ad shows candidate smoking marijuana

Have we slipped back into the 1960s?

Sally Duval, a candidate for the Texas state legislature (try to guess her party!), has a new TV ad in which she smokes a joint of marijuana and then a bong–supposedly a promo for “safe, tested marijuana products.”

https://x.com/SallyForTexas/status/1833159804774461764

(“What this state needs is more legislators who get stoned!”)

All my friends, once upon a time, smoked pot. I refused to, which they thought a rather comical decision. Really sophisticated people get stoned! Then they say stupid things and giggle at bad jokes. I couldn’t respect that. They constantly pressured me to join them, but I couldn’t respect that, either. It was dreary. It was dull.

So now we’re going to have this in our government? Ah, well, how much worse can it get?

Don’t answer that.