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On Marijuana.
In Colorado, you can get a rocky mountain high.
Sales for pot just hit a new high.
Pot dealers give lessons on pot usage at their in-store “high” schools.
The demand for legalized pot is at a record high.
“High-er” education is now available in legalized-pot states.
After a pot high trip, some come down-town.
Is Colorado still the high-est state?
Nowadays, the pot calls the kettle irrelevant.
It is rumored soon drivers can will be able to shift to a new gear called high-drive.
Did you hear about the kid who got high by weeding the backyard? 
Some pot users want killing weed classified as a felony?

AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) has created her very own class identity, the Inspired Idiots.  They’re noisy, but insensitive to facts, ready to believe the impossible, and enthusiastic contributors.

Did you know snarkiness has its own signature?  After a while the apparent cleverness and contempt  of the satire becomes predictable and no longer even humorous – just dull-gray  cheap shots.

With seven trillion dollars in home mortgages nationwide, we note this is not even a third of the national debt of $22 trillion.

Women don’t look good in tweed. Mostly, it makes them look fat.

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