Hemp hotties…

…and the man behind them, NORML founder R. Keith Stroup. Stroup, a K Street lobbyist, started his pot legalization crusade in 1970 with a $5,000 grant from the Playboy Foundation.

The Boston Herald today reports that the geezers at the head of Boston’s “pot parade” incited kids to get blazed on Boston Common. Some of my Emmanuel College journalism students said they planned to attend. (Lousy, wet weather gave way to sunshine later in the day. I hope my students made it, and took pictures.)

R. Keith Stroup, founder of the National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and a High Times magazine editor, were busted along with some of their followers at Boston’s Freedom Rally.

clipped from www.bostonherald.com High Times and NORML are co-sponsors of the annual rally that celebrates pot culture and traditionally results in dozens of arrests of addle-brained youths who mistakenly believe it is legal to toke up for just that day. “A lot of them said they thought it was an amnesty,” said one of the cops at the makeshift booking area where plainclothes police led the shame-faced youths who were caught smoking reefer. The 60-plus arrested found it was not only not legal for that day but would cost them a day in court.