and they are lost in this world. bill, let s let s slow down. let s think about the last three guys who occupied the white house. they all smoked marijuana in their youth, right? the last three guys, and not chronically. one didn t inhale and the other hold up, hold up. you didn t believe that when he said that. i believe everything the president s telling me. bush was an alcoholic and dealt with it, and obama, we re not exactly sure how serious he was involved, but as i said in the talking points, some can handle, but some cannot. that s exactly right. the prevalence of this is overwhelming now, so you re going to have a lot of causalities on the battlefield. that s not true. let s talk about the statistic, the data. in 1978, recent number of marijuana smokers in the 12th grade, it was 37% of the 12th graders said they smoked marijuana recently. today that number is down to 22%.
and they are lost in this world. bill, let s let s slow down. let s think about the last three guys who occupied the white house. they all smoked marijuana in their youth, right? the last three guys, and not chronically. one didn t inhale and the other hold up, hold up. you didn t believe that when he said that. i believe everything the president s telling me. bush was an alcoholic and dealt with it, and obama, we re not exactly sure how serious he was involved, but as i said in the talking points, some can handle, but some cannot. that s exactly right. the prevalence of this is overwhelming now, so you re going to have a lot of causalities on the battlefield. that s not true. let s talk about the statistic, the data. in 1978, recent number of marijuana smokers in the 12th grade, it was 37% of the 12th graders said they smoked marijuana recently. today that number is down to 22%.
didn t inhale. president obama revealed his pot use in an autobiography more than a decade before running for office. now with the legalization of the lie sensed production and retail of marijuana in both colorado and washington, who knows how many public officials will openly admit to enjoying a little mary jane with no political repercussions? according to a recent gallup poll, a sizable majority of americans, 58%, now agree that marijuana should be legalized. further illustrating the mainstreaming of marijuana is the selection of 36-year-old robert jacob this month as mayor of the town in california north of san francisco. what s so special about him? he s the founder of the town s medical marijuana dispensary and according to advocates for marijuana legalization, that makes him the first person from the medical marijuana industry to become mayor of a city in the united states. and he may not be the last because this week colorado became the first state to give special licenses to b
back to hardball, and now for the sideshow. bill clinton shed some new light on one of his most enduring quotes from his 1992 campaign, no, it s not a place called hope but his defense about smoking pot. new controversy is swirling around in the form of marijuana smoke. it was during this appearance that he was asked point blank about illegal drugs. and that when i was in england, i experimented with marijuana a time or two, and i didn t like it and didn t inhale and never did it again. since then i didn t inhale has become one of the most
on one of his most enduring quotes from his 1992 campaign, no, it s not a place called hope but his defense about smoking pot. new controversy is swirling around in the form of marijuana smoke. it was during this appearance that he was asked point blank about illegal drugs. and that when i was in england, i experimented with marijuana a time or two, and i didn t like it and didn t inhale and never did it again. since then i didn t inhale has become one of the most quoted remarks in politics. like many things in the press, that whole thing has been totally twisted.