This would indeed be hilarious. For some reason I just can't see Hunter S. Thompson being the sheriff for the county that includes Aspen.IIRC he pretty much planned to immediately abdicate to Bob Braudis.
Interestingly, with more effort placed at "mobilizing the stoner vote" he could have actually won. I know I've wanted to do a story where he'd won that and then went on to get elected to the HOR in time for the Reagan-era drug policy debates.![]()