A 14-month-old Pennsylvania girl is dead because her father was too high on marijuana to remember she was in his back seat — and the same political class that spent years selling weed as harmless recreation won't say a word about it.

Daniel Jeffrey Moist, 38, was charged Wednesday with third-degree murder, child endangerment, reckless endangerment, and leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle, according to the Northampton County District Attorney's office. On June 11, Moist left home with his two children. He dropped one off at camp. He drove past the daycare. He parked and went to work. His 14-month-old daughter sat in that car all day. At 4 p.m., his wife called to say the baby never arrived. Moist found the toddler unresponsive, called 911, and rushed her to the hospital. She was dead.

When officers arrived, they noted Moist had "glassy, bloodshot eyes," according to the New York Post. A search of the vehicle turned up a THC vape. Lab results later confirmed active marijuana components in his system.

"We believe the operative facts show that Mr. Moist was under the influence, and he assumed the care of his daughter to deliver her safely to the daycare center," District Attorney Stephen G. Baratta said during a press conference. Baratta added there is currently no evidence Moist was aware his daughter had been left in the vehicle.

That is the whole horror of it. He wasn't malicious. He was stoned. He forgot his own child was behind him, and she cooked to death in a hot car. Moist's bail is set at $500,000.

The Post covered the drug angle front and center — it's in their headline. But watch how the rest of the press handles stories like this. The instinct in establishment media is to soften, to bury the substance component, to frame these as tragic accidents rather than the predictable consequences of a culture that decided getting high was no big deal. Every state that legalized recreational marijuana was told it was "harmless." Every politician who voted for it assured the public that responsible adults could handle it. A 14-month-old girl couldn't.

The other outlets in this cycle are running separate child-death stories — a mother arrested in Colorado for child abuse resulting in her 4-month-old's death, a Louisiana woman charged as principal to second-degree murder in a 7-year-old's killing during a domestic dispute, a South Carolina father searching for his missing 4-year-old. The Oregon Statesman Journal reported on a high school teacher busted on ten child-porn-related felonies. The pattern is relentless, and the institutional response is always the same: hand-wringing, then silence on root causes.

Nobody forced Daniel Moist to hit a vape before driving his kids anywhere. That's on him. But the politicians, lobbyists, and legalizers who spent a decade insisting marijuana is consequence-free recreation? They built the culture that told him it was fine. A dead toddler says otherwise.