The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, recently told an interviewer for the British edition of GQ that marijuana is “not a drug”. When pressed by the interviewer on his well documented use of marijuana in the film documentary Pumping Iron, he said ” That is not a drug. It’s a leaf”. So, you bench press several hundred pounds, squat nearly half a ton, you get tired and you want to unwind . . . the obvious non-drug of choice is marijuana! Alas, when the PR implications of this statement became obvious, we got this from his press secretary:

“The governor was doing an interview with the host of ‘America’s Got Talent,’ the newest version of the gong show,” McLear said. “I think it’s important to keep that quote in the context of the environment where it was said.”

“Of course the governor understands marijuana is a drug. It’s like when he goes on Leno or the Daily Show, if you took something like that out of context, it might seem shocking but it was in a silly entertainment context,” he added.

So, this laissez-faire approach to marijuana in his personal past will most likely not translate into a general relaxation of drug laws in the State of California.

Suckered.us also notes Arnies penchant for Nazi salutes & regalia when not stoned. We simply cannot wait for a fascist, deranged, psychotic, racist, ex-bodybuiding pothead, to have his chubby little fingers on the nuclear trigger!