Timtations

Ecstasy Saves The World
Pot, MDMA, and too damn many happy people

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, August 15, 2001

What would be really just randomly fabulous is if the UC Santa Barbara would suddenly buck the trend and find some progressive moral fiber and discover a sudden impulse of commonsense justice and just up and decide to go to court and defend its recently arrested pot-growin' professor.

You know, that religious-studies prof and her husband who were recently busted for growing upwards of 58 pot plants in their home and are accused of, well, growing 58 pot plants in their home that you can potentially dry and smoke and then feel all funny and warm afterwards, similar to alcohol but not nearly as dangerous or addictive or famously violence-provoking but which for some reason is still illegal.

And wouldn't it be wondrous indeed if institutions like UCSB would begin to disregard what I imagine must be a relatively antediluvian policy regarding employees caught with benign herbs, a policy which I'm sure forces them to issue a reprimand and an official statement and a disapproving scowl, and instead bail out the professor and openly declare to all the world that pot busts like this one are ridiculous and pointless and arbitrary and ultimately insulting?

Thus reinforcing what most of us already know: That while marijuana ain't exactly health food, no one but the most uninformed or panicky anti-drug zealot actually thinks it's genuinely dangerous to the public at large anymore, really, especially in harmless gilded little towns like Santa Barbara, especially not when compared with the demons of alcohol or television or unchecked Republicanism.
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I just love the bit about 'unchecked Republicanism'. That's really the thing we need to be afraid of. Enjoy.