A reality star turned activist who is now running for the president of Russia, has deemed weed safer than alcohol.
Let’s take a moment to break that sentence down.
Ksenia Sobchak, who was known from the reality show Dom-2 and the anchor of Dozhd, and independent television channel, Sobchak has been considered the “Russian Paris Hilton.”
Whether she was chosen as a decoy by the Kremlin or not, it’s not too shocking that she’s running, considering her father, Anatoly Sobchak, is the mayor of St. Petersburg, and the former mentor of current president Vladmir Putin.
She has even referred to Putin as the man who “saved her father’s life,” furthering suspicion that she is a face placed on the Kremlin’s platform simply for “vitality.”
Peep some of the posts found on her Instagram page.
According to VICE News, there isn’t strong hope that Sobchak will defeat Putin on the upcoming March ballot.
“Political analysts say she hasn’t got a prayer of defeating President Vladimir Putin at the ballot box in March. And what’s more, she’s been criticized as a ‘caricature liberal candidate’ by Alexei Navalny, the anti-Kremlin agitator who’s now pushing for a boycott of the election in an attempt to embarrass Putin and discredit the president’s inevitable re-election.”
As for her marijuana policy, heavy focus on vodka leads to the beverage being often misused in Russia, resulting in high numbers of premature death in adults, hence Sobchak’s push for the legalization of marijuana.
“I myself don’t use it, but I don’t drink vodka by the bottle, either. I don’t really understand why drinking vodka in enormous quantities is seen as normal in our country, but using marijuana is not, even though it has far fewer consequences, even from the perspective of crime statistics.”
Sobchak has admitted that she’s dabbled in drugs herself, but will not elaborate as to what she meant by that.
No one thought that Donald Trump would win either… So, who knows?
Don’t hold your breath that you’ll be able to light up a legal J and that Putin won’t be occupying the presidential seat the next 6 years, though.
Russian politics are a whole ‘nother game.