I Guess That's Something

Julian Sanchez | March 21, 2006

Majikthise reports that while having actual marijuana in your home remains illegal, painting pictures of marijuana on your house is not yet verboten.

Comments

|3.21.06 @ 3:26PM|#

No picture?

|3.21.06 @ 3:27PM|#

And that's just on High Street. You should see what they're painting on their houses around the corner on Totally Friggin' Wasted Street.

Jeff P.|3.21.06 @ 3:30PM|#

My station did a story about this guy, including an interview.
As with all people who end up on TV discussing legalization, he had unfocused eyes, a scruffy beard, beads, an ill-fitting knit cap, and every other Phish-fan accoutrement.
So, are the legalization forces so stoned that they can't find spokesperson steeped in Spencer's Gifts-variety counterculture?
I'll go so far as to say that legalization will not make any headway until the powers-that-be sever all ties with the hippies. Hippies can't be that big of a help to the movement anyway.
I mean. they're hippies...

|3.21.06 @ 4:34PM|#

Well, it's also a matter of who the TV producer chooses: "Hey - hey! Check out that guy - the one with the beads and the cap and stuff! He'll be perfect for the pot story, get him!" Clearly, the answer is the rounding up and eradication of hippies.

|3.21.06 @ 7:06PM|#

"So, are the legalization forces so stoned that they can't find spokesperson steeped in Spencer's Gifts-variety counterculture?"

Jeff, I wouldn't be surprised to find that the situation is the same as with the gun-rights movement, where a news crew will walk past an entire crowd of nicely dressed rational people in order to get an interview with the single camouflage-clad, tinfoil hat-wearing froot loop.

Pandering to people's stereotypes gets ratings.

|3.21.06 @ 7:37PM|#

"So, are the legalization forces so stoned that they can't find spokesperson steeped in Spencer's Gifts-variety counterculture?"

Jeff, I wouldn't be surprised to find that the situation is the same as with the gun-rights movement, where a news crew will walk past an entire crowd of nicely dressed rational people in order to get an interview with the single camouflage-clad, tinfoil hat-wearing froot loop.

Pandering to people's stereotypes gets ratings.

|3.21.06 @ 8:42PM|#

Five months after Christopher Seekins was arrested and charged with cultivating marijuana in his home, neighbors have complained about the giant marijuana leaves he has spray-painted on the outside of his home on High Street.

I'm surprised he still has a home, what with civil forfeiture.

Pandering to people's stereotypes gets ratings.

Ya beat me to it.