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Many marijuana users will probably be getting high Monday to celebrate 420, the unofficial holiday dedicated to all things cannabis.
But Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV probably won’t be joining them.
The president is a known teetotaler, despite agreeing to shift pot from a Schedule I substance to Schedule III in December. Meanwhile, the pope hasn’t directly commented on the wacky tobacky, but he has said that “drugs and addictions are an invisible prison.”
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Of course, that isn’t stopping people in the cannabis industry from pontificating over who they would rather get high with between the president and the pontiff — or both.
Pope Leo definitely is the top choice of many marijuana insiders, including Max Simon, whose business Green Flower trains people on the inner workings of the industry.
He thinks smoking with the pope would be illuminating on a variety of levels.
“I have a feeling that conversation would go somewhere genuinely interesting. Consciousness, suffering, grace, what it means to be human,” he told HuffPost. “I’d be very curious if he feels closer to god with a little cannabis in his system.”
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Reggie Harris, of the House of Kush cannabis brand, said the choice is “a tough one,”