By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2024-10-22 11:23:24 | Updated at 2024-10-22 13:33:25
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The Democrat, 59, denied using the anxiety-reliving method when she was asked during a town hall in Royal Oak, Michigan Monday night about the coping mechanisms she has in place to stay calm on the campaign trail.
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No munchies here.
Vice President Kamala Harris may want to legalize marijuana, but she laughed off the idea of turning to infused “gummies” to cope with election-cycle stress.
The Democratic presidential nominee, 59, denied using the anxiety-reliving method when she was asked during a town hall in Royal Oak, Michigan on Monday night about the coping mechanisms she has in place to stay calm on the campaign trail.
Vice President Kamala Harris insisted Monday she hasn’t turned to marijuana-infused “gummies” to help her cope with election-cycle stress. AFP via Getty ImagesModerator Maria Shriver had told the Veep that “everybody” she knew had taken to stress-relief methods, recalling people telling her, “‘I have to turn off the news I can’t read anything, I’m meditating, I’m doing yoga. I’m so anxious… I’m eating gummies.’ All kinds of things.
“What are you doing?” Shriver asked Harris.
“I’m not eating gummies,” Harris immediately shot back — before breaking into her signature cackle.
A laughing Shriver added, “Okay, we got that clear.”
The veep did admit that she’s still feeling the pressure just weeks out from the election.
“I’m not eating gummies,” Harris said when asked if she’d turned to edibles. Alina Lyssenko / Alamy“I wake up in the middle of the night usually these days, just to be honest with you,” she told the audience, adding that she tries to stay grounded by exercising “every morning” and chatting with her family.
Harris’ giggling response comes after she came out in support of legalizing marijuana nationally last week — ever though she oversaw more than 1,900 marijuana convictions back when she was San Francisco’s district attorney between 2004 and 2011.
She vowed to legalize the drug as she urged black men to back her presidential candidacy as she prepared for an afternoon interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God last Tuesday.
In the lead up to the 2020 election, Harris confessed to Charlamagne, too, that she had smoked marijuana in college.
The admission, at the time, sparked outcry and allegations of hypocrisy given her prosecutorial record.
