Obama says marijuana ‘no more dangerous than alcohol’

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20. I still can't believe the wrong turn we took in the early 80's. One day I'm walking down the street

in my Idaho town and I see a dude sitting out front of his apartment building. I've seen him around but don't know him. He's smoking a joint and offers me a toke. Thanks I say, take a hit and hand it back continuing on my way. I would smoke semi-openly on occasion too back then. A few years later, there was no way I would.

I would have told you back then that we'd be here by 1990. It was right-wing types all over the place getting into positions of authority that hated the 60's and the hippies that I think did it to us. They made us take steps backward in a lot of other ways too.

As things were loosening up in the late 70's, people smoking weed openly, head shops doing business and all that, we were making the rednecks eat some serious shit. Even the cops couldn't do shit about it if you were smart. You could get pulled over reeking of weed and as long as you didn't have anything on you, they couldn't do squat! When they got the upper hand, they came after us with drug testing and all that crap. What a waste.