wants to keep the war on drugs going. By making this change Bob Barr is paving his way to get the Libertarian Presidential nomination, you can pretty much count on him running after this move.

[RubyDuby in GA]

19. He's a libertarian

He's totally against government intrusion in people's personal lives. It pains me greatly when I open our local newspaper and read an op-ed piece by him and agree with him completely.

Where was this guy when he was gunning for The Clenis?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. he's also very pro.....

whip cream on strippers' tits

how high was he that night?

[WillyT]

10. Hey, Hey, Hey... So Am I !!!

And it was a fifth of Jack, 12 pack of Miller, and an 8-Ball.

Funny how ya can't remeber what ya did that night, but ya have a decent recollection of what it cost.

:shrug:

[mitchum]

9. And for some reason he prefers to smoke blunts

[Ilsa]

11. Geez, these conservatives have a helluva lot more fun than

this liberal mother who choses to occasionally self-medicate.

[Canuckistanian]

12. I'm honored to be alive at the birth of a new life form

The "True Libertarian".

May he thrive and prosper.

[AndreaCG]

13. Barr's gotten more sensible since leaving Congress.

I'm not that surprised at this.

[bananas]

14. It's a fucking plant, for Christ's sake

:banghead:

[eridani]

15. He's always been a vicious culture warrior AND a civil libertarian

The Repubs got a twofer when their crossover scheme booted both McKinney and Barr at the same time in 2002--he was making too much of a stink about the PATRIOT Act. Looks like in this time his internal civil libertarian has won out over his internal culture warrior.

[intheflow]

16. Wonder if he knows someone that's terminally ill

and smoking weed to make it through the pain. First hand experience like that will open your eyes.

[grannylib]

17. The whole 'war on drugs' thing is about as big a joke as there is...

if everything were legalized, regulated, taxed and all that, we could redeploy DEA agents to border patrol (including maybe Canada, where some of the 9/11 hijackers got in, from what I hear) and port security and chemical plant security and a whole shitload of other areas where they might actually do some damn good.

[southerncrone]

23. Plus we'd have no more overcrowded prisons! What a tremendous savings!

[grannylib]

24. Exactly!

[tridim]

18. Cannabis obviously needs to be rescheduled, the science is conclusive..

and the people know it. It's a good goal for 08, or sooner if we can manage to get out of Iraq and impeach BushCo. First things first.

[Hobarticus]

20. Very little audience for Clinton-bashing, anymore...

Seemed every time some network needed some "opposing viewpoint" to Clinton, they'd bring this bastard in. Always struck me as a little attention-hungry.

[helderheid]

21. What the hell kind of hat is that he's wearing in the picture?

:P

[DemBones DemBones]

22. While still in Congress, Bob Barr was warning

his constituents with letters about the PATRIOT Act, as well as speaking out against it in Congress. That's when the * crew decided he had to go. He went to work as a consultant for the ACLU on privacy issues soon after his defeat.

He didn't discover his devotion to the Constitution after his defeat, he's been talking about it for years. I'd rather have him in Congress than his successor Phil Gingrey.