Just when you may have started to doubt it, former Police frontman and solo artist Sting has proven that he’s still hip. Not only has he joined the growing ranks of celebs supporting marijuana legalization, but last week he also wrote a controversial article for the Huffington Post called “Let’s End the War on Drugs.”

An excerpt from Sting’s post:

“The War on Drugs has failed — but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties. … [T]he War on Drugs is an absolute failure whose cost to society is increasingly unbearable and absolutely unjustifiable.”

Sting urges readers to join the Drug Policy Alliance, a group whose “focus is on reducing the harm drugs cause rather than obsessively and pointlessly attempting to ban them.”

The Who Revue in action

Just announced: The Who Revue, L.A.’s premier Who tribute band, will perform during our Medical Marijuana Awareness expo on April 18!

Band members Joey Grillo (Roger Daltrey), Alex Gitter (Pete Townsend), Peter Burke (Keith Moon), Brian Paulson (THE OX/John Entwistle), and Fred Bensi (keyboards) put on a high-energy live performance that recreates the experience of a live show by the Who at their peak. Not just Who fanatics, the band members are also music veterans who have toured nationally and appeared on stage and screen. Grillo starred in Bill Aucoin’s production of ‘QUAD: A Rock Opera,” a theatrical staging of the Who’s Quadrophenia. “Pinball Wizard” was the first song that Gitter learned to play on guitar as a teenager. Get ready to rock and roll.