“What matters to you and your families and what people here in Washington are focused on are not always the same. This isn’t about me, it’s about you. It’s about the families whose letters I read every single day, and, for the American people, what’s going on is not a game.”
Thus began President Barack Obama‘s online town hall on Thursday morning.
After the call for questions closed at 9:30am, over 90,000 people had submitted more than 104,000 questions for the president. The questions largely focused on the economy but spread across several categories. Online users ranked the questions more than 3.6 million times, according to WhiteHouse.gov.
The most amusing question?
“Would legalizing marijuana help jumpstart the economy?”
You can see the President’s response below.
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