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奥巴马表明态度支持大麻合法化

  1. 大麻
  2. 奥巴马
  3. 科罗拉多

来源:生物谷 2014-01-21 17:10

2014年1月21日讯 /生物谷BIOON/ --美国总统奥巴马最近在一次对纽约客杂志的讲话中表明了自己对大麻合法化的态度。他表示目前看来吸食大麻并不会比酗酒更危险,不过他同时也认为抽食大麻和酗酒一样并不是一个明智的选择。在这次采访中,奥巴马也承认他本人在年轻时也尝试过抽食大麻,并认为这种习惯与吸烟并无不同。另一方面,他认为最近美国以科罗拉多州等州为代表的州政府通过大麻合法化的做法是值得肯定的。因为此前一些穷困的美国人--大部分是黑人等少数民族族裔--经常因吸食大麻而遭受罚款,而一些富人却经常逃脱罚款,这在某种意义上也是一种不平等。但是他同时指出大麻合法化并不是解决所有问题的万灵药。

去年底,美国科罗拉多州通过了大麻合法化的提案并将于今年一月一日正式生效。而华盛顿特区将于今年晚些时候也通过类似提案。(生物谷Bioon.com)

详细英文报道:

US President Barack Obama has said smoking marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, but still called it a "bad idea".

Speaking to The New Yorker magazine, he said it was wrong to think legalising the drug would be "a panacea" that could solve many social problems.

Mr Obama was referring to recent legalisation of marijuana in the states of Colorado and Washington.

He has previously admitted using the drug when he was young.

"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," Mr Obama said.

But he added that in terms of its impact on the individual consumer "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol".

He also said that poor people - many of them African Americans and Latinos - were disproportionately punished for marijuana use, whereas middle-class users mostly escaped harsh penalties.

"It's important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished."

Mr Obama described the legalisation of marijuana in Colorado and Washington as a challenging "experiment".

Colorado's law went into effect on 1 January, while Washington is expected to allow the drug's sale later this year.

 

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