Clients wash their hands of Rick Steves

"Even my pastor knows I smoke pot," said Italy tour expert Rick Steves in a recent Boston Globe article about the growing number of baby boomers who openly support the legalization of marijuana use. Mr. Steves may soon regret those words, as clients have begun writing in to his company with seething messages like the following:

"I was planning a major Eastern European tour with my entire family for our 50th anniversary in 2010...until I read the Boston Globe article about how Mr Steves is a pothead and a proponent of drug use. I will never use your company again and will do everything in my power to discourage anyone from using your tours."

At least now we can attribute some of the silly things he writes in his Italy tour guides to the possibility that he was high when writing it?

Hear what Rick Steves thinks about the backlash here.