April 1, 2010 - Almost a dozen fully budding marijuana plants were discovered growing at the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  A small closet had been modified with the latest in ‘grow’ lights and a hydroponics system connected to a nearby water cooler that exclusively stocked Evian.

Pelosi’s home district in San Francisco enjoys a steady supply of some of the finest marijuana in the world.

Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowse personally eradicated the crop with a gold plated weedwacker that he keeps in a glass case behind his desk.  ONDCP and DEA pot experts estimated that each 4ft tall plant was getting ready to produce at least 500 pounds of marijuana each.

A new face in American pot prohibition enforcement discovered the shovel-ready un-subsidized agriculture project. Socks, the famous White House pet of the Clinton family, was recently retrained as the first Pot Detection Cat.

Socks stood next to Kerlikowske at a press conference today saying, “There was enough pot in that closet to get a joint session of Congress high. Imagine what would happen to the ice-cream reserves around here? Think of the children.”

** This is indeed satire, even wonks get to have fun. For the record; the personable Socks the Cat passed way in February 2009.

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