And so suddenly here’s marijuana — yep, marijuana — hogging itself another heyday, bolting into the spotlight, all but sashaying back into dialogue and shouting, “Hey, I’m still here.”
Shadowed in cycles through recent decades while other legal or illegal or performance-enhancing stimulants took turns getting all the hype, marijuana has just hollered in the case of merely the most-decorated Olympian in history, Michael Phelps. It has tried to yell from the recent past of the Super Bowl most valuable player, who alighted at Disney World only four months after a forgotten arrest.
It has appeared this week in the suitcase of an arrested college basketball point guard at an airport, and this winter in the possession of a former Dallas receiver, and a Seattle linebacker, and a Florida State receiver, and a retired NBA forward/center, and amid a Japanese sumo wrestling scandal if you can believe such, and in November with a New York Jets defensive end, and last spring in that bellwether moment on talk radio, when Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard readily said he enjoyed an inhale.
Marijuana? Who knew? Yeah, well, OK, pretty much everybody did.
NORML’s Paul Armentano is quoted in this piece in the Sunday LA Times.
