Marijuana to Save the Economy?

In a recent virtual town hall meeting, President Obama was accepting questions from the general public to incorporate and address concerns. The headlining topic of discussion, the economy, took an interesting turn when a questioner proposed legalizing marijuana to help our country’s financial crisis . Although the question received many laughs, the Commander inChief was firm with his response.

“I have to say that there was one question that was voted on that ranked fairly high, and that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation,” Obama said off-handedly at the town hall. “I don’t know what that says about the online audience.”
“The answer is no, I do not think that is a good strategy to grow our economy,” Obama said to laughter from the town hall participants.” -http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

One of the most popular questioners who submitted an inquiry to WhiteHouse.gov claimed that decriminalizing the usage and trafficking of marijuana and allowing the government to tax and set age limits will create new jobs into a multi-billion dollar industry.