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whoaaahhh.

if you mistakenly click on the time magazine rob ford mash-up above, you will totally get a high contact.

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And, of course he's on paid administrative leave.

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"Follow Doktor Zoom on Twitter. He’s just disappointed he hasn’t yet found a use for this image, which seems related to this story, somehow."

My Little Dragon: Puff Is Magic.

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They can have my doobie when they can pry it from my outstretched hand and promise not to bogart it.

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malsperanza said "I'm guessing the strategy of talking in an interview rather than making a formal speech is exactly what the administration wanted to do. Obama can speak as a dad, and also point out that he neither murdered his family nor failed at school."

Obama's familiarity with the subject is well-known. He hasn't exactly hidden his own extensive past use of marijuana. It isn't something that he has to be coy about now.

"I did inhale...that was kind of the point."

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Dontcha love these nostalgia issues? The menace of pot, the threat from the Rooskies. It's almost like Boomers were running the country.

And these kids today? Their music is just noise.

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Wait until she sees those goddamn bats.

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Given the Herald's well-established record of reworking the truth of a story to suit their conservatard agenda (Fauxifying, if you will), I wouldn't doubt if the closed-door meeting was in fact less critical of the Prez than was suggested in that rag.

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True dat. But there's no way to get law-and-order diehards to STFU because free speech. He'd just look petty and vindictive if he fired them.

Meanwhile, on the MJ issue, he doesn't need to get too involved because the country really could not care less. Except everyone worries about their teenagers getting tangled in the justice system over a dumb possession rap. The generation of parents with teen kids <i>all</i> smoked weed.

I'm guessing the strategy of talking in an interview rather than making a formal speech is exactly what the administration wanted to do. Obama can speak as a dad, and also point out that he neither murdered his family nor failed at school. He's giving parents across the nation a script for talking to their kids about grass. ("Honey, it's still illegal in our state, and the cops have arrest quotas to fill, so please be sensible.") Meanwhile the WH can drone on about being opposed to legalization.

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And our local police departments want all that free federal pork that allows them to dress up and play <a href="https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/militarization" target="_blank">soldierboy</a>.

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