With marijuana becoming more and more popular and legalized through out the nation, the president gave his input on the affects of the “drug”; hit the jump for his full response!

Adriela Batista

President Obama has shed light on the topic of weed, stating that although he does not condone it he does not see it as a major drug, rather more along the line of the same as alcohol. The president stated:

“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,” Obama told Remnick.

“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,” he added.

When it came to some of hypocritical stances on the “drug” in the eyes of politicians or the consequences if found with marijuana, Obama stated:

“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.

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