Gary Johnson Named To Medical Cannabis Payment Solutions Advisory Board. LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medical Cannabis Payment Solutions (OTC Bulletin Board, REFG), a leader in technological solutions for the medical cannabis industry, has announced that Gary Johnson has joined the company’s Advisory Board. The Advisory Board provides guidance and strategic decision-making for the rollout of the company's recently announced payment and compliance system. “Gary Johnson’s presence on our Advisory Board is a major addition to our company” Johnson was a two-term governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election.
He has written extensively about governmental and regulatory issues. “Gary Johnson’s presence on our Advisory Board is a major addition to our company,” said Medical Cannabis Payment Solutions CEO Jeremy Roberts. About Medical Cannabis Payment Systems, Inc. Our mission is to provide end-to-end management, across multiple management systems, for medicinal marijuana operations. Contact: Gov. Gary Johnson slams NSA spying. Gary Johnson on Looming Economic Collapse. Gary Johnson: ‘This could be my last email’ | Independent Political Report: Third Party News. Email from Our America Initiative: Friends, If you’ve been listening to the politicians and the national media for the past several weeks, you know that the budget sequester spending “cuts” President Obama and Congress came up with — as opposed to actually coming up with a budget — are taking effect today and may end life as we know it.
Planes will fall from the sky, our military will be dismantled, children will go hungry, and prisons will be emptied. What a bunch of nonsense! Even with these massive “cuts”, the federal government will spend more money in 2013 than it did in 2012. ONLY in Washington does that constitute a cut. Everything you need to know about the lies the White House, the media and, yes, many Republicans have been spreading about the sequester is summed up in this Reuters headline this morning: “U.S. stares down start of steep automatic budget cuts”. Let’s be clear. Does that brutal truth mean the budget can’t be balanced? Governor Gary Johnson. FULL Free and Equal Third Party Presidential Debate (Moderated by Larry King)
Gary Johnson on Looming Economic Collapse! Bond Market Meltdown? Gary Johnson: New Internet Video + interview. The Country Thinker » Blog Archive » Peggy Noonan: Vote for Gary Johnson. Former Democratic Party Press Secretary Endorses Gary Johnson for President. Candidates getting squeezed on marriage - PostPartisan. Posted at 05:29 PM ET, 06/11/2012 Jun 11, 2012 09:29 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost One of the reasons that Barack Obama probably moved ahead on marriage equality was to avoid a conflict with his party’s convention and its likely platform. What about the party’s Senate candidates? The question is prompted by the decisions of three state Democratic Parties – in Pennsylvania, Montana, and even Texas – to include platform language in their state platforms supporting marriage equality. And yet most Democratic Senate candidates, at least beyond those states which have already legalized same-sex marriage, are silent on the issue.
While a few Senate candidates, such as Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, do align themselves with the party’s position on marriage on their campaign web sites, others – including even Ed Case and Marie Hinosa in liberal Hawaii – do not. All of which calls for some fancy dancing by a lot of politicians. Attorney general defends medical pot crackdown. Washington -- Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the Justice Department's pursuit of medical marijuana growers and dispensers, saying they "took advantage" of state medical marijuana laws.
Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder acknowledged the Justice Department had broken with the Bush administration and pledged not to go after anyone acting within state law. Nevertheless, those involved in large-scale marijuana growing and distribution have "come up with ways in which they are taking advantage of these state laws and going beyond that which the states have authorized," Holder said in response to questions from Rep.
Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. "Those are the only cases that we have been going after. " Nadler pointed out that as a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama had promised that he wouldn't use "Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue. " Holder Defends Department's Medical Marijuana Track Record. Holder Defends Department’s Medical Marijuana Track Record By Matthew Volkov | June 8, 2012 12:24 pm Attorney General Eric Holder rebutted claims on Thursday that the Justice Department has circumvented states’ authority by cracking down on medical marijuana outfits. “The Justice Department indicated in a memo that went out by the Deputy Attorney General that we were not going to use limited resources that we have to go after people who are acting in conformity with state law — people who have serious illnesses, people who are acting in conformity with state law,” Holder said at a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Holder’s riposte came after Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) questioned the department’s “extensive” focus on investigating and punishing those who legally grow and sell medical marijuana in accordance with state laws. “Since 2009 DOJ has conducted around 200 raids on medical marijuana dispensaries and growers have brought more than 60 indictments,” Nadler said. Drug War Clock | DrugSense. Researchers examining the effectiveness of ONDCP's anti-drug media campaign reported: "The NSPY [National Survey of Parents and Youth] did not find significant reductions in marijuana use either leading up to or after the Marijuana campaign for youth 12 to 18 years old between 2002 and 2003. Indeed there was evidence for an increase in past month and past year use among the target audience of 14- to 16-year-olds, although it appears that the increase was already in place in the last half of 2002, before the launch of the Marijuana Initiative.
It will be worthwhile to track whether the nonsignificant decline from the second half of 2002 through the first half of 2003 is the beginning of a true trend. Obama-Romney Swing State Electoral Map Shows 'Warning Signs' For Obama. Obama’s Marijuana Hypocrisy Is No Laughing Matter. The consequences - for others. (photo: :Dar. /flickr) Details from a new book Barack Obama: The Story contains in-depth details about his frequent marijuana use as a young man.
Although Obama admitted to using marijuana in his memoir Dreams From My Father, we now learn for example that Obama was a frequently indulging aficionado who was a big fan of hot boxing in cars. While Obama’s past marijuana use is treated as merely a funny anecdote, his hypocrisy on the issue of marijuana and the destruction his continued support for prohibition causes is no laughing matter. In 2010 roughly 850,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana related offenses of which the vast majority was for possession. While Obama was lucky enough not to get a criminal record for his mostly harmless marijuana use, hundreds of thousands of other Americans this year were not as fortunate, especially young African American and Latino males who are disproportionally arrested at much higher rates for marijuana. Pot and the President. “When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!’ And took an extra hit.” – “Barack Obama: The Story,” by David Marinass via Buzzfeed MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION is long overdue, with medical marijuana a societal benefit that should be respected and embraced instead of treated as a crime.
Both would be more likely if we didn’t have so many politicians preening they were above inhaling or didn’t have a past of pot-smoking. We are not our parent’s generation and that’s a good thing. This story was teased in Mike Allen’s Playbook, for those of you who don’t start your mornings there. The picture above is from Buzzfeed, titled “Choom Gang.” A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. As the video above reveals, Obama admits he wouldn’t want to use “a whole lot of political capital” on the issue of medical marijuana. It’s change that’s very hard to believe in. Your Election Newsfeed: The (Almost) Official Candidates. The Highlight Reel On April 25, the Republican National Committee officially (no really, officially this time) declared Mitt Romney the party’s presumptive nominee.
Not the nominee, but the presumptive nominee. So although the RNC will be merging its campaign infrastructure with Team Romney’s, Mittens still has to go through the pageantry of the remaining primary contests until he acquires the necessary number of delegates to officially (really officially) become the actual nominee. Gotta catch ‘em all! Illustration courtesy of The New Yorker. Guess who else is still collecting delegates? Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore. Most recent polls show Obama with a sliver of a lead over Romney, although the two candidates are locked in a dead heat when it comes to who is more trusted to handle the economy. Data courtesy of Real Clear Politics. #mittensproblems: Polls show Romney as being less popular among Hispanics than even McCain was, and certainly no match for Obama.
Worth Checking Out. Gary Johnson Campaign Responds to Jesse Benton's Claim That There's "No Chance" of a Ron Paul Endorsement. During a conference call with reporters yesterday, Jesse Benton of the Ron Paul campaign said there was "no chance" of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) endorsing former two-term New Mexico governor and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson. From Brian Doherty's report: While Benton refuses to say Paul will endorse Romney, he believes that "if our ideas are embraced and treated with respect, I think the GOP has a very good change to pick up a substantial number of votes" from Paul people. "If we are treated like in '08, then I think a lot of people will stay home or sit on their hands. " Agreed, though I think it will be very hard for a Romney like the Romney of today to pick up many Paul fan votes. The vote is not like matter that can neither be created nor destroyed; Paul invented his vote and without him I think a majority of it will disappear in November.
Johnson endorsed Ron Paul in 2008. Why vote for Gary Johnson? Because Delaware cancer patients like Diane Jump can't wait . . . . . . for a better medical marijuana law. That's right: you thought we had medical marijuana in Delaware. But not really. According to today's WNJ, even the doctors who believe in the efficacy of the drug to manage chronic pain are unwilling to prescribe it: Dr. Alan Gonzalez-Cota, a pain management specialist in Dover, said he’s concerned about how his patients’ use of marijuana could affect his federal license to prescribe narcotics. “The problem is that the physicians that prescribe narcotics are regulated by the [Drug Enforcement Administration ],” he said.
And even if they do find the guts to put pen to paper, their patients have no place to acquire it, thanks to President Barack Obama's ridiculous drug war: In the last year, the federal government has cracked down on state-sanctioned medical marijuana distribution networks in other states where medical marijuana is legal, including California and Colorado. 1. 2. 3. This year, vote for principle. Vote Gary Johnson. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – Gary Johnson 2012 Libertarian Nominee | OnPointPolitics. Zogby: Gary Johnson at 2% nationally. Libertarians’ lawsuit may sting Virginia GOP. By David Frisk | Virginia Statehouse News The Libertarian Party. RICHMOND — A lawsuit to allow easier signature-gathering for the Libertarian Party could cause Virginia Republicans a big headache in November by putting a competitor on the ballot, especially because similar lawsuits have succeeded around the country during the past decade.
Several federal court rulings have invalidated restrictive state laws on signature-gathering, according to Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News, which closely and sympathetically covers minor parties’ attempts to win ballot status across the nation. Ruling in January against a lawsuit seeking to place several major Republican presidential candidates on the Virginia ballot — despite their failure to submit the required 10,000 signatures — U.S.
District Court Judge John Gibney remarked that he thought the Virginia law forbidding out-of-staters to collect them was unconstitutional. Keeping Gary Johnson Off the Ballot. Gary Johnson Explains The Libertarian Presidential Platform To C-SPAN Callers. Doug Schoen Suggests Gary Johnson Campaign Will be Significant This Year. Video - Gary Johnson: This Is Your Freedom. Gary Johnson's Explosive, Juicy New Ad - David A. Graham - Politics. A new ad from the Libertarian likens Democratic and Republican governance to smashing a watermelon. Finally, there's an answer to the oft-asked question, What do the comedian Gallagher and Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson have in common? Now we know: They both want to see Barack Obama lose in November, and they're both responsible for the violent demise of watermelons.
This new ad from Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, combines the simplicity of Mike Gravel's "Rock" spot with the utter bizarreness of Herman Cain's recent videos -- and even borrows the tagline from that series, "Any questions? " Cain better step up his game. Johnson still hasn't made nearly the impression Paul has, but Dave Weigel notes that he's polling at 7 percent in New Hampshire, potentially enough to play the spoiler in a swing state.
Libertarian Presidential Gary Johnson on the 2012 Elections. Obama holds small lead in NC. PPP's newest poll of the Presidential race in North Carolina finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 48-47. That sort of razor thin margin has been the constant in PPP's 19 monthly polls of the state dating back to November of 2010. Only once has either Obama or Romney led by more than a 3 point margin, suggesting the state's headed for the same sort of photo finish it had in 2008.
This month's poll does represent an improvement for Romney. The one time the race strayed from a 3 point margin one way or the other was last month, when Obama led by 5 points. Since wrapping up the Republican nomination Romney's seen a 13 point improvement in his net favorability from -29 (29/58) to -16 (37/53). He's still not popular, but his standing with independents and GOP voters is getting a lot better as conservatives unify around him for the general.
Republicans have moved from supporting Romney by an 84-7 margin to a 90-5 one in the last month. Full results here. The Country Thinker » Blog Archive » Why Voting “Not Romney” Is Rational for Conservatives (Conclusion) Thoughts on Politics America’s future? Under Obama or Romney, yes. Today I explain Romney’s total lack of comprehension of, and disregard for, the Constitution—the only defense we have against the growth of government.
Yay Gun Control! At the Libertarian Party National Convention, I spoke with nominee Governor Gary Johnson, and his biggest concern with Romney is in the area of gun control, and with good reason. Yes, the NRA has endorsed him (which has many members livid), but the organization’s rationale is “he won’t be as bad as Obama.” (Have you noticed that’s a recurring theme with this guy?) Once again, I will let Romney choke on his own words. Mitt will enforce the laws already on the books and punish, to the fullest extent of the law, criminals who misuse firearms to commit crimes … As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt was proud to support legislation that expanded the rights of gun owners.
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