Malia Obama, daughter of President Barak Obama, was spotted at Lollapalooza smoking what appears to be a joint. A nine-second YouTube clip appearing to be taken by another concertgoer has sparked both outrage and empathy for the young Harvard-bound student.
“Malia Obama is just as bad as her father, Harvard doesn’t want this kind of trash,” one Twitter user wrote.
While it seems that Malia smoking a little weed has stirred up the division between party lines, other users came to her defense, even offering words of encouragement. “Everyone has smoked marijuana in the past. Malia is no different experimenting with her identity than any other eighteen-year-old. Bless you and have one for me,” wrote another user.
While the video in question has not been independently verified, the concert goer who posted the video reports that Cannabis could be smelled in the general vicinity of Malia Obama and her friends. In the video, a girl resembling Malia can be seen for a brief second appearing to inhale a joint and then quickly hide it.
Whatever the outcome, her father should remember his days (or daze) at her age. Clear photographs have emerged in the past of the President toking up himself. He has even admitted it on several occasions. President Obama has also notably commuted the sentences of hundreds of marijuana drug offenders in the past year.
Malia might be in a bit of trouble, but we will remind the president what it was like at that age. Currently, no criminal complaints have been filed against the teenager, and the Whitehouse has been mum on the subject.
Update: 8/16/16
We here at TheLaughingGrass have searched for a major update on the story. Conservative sites scorn, liberal sites praise, the normal social media banter, except that nobody important really weighed in on the subject. Don’t worry celebrities, we still love you, we mean in Washington. The President has stayed quiet on the issue so far. First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted a message about educating women the next day, which was beautiful in its own regard, but that’s not the point. Something strange started to emerge from this pattern, though. A mass of people had witness Malia Obama toking up, and the news on it just faded into thin air.
That would be all well and good If this were Rush Limbaugh back on the Oxy; because who cares about that guy anyway? This, however, was the President’s daughter. A president who has been criticized on more than one occasion for not helping in the push to legalize, despite his personal feelings for pot.
So, it looks like we are brushing this one under the rug folks. Here’s to hypocrisy, one of the building blocks of every civilization in history.