You're not paranoid. I think it wasn't legalized for that explicit purpose, but corporate media will use this opportunity to distract and divide the public, this is the perfect storm. Once this blows over, they'll move onto something else, something far less important, they'll probably go on for weeks about some stupid drama in the NFL or in Hollywood that no one fucking cares about. They don't need something this big to distract the public when they already can choose what content people pay attention to.