Smoke and Smearers

If Shaw succeeds in expanding her two-tokes-over-the-line universe beyond Fairfax, she would do much more than just make it easier for Marin County residents to get stoned. She would put California's justice system on notice that it enforces locally unpopular laws at its own peril. She would institute, as a matter of law, reefer madness.

Fred Harper

Read the followup column from February 21

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