<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of <i>The Cannabist</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/04/04/mom-weed-jimmy-kimmel/51344/">http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/04/04/mom-weed-jimmy-kimmel/51344/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.75em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Mom Weed: New Jimmy Kimmel sketch says moms can be stoners, too</h1></div><div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.35em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 1.6875em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">'Because ... taking a fat rip off some dank-ass ganj makes doing laundry, changing diapers, cooking, doing more laundry, changing more diapers, cooking again almost bearable'</h3></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Even late-night host Jimmy Kimmel sees that the marijuana — err, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">cannabis</em> — industry is in the thick of a very real marketing campaign.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The marijuana industry is looking to rebrand itself,” Kimmel says in a new skit, embedded above. “They want to change the image of marijuana users to show that pot smokers aren’t just skaters and rappers and gamers — they’re also your neighbors and your teachers and maybe even </span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">your mom</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Playing off <a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/03/28/legal-marijuana-poll/50831/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">modern marijuana’s expanded acceptance</a> — and businesses’ plentiful attempts at monetizing <a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/01/15/skinnygirl-pot-bethenny-frankel-marijuana/27499/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">cannabis as appetite suppressant</a> or <a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/03/30/whoopi-goldberg-medical-marijuana-menstruation-maya/51110/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">marijuana as menstrual painkiller</a> — Kimmel’s “Mom Weed” skit is pretty dang funny.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And for those of us who get lifted before knocking out a bunch of household chores, the skit is also dead-on.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“For mom’s who toke up on the go,” says the skit’s weed-loving mom. “Because let’s face it: Taking a fat rip off some dank-ass ganj makes doing laundry, changing diapers, cooking, doing more laundry, changing more diapers, cooking again almost bearable.”</span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div> <br>Mom Weed<br><a href="http://youtu.be/IDDpPVZRu-U">http://youtu.be/IDDpPVZRu-U</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------</span><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>