OH MY GOD, did you hear about Malia Obama? Turns out the 18-year-old first daughter attended a Lollapalooza show where she was photographed smoking what appears to be a marijuana cigarette! Also, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
To be fair, the story is not without its juicy elements. Apparently, young Ms. Obama skipped out on Hillary Clinton’s history-making speech at the Democratic National Convention to attend the Chicago stop of the apparently-still-a-thing music festival, which is either a testament to the strength of the 1990s nostalgia boom, grade-A shade, or both. But it’s hardly news. Obama is 18 and her alleged weed enjoyment went down in Illinois, which recently decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. (And to all who’d gripe about lefty-Dem me going soft on a drug-using Obama, I hereby promise to be similarly blasé when video surfaces of Ivanka Trump snorting meth off Vladimir Putin’s switchblade.)
Meanwhile, in actual cannabis news, last week brought some ostentatious inaction from the Drug Enforcement Administration, with the federal agency rejecting not one but two petitions—one from the governors of Rhode Island and Washington (Inslee represent!), another from a nurse in New Mexico—seeking to have marijuana reclassified from a highly restricted Schedule I drug to a less-restricted Schedule II drug.
