Heroic Villanova Prof Protests Drug Laws

Villanova engineering professor Edward Ritter apparently wanted to show his students the art of civil disobedience. His target? The nation’s (and state’s) ridiculously harmful cannabis laws. His act? Why, allegedly possession of marijuana with intent to deliver!

Cops arrested the 48-year-old at his Collegeville home yesterday. Action News got a nice moralistic quote from a Catholic student: “Any university, but specifically here, we uphold certain morals and values and that’s completely against all of them.” Drinking some unblessed blood of Christ on St. Patrick’s Day is 100 percent Catholic, though.

Ritter faces 100 million years in prison, or maybe 1-3. I haven’t talked with the other media guys, but is Professor Pothead okay for a nickname?

Villanova professor charged with marijuana possession [6 ABC]