Summer of Love, 1776

I smell weed first thing this morning. Someone's smoking in their backyard, one or two houses up or down from my house.

Sometimes I truly believe I'm the only person in San Francisco who's not stoned at any one time.

Does anyone remember President Nixon's 'War on Drugs'? Or that Elvis Presley was appointed Commissioner?

Or Nancy Reagan's solution for the drug problem? "Just Say No," which pre-dated Nike's slogan, "Just Do It."

The creator of the "Just Do It" slogan, an adman from Portland, Oregon, credited the inspiration to Gary Gilmore's last words: "Let's do it." Gilmore was an American criminal who demanded the death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah and was executed in 1977, a year after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statues, becoming the first person in almost ten years to be executed in the United States.

Let's do it, just do it; either way you say it it's what revolutionaries do.

Then let's just all get stoned.