Carlos Santana

Guitar legend says money for teachers, education would transform country.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - President Barack Obama brushed off a question about legalizing marijuana in his online town hall last month, but guitar god Carlos Santana says he wishes he would seriously consider it.

“Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education,” Santana said in an interview this week. “You will see a transformation in America.”

During his online town hall on March 26, Obama fielded a question about whether legalization of the illicit drug would help pull the nation out of recession. Obama said he didn’t think it was good economic policy, and also joked: “I don’t know what this says about the online audience.”
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But Santana said making pot legal is “really way overdue, like the prohibition with the alcohol and stuff like that.