POT: OBAMA SAYS WHAT ANY POT USER WOULD SAY TO JUSTIFY HIS SMOKING OF MARIJUANA

Says marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol

It is obvious that Obama tried to justify his illegal use of marijuana during an interview published in the forthcoming January 27 issue of The New Yorker. First he says “I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” Then when asked if he considered marijuana to be less dangerous than alcohol, he said he believed pot was less dangerous "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer."

But Obama really knows better because he followed that up by saying "It's 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 knows pot is not healthy because there is plenty of evidence that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol. And I wonder why no one ever asks the President why he thought it was OK to break the law when he was smoking pot.

OBAMA: MARIJUANA LESS DANGEROUS THAN ALCOHOL
By Greg Richter

Newsmax
January 19, 2014

President Barack Obama says marijuana isn't more dangerous than alcohol, but that doesn't mean he thinks it’s a good habit to pick up.

In a New Yorker interview published Sunday, Obama admitted his past use of the drug, and said he tells his own teenage daughters to avoid it.

"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," he said. "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol."

Writer David Remnick asked if he considered marijuana to be less dangerous than alcohol.

Obama said he did believe it to be less so "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer." But, he added, "It's 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 is unhappy with the disparity of punishment for marijuana use, not that "middle-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do."

African-Americans and Latinos more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid harsh penalties, he added.

"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," he said.

Of the recent legalization of recreational marijuana use in Colorado and Washington state, Obama said it is important for society to "go forward" and not have a situation where a large percentage of the population has broken a law for which only a few are punished.

At the same time, Obama said those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea are likely overstating the case.

"I also think that, when it comes to harder drugs, the harm done to the user is profound and the social costs are profound. And you do start getting into some difficult line-drawing issues," he told The New Yorker.

"If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, Well, we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka, are we open to that? If somebody says, We've got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn’t going to kill you or rot your teeth, are we OK with that?"