Rep. Ilhan Omar recently said something cannabis consumers have suspected for years: “There are a lot of people who smoke cannabis in Congress.”
And honestly, that makes the last several decades look even more ridiculous.
Because while lawmakers and political insiders were apparently passing joints around behind closed doors, ordinary Americans were getting arrested, losing jobs, denied housing, and in some cases thrown in prison over the exact same plant.
That’s been the real story of cannabis prohibition from the beginning — not morality, not public safety, but hypocrisy.
The people with power always seemed to face fewer consequences. Politicians could quietly enjoy cannabis while publicly supporting laws that treated everyone else like criminals. Reefer Madness for the public. “Personal choice” for the political class.
Now that legalization is spreading across the country and public opinion has completely shifted, suddenly more lawmakers are comfortable admitting what everybody already knew.
Turns out the halls of Congress may have been a lot hazier than the speeches suggested.
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