Yo, bro, next time you decide to watch Barry Cooper’s video on how to hide your weed, you might choose a better place than inside a stolen truck that’s transporting 90 pounds of dube. Just sayin’. — Keith Plocek

Click here to read the Houston Press profile on Barry Cooper, the former cop who became an activist for marijuana legalization (not to mention a salesman and a preacher).

This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2007.

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