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Winners Do Drugs, Again[/h2]
Matt Welch | November 2, 2010
Proposition19 may or may not pass, but the debate over it has mainstreamedmarijuana in a way I don't remember in my adult lifetime (which, infairness, began in that
darknight of the drug war soul, 1986). One small step in thisdirection was, of all things, this year's World Series, which endedlast night with a dazzling pitching performance by the SanFrancisco Giants' resident longhair and
guilty potpossessor,
Tim Lincecum. Giants fans and Prop. 19 supporters alike havebeen sporting "
LetTimmy Smoke" T-shirts, and now, with a World Series ring to gowith his two Cy Young Awards, Lincecum can take his rightful placejust behind Michael Phelps as a guy who just says yes and thenkicks your @%+, at sports.
And unlike Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton,Lincecum continues to believe that inhaling is the point: Asked howhe thought San Francisco would react to the championship, he
said: "A lot of beer flowing, smoke in the air, I'mhoping."
Never underestimate how deviancy in the sporting world can
ripplequickly through the culture at large.