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The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Thursday, April 19, 2018 from Slated to the Gist, I'm Mike Pasca,

Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer has said he will introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana on a federal level.

Uh, fine stance, I happen to be against marijuana for me, but not necessarily for the provided you are over the age of three.

But Schumer has been criticized not for introducing this, but for not introducing this legislation tomorrow.

Because tomorrow's date is 420, 420, get it?

Pot reference, and this is exactly why we need to decriminalize marijuana.

Yes, yes, yes, it's wasteful to prosecute and probably racist, but it's the jokes.

It's the dumb jokes. It's mistaking a reference for a joke and a lame joke for a good joke, just because marijuana is involved.

To this day, a late night host, even the cool ones, cannot make any reference to pot or getting stoned without a woohoo from many sections of the audience.

And so we need marijuana normalized, so it doesn't have this frison of danger or transgression.

And so that finally pot humor can die. Yes, die.

On that day, Cheech will be recognized as a pretty smart guy for celebrity jeopardy, and Cheung will be noted as a fellow who should not have gone to jail, but also probably shouldn't be in the movies.

And Seth Rogen will be motivated to shave and be witty, and Snoop Dogg can concentrate on all his Joker's wild responsibilities.

You know, you think it's an easy show? It's not. You can go off the board. You got to do the math on that.

And when this happens, when we finally embrace pot and throw away pot humor, pot comedies will be reclassified in the proper genre, non comedies, unless you are stoned.

And Chuck Schumer will be a hero. That is, if the blunt talking senator can hash it out with his buds in the GOP, don't laugh. Don't know. You're right. Okay, great.

On the show today, I should be a little bit about Jay Edgar Hoover, with absolutely no mention of his preferred mode of dress, which is entirely his choice. But first, John Loveitt is on Pod Save America.

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