Santana has a bright idea about how to help educators out of the recession – legalize marijuana!

Though Obama brushed a question off about the legalization of marijuana in an online town hall last month, the legendary guitarist thinks the government should legalize the drug and return profits to teachers and education in general, according to the Associated Press. “You will see a transformation in America,” he said.

On March 26 Obama replied jokingly to a question on marijuana legalization, “I don’t know what this says about the online audience.”

The question asked whether the legalization of the drug could give a helping hand toward towing the economy out of recession.

But Santana apparently doesn’t care what his opinion “says” about him. He thinks that the drug’s legalization is “really way overdue, like the prohibition with the alcohol and stuff like that.”

These comments came from the musician as he was promoting his upcoming residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. In reference to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Santana said,

“I really believe that as soon as we legalize and decriminalize marijuana we can actually afford a really good governor who won’t keep taking money away from education and from teachers and send him back to Hollywood where he can do ‘D’ movies and we can get an ‘A’ governor.”

Ouch.

I can’t see what’s wrong with a little bit of pot myself, but I tend to doubt that the government would use its profits for good. Most likely they’d just follow the current trend and give the money to bail out huge corporations or to just make the government BIGGER.