I love The Smoking Gun. One of my favorite sites.
Was just flipping through this series of Phish-fan mugshot goodness and was shocked, SHOCKED, to see that they police could apprehend so many people for possession and/or distribution of narcotics at a Phish show. It… it’s just mind boggling.
Here I thought Phish phollowers were all upright citizens, incapable of breaking our nation’s drug laws. And yet:
Several years ago, I ended up in a Phish show parking lot at Evergreen State College in Olympia. A couple friends and I were driving to Seattle and decided to drop in on the way. One of my friends was looking for a Pipe From Which He Would Only Smoke 100% Legal Tobacco and we figured he’d have a pretty good chance of finding such a tool at the show.
We walked around looking for a crafty glass-blower, and I got a kick out of how many people were selling acid. You couldn’t walk ten feet without hearing “Doses… doses…” in semi-hushed tones.
When I laughed at the 59th LSD dealer and told my friend how funny the “doses… doses…” thing was, some hippie overheard me say the D-word and tried to make me a deal.
No wonder the cops had such a hard time finding the goods, eh? Once again, not exactly dealing with Lex Luthor criminal genius types.
