Bob Green, grocer, is opposed to the "no free shopping bags" law in California because people bring their hippie, hemp bags with them. Bob says hemp is 'weed' and he got high smoking it once. It was actually some stems and seeds a girlfriend left one night.
The Classic Hour, from December, 2000 is an early Bob Greene, when he was the owner of The Lead Gallery, a shooting range where Bob welcomes suicide cases.