Pro-Pot Roseanne Barr Runs for President

Comedian and former sitcom star Roseanne Barr is running for president on the California-based Peace and Freedom Party ticket—and, unlike her higher-profile opponents, President Obama and Governor Romney, she's not waffling on drug policy. "Marijuana should be totally legal," the 59-year-old Barr said during an impassioned speech at Oaksterdam University, in Oakland, Calif., last night. She added, "We live in a free country, so it should be legal to smoke marijuana and drink." Currently working as a macadamia-nut farmer in Hawaii, Barr said she has a medical pot prescription for glaucoma, and has smoked pot for most of her life. During her speech, she allied herself with medical-marijuana advocates who have criticized the Obama administration's crackdown on pot dispensaries in states where they are legal; she also called legalizing marijuana the "way to end the drug wars and stop the monopoly of the subsidized prison systems." As the crowd chanted her name, some wielding posters with slogans like "Yes We Cannabis," Barr thanked them for "breaking through" the two-party system's "mind-control programming," and credited weed for encouraging free thought and helping people to "remember what is important."