In the course of three years, Barack Obama has
graduated from breaking his promise to end medical marijuana raids,
to claiming he didn’t promise to end medical marijuana raids, to
claiming that he’s upheld the promise that he didn’t make. The only
thing he’s done consistently is give the Drug Enforcement Agency,
the Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S. Attorneys Office carte
blanche to continue George W. Bush-era crackdowns on local medical
marijuana dispensaries.

With election day nearing, Obama is facing more heat than ever
before. The drug law reformers who hesitantly supported him in 2008
are furious. Coverage of his broken promise has spread from the
alternative press to TIME magazine and the
financial reporting agency Reuters. His own party is
“disappointed.” If those aren’t enough reasons for Obama to make
good on one of the promises that got him elected, writes Associate
Editor Mike Riggs, here are three more.