Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen jokingly said that smoking marijuana is “always helpful” when “you get stuck” on a challenging level of the Candy Crush mobile game. In reality, however, she claimed she hasn’t smoked cannabis since the summer she attended Yale University and trained for her session by smoking cigarettes.
During a Sunday appearance on NPR’s game show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me”, the Biden Cabinet official, who also visited China last year, where she ate a meal with “delicious hallucinogenic qualities , talked about her desire to “be prepared” for all aspects of life. This included her first experience using marijuana.
“You know, before this I’d never smoked pot. She said, “It was the summer I was about to go to college.” “My roommate told me she had hidden some marijuana, and that we should smoke it at a party.”
“I have always prepared myself for the experience. I asked, ‘How do I prepare? Why don’t you buy a packet of cigarettes, smoke them, and see if you can inhale? I’ve heard that you can’t enjoy marijuana unless it’s inhaled,” Yellen said. “I bought a packet of cigarettes. I began smoking them. It was horrible, it’s a terrible experience. I was coughing. I thought to myself, “Well, I am not prepared.” I need to do more. ‘”
“I bought more cigarettes, and smoked them all week to prepare for the party. Then, I went to the event and smoked some marijuana cigarettes. “But I never did it again,” she said. “But, you know, within a few months, I had upped my cigarette consumption to three packs a day.”
Listen to the secretary discussing her cannabis experience at around 20:15 in the audio below.
Yellen admitted that she quit eventually, but more recently she became addicted to a new kind of high – playing Candy Crush, a mobile puzzle game. She claimed that she had reached level 6,180 at the time of her interview.
Peter Sagal, the host of the show, asked: “Do you know a secret to Candy Crush?”
Another panelist commented, “Yeah. Marijuana cigarettes.”
“If you get stuck, it always helps,” Yellen affirmed.
She may not have smoked pot since her first encounter, but she was able to laugh about a trip she took to China last year, when she ate a mushroom based product made from the psychoactive Lanmaoa Asiatica, a native Asian species of fungus. She claimed that she did not consume enough to produce hallucinogenic effects and only learned of its psychedelic qualities after she had consumed it.
Yellen stated at the time, “I read that if mushrooms are properly cooked–which they were in this excellent restaurant–that there is no impact.” “We all enjoyed the mushrooms and the restaurant. None of us felt any negative effects.”
The official expressed frustration over the ongoing barriers to traditional financial service for the marijuana industry, under federal prohibition. He said last year that it was “unfortunately,” the case that banks are reluctant to work state-licensed businesses. Regulators “have been searching for solutions.”
She said in 2022 that it is “extremely disappointing” that Congress so far has not been able to pass legislation such as the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act (SAFE), and Treasury “supports” the proposal.
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