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Weed Sucks Now

Thanks to Andrew Yang and Chuck Schumer. Bummer.

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Apr 20, 2021

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It is my solemn and unfortunate duty to inform you, dear readers, that marijuana, the leaf we all know and love, is very lame now. It's no longer a cool thing to "get high" or "smoke loud" or enjoy "laser lettuce." Cannabis, the weed plant, is bad now. It brings me no pleasure to report this. Just look:

Here is Andrew Yang, getting very excited about marijuana.

Twitter avatar for @AndrewYang
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang
This industry will be big for NYC #Happy420 y4ny.com/CannabisJustice
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3:36 PM ∙ Apr 20, 2021
15,244Likes1,405Retweets

Is this cool? Is this something you want to associate with? Can you truly have a good time getting outrageously high and eating a poptart-frosting-poptart sandwich with the knowledge that Andrew Yang is out there, doing this? Breaking Bad was a mistake. So was this tweet.

Here's Chuck Schumer with the single most joyless celebration of jazz cabbage I've ever seen.

Twitter avatar for @SenSchumer
Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
Happy 420. From the Senate Majority Leader.
4:46 PM ∙ Apr 20, 2021
51,140Likes7,242Retweets

Periods after each sentence, signed with his full job title. Clearly, this man understands the whimsy and frivolity associated with today, April twentieth (420), the weed day.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley was equally enthusiastic.

Twitter avatar for @JeffMerkley
Jeff Merkley @JeffMerkley
We should legalize cannabis nationwide. #LegalizeIt
3:53 PM ∙ Apr 20, 2021
711Likes114Retweets

Truly, if anyone can capture the enthusiastic positivity of 4/20, it's Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley.

Will the fact that some of the most soporific human beings on Earth are hitching themselves to the weed wagon make make smoking pot less fun? Thankfully, no. Getting nicely high and watching 2012's DREDD in 4K on a very large television will always be extremely great. It'll just be a whole lot less cool. I'm sorry.


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