(CA) Drug cops to Obama: Your pot comments were wrong

California’s politically influential California Narcotic Officers’ Association has a message for President Obama: Take back your positive comments about legalizing marijuana.

To catch you up, Obama — who has acknowledged his teenage stoner days, if not his membership in the Choom Gang – recently told the New Yorker that “I don’t think (marijuana) is more dangerous than alcohol.”

That was the money quote pulled from a longer, more nuanced take. Nevertheless, to the Leg-a-lize It community, hearing the leader of the free world say that was better than a bag without seeds.

But in a Jan. 30 letter to Obama released Tuesday, Cal Narcs prez Steve Riddle stomped all over that buzz, asking Obama to “retract your comments on marijuana and alcohol. They are being misused by people with their own legalization agenda to somehow make the argument that the legal status of alcohol demands legalization of yet another addictive substance that will inevitably be commercialized and marketed to children.”

Riddle piled a big guilt trip on Obama by dropping a Nelson Mandela reference on him.

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