Letter to Obama

President Obama, I would like to say that you are doing an amazing job especially considering the circumstances that you walked into. That being said I want to talk to you based on your love for this country and its founders. The fore fathers of this country that you love and govern all grew marijuana, its history dates much longer than ours and it will be here long after we are gone. As you probably know it is currently classified as having no medicinal value, there are tens of thousands of your fellow Americans that would disagree with you. Those with wasting syndrome from aids or nausea from chemotherapy, but the medicinal value does not stop there and it has been found to have hundreds of medicinal uses. If marijuana were legal and abundant we might be able to find even more uses for it. Not to mention the hundreds of uses for hemp,a plant that has been grouped with marijuana as a schedule I drug and it doesn't even contain the psychoactive agent THC. These are all truths Mr. President, the year is 2009 and many of us (your online audience) voted for you hoping for change, change that we could believe in. Personally sir I believe that if you open your mind once again ( we all remember that you once inhaled because you knew that was the point...thank you for your honesty) you will see the truth. The truth that marijuana is medicine; it is a drug; it is an intoxicant; it is safer than alcohol and tobacco; it can be sold and taxed for profit; it is the largest source of money for Mexican cartels; and by sending the educated, creative and innovative citizens to prison because they see past the racially charged propaganda of Anslinger and agree with Nixons Schaffer Commission that you are only making your country weaker.