On his recent Penn's Sunday School show, magician, comedian, and medical pot defender Penn Jillette blasted President Barack Obama for unleashing federal goons on California's medical marijuana industry. In his tirade, Jillette shredded Obama for trying to act cool and hip with the kids on his recent appearance on Jimmy Fallon's late-night show. He also read excerpts from Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, where the Prez discussed his rampant pot smoking in college and how he also “maybe” did a “little blow.”
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You have to admire Penn's passion for this issue. And it's a funny clip. But it's not the same thing as watching a cartoon version of a tam-wearing Obama taking hits from a bong and doing snow angels in a field of nose candy, complete with Chinese characters scrolling on the page, college kids humping in their bunk beds and stoners in tie-die T-shirts being maced by cops. There's also a couple of hot Taiwanese chicks at the end who thank you for watching. But it is we who thank you, geniuses of Next Media Animation, it is we who thank you.
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).