U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who is challenging President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination is also challenging the president to smoke a joint.
Phillips said Biden might better comprehend the "awfully hypocritical" double standard in the U.S., which has no problem with alcohol consumption but criminalizes cannabis use.
At a New Hampshire town hall where he took questions from New England College students, Phillips praised Ohio's recently approved initiative to legalize adult-use cannabis, contrasting it with Biden's staunch resistance. The congressman said it's likely Biden “has never even smelled weed, let alone smoked it.”
“The …