Showing posts with label Aaron Sorkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aaron Sorkin. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Urine Test


There's a great scene in the new Aaron Sorkin / Netflix movie "The Trial of the Chicago 7" where Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) of Students for a Democratic Society says to Yippie! Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), "My problem is that for the next 50 years, when people think of progressive politics, they’re going to think of you and your idiot followers, passing out daisies to soldiers or trying to levitate the Pentagon. So they’re not gonna think of equality or justice; they’re not gonna think of education or poverty or progress. They’re gonna think of a bunch of stoned, lost, disrespectful, foul-mouthed, lawless losers. And so we’ll lose elections." 

I know this to be true because I campaigned for Hayden when he ran for Governor of California in 1994. I would talk to young people, saying, "You know Tom Hayden, the Chicago 7?" Only when I said, "with Abbie Hoffman" did the bells of recognition ring. (Hayden lost that election, and Abbie remains enduringly popular.) 

The credits of the movie mention Hoffman's bestseller "Steal This Book" but not its 1987 sequel, "Steal This Urine Test" in which he blows the lid off the bogus urine testing industry that discriminates against marijuana smokers by detecting inactive metabolites that can stay in the body for weeks after use. 

Hoffman wrote of NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) chief Dr. Robert DuPont's evolution from a somewhat liberal scientist to a zealot-like proponent of urine testing:  

Thursday, December 27, 2012

2012 TOKEY AWARDS


Tokin Woman is proud to bestow 

the following “Tokey” Awards for 2012, 

in recognition of the achievement, 

courage and compassion of the awardees. 


VOICE OF THE PEOPLE AWARD:
Andrew Sullivan
The Daily Beast

INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS AWARD:
TOM HAYDEN

CULTURAL AWARENESS AWARD:
"Breaking the Taboo" http://www.breakingthetaboo.info/

Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom"

"Toke" and "Mary Jane the Musical"

VIDEO OF THE YEAR: What if Obama Called a Real Marijuana User?

COVER GIRL OF THE YEAR: LILY TOMLIN, CULTURE

FICKLE FEDERAL FINGER OF FATE AWARD:
Federal Policy Goes to the Dogs Over the Vapor Room SF

BIzARRE BEDfELLOWS AWARD:
Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand

BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD:
Too High to Fail

SCIENCE WRITING AWARD: CLINT WERNER FOR SMELL THE TRUTH

A FOND FAREWELL TO:
Phyllis Diller

Larry Hagman


Special recognition to: Cannabis Culture and the Smell the Truth blog for supporting original journalism in 2012.