here&amp;#8217;s everything the president said about drug policy in yesterday&amp;#8217;s&nbsp;new yorker interview
Obama: Marijuana Is Less Dangerous Than Alcohol
President Obama&rsquo;s comments on marijuana prohibition in a new interview with The New Yorker have made waves since it was published on Sunday. In it, the president likened marijuana to cigarettes and alcohol, going a step further to admit marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol:

&ldquo;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&rsquo;t think it is more dangerous than alcohol &hellip; [Marijuana is less dangerous] in terms of its impact on the individual consumer. It&rsquo;s not something I encourage, and I&rsquo;ve told my daughters I think it&rsquo;s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy.

This statement contradicts the federal government&rsquo;s position on marijuana, which classifies weed as a Schedule I drug,&nbsp;the &ldquo;most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence&rdquo; having &ldquo;no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.&rdquo; According to the federal government, marijuana is just as harmful as heroin, LSD, and ecstasy &mdash; also Schedule I drugs.&nbsp;
The president also discussed the unjust racial impact of our marijuana policies:&nbsp;

&ldquo;Middle-class kids don&rsquo;t get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do. And African-American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties &amp;#8230; We should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing.&rdquo;

To remedy this inequality, he endorsed the pot legalization experiments in Colorado and Washington.

&quot;It&rsquo;s important for [the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington]&nbsp;to go forward because it&rsquo;s important for societ