Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Seahawks vs. Broncos: The #stonerbowl is on

The Seattle Seahawks clinched the NFC title on Sunday to earn a berth in the 48th Super Bowl on Feb. 2, taking on the Denver Broncos. So what’s to talk about?

On Twitter, the topic du Bowl was a toss-up between the #RichardSherman “Don’t-you-ever-talk-about-me” interview and this factoid of ever-changing times: The teams are housed in the only two states in the U.S. to have passed laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

Once the final whistle was blown, it took social media all of two seconds to start passing the #stonerbowl puns — that hashtag’s been trending for a week — as well as #reeferbowl and a few others with gusto:







But it seems a full-fledged “let’s make it legal everywhere” push is far from the mind of our nation’s leader. In a a lengthy New Yorker interview for its Jan. 27 edition, President Barack Obama laid out his feelings on reefers and more. #Obama was taking plenty of flak on Twitter over the comment that he doesn’t think pot is “more dangerous than alcohol.” He, of course, couched that by saying it was less dangerous “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.” Yes, he smoked it as a kid (as is well documented), but he discourages his daughters from doing the same, POTUS said. His biggest problem? Radically disproportionate arrests and jail time due to marijuana for minorities. While “middle-class kids don’t get locked up for smoking pot,” poor African-American and Latino kids do, said Obama.

  We shouldn’t be “locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing these laws have probably done the same thing,” he says.

But jury’s out on whether Obama is going the whole hog on legalizing pot. He said the “experimenting” that’s going to be taking place in Colorado and Washington will be “a challenge” and a slippery slope could be the result.

 Sports and politics. Hmm..
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