Wisconsin Gov. Thinks Alcohol Safer Than Pot

Add Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin to the growing number of prohibitionists taking umbrage with President Obama’s acknowledgment that booze poses greater harms than pot. “I think it’s a big jump between someone having a beer and smoking marijuana,” Walker said, adding that somebody can have “a drink or two” at “a wedding reception,” but that “Most folks with marijuana wouldn’t be sitting around a wedding reception smoking marijuana” — whatever on earth that means. In truth, however, Gov. Walker is correct. Alcohol and marijuana [...]

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