In an interview with The New Yorker President Obama cheered on efforts in Washington and Colorado to legalize marijuana saying pot is no more lethal than alcohol. Wait, if pot is no more lethal than alcohol that means our criminal justice system is more lethal than pot. OK, Mr. President, now how about pardoning all those two million Americans behind bars for pot related offenses?

Obama: Pot is ‘a bad habit’ that is no ‘more dangerous than alcohol’ (via Raw Story )

In an interview with David Remnick published in The New Yorker on Sunday, President Obama equated smoking marijuana with “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…