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Americans Favor Legalizing Pot and Criminalizing Congress


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In his latest satirical column for The New Yorker, comedian Andy Borowitz wrote:

"By a huge majority, Americans support laws legalizing marijuana and criminalizing Congress, according to a poll released on Thursday. While the poll reflects a relaxation of attitudes about recreational pot use, it also suggests that many Americans now view membership in Congress as a problem ravaging the nation.

Harland Dorrinson, an activist who has spent years mobilizing support for the criminalization of Congress, said that 'this poll reinforces what many of us have been saying for a long time: Congress destroys lives.'”

Borowitz added that years in Congress has a "devastating impact" on one's brain, and that Congress is a “'gateway elective office' that leads many to try running for President."

Read the full piece here.

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