Pro-Obama Super-PAC Donor Morgan Freeman: Banning Pot "Stupidest Law Possible"!

Actor Morgan Freeman, ClearTest's Pot Smoker of the Month for January 2007, tells nosferatu print mag Newsweek that at least the pot portion of the drug war is idiotic:

Marijuana [prohibition]! Heavens, oh yeah. It's just the stupidest law possible, given history. You don't stop people from doing what they want to do, so forget about making it unlawful. You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.

Read the whole thing.

Freeman has recently given $1 million to a pro-Obama Super PAC, so here's hoping he bends the president's ear on the drug war the next time he sees him. Rather than apologizing to Obama for minimizing Barack's blackness.

Despite all promises to the contrary, Obama's drug war policies are as bad as his predecessors in the White House.

And in case you were wondering, Freeman was never planning to marry his granddaughter and both he and the woman in question say they never had a romantic relationship.

Comments

[RedDragon6009]

Is it just me, or is Morgan Freeman's voice everywhere lately?

[BakedPenguin]

"When I first met Andy Dufrense, I knew he was a racist teabagger and had nothing to do with him."

[Auric Demonocles]

That's the first move I can remember him in. Such a great one.

[Episiarch]

If he gave a million bucks to further Obama's election chances, he either doesn't give a shit about actually legalizing pot, or he's fucking retarded. What a disappointment, Easy Reader.

[John Thacker]

Yeah, it's one thing if he simply said that legalizing pot was a good idea, he was disappointed in Obama, but weighing the alternatives, blah, blah, blah.

"Stupidest law possible" seems a bit too strong for something you're willing to ignore for other concerns.

[Auric Demonocles]

or he's fucking retarded.

To be fair he can't even make a suit that works against dogs.

[Episiarch]

You know, I haven't seen that yet, so shut the fuck up, asshole.

Also, Freeman was the first fictional black president in Deep Rising. He should know better.

[Fatty Bolger]

You mean Deep Impact?

[Episiarch]

Yeah, sorry. I just got up and have only had a little coffee so far.

[AuH2O]

A Seattlite who hasn't had enough coffee?

Truly, Obama is destroying America.

[Loki]

Deep Rising? I think you meant Deep Impact. Unless you were deliberately making a joke. In which case I'm the asshole for not getting it.

[Episiarch]

DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT TREAT WILLIAMS

[AuH2O]

He was in both Deep Impact and its porn parody Deep Rising, released a week before Deep Impact? Dude's got range.

[Night Elf Mohawk]

You know, I haven't seen that yet, so shut the fuck up, asshole.

I'd say the statute of limitations of whining about spoilers is well under seven years.

[Auric Demonocles]

Actually it's 4 for that line. You think he'd be grateful I specifically avoided using anything from the new one.

[R C Dean]

You know, Derp Impact would be an awesome nom du blog.

[Auric Demonocles]

Also, Freeman was the first fictional black president in Deep Rising. He should know better.

I knew those meteors were racist.

[JW]

You'd think that a smart man like Freeman would have tied a string to that million, but identity politics trumps all.

I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that the first million was just a down payment and an attention getter for a greater agenda, but I can't see that happening.

[Episiarch]

Freeman's actually been pretty outspoken about not doing things based on skin color, quite admirably, so this is doubly disappointing. Oh well. 99.9% of everyone gets fucking stupid eventually, so it's not really surprising.

[Hell's Librarian]

I don't know about that: The Tea Party movement's ferocious opposition to President Obama is "a racist thing" and represents "the weak, dark undersides of America," actor Morgan Freeman says in a CNN interview that will air tonight.

Freeman, talking to interviewer Piers Morgan, singles out the Tea Party and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader, and declares:

Re the Tea Party:

"Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. It's a racist thing."

[Episiarch]

You seem very focused on the Tea Party. If you're not too stupid to see what I said, I said (nearly) everyone gets stupid eventually. Freeman has also said stuff like this.

I'm really not interested in your bullshit, so spare me.

[SugarFree]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Episiarch]

Because you comment here?

[SugarFree]

You are officially the worst. You are the opposite of Batman.

[Episiarch]

Does that make me The Joker? Wait, didn't someone who felt like The Joker make it so that a bunch of people in Colorado could never have nice things again?

Too soon?

[John]

Someone was mean to Mary Stack. And look what that got us.

[SugarFree]

You're one to talk, John. When Tony comes for you, I'll have no sympathy at all.

[Night Elf Mohawk]

I'd be willing to boot Obama and put Sowell in the White House. Is that racist?

[Tulpa the White]

Yes, because Sowell isn't really black. Or something.

[Doctor Whom]

Only Obama is a true Scotsman Christian African-American.

[Paul.]

Oh well. 99.9% of everyone gets fucking stupid eventually, so it's not really surprising.

Who is the .1%?

[Kant feel Pietzsche]

I can't speak for anyone else, but......

[ant1sthenes]

If he had a disappointing son, he would probably look like Obama.

[wareagle]

give me a major fucking break. Freeman is part of the same noise machine that equates criticism of Obama to racism. That he may be right on one issue - that neither party is going to address - makes this story the day's early leader for intellectual dishonesty.

[Hell's Librarian]

^^ This. Using Morgan Freeman as an anti-drug war spokesperson? REALLY?

[BarryD]

Should read: "Even a famous actor stupid enough to give $1 million to Obama campaign is smart enough to think that the ban on pot is stupid."

[John]

If Morgan cared more about pot policy than he does about socialism, he would have given that money to Johnson.

[sarcasmic]

Johnson is white.

[John]

Or racial solidarity. The fact is there is one candidate who actually says he would get rid of the pot laws. If you don't support him, then you either want to keep the pot laws or consider other issues to be more important.

[BarryD]

The color of Obama's skin is the most important issue, I suspect.

[Ice Nine]

Well, you know what black guys think of white Johnsons...

[R C Dean]

Not a lot, would be my guess.

[Somalian Road Corporation]

I would wager significantly that if you posited that to Freeman his response would be "Johnson who?"

[Mr. Soul]

Ray Jay, Im sure.

[Citizen Nothing]

What do you need that for, Dude?

[Bobarian]

Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me RJ, or you...

[Caleb Turberville]

Just curious, but what does his granddaughter look like?

[Tulpa the White]

I'm totally burning my VHS tape of Driving Miss Daisy now.

[Episiarch]

You mean this one, right?

[Tulpa the White]

No, that's on DVD.

[cw]

Uh, the alt-text should be "GOD."

[Caleb Turberville]

http://www.teoti.co.uk/funny-s.....-1971.html

One can see how he might have influenced his good friend and prot?g? Samuel L. Jackson.

[The Late P Brooks]

Why didn't he just give a million bucks to the Treasury Dept? For services rendered.

"That million bucks- just hand it over."

[Robert Enders]

I think making abortions mandatory would be the stupidest law possible, but pot laws are pretty dumb too.

[dinfeee]

Dude is totally rocking it, Wow man.

http://www.Anon-Rules.tk