Sure was. I had forgotten his name until you reminded me. I think he was one of the "certain local congressmen" Mike mentioned in the "Trouble in Ann Arbor" number. What a hoot! I wonder whom he meant by "left of center clergy", tho.
Those sure were different times. People were really thinking and reacting to the propaganda that has saturated American society about drugs. I mean, what makes the illegal drugs different from the legal ones? The distinction is arbitrary, and exposes a self-fulfilling prophecy: just as making alcohol illegal created a huge crime wave, explosive growth of power in organized crime, and the loss of many lives/careers/etc. in the 20's, drug prohibition has had exactly the same result from the 1930's onward. It has lasted much longer, however, due to improvements in propaganda techniques employed by government bureaucrats anxious about their jobs and clueless blue-noses in the populace.
If people compared the addictive potential of nicotine and the huge damage it has caused, backed by the tobacco lobby, and the loss of some of our best anesthesiologists to fentenyl, a fully-accepted medical tool 80 times a strong as, say, heroin, maybe they would think twice about our so-called "war on drugs". It has been a war on people, not on drugs, that serves to keep pharmaceutical corporations overcharging us and making incredible profits, and prevent many needy sufferers from getting inexpensive drugs that would WORK.
It's a sad part of American history, that has created great misery and loss not only at home but in the rest of the world, especially in countries where, because of the big money in the illegal drug trade, poor farmers find they can make many times the money on illegal drugs that they could on food crops. What a terrible mess we've made. I keep hoping people will wake up someday soon. I know it's not our only big problem, but it is a lot bigger and worse than most people realize. <soapbox off>
In any case, it is entertaining to see what fun the creative hippies of the 70s' made of the situation - it is certainly good for some laughs, and healthy laughter is a great medicine in its own right. This site is a prime example of that. Hope people enjoy it ... and (as IBM management promoted back in the 70's) THINK.