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Chong’s smokin’ hot to local potheads

At Two Guys with Pipes, Ryan Cameron pops over as soon as he hears the name Tommy Chong.

“He’s good. More hippie-like than hipster. He’s funny and he’s pretty smart about marijuana. He knows how to grow, like, a billion-dollar operation,” he says before going out on a break to share a joint with an employee.

I’m not really posting about Tommy Chong, here… but if you live in Edmonton make sure you go check this out, Tommy Chong’s great. What makes me angry about this is the way Albertan media constantly portrays cannabis as this thing to joke about, and it’s almost like they make the users look like goofy cartoon characters, like Shaggy from Scooby Doo. It seems like every second day my Google News feed has something in it from Alberta like “Grow ops ‘up in smoke’,” or “Local Head Shop ‘gone to pot’.”

These so-called journalists may be providing the biggest thorn into the side of legalization by simply making the entire issue look like something to laugh about. Furthermore, when something happens that can’t be laughed about, they spin it so that it is not the assailant who is the menace and the assailed who is the victim, but cannabis that is the menace and society that is the victim. These reprehensible hacks seem to not care about delivering news in an objective, professional manner, but instead lower themselves to producing content that is even below that which can be read in your garden variety supermarket checkstand tabloid magazine.

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