Entry 15 January 16, 2014

Obama says marijuana "no more dangerous than alcohol"

January 16, 2014
CNN News

This article is about an interview Obama had with New Yorker magazine regarding the use of marijuana in America.  His opinion is that he feels alcohol is worse for you than marijuana.  He does not state that people should use marijuana but he thinks that alcohol and other drugs like cocaine are much worse for an individual.  He thinks that the government should focus on laws that treat users fairly.  Obama said "we should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks that are writing those laws have probably done the same thing".

I would disagree that alcohol is worse for an individual than marijuana as I feel they both have risk factors associated with using them.  I think that if you say it is okay to use marijuana where do you draw the line with other illegal drugs.  To say one drug is okay it is hard to say that others drugs are not.  I feel the government should be consistent.  Drugs are drugs and they should all be illegal.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/obama-says-marijuana-no-more-dangerous-than-alcohol/?hpt=hp_t2

Entry 14 January 8, 2014

Dennis Rodman apologizes for North Korea outburst, says he'd been drinking.

January 8, 2014

CNN News

Dennis Rodman was in North Korea this week to celebrate Kim Jong Un's birthday and to participate in a basketball game between former NBA players and a North Korean team.  While he was there he did a CNN interview with reporter Chris Cuomo.  During the interview the topic of imprisoned American citizen Kenneth Bae came up.  Dennis Rodman made the comment "he may have done something to deserve his sentence of 15 years of hard labor".  This obviously outraged  the family and many other people.  A couple of days later he apologized and said he was very stressed and had been drinking before he did the interview.

In my opinion being drunk is not an excuse for his actions as he should have held off on doing the interview if he was not mentally prepared for it.   I agree with Kenneth Bae's sister that his comments may done more damage to her brother when he could have supported him and possibly helped him be released from prison.   I  don't think that the "basketball diplomacy" idea was a good one. The relationship between these two is something I don't understand and politically Dennis Rodman is way over his head


http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/world/asia/north-korea-dennis-rodman-apology/index.html?hpt=hp_t3