Joe Van Winkle: “No Legal Weed”

Doddering loudmouth Joe Biden threw off his Blue Hens lap blanket and escaped his rocking chair to hold a town hall in Las Vegas on Saturday, and the only headline he managed to generate made him seem older and further out of touch than we already reckoned. Vice’s headline captured the right amount of snark — “Joe Biden Is Out Here Calling Weed a ‘Gateway Drug’ in 2019.”

Joe Biden’s bold experiment in trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination without a single vote from a young person continued Saturday, when the 76-year-old frontrunner told a crowd in Las Vegas that he doesn’t want to legalize weed because he’s worried that it might lead to harder drugs.

They have a point. Legalization is supported by two-thirds of all Americans, 78% of Democrats. Guess who opposes it, though — cops. And we all know how much Joe cozies up to the cops.

Biden also happens to be wrong on the facts, as the “gateway drug” hypothesis was debunked as far back as 2002, though it remains an active trope among anti-drug crusaders. Perhaps he’s going on personal experience with his kids for his take here — this is why parents are typically anti-drug — but the research says he’s wrong.

As Monique Judge writes in The Root, “Man, fuck this Boomer.”