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This week the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) published a list of the “Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Consumers,” which is meant to show that former and current pot smokers can achieve “high levels of success or influence” despite weed’s reputation for making people stupid and lazy. I’m not sure this is a lesson Americans still need to learn, but it is interesting to see how prohibitionist politicians deal with the pot in their pasts.
Barack Obama, who occupies the No. 1 spot on MPP’s list, was more forthright on the subject than either of his two predecessors in the White House, candidly discussing his youthful cannabis consumption in his 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father and in interviews while running for president. At the same time, Obama was careful to describe pot smoking as a mistake. In the book he melodramatically portrays it as a step down a slippery slope that...
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