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e coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. All right, that was my last sip of the cup, but boy was it good. So good. Well, speaking of marijuana, Mario Nawfal had some interesting posts that he surfaced on X. The AP is talking about this one. There's a new 800-p…

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gers. Everybody agrees with that, right? Imagine arguing with your teenager who says, "You know, it's totally legal, right? Not for teenagers. It under all conditions, it won't be legal for teenagers, but it would be easier for them to argue, hey, I'm 17. You know, I can start making my own decisions if it would be legal for me in two months after my birthday. Are you telling me that I can't make that decision now two months before my birthday or whatever?" I don't know if it's 18 or 21. But as an argument for keeping teenagers off it, it really helps if you can say it's illegal on any level. It just really helps. So from a parenting perspective, believe it or not, there might be some real argument for keeping it illegal at a federal level while at the same time the state police say, "Ah,

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we're going to let it go." And maybe they would just turn the other way in terms of the federal charges. Anyway, so I think Sean Duffy could improve that argument a little bit. Did you know that if Jabba the Hut had an evil twin, that twin would probably be considered a frontrunner to be the next governor of California? And the only reason I say that is because the only thing we could do that's…

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