This is easily one of the strangest articles I have ever read. Though it’s only around 200 words long, it manages to cram in five different terms for marijuana. I think “green buds” is my favorite. It just sounds so…authentic. It also manages to get in a “Harold and Kumar” reference, not bad. And let’s not forget its journalistic opening of “Duuuuuude!”. That’s just good copy. Finally it manages to conclude with a theory it derives from the work of Herodotus, a reference that is only about…2500 years old.
What’s wrong, they couldn’t find a bible verse to back them up? At FOXNews!?
This just in: FOXNews links global warming to the work of Ptolemy’s “Almagest”, blame increase in temperature to Earth’s position in center of Universe!
Also, I love the multimedia. Apparently three close up pictures of the marijuana, a seed from the marijuana, and the “surface glands” of the marijuana were not enough. No, Fox decided to spring for one more, AP stock photo of a marijuana leaf. No pictures of any of the actual cultural information in the piece. I mean, they couldn’t even spring for a black and white drawing of Herodotus, or a Scythian? Thanks, Associated Press. It’s good to know that the next time there’s an article about a methlab raid in some Midwest town, there will be a nice, clean, presentable picture of “crank” or “amp” or “Chalk Dust”, whatever the editor’s agree on.
And all of this doesn’t even touch on how awkwardly the article hands discussing issues that aren’t directly related to a US-centric way of thought. I know! Let’s bank hard on the drug angle and at least get a few laughs out of this piece.
Give me a break.
