US MO: Mcclellan Finds Unlikely Crusaders Canvassing For Pot

1/29/2012

MCCLELLAN FINDS UNLIKELY CRUSADERS CANVASSING FOR POT

It would be great if our state went to pot Bernice and Wylie Williams walked along Delmar Boulevard in the Loop in University City late Thursday morning. Because they approached everybody they saw, they seemed, at first glance, to be panhandlers. But unlikely panhandlers. Respectable-looking. Kind of old for that sort of thing, too.

They were trying to collect signatures on a petition to put a measure on the November ballot that would legalize marijuana in Missouri. They are unlikely activists in this cause. Wylie is 73. Bernice is 69. They grew up in Texas and met at Texas Christian University. They married after Wylie graduated in 1961. Let me explain something to young people. What we now call the '60s did not start until 1966 or 1967.

In other words, 1961 was part of the '50s. Had Wylie and Bernice been in college during the '60s, they would have been exposed to marijuana. By the time the '60s started, pot was everywhere.

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