Not-So-Funny Papers

February, 1997

You know the story: California Attorney General Dan Lungren, opponent of medicinal marijuana use, raided the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers' Club. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau spent a week ridiculing the bust in Doonesbury and sympathizing with medicinal pot smokers. Lungren asked Doonesbury's syndicator, and California newspapers, to pull the offending strips or run them with a disclaimer stating the facts of the matter.The disclaimer was necessary, he declared, because Doonesbury's representation o...