President Barack Obama will return to late night television this week for a scheduled interview on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

The president is set to appear on the popular talk show on Thursday, March 12, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Actor Sean Penn will make an appearance on the show that night as well.

This will mark Obama's second interview on the show, but his first appearance on "Kimmel" as a sitting president. He first appeared on the show via satellite in June 2008 during his first campaign run.

Back in 2012, Jimmy Kimmel was selected to host the White House Correspondents' dinner. Months later, first lady Michelle Obama stopped by the nightly show ahead of the 2012 election for an interview that featured a skit where she forced Kimmel out of bed so that he could vote and eat his carrots, reports Rolling Stone.

Late last month, President Obama announced he opposes marijuana legalization and suggested that states should decriminalize marijuana and treat it like tobacco during an interview with Kansas City news station KMBC.

According to him, states could overhaul laws banning marijuana and then discourage the use of pot the same way "we've been able to discourage a lot of other bad things that people do," like tobacco.

"I think that we have to separate out legalization -- there's a lot of concern about drug abuse of any sort by our children and the general population -- versus the heavy criminalization of non-violent drug offenses," Obama said. "And I think that a lot of states are taking a look to see, do we have proportionality in terms of how we are penalizing the recreational user."

He continued to say that the United States has managed to discourage the use of other harmful products without putting people in jail.

"I think that's what every state across the country, including some very conservative states that don't have a lot of tolerance for marijuana, are looking at is do we want to be throwing people in jail for five, 10, 15 years if they're not major drug dealers but they're using a substance that's probably not good for them but is probably not hurting too many other people?" he said.

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