David Remnick of the New Yorker spent some time with president - on Air Force One and in the Oval Office - talking to him about various topics.

Here's a question about pot that Pres. Obama was straightforward about.

Starting of with pot, aka marijuana or cannabis, the President said that 'it's no more dangerous than alcohol.' Perhaps the generalization should have been clarified with how much alcohol, or what proof.

With so many artificial drugs and synthetic forms of canibbis, social gurus feel that it's probably time to legalize smoking pot. But then the side effect is having the brightest minds in America smoke a substance that lets them sleep through life's activities.

Pot was used in the 'woodstock' days when it was cool to be a hippy and smoke pot. It was also at during this time that the Vietnam War left Americans indifferent at what the war had to its veterans and when the Watergate Scandal broke out, leading to the impeachment process of President Nixon, who was later pardoned by Gerald Ford.

There are two sides of the coin when it comes to pot though. Cannabis is actually a medicine and works as a painkiller; it has a calming effect on the mind and on the body. This may be one reason that people flock to the drug.

President Obama, said that he has specific concern about what legalizing pot would mean to the poor and minorities, since there is a problem of abuse and addiction. "Middle-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do," the President told the New Yorker.

Mr. Obama has okayed going forward with legalization and decriminalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado. Other states like California are seeing attitude shifts that are likely in legalization this year.