Strangely, this lackadaisical approach is not encouraging people to take up the reefer habit.

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Someone must have screened Reefer Madness for them on a balmy Southern California evening at the local P.

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The thousands of cops in attendance studiously ignored thousands of other cops and firefighters lighting up a little reefer.

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Aspiring comic book artist Joshua Boulet has set up shop at a smaller table, with a duffel bag full of several issues of his tongue-in-cheek comic, "The Green Reefer, " which follows the antics of a pot-smoking anti-hero and his beer-drinking sidekick, Six-Pack.

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