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Longtime Silicon Valley journalist and popular podcaster John C. Dvorak says he believes Kamala Harris is addicted to marijuana, and that it is influencing her performance as Vice President.

"(Harris) keeps saying this stupid stuff. And she's laughing all the time. That cackle. That laugh is a stoner's laugh." Dvorak said during the Mar. 3 edition of his No Agenda podcast. "She is wasted. She is stoned on pot. All day."

"Anyone who has been around pot smokers, or smoked it themselves, knows that there are a lot of people that cannot keep a straight face (when under the influence of marijuana) and they start laughing. You get the giggles and you sound like a moron," Dvorak said. "You can see it in her face. You look at (pictures of Harris) and think of somebody stoned on pot. Probably a lot of edibles. You can overdo those, easy."

California technology columnist John Dvorak says Kamala Harris looks "stoned on pot" in this photograph | No Agenda Podcast

"(Marijuana) is a form of self-medication, which she needs because she's in over her head. She's self-medicating on pot. It makes her feel good." he said. "This is my thesis...that Kamala is on pot and she needs to go to rehab."

Serving as California Attorney General from 2011 to 2017, Harris opposed marijuana legalization. In 2010, her campaign manager said “spending two decades in court rooms, Harris believes that drug selling harms communities.”

In 2019, Harris changed her position on marijuana, arguing in her book, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, that “we need to legalize marijuana and regulate it.” She called for the development of a “reliable breathalyzer-like device” for marijuana, to prevent impaired driving and to allow employers to identify high employees at work.

Also in 2019, Harris also told a radio host that she smoked marijuana in college, advocating for use of the drug. 

“Listen, I think [it] gives a lot of people joy,” Harris said. “And we need more joy.”

Dvorak, 69, worked for CNET Networks and NPR before starting No Agenda with Adam Curry in 2007. He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner and Philadelphia Inquirer.  He's a Los Angeles native and graduate of University of California, Berkeley.

No Agenda was named “Best Podcast” by the People’s Choice Podcast Awards in 2005. 

In July 2021, Curry told podcaster Joe Rogan that No Agenda has “1-1.4 million” listeners per episode.