Obama: Marijuana Not 'More Dangerous Than Alcohol' (Click on this link to read more)
Caitlin MacnealSunday, January 19, 2014, 1:23 pm
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President Obama said he felt that marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol and that he is troubled by the disproportionate jail time served by minorities for marijuana use.
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"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 in an interview with The New Yorker published Sunday. "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol."
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