[elklindo69]

President Barack Obama says he views marijuana as a "bad habit" and "a vice," but no more dangerous than alcohol.

“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life," Obama told The New Yorker's David Remnick. "I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”

The president acknowledged marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer."

"It’s not something I encourage," Obama continued, "and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy.”

Still, he said, "we should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing.”

On the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, Obama said, “it’s important for it to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished.”

Obama's support of legalization was welcomed by pot advocates.

“The first step to improving our nation’s marijuana policy is admitting that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol," Mason Tvert, director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement. "Now that he has recognized that laws jailing adults for using marijuana are inappropriate, it is time to amend for those errors and adopt a more fact-based marijuana policy.

[johnforbes]

Smoking anything is injurious.

Obama, who has zero training in medicine, and who keeps secret his SAT and LSAT scores lest he reveal too much about his own level of cognitive function, has no more idea than anybody on the street about this issue.

And of course Obama favors legalization; every item on his agenda is from the mudpit at Woodstock.

Gays in the military, women in combat, no death penalty, more illegal aliens, 48 million on food stamps, 11 million on disability, more affirmative action, more racial discord, lower economic growth, higher taxes...everything about Obama's agenda was visible from miles down the road.

[Grog]

Forbes longs for the days of his youth, 1850 or so before all the troubles began with them uppity coloreds and letting women vote and all that nonsense. And of course don't forget his continued support of that triumph of conservative social legislation; Prohibition.

[johnforbes]

Ah, the 1840s.

Those were the days, my friend.

[elklindo69]

YES!!!!

And smoking weed was legal back in those days.

So tell us how the conservative war on drugs is working out...

[johnforbes]

Beats me; I've never gotten excited about the pothead bleating about a "war" on illegal drugs.

Smoking anything is deleterious to health.

Ever seen the spirometry of a smoker? Ever seen arterial blood gas analyses of a smoker? Ever seen a roentgenogram of a long-term smoker?

[sillydaddy]

Clinton is a prick but at least was embarrassed enough to say he "never" inhaled. But Obama, he's proud of it......saying to our faces," You idiots elected a pothead''. What an asshole.