Tucson is a little bit safer these days now that Leticia Villareal-Garcia is off the streets. The 62-year-old bingo regular was allegedly distributing marijuana to other little old ladies as they marked off bingo squares and jabbered about Bill O’Reilly (or whatever it is little old ladies do at bingo parlors). She claimed it was all a misunderstanding – that she had no idea that there was marijuana in her trunk. But Granny wasn’t hauling gram nugs – she was caught bringing 214 pounds to the game.

Granny has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined $150,000. Meanwhile, the Garcia family loses its matron, the elderly population of Tucson runs dry, and everyone is worse off because of prohibition. So who was being protected and served in this case? How would Tucson be worse off if granny had been left to burn bowls with her sisters?

And most importantly: How wrong have most of us been about bingo?

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