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Obama: Marijuana 'not very different' from cigarettes
Washington Examiner ^ | January 19, 2014 | Brian Hughes

Posted on 01/19/2014 11:07:30 AM PST by 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.”

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To: freekitty

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


61 posted on 01/19/2014 4:23:39 PM PST by abclily
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To: gusopol3
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?

62 posted on 01/19/2014 4:43:45 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: gusopol3

Shut up, your stupidity is showing!


63 posted on 01/19/2014 5:02:48 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Ken H

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


64 posted on 01/19/2014 5:06:38 PM PST by gusopol3
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To: dalereed

Thanks for showing me how.


65 posted on 01/19/2014 5:07:16 PM PST by gusopol3
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To: abclily

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


66 posted on 01/19/2014 9:20:55 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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