Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

President Obama doesn't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer," he told "The New Yorker" magazine in an interview.

 

"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," the president said.

 

Smoking marijuana is "not something I encourage, and I've told my daughters I think it's a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy," Obama said.

 

Recreational marijuana use remains illegal under federal law, but Obama's administration has given states permission to experiment with pot regulation. Laws recently passed in Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana recently went into effect. The president said it was important for the legalization of marijuana to go forward in those states to avoid a situation in which only a few are punished while a large portion of people have broken the law at one time or another.

 

The president said he is troubled at the disproportionate number of arrests and imprisonments of minorities for marijuana use. "Middle-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do," he said. "And African-American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties."

 

He said in the interview that users shouldn't be locked up for long stretches of time when people writing drug laws "have probably done the same thing."

 

But Obama urged a cautious approach to changing marijuana laws, saying that people who think legalizing pot will solve social problems are "probably overstating the case."

 

"And the experiment that's going to be taking place in Colorado and Washington is going to be, I think, a challenge," the president said.

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The Choom King speaks.

[Valin]

I'm sorry but given the number of people who die or are seriously injured because of alcohol, this is not the strongest argument for legalization.

[clearvision]

I think this may be the play for 2016.

[Geee]

CNS News:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said he doesn't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer."

 

"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," the president said an interview with "The New Yorker" magazine.

 

Smoking marijuana is "not something I encourage, and I've told my daughters I think it's a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy," Obama said.

[Geee]

Last Democrat President told our kids that it was OK to lie and certain types of sex were not 'really' sex. Now we have this one telling our kids that pot is no big deal.

[Geee]

HOPE AND CHANGE: Obama uses racial politics to justify marijuana legalization

 

President Barack Obama says he backs limited marijuana legalization because it could help reduce the number of African American and Hispanic men who are jailed for drug offenses.

 

“African American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties,” Obama told the New Yorker’s top editor during a series of interviews published on Friday.

 

The legalization efforts in Washington state and Colorado should be accepted and measured, Obama said.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/20/hope-and-change-obama-uses-racial-politics-to-justify-marijuana-legalization/

[Geee]

I'd like to mention that this has been one of George Soros pet issues forever. Legalization of marijuana.

[Geee]

As marijuana attitudes shift, this may be a year of legalization

 

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-marijuana-laws-20140120,0,4841538.story#axzz2qxSJTt00

[Draggingtree]

Drug Warriors Claim Colorado Going to Pot

Mises Daily: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 by Mark Thornton

As we moved into the second half of 2014, I was eager to learn if marijuana legalization in Colorado was succeeding. At first there was little being reported, but eventually reports started appearing in the news. Business Insider reportedthat “Legalizing Weed in Colorado Is A Huge Success,” although they did temper their report with a “Down Side” as well. Jacob Sullumreported that such things as underage consumption and traffic fatalities have fallen, although the declines were statistically insignificant and part of already declining trends in the statistics.

 

The important thing for me is that things did not get much worse according to these reports. When you open the door to a newly legal recreational drug via a very clunky regulatory circus, and where the government gives its seal of approval, there are bound to be growing pains and tragic cases. For example, one college student jumped to his death after ingesting six times the recommended number of pot-infused cookies.

 

The third report I came across was an editorial from the venerable Heritage Foundation. Given the previous reports, I was astonished to learn that in Colorado marijuana use was associated with an increase in highway fatalities, http://mises.org/daily/6872/Drug-Warriors-Claim-Colorado-Going-to-Pot