One Toke Over The Line

I was mulling over the medical marijuana issue before the Iowa Board of Pharmacy.

I was going to HIGHlight it's chief proponent Carl Olsen, but the board beat me to the punch.

I had seen the interview he'd done with TV8 and Olsen was reminding me of Carl Spackler from Caddyshack and the scientific community is united in that fact...

This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.

The board brought up Olsen's past...

"Olsen has a long history of marijuana possession and use - which history has nothing to do with medical treatment."

Olsen was arrested several times in the 1970s and '80s on marijuana-related charges.

In one case, it said, he was stopped for driving slowly and erratically on Interstate Highway 80. "In the trunk of Olsen's automobile were plastic bags of marijuana and a whole pile of money."

The board continued...

In another case, Olsen and about a dozen other people were arrested in Maine in 1980 after they were seen using rubber boats to bring ashore about 40,000 pounds of marijuana from a larger boat.

Olsen has justified his habit saying "he was a priest in the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, and that a sacrament of the church is smoking marijuana all day."

I'm betting he's a HIGH Priest!