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UofT prof officially gets greenlit to.. um... I forget... what was I sayin?
Anyone have this proffessor? I'd love to hear about his 10-joint-a-day lectures!
| quote: | Pot-smoking prof lights up a room
Given his own space in basement
Needs to smoke for health reasons
Sep. 26, 2006. 02:19 PM
PHINJO GOMBU
STAFF REPORTER
For years, University of Toronto Professor Doug Hutchinson smoked pot in his office.
Sometimes he'd hide behind garbage dumpsters or even climb trees to use the drug, which he said he needs to alleviate the pain from an undisclosed medical condition.
Now he's out of the closet and in the basement of the university's Trinity College, where he can finally smoke in peace and without recrimination — all with the blessing of U of T.
"It's a beautiful solution," Hutchinson said yesterday, at the end of a messy year-long battle with college officials.
It's also rekindled in him the fire to fight what he calls complicated and often-contradictory laws governing the use of marijuana in Canada by those who use it both medically and recreationally.
"I'm feeling lighter," said Hutchinson, 50, who teaches ancient Greek philosophy and specializes in the works of Plato. "It was burdensome being in the closet."
On any given day, between classes and students, he smoked up to 10 joints a day, or roughly an ounce of marijuana a week.
But Hutchinson got busted late last year after someone complained about the smell coming from his second-floor office, which overlooks the quadrangle of Trinity College.
"The first reaction (from college officials) was this has to stop, and I said, `No, this doesn't have to stop,'" he said.
"They tried to get me to admit to past offences and swear never to offend again," he said. |
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