大家或許有聽過美國總統歐巴馬小時候抽大麻的故事,但可能不太知道他對大麻真正的看法。今年他在接受「紐約客」雜誌David Remnick 訪問時說了以下的話「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," 「大家都知道,我小時曾抽大麻,我認為是壞習慣及一種惡習和我年輕到大部份成人期所抽的香煙沒有什麼太大不同,我也不認為大麻比酒精危險。」這是歐巴馬個人對大麻的觀點,這種看法在美國不算少數,所以身為總統他敢說這樣的話。