Obama, You’re No Stranger to the Bong: An Open Letter to the President

This week, President Obama had some interesting things to say
about
marijuana,
legalization, and exactly
who is in charge of deescalating the war on drugs. Back in
early 2009, Reason TV wrote an open letter to the president
imploring him to help reform marijuana laws. 

Here is the text from that video, originally released on March
3, 2009:

Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign
pledge to end
raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal
under state laws in California and elsewhere. Thank you for
reversing an inhumane policy established by the Clinton
administration and continued by the Bush
administration.

Given the experience you and other elected officials have had with
illegal drugs and your willingness to challenge the status quo, now
is the time to reconsider decades of prohibitionist drug policies
that have succeeded only in massively increasing the toll of human
misery, violence, and hypocrisy. As with alcohol prohibition, the
drug war

intensifies and exacerbates every negative outcome it
is ostensibly designed to combat.
President Obama, do the right thing and end the war on
drugs.

“Obama, You’re No Stranger to the Bong” was written,
performed, and edited by Paul Feine; special thanks to Alex
Manning.