Dave Schilling, The Guardian

As if it was straight out of your square uncle’s cockeyed fever dream, one of the six Bernie Sanders offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, sits in a decrepit strip mall, provocatively rubbing up against a weed dispensary. Well, not exactly a dispensary in the traditional sense. The website for the Higher Power Cannabis Church describes “a congregation and members that seek inspiration and insight from all major world religions ... Through our shared search for a HIGHer power, we have come to believe that cannabis is a miracle plant with many therapeutic and medical benefits.”

Toward the end of last night’s 523rd Republican presidential debate , Senator Ted Cruz, whom you might remember as the demonic spirit from the movie It Follows , suddenly turned into the Moviefone guy and reminded America that a very, very important motion picture is set for release on Friday. “Tomorrow morning a new movie will debut about the incredible bravery of the men fighting for their lives in Benghazi,” he said. “And the politicians that abandoned them.”