“7 Steps to Smoke Pot and Never Get Caught” was written by Russ Belville and posted on Alternet back on Sept. 13. It's still making the rounds on the internet right now, though, and came to my attention via the Orange County NORML discussion board.
The post contains some practical advice on how not to get arrested for smoking weed, and a lot of it is familiar ground for the average stoner. Stuff like: don't pass a pipe back and forth if you're on the bleachers at a rock concert or some other outdoor event, but use a joint. Don't dress like a hippie.
That's the straightforward part.
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Perhaps because the very first tip Belville offers is “Be White,” however, some earnest, medical marijuana activist-type people are calling the list racist. “Racist . . . not worth reading,” remarked one such reader on the OCNORML board.
It's hard to see the merit of that argument, seeing as how it's a well-known fact that, especially in large cities like
New York, Los Angeles or
Santa Ana, most people arrested for smoking weed are
African-American or
Latino. They're also overwhelmingly young, which probably explains why Belville's second tip is “
Be Middle-Aged.”
So is Belville being racist or just using humor to make a valid point about our justice system?
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).
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