Georgia is trying to pass a law banning the sale of pot-flavored candy to minors, because everyone knows that lollipops are a gateway drug that leads to a life of broken hopes and dashed dreams. And wife beatings, theft, and baby abuse. The candy “promotes drug use,” the proponents of the state senate’s measure say, so regulation is in order. Translation: “It’s kinda, maybe, sort of fun. Kill it.”

I think it’s a bit on the ridiculous side, myself, but I suppose I don’t have impressionable young children to worry about. I don’t have to live in abject fear and terror of every negative worldly influence upon their simple, fragile minds. I don’t struggle with the feeling that I am an absolute failure as a parent because my kids aren’t strong enough to overcome the draw of pot-flavored suckers or the life of heroin-flavored chewing gum and cocaine chocolate bars that is sure to follow.

The one thing I do know: the senator who is pushing the bill most heavily is named Doug Stoner. And that is hysterically funny.

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