Obama ordains in a new New Yorker article that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, as he extolled the virtues of states like Colorado and Washington legalizing the Scooby Doobie. Unfortunately, the official stance of Obama's "National Drug Control Policy" (posted on the White House's website, although I doubt for much longer) purportedly says just the opposite. According to reports on the site:
"Marijuana smoke has significantly more carcinogens than tobacco smoke [and] does something that alcohol does not; it causes permanent brain damage, including lowering of I.Q. [in teens]" (link below).
As such, Obama's Bizarro-World comments reportedly "have anti-drug leaders worried about negative repercussions among youth." Posits right-winger publication Washington Times (for whatever it might be worth), "Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars warning about drugs, often about marijuana, but these efforts were dramatically undercut by [Obama's] comments."
So, not only is Obama arguably the most leftist president in American history (in a country which is not), and not only would he miss the road towards a balanced budget if the alternate route went 2 feet then cliff, but apparently his own words are also now a bad influence on all the kids. Quite the legacy.
But I am lookin' for something positive to say here, to try to give this individual the benefit of the doubt. Best I can do:
Maybe Obama isn't actually as much of an uninformed, buffoonish idiot as W Bush was, and instead he was just lying again? That way, Obama could still bitterly cling to being the so-called "smartest guy in every room" (even if he may fraudulently falsify things at times when convenient -- not to mention that I've never found him overly bright). But hey, I know 20 percent who still "Believe."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/21/obamas-white-house-drug-experts-contradict-his-mar/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/19/obama-marijuana-alcohol_n_4627740.html
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