President on Pot Legalization

By HANK STERN

 If political futures turned on the popularity of questions sent into President Obama's second question-and-answer session with YouTube, cannabis legalization supporters in Oregon and Washington would have it made.

Today's YouTube session with Obama again resulted in the legalization of marijuana being the most popular topic. Alas, Obama is not in favor of legalization but said drugs need to be thought of as a public health problem.


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