Cheech Marin is cool with pot and America's 'middle,' but don't get him started on Attorney General Jeff Sessions
LOS ANGELES - It's raining across the Pacific Palisades and Cheech Marin is riffing on wine connoisseurs, gangsters, Kim Jong Un's bottle-cap haircut, the Ku Klux Klan and the man he calls "Mr. Peanut," better known as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been an annoyance to the comedian's happy, chilled quest to smoke dope without fear of federal agents storming in.
Marin, in truth, is not too worried about that prospect. Marijuana is legal in California, and much of the country backs its recreational use. But the federal government classifies it as a criminal narcotic, and Sessions has threatened a crackdown on growers and dispensers. Marin has been bitter toward Republican attorneys general since 2003, when his longtime partner Tommy Chong was sentenced to jail for selling bongs over the internet.
