25 Feb 2003
Baking pans and Prescriptions.....

This is all over the place, here:

U.S. Says It Has Cut Off Supplies of Drug Paraphernalia. Federal officials said today that they had shut down the major suppliers in the U.S. in a series of nationwide raids. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

and here:

Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites. Operation Pipe Dreams represents the federal government's boldest attempt yet to shutter Web sites that sell drug paraphernalia. [CNET News.com]

I thought this was mighty strange - I mean, what are the Feds gonna do? Bust everybody who sells brownie pans? Raid the kitchen department at Nordstroms?

In case they haven't figured it out, if you want to ingest illegal drugs, you'll probably find a way. To borrow a phrase from the NRA, these stores cause drug abuse like flies cause garbage.

But then, just when I thought the nuttiness had reached a peak, along comes this gem:

'It's medicinal' vies against 'It's illegal'. California has become the epicenter of a states vs. feds battle over marijuana use. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

Note that the jury in this poor schmucks Federal trial were not allowed to hear why he sold pot - and when they found out after returning a conviction they came out swinging, feeling duped. Well duh!

Unless and until we adapt the rather common sense notion that adults can make sensible decisions about their own live, what to ingest, what to smoke, whom to sleep with, we'll witness this constantly cascading crescendo of craziness .....

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