... texto retirado de um artigo da revista

new yorker

(como o mundo é pequeno ... por cá começa a falar-se em cannabis para fins medicinais... será um preparativo para legalizar algumas drogas? Em outros países não se necessitou de lhe chamar medicamento... será interessante ver o desenvolver desta estratégia)

It was now three o���clock in the afternoon, and Captain Blue was dozing after a copious inhalation of purified marijuana vapor. (His nickname is an homage to his favorite variety of bud.) His hair was black and greasy, and was spread across his pillow. On the front of his purple T-shirt, which had slid up to expose his round belly, were the words ���Big Daddy.��� With his arm wrapped around a three-foot-long green bong, he resembled a large, contented baby who has fallen asleep with his milk bottle.

Captain Blue is a pot broker. More precisely, he helps connect growers of high-grade marijuana upstate to the retail dispensaries that sell marijuana legally to Californians on a doctor���s recommendation. Since 1996, when a referendum known as Proposition 215 was approved by California voters, it has been legal, under California state law, for authorized patients to possess or cultivate the drug.