I am watching/listening to the video of him answering the questions right now.
Here's the video:
Here's a screenshot showing the Top 5 questions in rank of Popularity. The top 5 questions overall were indeed related to ending the war on drugs or legalizing marijuana at least.

Lets see if he dodges the question...I'm about 10 minutes into the 30 minute video and he hasn't mentioned it yet. I'm guessing they'll save the question for last and he'll laugh at it, or he won't bring it up at all...which is confusing, because it doesn't even make sense that he would ignore the majority of questions submitted, or votes cast, if he was going to ask an online audience their most important questions.
It also hurts his chances of re-election because the clear majority of votes relate to the Drug War, which, if we never started it to begin with, we wouldn't owe any debt to China. We've spent $1 trillion on the DEA *alone* since it's creation. I won't even go into the figures for how much we spend on non-violent offenders in our over-crowded prisons, or how much money we spend on needless arrests of marijuana users, or just how many very young adolescents have access to hard drugs because the illicit drug trade is just that, illicit. It's a black market, so none of the drugs are regulated, and as such, are not age-restricted, are adulterated with other chemicals sometimes, have varying potency which results in thousands of overdose deaths per year. The fact of the matter is, all of these problems would go away if we legalized drugs, because then they would be regulated, tested for quality and safety, and the prevalence of HIV and Hepatits from transfer of IV would be much, much lower because people would have direct access to clean, sterile needles.
The people that will use drugs will use them regardless of their legality, we might as well safe-guard them so we can minimize overdose/poison deaths, keep hard drugs out of the hands of kids, unclog our prison system, AND save hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
Once again...President Obama will probably prove to be nothing more than a puppet, like any other president that wasn't assassinated.
-Tyler Durden
-------------------- "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." --Max Planck
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