Barack Obama Quotes About Drugs

• As has been well documented, 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. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

• The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, War, Marijuana

• Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

  Barack Obama

  Drug, Receiving, Subsidies

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, People, Drug

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

• I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

  Barack Obama

  War, Cutting, Cake

  "Remarks at an Obama Victory Fund 2012 Fundraiser in Baltimore, Maryland". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 12, 2012.

• Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

  Barack Obama

  Order, Drug, United States

  Source: time.com

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