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The ink was barely dry on the executive order intended to open new pathways for psychedelic drug access when the internet, and specifically Jon Stewart, decided the policy itself was perhaps less interesting than the penmanship displayed during the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n
It is a classic late-night television maneuver: ignore the nuance of the legislation, ignore the potential real-world impact of the FDA review acceleration, and zoom in\u2026 quite literally, on the jagged, incomprehensible scrawl that emerged from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
Stewart, returning to The Daily Show\u2019s<\/em> desk this past Monday, could not help himself. He derailed his own monologue<\/a>, pausing the usual flow of political commentary to hyper-focus on the President\u2019s signature, which looked less like a legal endorsement and more like a ransom note written by a man who had forgotten the alphabet.<\/p>\n Watching the clip, one couldn\u2019t help but feel a strange mix of secondhand embarrassment and dark amusement, the kind that only this specific political era seems capable of manufacturing with such effortless, bizarre regularity.<\/p>\n