If we assume it IS a disease, it is one that a person without moral failings can avoid falling pray to, and which a person without moral failings can keep in remission.
The rest is hogwash - especially when government types want me to pay for the “treatment,” or for the drugs, or for the stupid WOD that has been a total failure due to corruption and misuse.
Was Prohibition's failure "due to corruption and misuse" or to the inherent flaws of that enterprise?
Taking int account Obama is a liberal elite, a lawyer, and a red diaper doper baby, this makes a lot of sense for him to have this worldview.
Law firms are the only companies that I know of that don’t drug test job applicants. Even movie theaters want the people running the box office to test clean.