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Politics

Obama To Talk With High Times!

Nick Gillespie | 4.1.2009 2:11 PM

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  1. Xeones   17 years ago

    APRIL FOOLS MOTHERFUCKERS, right?

  2. Nick   17 years ago

    If this is legit, can someone post the article? My work filter won't allow me to access a site, keyword "marijuana."

    Thanks in advance.

  3. Mango Punch   17 years ago

    April Fools?!?

  4. John   17 years ago

    You know how they hang a painting of every President in the Capitol? I vote for a painting based on that picture for Obama. Doesn't it just fit? If not that, then I would also be ameanable to using the naked Obama on the unicorn one.

  5. Tingy Wah   17 years ago

    Even if it is an April Fool's joke, it's brilliant. The joke is that High Times is asking very serious policy questions that the President simply won't answer!

  6. ed   17 years ago

    "The President does not, at this time, support the legalization of marijuana," Gibbs asserted, in accepting HIGH TIMES' request for an email interview.

    Nuff said.
    NEXT!

  7. SugarFree   17 years ago

    I only get it for the pictures. I swear.

  8. Uh... Like, wow, Man!   17 years ago

    April Stoner.

  9. Ska   17 years ago

    When is he going to star in a remake of Black Belt Jones?

    You're right, he's just not funky enough.

  10. NolongerTofuSushi   17 years ago

    "My work filter won't allow me to access a site, keyword "marijuana."

    Then find abetter job, nitwit.

  11. I meant, April Wow   17 years ago

    Stoner, Man!

    No...

  12. sage   17 years ago

    That mag is right on exactly one thing. On everything else they are about twelve miles to the left of Stephen Colbert. So it's a match (heh) made in heaven.

  13. Like   17 years ago

    For a magazine called... Hey, what's it called?

    (Toke!)

  14. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Obama's official painting should come from the collection that Cracked.com just highlighted (once the artist gets to Obama, anyway):

    Artist paints herself having sex with every president in chronological order, presumably dreading Taft. (NSFW) [Justine Lai]

  15. SugarFree   17 years ago

    PL,

    Why would he want to sleep with some Asian girl when he's already married to the WNBA's most fashionable power forward?

  16. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Dude, if she got Washington and Jefferson, who is Obama to deny her?

  17. Jeff P   17 years ago

    Does HT still have centerfolds of giant buds?

  18. Nick   17 years ago

    Then find abetter job, nitwit.

    What crawled up your butt? Can't deal with the fact that you let a joke run about a month too long and people called you on it?

  19. Brandybuck   17 years ago

    The joke is that High Times is asking very serious policy questions that the President simply won't answer!

    No the real joke is that nine out of ten High Times staffers voted for Obama thinking he would end the war on drugs. The tenth voted for Barr, and has subsequently been terminated.

  20. SpongePaul   17 years ago

    Well i see this as a sidestep by Obama. If he were to go on record with NORML or SAFER or LEAP or a respected legalazation/decrime organazation, then he would have to be held to his word, as they are serious nationwide groups with potential significant voter bloc.
    High Times, while a good Mag, Full disclousure i subscribe. have been doing so for years. but it is not nearly as serious and does not have any resepect, IMHO. So yeah he is gonna answer the questions, just not in a nationally regonized format. in an obscure to most mag, that really, not even us actitivists take really seriously

  21. Stoner   17 years ago

    "Obama To Talk With High Times!"

    No dude, it's true.
    I read it on the Internet!

  22. Beaker   17 years ago

    No the real joke is that nine out of ten High Times staffers voted for Obama thinking he would end the war on drugs.

    Thats not funny, its sad.

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