Will Obama or the Democrat-controlled congress do anything to ease marijuana laws? Also leave a comment and give us your take on

The Cabinet nominee's who could hold sway over changes do not have the history to indicate they would be proponents for change.
I do believe if the President issued an order, such as the DEA adopting a hands-off approach in states which have rendered their opinion regarding Medical Marihuana, they would follow those orders.
Truthfully, the re-authorization of Industrial Hemp has a far greater chance of being implemented. It offers the opportunity for financial gain for Millions of Americans apparently needing massive Economic Infusion by Public Work Projects.
I've been trying to convince anyone that will listen that linking these public works projects with the utilization of Hemcrete (concrete made with Hemp) in 14 weeks, every family farm across America would have a commodity which they can readily sell. Companies who are able to render this commodity into a stronger concrete could then line our highways, byways, bridges and schools with an ever-flowing stream of agricultural concrete.

After that, we can work on banishing all those sometimes scary images created by Reefer Madness and unbathed hippies dancing around the campfires.

Then again, I'm a born dreamer seeking CHANGE

I personally believe that would be a bad move for the new president.
he is black, this is a historic mark for the usa. If he was to legaalize or decrim. marijuana he would be public enemy no. 1
There is too much money in prohibition and that would make alot of the major corporations and such very un-easy.

I just don't see any change on a federal level happening in my lifetime.

One comment... Barney Frank.
LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/30/frank.marijuana/index.html

Hopefully, President Elect Obama will have the guts to reign in the DEA's arresting med users and their growers. It would be a large step in the right direction. Arresting and jailing ill people for using a medicine that is continually being scientically proven simply does not sit well with the public. It is not a very cost effective way to operate. If the government were run by doctors and not lawyers and politicians, they would be in a position to control medical matters. That is a snow ball in **** type of wish.

Is everyone waiting for some press conference announcement?
Or, perhaps a directive is working it's way down the chain and the DEA activity will simply fade away and not be as prominent as was during the previous administration?
If the arrests and fear-instilling simply ceased without an explanation, would you be just as happy or would you still require a Prime Time Announcement broadcast Nationwide ?

that Obama and the Dems would work to change drug laws. I actually believe that if a honest, complete assessment were presented to the American populace that the majority of people would agree with decrim, or outright legalization on principal, however, if that were to happen it would affect too many areas of public life. Look at how much money is spent on law enforcement to fight the "war on drugs" and how many people are incarcerated both in county jails and state and federal prisons. If marijuana were legalized, "they" would be essentially admitting that they have been wrong all of this time. People who have been convicted would start petitioning the courts for retroactive exoneration. The state would have to let thousands of prisoners go, which, in turn, would cause a handful of prisons to close, due to the decline in prison population, and the result would be that Corrections Officers would loose jobs. MDOC officers are union workers, as soon as there were serious murmerings of legalization, corrections officers unions & sherif and police organizations would all be up in arms, because so many jobs would be threatened. If would disrupt the entire way that the in-justice system operates.

I've spent over 3 years of my life in Michigan state prisons for drug and drug related offenses, I have seen how that system works too well. The allocation for corrections in the state budget is singly the largest part of the budget. Almost every year I was in prison governor Granholm would work to cut that budget down, often by proposing the closing of two or three old, out dated prisons and releasing a few thousand low-risk inmates. EVERY YEAR there would be protests and pickets out side of those prisons by the C.O.'s and their people. The main complaint would be all the jobs that would be lost by closing those prisons. Very rarely were there any complaints about letting the prisoners go. Generally there would be some sort of compromise, they would let a few go, but not as many as they intended, and they would close one, instead of three prison camps. I could never understand it, there was never debate about whether those 5,000 or so people SHOULD be released, there was little doubt that most were not dangers to society, yet, many of them CONTINUE to languish in prison, why? in order to save jobs?!?

Obama's vocabulary and his drug Czar disputes the medical use of Marijuana? If no one takes action but pays only lip service to the medical or other issues how will it change? They've stated their positions on this issue why would they change it?

no one wants to be the one that says its OK.I am and have been an open pot smoker for 15 years,by open I mean I dont hide what I do from anyone except LEO and even then so long as am not currently in violation of any laws I will admit to any LEO that I smoke they have to prove it.but back to the point I've noticed a certain behaviour in closet smokers.75% of people will hit a joint at some point and dont consider there to be anything wrong with it.but alot of those same people dont want to be seen with or be known to hang out with an open pothead due to fear of persecution by non-smoking friends and co workers.So its like everyones dirty lil secret not many people think its wrong they just dont want to be the one to publicly defend it.Obama is the same way in some of the first interviews I saw when people asked him about marijuana he kinda giggled and tip-toed around the subject as if he had so many more important things to worry about that the idea of discussing that was a joke.Again I dont think he opposes full decriminalization but he wont be the one to do it.

obama made the order that no federal funds will be used to bust medical marijuana grow ops.

The War on Drugs is all about government intrusion into peoples lives. And he's 100% all about that.

obama will make pot 100% legal first year second term. he cant do jack till he is a lame duck. he wants to get reelected . it would be political suicide to even talk about it before his second term. the rednecks and republicans would be spewing about, how can a pot loving black man lead the nation. how he lacks morel fiber. they would use it against him by lying to voters for their political party, pretending they are of honest and moral character. it always will fool stupid people. you know the ones that voted to reelect bush...
you heard it here first, mark my words he will when it cant hurt him.