Coming From A True Pot head

From the Detroit Free Press: President Barack Obama said he doesn’t think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
“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’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” the president said an interview with “The New Yorker” magazine.
Smoking marijuana is “not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” Obama said. http://www.freep.com/article/20140119/NEWS07/301190120/obama-marijuana-alcohol
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse Obama's statement may not be true.
From the Huffington Post: The National Institute on Drug Abuse released an eyebrow-raising statement to PolitiFact on Monday, denying that marijuana is less toxic than alcohol.
"Claiming that marijuana is less toxic than alcohol cannot be substantiated since each possess their own unique set of risks and consequences for a given individual," wrote the institute. NIDA, part of the National Institutes of Health, funds government-backed scientific research and has a stated mission "to lead the nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction."
The statement was in response to a declaration by the pro-pot policy group Marijuana Policy Project that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol –- a claim that was the centerpiece of a controversial pro-marijuana commercial aired during a NASCAR race last month....
He said in the interview that users shouldn’t be locked up for long stretches of time when people writing drug laws “have probably done the same thing.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/marijuana-less-toxic-alcohol_n_3782100.html
Well, Obama does help write drug laws.
I think Obama is just trying to justify his own pot use, now and in the past and he wants to pretend his breaking the law is no big deal. 
After all, it's  all about him.