MPP Party at the Playboy Mansion--Tickets now on sale

[IndianaToker]

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John Perry Barlow
Christian Campbell
Tommy Chong
Steve Faber
Mike Gray
Larry Grobel
Michelle Phillips
Paul Provenza
Mike Simpson
Ondi Timoner
Richard Wolfe

March 30, 2006

8:00 p.m.
Los Angeles

Playmates will be available to give tours of the mansion grounds as you enjoy great music and comedy in one of America's most renowned settings.

Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers and comedian Tom Green will perform together, and also joining the festivities will be Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. Both Simpson and Benson are Grammy-winning artists, and Ray wowed MPP supporters at our hugely successful Los Angeles gala in May of 2005.

Partiers will have access to the pool area, with its lagoon-shaped swimming pool, waterfalls, and stone bridge leading to a Japanese koi pond. You'll be able to explore the grotto, grounds, exotic zoo, and more while you enjoy the open bar and sumptuous hors d'oeuvres. (The grotto, of course, is a little underground cavern, complete with love seats, flickering candles, and three jacuzzi pools.)

Tickets are $500 if purchased by February 28. After that, tickets will be $650 each. This is an exclusive event with limited capacity, so make your reservations early! Click the "Purchase tickets" link below to reserve your tickets now.

All proceeds from the event will support MPP Foundation's work to end marijuana prohibition in the U.S. (Your contribution is tax-deductible for the price of each ticket minus $200. For example, if you purchase two tickets for $1,000, you can take a tax-deduction for $600.)
For your convenience, below are a few hotels that are located near the Playboy Mansion. Please contact the hotels directly for further details.

W Hotel, Westwood
Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills
Hotel Bel-Air
Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills
Hilgard House, Westwood
Doubletree Hotel, Westwood

Purchase tickets

Link to announcement: http://mppplayboyparty.kintera.org/f...?ievent=153214
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[Wykid]

for $500 i better get some action in the grotto

[dirtybongwater]

IT, Do you know of Hugh smokes or is he more of a non-oppression, give me back my freedoms type of guy? I tried to watch a few episodes of The Girls Next Door, but I wanted to just slap the everyone I watched. If they just walked around and looked beautiful it would be great, but they had to go and open their mouths.

I would love to smoke a doob in the company of Hugh and the Host Committee! I'd easily pay $500 to help a cause I am so passionate about.

[IndianaToker]

Originally Posted by dirtybongwater

IT, Do you know of Hugh smokes or is he more of a non-oppression, give me back my freedoms type of guy? I tried to watch a few episodes of The Girls Next Door, but I wanted to just slap the everyone I watched. If they just walked around and looked beautiful it would be great, but they had to go and open their mouths.

I would love to smoke a doob in the company of Hugh and the Host Committee! I'd easily pay $500 to help a cause I am so passionate about.

It's no secret that Hugh used amphetamines in the 60's when he was writing his Playboy Philosophy". In the 70's he has said that he had discovered something that enriched, indeed revolutionized, his already prodigious sex life: marijuana.

Hugh served on the NORML advisory board in 1979, and has been a long time donator to MPP and NORML.

There's a book called "High in America. The true story behind NORML and the Politics of Pot", by Patrick Anderson. If you're interested in this, check it out as it has a lot of background information about Hugh and his involvment with drugs and NORML. Hell even if you don't care about Hugh, this is an excellent read and I advise everyone check it out at one point or another.

I'd say he's still a smoker, but I don't have any proof.

Hey, just found the link for the online version of that book. Here's a blurb:

"As a writer, I have been fascinated by the mixture of comedy and tragedy that has surrounded the issue, and by the wonderful variety of people who became caught up in it in the 1970s. The cast of characters includes Stroup, an admirably flawed protagonist; Peter Bourne, a well-intentioned man who ventured beyond his political depth, Hugh Hefner, who scorned drugs for years, then suddenly found marijuana giving him unexpected pleasure, and a cocaine investigation causing him unexpected pain; Gordon Brownell, a Ronald Reagan adviser who was transformed by psychedelic drugs into a pro-marijuana politician; Sue Rusche, a liberal Atlantan who became an anti-drug crusader; Tom Forcade, a smuggler turned Yippie who made a fortune with a pro-drug magazine; Frank Demolli, a college freshman whose love of marijuana won him a twenty-five-year prison term; and Bob Randall, a teacher who challenged the government because he needed marijuana to save his eyesight. I knew most of these people, and I thought them all caught up in political currents they could barely understand, much less control, currents that tossed their lives about, challenged them, changed them, defined them, and sometimes destroyed them. Few controversies in recent years have touched more Americans' lives than has the drug issue, and to examine that issue is, I think, a way of looking at America in the 1970s, perhaps as good a way as any.

Where to begin? One place would be the celebrated NORML party in December of 1977, a party at which many worlds intersected, a party that seemed to be NORML at its zenith but proved to be the beginning of the end."

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...hinamerica.htm

And I agree that $500 is not too much for a cause you're passionate about, plus the contribution is tax-deductible.

[dirtybongwater]

Very interesting! Thank you for that! I often wondered if Hugh was a viagra abuser. Back in the day he was a sexy sexy man, but now...well I will be with a "grandpa" when I'm a "grandma" and not before. The money is attractive, but not that attractive.

I am going to pick up that book. Thank you again.

[wDonnel]

i dont think hugh smokes anymore, he just seems like the guy who stops

[Buzz]

Sounds like the party will be a blast...wish i could be there...lol

[Terpsichore]

When I was younger I wanted so bad to be a playmate... everyone tells me I could still be, but I'm not sure I want to be anymore... It sould still be cool to party with them though....

~ Terpsichore