Of course President Barack Obama was offered marijuana while he was in Denver — multiple times, even.
“Do you wanna hit this?” one gentlemen asked the president on Tuesday evening. He even Instagrammed the moment, which gave the commander in chief a laugh:
Instagram user manton89 tagged the video: “Asked him if he wanted a hit of pot…he laughed! #legalizeit #iinhaled #mrGQ.”
And it wasn’t even Obama’s first offer of the day. The pool reporter noted that the presidential motorcade saw at least one person holding a sign along the route that said, “Free Weed For Obama.”
On drive into Denver from airport, one group held sign that said, "Free weed for Obama."
— Noelle Phillips (@Noelle_Phillips) July 9, 2014
But laid-back Coloradans joking with their president about marijuana is to be expected — more so than the guy in a horse mask who shook the president’s hand as he walked through downtown Denver.
That time Obama shook hands with a man wearing a horse mask http://t.co/f6iTzGaOBV pic.twitter.com/u3MYTMmehT
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlakeWP) July 9, 2014
Obama has historic meeting with man in horse head mask http://t.co/u330W3PDQG pic.twitter.com/CA1H4gPamw
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) July 9, 2014
The definitive history of weird presidential horse photos: http://t.co/PafX57N0aI pic.twitter.com/V1F8mgkr0g
— The Daily Dot (@dailydot) July 9, 2014
Again, Obama simply laughed.
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