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Dopiest Drug Site — for Obvious Reasons

Marijuana.org

My original comments: Most of you weren't even born the last time I indulged in any non-prescribed pharmaceuticals or substances — May 1970. There's a movement to legalize certain herbal substances for medical reasons and this site supports that movement. I can't speak to the pros or cons of this issue, but I think I can comment about the design of this web site — and what caused it to look this way.

I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that some members of the organization — who started out stone-cold straight — sat down and said, "You know, we need a web site." After lighting up and inhaling, they started to design.

"Let's put in a leafy background!"

"Yeah, and we'll use red text that's size 7 for our organization's name."

"Use CentSchbook BT for the header!"

"Yeah, then make the text really small and use Arial."

(more inhaling of fumacious substances)

"And center it!"

"Yeah, and let's make the text even smaller and flush left!"

"Don't forget to use our Rubber Stamp LET font somewhere."

"And Dom Casual BT, too, but make it bigger."

"Hey, you can't have a web page without Comic Sans!"

"Pictures. I need pictures!"

"Yeah. I want one of a black kid dancing."

I think you get the idea. My favorite part of the page is where they say, "We Do Not Answer or even look at e-mail." Hmm. I wonder why?

Reader comments: Dude. I so have the munchies.

Why don't they have a link to some online pizza ordering thingy?

Well, it's ugly and hard to read, but at least I can get there and read it.

I do like that the other pages have different backgrounds (white, grey with microphones, grey with american flag leaves, clouds, grey with leaves) and especially the page without an extension (http://www.marijuana.org/PotReturnPage) that is encoded as html. No need to view source... it's

(brace yourself, Vincent)

FRONTPAGE.

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Yet another "let's dump everything on one page" disaster. And it's pretty much stream of consciousness.

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