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Tue Feb 8, 2005
By Peter Carlson
WASHINGTON -- Keith Stroup's mouth is dry. His brain is foggy. America's most famous marijuana lobbyist admits that a powerful drug has messed up his mind.
The drug isn't marijuana, although he smokes that nearly every night. It's a cold medicine. He took some this morning, he says, and it made him feel goofy, spacy, stoned.
"I hate taking it," he says. "But my nose was running and I kept sneezing and I thought, 'I gotta take something.' "
Wearing a bright white shirt and dark blue suit, Stroup is sitting at his impeccably neat desk in the tidy K Street offices of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He founded NORML in 1970 and now, 34 years later, he's retiring at 61 as the pot lobby's executive director.
"When I turned 60, I looked in the mirror and I saw this gray-haired old man and I said, 'I think we need younger leadership,' " he explains. "It has to do with …READ MOREtags: 13 « add a comment












