WAS it mushroom uppers? Fentanyl? Or some wonder drug that made one blissfully unhinged from the real world, one so new and potent and fresh off the drug labs that it is still out of the PDEA list?

Concerned citizens are asking those questions after a congressman vested with a halo of numeracy and economic sense (at least that is the general perception among colleagues in the talent-starved, IQ-deficient House of Representatives) dropped an improbable number: 14 percent. That, he claimed, would be the immediate rise in the gross domestic product (GDP) once the so-called restrictive provisions in the Constitution are amended and archived for good.