How CNN is Turning into The Onion and Why I Love This Country

Watched the end of the Warriors season this evening and after it was over caught a bit on CNN. Apparently a cop in Dearborn, Michigan lost his job after he and his wife decided to use some of the pot he conviscated off a perpetrator. How did they catch him? He called 911 because he thought he and his wife might be dying. They played the phone call on CNN. It was absolute hilarity. The guy was worried the pot they baked into brownies was laced. He wanted help right away. He thought he and his wife might be dying, but she was just passed out on his lap. He kept asking the score of the Red Wings game because he wasn't sure if he was hallucinating or not.

What do I find so lovable about this situation? First, pot is illegal, but no one takes the law very seriously....so the cop goes through his routine, but spots an opportunity to take advantage. But pot makes people stupid (which is basically why it's illegal) and the cop after smoking the pot, essentially gets himself into to trouble by being too paranoid (again a symptom of pot itself). But the topper is that the news - the news - plays this story, which plays like a comedy bit and Anderson Cooper acts like a stoner on air mocking the idiocy of the whole situation. There is some strange genius about a country whose laws and media interact in the way they did tonight.