Tate Theater was divided into two camps last night: one side sported dreadlocks and surf shirts -- the other favored side-parted hair and madras shorts. Both were there to watch the real-life drama of Heads vs. Feds unfold. As part of the University Union event, Bob Stutman, a former Drug Enforcement Agency agent, and Steve Hager, editor in chief of High Times magazine, debated the controversial issue of marijuana legalization before a University audience. "I am for the Heads," said Lorianne Steele, a sophomore finance major from Warm Springs. "I kind of support NORML [National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws] and all it does, and I just think some of those laws being passed in California should make their way here." [continues 410 words]
It was the beginnings of a beautiful friendship -- Steve Hager, editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, and Bob Stutman, former DEA agent, ready to beat each other's brains out in front of a college audience -- verbally, that is. "We actually first met onstage, and we did not like each other, trust me. We did not get along. We almost had a fistfight on the stage the first time," Stutman said. "But what's interesting, is what happened, maybe a couple debates later we were at a school that was a very conservative school and somebody in the audience started attacking Steve personally. They werecalling him the devil, basically, incarnate." [continues 613 words]
