[Note from the photo editor: Folks who read the newspapers will be hard pressed to find stories reporting that marijuana is an effective way to treat PTSD. We selected a photo taken in Culver City to run with this column. These days, there isn't much in a newspaper that the conservative owners don't want you to know. Such is life.]
Various publications have a quote of the day, some a quote of the week. Why don't the people who publish the Bartlett's Familiar Quotations have an annual "Quote of the Year" award? If they did, our candidate would be the lead sentence from Maureen Dowd's column for September 20, 2014: "WHEN Willie Nelson invites you to get high with him on his bus, you go."
Now the disk jockey will play Peter, Paul, and Mary's song "Puff the Magic Dragon," the Beatles "I am the Walrus," and Donovan's "Mellow Yellow." We have to go see if there will be a new "smoke-in" event anytime soon. Have a "fa-a-a-r OUT!" type week.
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