Critical Mass

From James Taranto's Best of the Web Today:

Great Moments in Higher Education
Brian MacLean, a professor at Toronto's York University, has a prescription for marijuana "for an undisclosed illness," the CBC reports. But he refuses to set foot on campus because "there is no place at work where he can smoke it":

"I have to medicate a lot," he says. "There's no issue here, well, can I restrain my medication on campus? No, I can't." . . .

MacLean says he tries to be discreet by rolling the marijuana to make it look like regular filtered cigarettes and walking to the edges of campus to smoke.

But that's a problem, he says, because there is little privacy and he feels that passersby are passing moral judgment on him.

And he fears that it may be raising more than just a few eyebrows.

"Students come to class and smell it," he said. "They are not going to say anything to me but they are going to talk to other people about it.

"So there are damages to my reputation which I can't specify and I don't know how the university plans to deal with that, but they are going to have to."

In order to be freed from worrying about what other people think of him, MacLean is demanding that the university build a specially ventilated room just for him. Wow, what has this guy been smoking?