The U.S. House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi passed a $3 trillion package to help save the economy during the covid-19 pandemic. It is titled the Heroes Act.

Certainly there are many still suffering, and we can acknowledge there have been heroes all around us. But in a bill to help ease unemployment and, judging by the title, honor heroes, it is a bit confusing that the word “cannabis” appears more often than the word “job.” (The bill contains provisions for banking to serve the cannabis industry.) Who are the heroes we are honoring — Cheech and Chong?

Richard J. King

New Kensington

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