Kumar Tries to Unite Bong Bloc
Slate’s John Dickerson is reporting that Kal Penn —Kumar of Harold and Kumar fame—is going to be leading a series of rallies at Emerson, BC, BU, and Tufts tonight before the debate. I feel as though these events would be akin to Jeff Spicoli leading the charge for Mondale in ‘84, but Penn seems particularly worked up.
I have to wonder, though, who wins the stoner culture vote? Who gets the Tommy Chong bump?
Only Bill Bradley’s 1990 senate race has been worthy of Chong’s money. I thought that Hillary may actually take it, given her promise to not break down doors and generally damp the buzz. But news today tells us Kumar is backing the right horse here.
(via Wash. Times):
… Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign said he in fact has “always” supported decriminalizing marijuana as he answered in 2004, meaning the candidate mistakenly raised his hand during the presidential debate last fall.
That position leaves Mr. Obama as the lone presidential candidate among the four leading challengers in either party who supports eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana. Mr. Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, opposes decriminalization, Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said.
No word yet on when all these rallies start tonight, so just open your window and follow the sound of drum circles and the smell of patchouli.
—DAN MORRELL
January 31st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hey, have some respect. Kal Penn is, after all, a professor at an esteemed Ivy League university.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
Thank you for informing me, that is it!!!
He gets my vote now, as, it is wrong, to spend money on ruining folk’s lifes for this issue….remember….freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again.
Go BAND4MASS
February 1st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Listen no demo -rat will ever poss the act in a bill form to de crim Mj ONly RON PAUL will end the federal drug war and release the states to re legalize Only Ron Paul will end the IRS and take out the federal reserved system which allows the federal government to work unchecked by endless spending making us all slaves to debt and only Ron Paul’s message is freedom
do you know what that means ? re-in -state the constitution and support the only man running who should be voted in as president
February 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Obama’s campaign is once again backpedaling and saying that he doesn’t support marijuana decrim. Today’s Washington Times. How many times is he going to go back and forth on this? It’s only weed, don’t penalize people for life for marijuana, Obama.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
According to The Science of Marijuana (Oxford University Press) the herb is about as addictive as chocolate. But whatever you think of cannabis, however you add up the negatives, there is no way that it inflicts even one thousandth of the damage on society — the
the money wasted, the lives ruined, the families wrecked — as the war on marijuana users itself. And of course the great irony is that the war just promotes consumption, especially among minors.