Former President Bill Clinton claimed in 1992 that he didn’t inhale when he first experimented with marijuana. His assertion instantly became a punch line. Later, when Clinton tasted a hemp beer aboard Air Force One, a reporter joked the president “tasted but did not swallow.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a COVID-19 social distancing fanatic, apparently missed the joke. He is trying, in all seriousness, the exact same I-didn’t-inhale defense this week following an NFL playoff game between the LA Rams and the San Francisco 49ers.

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