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Obama says marijuana 'no more dangerous than alcohol'
CNN ^ | Jan 19, 2014 | Kevin Liptak

Posted on 01/19/2014 10:49:34 AM PST by Innovative

Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick, Obama said he still viewed pot smoking negatively – but that on the whole, the drug wasn’t the social ill that it’s been viewed as in the past.

“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. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” Obama told the weekly magazine.

The president said pot was actually less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


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Great role model Obama is...
1 posted on 01/19/2014 10:49:34 AM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

It’s combining smoking and drinking.


2 posted on 01/19/2014 10:50:53 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Innovative

The voice of experience. Wait until he starts telling us how great cocaine is. Those are about the only things we know(?) he has experience with. Or is he lyin’ about that to just get some street cred.


3 posted on 01/19/2014 10:51:54 AM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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To: AppyPappy

Not to mention that marijuana is a “gateway drug”, i.e. those who smoke it, are more likely to go on to hard drugs.


4 posted on 01/19/2014 10:52:10 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

I don’t do either and I happen to think Obama is most dangerous of all.


5 posted on 01/19/2014 10:52:42 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Innovative

A role model in the likes of Bill Clinton.


6 posted on 01/19/2014 10:53:25 AM PST by ruesrose (The Anchor Holds)
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To: Innovative

This disgusing POS keeps talking and talking and pushing this great country into the sewer. What a disguting person.


7 posted on 01/19/2014 10:53:33 AM PST by laweeks
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To: Innovative

I guess Barry should know.


8 posted on 01/19/2014 10:53:36 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where are Holder's "po folks" getting the I.D.s to sign up for ObamaCare?)
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To: Innovative

it’s obvious to him , most pot smokers vote for Obama and other Libs


9 posted on 01/19/2014 10:53:59 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Innovative

Actually, that is absolutely not true. Marijuana smokers pretty much remain such. After 25 years of Prosecuting, studies, etc ... I have zero doubt that it should be legal. About 90% of us felt that way. The gateway drug meme has never held up.


10 posted on 01/19/2014 10:54:01 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: Innovative

Yale study: Marijuana may really be gateway drug

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Yale-study-Marijuana-may-really-be-gateway-drug-3805532.php


11 posted on 01/19/2014 10:54:13 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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He lies.. the WoD continues.. fully supported by the orifice he OCCUPYs.


12 posted on 01/19/2014 10:54:34 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: RIghtwardHo

“I have zero doubt that it should be legal. About 90% of us felt that way.”

Who is this “us”? 90% of marijuana smokers think it should be legal — what a surprise!


13 posted on 01/19/2014 10:55:59 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Is it more dangerous than an E-Cigarette? If not, why do they ban E-cigarettes and not marijuana?


14 posted on 01/19/2014 10:56:38 AM PST by Keli Kilohana (Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
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To: Innovative

Dr. Obama speaks. Next week he’ll familiarize us with the government approved rice cooker.


15 posted on 01/19/2014 10:56:41 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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So first he fancies himself a Dictator.

Emboldened by no real opposition to his ministrations, he now fancies himself as the greatest Surgeon General the US has ever seen. Ok. Got it.

What can't The One do?

16 posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:03 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: RIghtwardHo

When I see people express thoughts such as yours, it makes me think that the abuse, or over-use, of substances such as marijuana or alcohol are the real problems.

Taking a drink, or smoking a joint, can be done without becoming severely impaired, or causing other problems in your life.

The real problems are when someone uses drugs or alcohol to excess.


17 posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:06 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Innovative
President Pretentiousness really seems to think that he has got to speak his brilliance on all possible topics, and that his personal life experience is enlightening to all of us.
18 posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:17 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: RIghtwardHo

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/marijuana-use-and-its-effects


19 posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:46 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Government has no right to dictate what substances people can put into their bodies.


20 posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:52 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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