An article in Sunday's Times magazine appears under the headline "How to Roll a Joint."
It's hard to understand exactly what redeeming news value the article has. Some aging hippy Times readers and contributors such as the author of Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir presumably already know how. So is the idea that the Times is trying to induce people who are not already experienced pot smokers to try it? Maybe young children or teenagers? Reasonable people may disagree on decriminalization, legalization, or medical marijuana use, but the Times' enthusiasm for this drug is almost evangelical in its eagerness to spread the news; certainly outside the bounds of journalistic neutrality, skepticism, or objectivity.
If this is the product of the much-hyped New York Times Sunday magazine relaunch under a new editor, I don't think it's an encouraging sign for the magazine's future.