Obama: Marijuana 'not very different' from cigarettes

Washington Examiner ^ | January 19, 2014 | Brian Hughes

[gusopol3]

President Obama in an interview released Sunday said that using marijuana was not that different from smoking cigarettes nor any more dangerous than drinking 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 said as part of an extensive profile published by the New Yorker on Sunday. “I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”

[abclily]

Smoking marijuana robs a person of the willingness to work and arrests emotional development. Obama is a prime example.

[Ken H]

So you must like FDR's Commerce Clause, which authorize fedgov control of health care, education, the environment, and marijuana prohibition.

Why do you want to trash the Tenth Amendment?

[dalereed]

Shut up, your stupidity is showing!

[gusopol3]

This thread is not about legalization, it’s about the President’s comments.

[gusopol3]

Thanks for showing me how.

[freekitty]

I agree. But, they think they are so cool.