Police: Man, 77, ate hidden pot stash in squad car

Associated Press ^ | March 12, 2010

[Free ThinkerNY]

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Police in Iowa City accused a 77-year-old man they arrested on traffic charges earlier this year of swallowing his hidden marijuana stash while seated in a squad car.

Authorities served an arrest warrant on misdemeanor marijuana charges Thursday on Howard Switzer, and later released him on his own recognizance.

Police said they observed Switzer making an illegal left turn on Jan. 31 and arrested him for driving with a revoked license.

[billorites]

Well, this is the way we're going.

Elderly stoners hiding from their grandchildren and smoking dope behind the maintenance building of their retirement commune.

Like they did back in high school in '68.

[Gay State Conservative]

Why is it that I can picture Howie as a 35 year old long haired,dirty hippy roaming the street of Haight/Ashbury in the summer of ‘67?

[Category Four]

I live close enough to there to know this could only happen in Iowa City — and is par for the course. (OK, I live in Scott County, but that’s close enough to know that Iowa City/Coralville is Hippie Central.)

[Inyo-Mono]

Elderly stoners hiding from their grandchildren and smoking dope behind the maintenance building of their retirement commune.

Like they did back in high school in '68.

Ummm...someone 77 years old would have graduated fron high school in the 1940s. I graduated in 1969 and never heard of anyone using dope at that time., beer yes, dope no.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Expect more and more stories like these as the 1960’s leftist pukes age.

What were once considered the wise years they will tear down and reduce to ridicule as they did everything else that is part of American culture.

[plinyelder]

"I graduated in 1969 and never heard of anyone using dope at that time., beer yes, dope no."

Uhmm .. You're kidding, Right?

I graduated around the time that you did and LSD, Mary Jane, MDA, Mescaline, etc. etc. was Everywhere!

Rock concerts were in full force and Drugs were too.

Geeze .. Ever hear of Woodstock or maybe Monterey?

[Inyo-Mono]

You say you graduated from high school “around that time.” Do you mean in the ‘70s? If so, I can understand it. My brother graduated in ‘72 and MJ had hit the schools by then, but in 1969, no. I didn’t hear about Woodstock until the movie about it came out a couple years later.

[calex59]

I graduated in 1959, went into the army a week after graduation. MJ was in use then by a couple troopers in my outfit, in school no one I knew used it in my school(we were a rural school with few students) but city schools(such as in LA) had many using it and it's use was growing. The use of LSD, MJ and Amphetamines and other drugs was rampant in the 1960s and grew worse as the 60s progressed, by 1969 a huge portion of the teens and young adults were using. It was a large problem with the troops in Vietnam in the 60s and 70s. As the man said: Ever here of woodstock?

[plinyelder]

Graduated in 68.

Went to school in South Florida.

[Sparky21555]

It is very hard to admit sins of your past. To this day I will not fess up to some things.

Those things are far behind us.

We have a mind that allows us to choose.

As a youngster I was a liberal. Then I learned of conservertism.

I may be dating myself but Carter was that turning point. Worst ever,mmmm, until Obama.

[billorites]

"I graduated in 1969 and never heard of anyone using dope at that time., beer yes, dope no."

I think that speaks to how quickly things were changing back then when I graduated just three years later.

[Inyo-Mono]

Exactly.

[billorites]

Another example of the tremendous social and political evolution that occurred between 1969 and 1973 is the draft.

When I graduated H.S. in 73 not one of my schools 100 grads went into the military, not immediately anyway.

I did not know anyone who was drafted and, though I had to register for selective service, never had any concern about it nor did my parents.

I'm pretty sure folks your age, or even graduates from 1971, cannot say the same.