Vice President Kamala Harris is shocked to learn there’s a strain of marijuana named after her, but she’s not planning to try it anytime soon.
However, that’s not because she believes its a “gateway drug”—a long-held theory that she pushed back against in a new interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
On a lighter note, Harris seemed pleasantly surprised to learn during the Kimmel interview that there’s a cannabis variety called Kamala Kush.
“Really? Seriously? I did not know that,” she said, laughing. Kimmel said it was “outrageous” that she hasn’t been gifted some of the product named after her, but Harris said she’s “not touching that.”
The Biden-Harris administration has increasingly leaned into its cannabis actions in the lead-up to the November election.
For example, Harris met with marijuana pardon recipients for a roundtable event at the White House in March, where she said behind closed doors that “we need to legalize marijuana.”
