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"The gentleman above spent much of his career raving against the evils of Marijuana, only to die of lung cancer. Another hypocritical law and order freak from Californicate."

Call me dense, but I fail to see the connection between being against marijuana and dying of lung cancer.

I assume you're suggesting that he got lung cancer from smoking cigarettes, and therefore he's a hypocrite for advocating against smoking marijuana?

If my assumptions are accurate, revealing such twisted logic, my question would be: And you call him a freak?

If my assumptions are wrong, please forgive me for pegging you as an idiot.

As I said in an earlier post, I'm a fan of "Dragnet" radio series. I remember from the old TV series the hokey misinformation about marijuana and drugs. On the radio programs Jack Webb personally endorsed Camel Cigarettes, "Camels, they're best for you." He was using his image to sell ("push")an addicting substance (Joe Friday was a drug pusher!) You can call this "hypocrisy," or "lack of insight," or just the way things were. In any event the police celebrated Jack Webb.

Tommy Chong attempted to profit from his own image to sell water pipes, (not marijuana) and was imprisoned by the police for it. It is an interesting contrast.

Found this at word-detective.com:

There are times, and this is one of them, when I feel like calling Sergeant Joe Friday, played by Jack Webb on the old "Dragnet" TV series. Sergeant Friday not only maintained the same deadpan torpor no matter how bizarre a case he faced, but also frequently exhibited an impressively encyclopedic knowledge of street slang (supplied by scriptwriters apparently goofing on Mr. Webb). "It's marijuana," he'd declare, "also known to addicts as pot, acid, Mary Jane, boo-boo, bingo, hippie dust, Tijuana tea, speed, hooch, hash and Helmut the Wonder Horse."