Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=20934460'>posted</a> on 01/20/2014:

Nice timing by Obama announcing Pot is no more dangerous then alcohol.

Obama's administration has given states permission to experiment with marijuana regulation, and laws recently passed in Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana recently went into effect. The president said it was important for the legalization of marijuana to go forward in those states to avoid a situation in which only a few are punished while a large portion of people have broken the law at one time or another