South Park has joined the conversation around the pending marijuana rescheduling proposal that President Donald Trump says he’ll be deciding on within weeks—poking fun at the president by suggesting that he might accept a deal to change federal cannabis laws if flattered with gifts and the promise of “mutually beneficial” rewards.
The Comedy Central show has been pushing the envelope in its criticism of the Trump administration recently, joking about hot button policy issues ranging from immigration enforcement to the federalization of police in Washington, D.C. In its latest episode on Wednesday, it addressed cannabis rescheduling.
Just a couple weeks after Trump said he’d soon make a decision on moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the show alluded to a fictional scenario where the character Randy Marsh lost workers at the farm of his marijuana company Tegridy amid the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
While that Tegridy-specific situation was fictionalized, the episode also comes amid controversy over recent real-life raids at a California-based marijuana farm, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested several workers last month.
In the South Park episode, Towelie—an anthropomorphic towel whose personal use of cannabis is a main
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