Not That Kind of Smoke-Filled Room

Why doesn’t anyone in Washington take marijuana legalization seriously?
Will Oremus
Slate (US web)
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Potheads had high hopes for President Obama’s Google+ hangout on Monday. The Web superpower had invited citizens to submit questions for the president via YouTube, and it encouraged people to vote on the questions they’d like Obama to answer in a live video chat. The results: 18 of the 20 most popular questions were about marijuana policy.