WASHINGTON — “We’re just in here smoking a joint on Congress’ lawn,” explained a hemp-clad protester as he indeed took a drag on his marijuana-filled joint.
In an impassioned and wandering interview with The Daily Caller, two “Occupy Congress”‘ participants smoked together in solidarity, calling for their high-minded goals of marijuana legalization and fighting for the “American dream.”
It wasn’t hard to spot the tripping twosome as TheDC wandered through the pungent protest cloud of exhaled cannabis on Tuesday morning.
Are you out here for the legalization of marijuana?
“I’m all for the legalization of marijuana, and much much more,” the hemp-hooded protester from Maine coughed out.
What else?
“End the war. A living wage, man. I want a living wage. It’s a God damn shame,” he lamented. “My father, his father grew up in a day where you went and got a job, and you had that job for the rest of your life.”
“Man, there’s no job security, there’s no living wages. There’s no future, man. What am I passing down to my children?” he wondered aloud as Frankie, his cohort from the Bronx, passed him their shared blunt.
“I’ve always been American, but I never lived the American dream,” explained an even more relaxed Frankie, “because of each and every single president that I’ve had.”
How old are you?
“I’m 21.”
Is having a job a part of the American dream?
“See, living free… living free and working for it… and living free and working for it is basically living the American dream,” Frankie explained. “I succeeded,” he admitted. Frankie revealed that in addition to high school, the Occupy movement has clearly been an educational experience for him.
“When I was in the Bronx, I was doing shit that I wasn’t supposed to be doing,” confessed Frankie, “but I still got — I still graduated high school, I never went to college, I’m occupying and I have much more knowledge for my kids to even fuckin’ find out for me in the future.”
Last question, how’s the weed?
“Oh, I’m high. I’m shmacked right now,” replied Frankie. “You know that like shmacked means high in the Bronx. I’m shmacked right now!”
“You know how shmacked I am?”
Indeed.