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by Blikkentrekker 1958 days ago
Barack Obama called using cannabis his greatest moral failure.

I refuse to believe that there is but a single politician on the planet whose greatest moral failure can be willingly consuming any substance.

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Do you have a quote for this? This is the first I’m hearing of it and a simple search online doesn’t pull anything up.
He never said it.

> "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".

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/obama-mccain-ad...

This came out on top when searching for it.

To be fair, he phrased it it as “experimenting with drugs”, but as far as I know only the Cannabis is publicly known.