Christie never smoked weed & doesn't want you to, either
With the state Assembly's recent passage of a bill decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, Gov. Christie was asked yesterday on Twitter by a Willie Nelson-inspired pro-pot political party if he ever smoked reefer. He tweeted his response: The answer is no.
Christie never smoked weed & doesn't want you to, either
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
With the state Assembly's recent passage of a bill decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, Gov. Christie was asked yesterday on Twitter by a Willie Nelson-inspired pro-pot political party if he ever smoked reefer.
He tweeted his response: The answer is no.
And no means no for you too, potheads. Christie said last week that he would veto the Assembly's pot legalization bill if it comes to his desk (which now appears unlikely, since the Senate is not planning on voting on the bill soon).
Regardless, Jersey-born Jon Stewart -- a stoner's stoner who appeared in the classic ode to bong hits, "Half-Baked" -- questioned Christie's rationale last night on "The Daily Show": "What's the deal with vetoing this Chris Christie? I thought you were cool, man!"
In a hilarious breakdown of Christie's rationale -- that a state law shouldn't be passed if it violates federal law -- Stewart used outtakes from Christie's comments about another issue, sports gambling. In that instance, Christie said he wants to challenge federal law with a New Jersey law legalizing sports gambling.
"I have an idea: Let's replace the phrase 'betting on NFL games' with the phrase, 'getting high.' Different how?" Stewart asked.
"Why don't you just think of using marijuana as betting you're going to have a better day?"
wow, so he put on all that weight w/o the help on the munchies? what a tub of lard.— main liner- If Christie joined my choom-gang there would be no convenience store safe from the stampede of hunger that would most definitely ensue. I see that the editors pictured some "Big Fatty" weed just for this Christie article. That's just not right. We have the right to call him whatever fat names we want, but not the Inquirer/DN. — Dr Barry M Enima
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The man is obviously a heath nut.
Then again, Andy Reid sold a diet program TV ads an' all. The diet was successful for him for about 5 weeks. Now look at him.
And did you hear, Governor Christie is floating a bill in the NJ State Congress to mandate the size of "small" sodas - 32 oz minimum.- I would personally rather have my kid toke a little weed than weigh 400 pounds.— Bud Dry
- May not have smoked weed but has the nastiest case of the munchies I've ever seen.— CiceroSpuriousDeodatus
- Don't worry folks, Christie will have a massive coronary within the next year.— 1972bline
- He ate pot brownies. Trays of them.— b3n222
- Are you sure....he looks like he gets the munchies a LOT.
— bogucki69 - Comment removed.
- So you grew up in the 70's & 80's & never, ever tried it? Would you be open to a polygraph test? BTW - I would be more impressed if one of these politicians could actually be honest instead of worrying that saying something not PC would affect their chances of being re-elected. If he smoked pot 20 years ago - who really cares?— BResponsible
- he's done mushrooms---stuffed---3 trays at a time— box297
- That sounds rather disingenuous to me. Like Clinton's "I didn't inhale".— PhillySubsMac
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- Well, we also have the fact that Christie is a gigantic hypocrite. So there's that.
Lulz. "gigantic" hypocrite.— whatwhat
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