Tom Cruise and his Scientology friends are not happy campers right about now, and for good reason. Tom's Scientology cult has just found out that a new strain of medical marijuana is currently being marketed as "Tom Cruise Purple" by licensed cannabis clubs in Northern California. The marijuana in question is sold in vials reportedly featuring a picture of Cruise laughing hysterically. This jibe at the poster boy's cult comes in the context in which Scientology strictly and notoriously opposes the use of psychotropic drugs, and claims it can cure drug addicts by a diet of nutritional supplements.

There is no word yet on the exact composition of the "purple" marijuana, but a source stated it's rumored to be quite hard stuff. "I heard it's the kind of pot that makes you hallucinate," says the source quoted by the NT Daily News. Of course, Tom Cruise can't possibly be happy with the mostly negative coverage Scientology has had to deal with ever since one of the cult's top-secret indoctrination tapes was leaked to mainstream media. Several leading Scientologists, Cruise prominent among them, have been labeled "weirdos" by a large variety of Internet opinion and celebrity blogs. The "purple" marijuana - an obvious jab at Cruise's notorious Oprah couch-jumping scene and the afore-mentioned indoctrination tape - is just one among the many swipes taken at the diminutive actor and his sometimes strange antics.

Of course, Scientology has never quite been popular within the Internet communities, all the more so since its members have been associated with a number of high-profile scandals. Even now, a woman named Feline Butcher (real name, Feline Kondula), who is also Tom Cruise's former alternative-medicine consultant, will soon stand trial in the L.A. Superior Court charged with 18 counts of unlawfully practicing medicine and one count of grand theft. She is being prosecuted for treating Clive McLean, a former Scientology member who had been diagnosed with cancer, whom she encouraged to abandon chemotherapy and switch instead to a diet of "vitamins and 'magic drops.'" Needless to say, McLean died in 2005.
One of Butcher's representatives stated that she "was not his [Cruise's] adviser. He has nothing to do with her."