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Dr. Weil on legalizing marijuana:

The federal government continues to fight an irrational war against medical marijuana, and the sick and struggling are its principal victims.

I learned recently that Peter McWilliams, author of Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do and lots of interesting books now free on his website, was a casualty of the Drug War (no excerpt — it's short; just read it.)

This entry's title owes, of course, to Robert Anton Wilson.

I suggest a simple experiment. Everytime you hear the expression "the war on drugs," change it mentally to "the war on some drugs." At the same time call up to mind all the Drug Stores and Bars/Saloons in your town or neighborhood and all the cigarette shelves in your friendly supermaket and remember that the government has started no war against them. When you understand that we have no "war on drugs" but only a "war on some drugs," consult the passages on double-think and duck-speak in Orwell's "1984" for further enlightenment on neurolinguistic mindwarping.

Myself, I'm a rarity among my generation for never having tried the stuff. But its illegality pisses me off.

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