President Obama
has commuted the sentences
of 61 drug offenders.
Whoopi Goldberg
wants to start
a new line of weed
to help women ease the pain
of their menstrual cramps
and has teamed up
with owner of Om Edibles
Maya Eastman
to create "Maya & Whoopi".
The company will offer edibles
tinctures and topical rubs
though the products
will for the time being
only be available in California.
And Donald Trump
has claimed that women who get
illegal abortions
should be punished
then quickly recanted the statement
after being roundly condemned
by both pro-choice
and pro-life groups.
What all these stories
have in common
is that legalized marijuana
may be the only way
women et cetera
can cope with the side effects
of a Trump presidency.
(The resulting paranoia
comes from the Trump
not from the weed.)
This poem © 2016 Emily Cooper.
