To be fair, that was Johnny Carson mocking Jerry Brown.
And you echoed it. Character assassinations are never informative and lack any fair representation of the victim.
Ultimately, it's mockery of Bill Clinton, who made the ridiculous claim that he 'once tried marijuana, but never inhaled'.
A comment I'm sure Clinton regrets. The Smell of MJ on University and college campuses was common, and it was so prevalent the parents of students had a fit when their child was arrested and booked for simple possession.
It was then when CA. passed 1000 PC and diverted those from being booked (having a criminal record) for having a small amount of MJ.
Even before CA passed the law making recreational MJ legal, it was ignored by urban police agencies since the work and cost of enforcing the law was not worth it.
It's interesting to me that a country like America who has first hand experience with the terrible unintended consequences of the prohibition of alcohol continues to make criminals out of otherwise law-abiding citizens who use recreational drugs and continue with a drug prohibition that is the single cause behind most of America's violent crime.
During 18th amendment Prohibition, the size and power of the Federal police force grew exponentially. I believe the war on drugs (one of the most expensive wars in American History) was the political price that was paid to end alcohol prohibition but not take power from federal policing. -- the FBI's $9 Billion budget nearly double of America's largest police department, NYPD. DEA alone has annual budget of $2 Billion.