This is funny or depressing depending on how you look at it. As Obama was shaking hands in Denver earlier this week, a local pothead asked him if he wanted “to hit this”…
The recent legalization of weed in Colorado allowed the president to laugh off the offer with the appropriately amused disregard that the question warranted.
Meanwhile, while the president is winsomely avoiding getting high and numerous people in Colorado aren’t, 750,000 people in this country are being arrested each year for marijuana-related offenses and 20,000 people are in prison only because of marijuana possession or distribution.