Delightfully smug sex columnist Dan Savage got stoned and walked into Seattleâs City Hall with a fake gun and bag full of pot cookies. For all the right reasons.
It all started when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels proposed a wildly impractical ordinance which would hold nightclub owners responsible for any drug possession on their premises:
From The Stranger:
If the mayor's proposed regulations are adopted, club owners would be required to prevent patrons from carrying drugs into their place of businessâprevent. Not attempt to prevent, not do their best to prevent, but preventâperiod, full stop. If drugs are found on someone inside a club, the club would be shut down.
Savage was incredulous:
If the mayor expects club owners to keep drugs and weapons out of their clubs, it seemed reasonable to expect that he would be able to keep drugs and weapons out of City Hall.
So he had a friend whip up some pot cookies, tucked a fake gun into his shorts, and walked right past security and into the building. Once inside, he found his way into the Mayorâs office where he admitted to being stoned and offered pot cookies to several mayoral staffers.
No one accepted his offer, but Savageâs exploits have generated quite a buzz nonetheless. Check out Savageâs post at The Stranger Blog for pics and a slew of comments from shocked Seattleites.
Sighâ¦David Borden never makes us do cool stuff like that.
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