The top spot in a Congressional softball league belongs to drug
reform advocates who are “busting the stoners-as-slackers stereotype,”
Roll Call reports.
The “One Hitters,” took over the No. 1 spot in the Congressional
Softball League last week, and the team fielded by Students for a
Sensible Drug Policy and NORML holds a 13-3 record in the league
comprised of lobbyists, Capitol Hill aides and interest group employees.
“Kris Krane, executive director of Students for a Sensible Drug
Policy and the softball team’s captain, chalks up its success to
the five years the team has been playing together — and a little
extra motivation that comes from trying to dispel the myth that folks
who want marijuana legalized are all munchie-craving, lava-lamp-gazing
losers,” reports Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill gossip column.
This is the One Hitters’ fifth year in the intramural softball
league, and the team previously made headlines when the Office of
National Drug Control Policy refused to face them on the field two
years ago.
“Everyone knows that ONDCP backed out because they were scared
of losing to us on the field, much the same way they are afraid to
debate us because their policies fail in the court of public
opinion,” said
center fielder David Guard, who is associate director of the Drug
Reform Coordination Network. “We have an open challenge to the
Drug Czar to play or debate anytime, anywhere.”
The team’s next game is Tuesday against the “No Talent AZ Clowns,”
whose players come from the offices of Arizona Sens. John McCain and
Jon Kyl.
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