....He's up in British Columbia, Canada, where else eh? Long time stoner, Bob Erb has been blazing about 15 fatties a day since he was a kid, typical BC Resident, stoned right out of his tree 24/7. So fast forward a few years and this toker wins the fucking JACKPOT, 25 million big ones!!!
So what does ol' Bobby Erb do with his new found cash? He donates a million big ones to the fight for marijuana legalization and sponsors these big huge smokes fests. Man, what a decent guy, the world could use a few more stoners like this fella. The story gets way better though, from the article:
..."Bob Erb has been playing the lottery since he was a young pothead in the 1970s, smoking 15 joints a day. Today, Mr. Erb is still crushing 15 joints a day — except now he’s smoking them as a multi-millionaire. The 60-year-old Terrace, B.C., farmer and grandfather won a $25-million jackpot last November and promptly began doling money out to friends, family, charity and hard luck cases. Perhaps the biggest recipient, however, has been a cause very close to his heart: the legalization of marijuana. Mr. Erb has dropped $1-million for the effort, and is probably now the biggest financial backer of 420 Day, the annual pot-fuelled haze of a protest this Saturday....
Then they have a Q/A session and this guy is fucking hilarious, what a riot:
Q: Erb is a great name for a marijuana activist.
A: I’ve heard that before. I’ve got a couple of buddies and their last name is ‘Joynt.’ They hung around together, they’d be walking down the street and we’d say ‘Oh, that’s just what we were looking for, a couple of Joynts!’
Q: And now you will be the big money behind the 420 event this year. Have you been to many of those events?
A: The 420 events I’ve watched on television for years and years; I have only attended a couple of them because I’m way up in the northwest of B.C. I always thought that they were underutilized vehicles for getting across all of the wrongs with marijuana prohibition.
Q: Do you mean that they’ve just been big pot parties?
A: No, in the sense that you had people there who were passionate about their advocacy for legalizing marijuana, but they were loosely organized, there were no speakers for the media to talk to, so they’d just interview people briefly then go into the crowds filming 20-year-olds blowing smoke rings. It’s a mixed message. Like most people when they buy a lottery ticket you have a wish list of all the things you’d want to do and that. One of mine was I’d put a substantial amount towards marijuana legalization. And so when the 25 mil come my way, I said I’ll throw at least a mil towards the cause. I put $125,000 this year to organize the 420 events, $60,000 for web design, the other $60,000 accommodation, probably $40,000 in merchandising hats and buttons.
Q: You paid for all that?
A: Yes, and I think another $20,000 went into advertising. We have about 40 or 50 cities online this year. Come May 1, we start on the 2014 420 events, and ultimately we’d like to have 150-200 cities.
Q: Why is legalization such a crucial issue?
A: Marijuana legalization would result in income taxes collected, increased spending on home mortgages, municipal infrastructure upgrades, more money for healthcare, education, pensions — all without raising taxes. The revenue from B.C.’s marijuana industry’s estimated at $12-billion annually. Not only that, there would be a huge drop in crime of all types. Of course that’s not good news for police because pot crime is their bread and butter. Several medical studies show that people who use pot regularly are usually of higher education and IQ. Pot smokers may be dope-heads, but they’re not dopey people. Prohibition is the biggest social injustice of my lifetime.
Q: Have you always been a dope smoker?
A: I started smoking pot in 1968 at age 16 and by the time I was 21, five years later, I was probably smoking 15 joints a day — still do. I’m usually up at 4 a.m. and smoking my first one by 4:20 a.m.
Q: How has your life changed after becoming a millionaire?
A: I have to correct you. I’m a multi-millionaire. I’m not doing anything different, I bought a vehicle, my other ones were OK. I’ve got a 2013 Lincoln Navigator that I picked up, I have a couple of Shelby Supersnakes — souped up Mustangs — being built in Las Vegas. I don’t work for pay, but I do work for free. I’ve given $7-million to charities.
Q: You could be lying on a beach somewhere just sitting on a pile of cash.
A: Hey, my conscience wouldn’t allow it and there’s next year for the beach.
Right on Bobby!
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So what does ol' Bobby Erb do with his new found cash? He donates a million big ones to the fight for marijuana legalization and sponsors these big huge smokes fests. Man, what a decent guy, the world could use a few more stoners like this fella. The story gets way better though, from the article:
..."Bob Erb has been playing the lottery since he was a young pothead in the 1970s, smoking 15 joints a day. Today, Mr. Erb is still crushing 15 joints a day — except now he’s smoking them as a multi-millionaire. The 60-year-old Terrace, B.C., farmer and grandfather won a $25-million jackpot last November and promptly began doling money out to friends, family, charity and hard luck cases. Perhaps the biggest recipient, however, has been a cause very close to his heart: the legalization of marijuana. Mr. Erb has dropped $1-million for the effort, and is probably now the biggest financial backer of 420 Day, the annual pot-fuelled haze of a protest this Saturday....
Then they have a Q/A session and this guy is fucking hilarious, what a riot:
Q: Erb is a great name for a marijuana activist.
A: I’ve heard that before. I’ve got a couple of buddies and their last name is ‘Joynt.’ They hung around together, they’d be walking down the street and we’d say ‘Oh, that’s just what we were looking for, a couple of Joynts!’
Q: And now you will be the big money behind the 420 event this year. Have you been to many of those events?
A: The 420 events I’ve watched on television for years and years; I have only attended a couple of them because I’m way up in the northwest of B.C. I always thought that they were underutilized vehicles for getting across all of the wrongs with marijuana prohibition.
Q: Do you mean that they’ve just been big pot parties?
A: No, in the sense that you had people there who were passionate about their advocacy for legalizing marijuana, but they were loosely organized, there were no speakers for the media to talk to, so they’d just interview people briefly then go into the crowds filming 20-year-olds blowing smoke rings. It’s a mixed message. Like most people when they buy a lottery ticket you have a wish list of all the things you’d want to do and that. One of mine was I’d put a substantial amount towards marijuana legalization. And so when the 25 mil come my way, I said I’ll throw at least a mil towards the cause. I put $125,000 this year to organize the 420 events, $60,000 for web design, the other $60,000 accommodation, probably $40,000 in merchandising hats and buttons.
Q: You paid for all that?
A: Yes, and I think another $20,000 went into advertising. We have about 40 or 50 cities online this year. Come May 1, we start on the 2014 420 events, and ultimately we’d like to have 150-200 cities.
Q: Why is legalization such a crucial issue?
A: Marijuana legalization would result in income taxes collected, increased spending on home mortgages, municipal infrastructure upgrades, more money for healthcare, education, pensions — all without raising taxes. The revenue from B.C.’s marijuana industry’s estimated at $12-billion annually. Not only that, there would be a huge drop in crime of all types. Of course that’s not good news for police because pot crime is their bread and butter. Several medical studies show that people who use pot regularly are usually of higher education and IQ. Pot smokers may be dope-heads, but they’re not dopey people. Prohibition is the biggest social injustice of my lifetime.
Q: Have you always been a dope smoker?
A: I started smoking pot in 1968 at age 16 and by the time I was 21, five years later, I was probably smoking 15 joints a day — still do. I’m usually up at 4 a.m. and smoking my first one by 4:20 a.m.
Q: How has your life changed after becoming a millionaire?
A: I have to correct you. I’m a multi-millionaire. I’m not doing anything different, I bought a vehicle, my other ones were OK. I’ve got a 2013 Lincoln Navigator that I picked up, I have a couple of Shelby Supersnakes — souped up Mustangs — being built in Las Vegas. I don’t work for pay, but I do work for free. I’ve given $7-million to charities.
Q: You could be lying on a beach somewhere just sitting on a pile of cash.
A: Hey, my conscience wouldn’t allow it and there’s next year for the beach.
Right on Bobby!
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