Still alive, and not in pain!

Well, I appear none the worse for wear for my recent brush with possible glass-eating, so I think it's safe to let life go on (though rest assured I spent a day or so on the lookout for crippling stomach pain and/or bloody stools; don't worry, that's the last I'll talk about that). So with that...it must be time for an update!

( Kung fu and its women, new babies, and looking backward )

Peace out, everybody!

A tale of our drug laws

It's amazing what a little web searching turns up. :) Due to the recent anti/prohibition discussion, I found this neato speech which I pointed out to kthrin, but which I feel deserves plugging here. It's a speech given by a criminal law professor about the history of drug prohibition in America. It's long, and it's not...you know...geared for a non-spoken venue, but it's a great story. :) If you've some spare time and the interest, I highly recommend it.

It's slightly dated (1995...he refers to cigarettes as three dollars a pack!), and he makes predictions at the end that fall a little flat, but not as much as you might think. At the risk of spoiling the end for you, he predicts that in ten years (by 2005), the state of California will have decriminalized pot and criminalized tobacco. As we know, that hasn't happened. :) But what has happened is that California decriminalized medical use of marijuana, and they also enacted a state-wide ban in smoking in businesses and such, so there's that.

Anyway...that was it. Just interesting reading. I especially like the bit about the Mexicans. ;)