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Back to the Future II characters Marty McFly and Emmitt “Doc” Brown traveled ahead 30 years in a time machine to the fictional, small-town Hill Valley backdrop—eerily similar to Hollister—in the second installment of the 1980s trilogy.

What if, before county supervisors took their vote to ban outdoor medical marijuana cultivation, they all got high? This column explores the possibility.

Getting out of my car along the sparsely driven yet frenetic, four-lane Memorial Drive shortly after Monday’s fatal accident involving a transit bus and 11-year-old boy on a bicycle, I veered on the sidewalk past a woman and three children—as they walked peacefully toward the unknowing calamity ahead—and saw through scattered collections of onlookers standing and watching, some at sidewalk level and others on slopes overlooking the scene, in stunned silence.

Idle in the main, left lane at northbound San Felipe Road and Highway 25 at the intersection of Hollister and the world early on a Monday was a battered pickup truck with a muffler louder than the San Benito Foods tomato cannery and a trailer carrying heaps of wood ready to spill like a mangled tower of Jenga blocks.

I love a good Wiebe Motel zinger as much as the next guy.