THE POT THICKENS

As if losing out on the coveted SEIU endorsement wasn't bad enough,
Rep. Dick Gephardt suffered another big blow last week when Granite
Staters for Medical Marijuana reduced his grade from a B- to an Incomplete.

Okay, maybe it wasn't that big a blow. But Aaron Houston, campaign
coordinator for the marijuana group, said Gephardt's grade dropped
after his staff backed out of a promise to put the candidate's
position in writing.

By the way, we were wondering. . . . Did Kerry, North Carolina Sen.
John Edwards and Dean see their Medical Marijuana grades go up after
they acknowledged smoking pot at last week's Rock the Vote debate?