“In an interview published Sunday by the New Yorker, President Obama said pot is no more dangerous than alcohol — and that marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state is an “important” move towards a more just legal system. “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 told reporter David Remnick. “I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” In fact, the president went on to admit pot was actually less dangerous “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.” Obama also dived into the vastly disproportionate effect marijuana arrests and incarcerations have on non-white Americans…”.* Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here fromJeff Spross / TPM: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/19/3183431/obama-pot-dangerous/

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