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In December 2020, Richard Delise was granted release from prison after serving 31 years of a 90 year prison sentence.

His crime?

Smuggling.

Marijuana.

Convicted at the apex of war on drugs hysteria, Delicie's three-plus decades of incarceration

was one of many examples of human beings

immiserated for growing, distributing, or even carrying cannabis. All of which is

to emphasize the strangeness he must have felt stepping into a world of casual acceptance of pot, an American. the And so this year on 420-2020-24, the world's second largest chain restaurant launched a dispensary

pop-up in Venice, California to promote its sauce-coated chicken nuggets.

Founded in the Bluegrass State in 1930 by a stolen valor colonel who perhaps should have been incarcerated for literally shooting a man with a gun.

It's true. The company launched its first franchise in Salt Lake City in 1952,

and has since grown to have a presence on every continent.

In recent years, stateside, the nearly century old Bird brand

has leaned into cheekier, winkier marketing, usually incorporating the

long dead kernel himself.

The saucy nuggets dispensary represents its edgiest attempt to date, a pseudo-risky embrace

of weed culture conducted while thousands still linger in federal

prison for marijuana-related offenses, despite the Biden administration's much touted claims

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