Local Newswire Know your customers: Owner of Kopp’s Frozen Custard proposes legalizing marijuana

Flip through the pages of High Times or queue up dreck like Super High Me, and you’ll soon discover that the worst advocates for legalizing marijuana can sometimes be marijuana users themselves. So it goes for a prominent pro-pot Milwaukee couple who recently spoke to WISN about the city’s need to legalize, not criticize. Kopp’s Frozen Custard owner Karl Kopp and inner-city yoga instructor Mary Freeman are featured in an upcoming documentary about the chronic, and are sharing their belief that the drug can not only be a lucrative cash crop for the country, but also one for the city of Milwaukee. (“From Brew City to Bud City,” notes WISN.) Kopp himself doesn’t use marijuana, though the comely, possibly baked Freeman does. “It’s a peaceful drug. It’s a creative drug, a drug that takes away all kinds of pain,” she says, in a voice pitched somewhere between “inner-city yoga instructor” and “Gaia, Mother Of All That Is Good And Green.”

The WISN piece is definitely worth watching, and Freeman’s outrage over inner-city minorities being unfairly targeted by anti-marijuana enforcement is certainly sound. (“The real sin is the idea that we are locking up our boys, our black boys, our black American boys for the very same herb white people all across the country are using in their cookie and quiche recipes.”) Whether or not the average WISN viewer will take anything she says seriously, however, remains to be seen. Also up in the air: the number of custard- and Doc Severinsen-related “munchies” jokes that can be mined from this story.