Last night Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report returned to the topic of weed, this time interviewing cocaine and pill addict, and former congressman Patrick Kennedy.

When asked why Kennedy opposed reforming pot laws he said, “I don’t like Big Business,” then he straight up lied about how free joints are available when you buy a lift ticket at a ski resort. (Come on. No ski resort would ever do that.)

Kennedy is in favor of fines and mandatory rehab for persons found with pot, he said. Incongruently, Kennedy also said that legal marijuana in non-smokable edible form probably would have prevented his slide into cocaine and pill addiction, which led to his “arrest and humiliation”.

“I might have stopped with pot. … I had ashtma so I moved onto other things to get high. … Oxycodone felt really good.”

When Colbert says crazy things, it’s satire. But when Kennedy says them, it’s just sad.