NP--Salon article on Feds and Anti-Drug Network Programming

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 calbert at tiac.net wrote:

> 
> 
> > Scary as f**k.
> 
> actually its a dumb as .... having yielded to intense pressure to 
> have the matter investigated by appropriate medical/scientific 
> authorities (medical pot), a bunch of repub trogs (including one who 
> had sponsored a medical marijuana proposal back in the Reagan 
> era(1982), shat their collective bloomers when the report came 
> back in favor of further investigation of pots medical properties. TO 
> combat what was celarly a contrary tide, they got together and 
> pushed through a resolution which determined, BY 
> CONGRESSIONAL FIAT, that marijuana had NO medicinal value...
> Mccullum of Florida, and Barr (yeah, that squinting midget) were 
> the principals...
> 
> >  Do I want to visit that
> > country, however great I found Americans when I last went?
> 
> Oh, yes, this place continues to rock like few on earth!
> 
> 
> > This war fever is now spreading to Britain.  We now have our own
> > "drug czar".  Where do I move?  back to my native Holland
> > perhaps.
> My GOD, MAN! Why did you ever leave????!!!!?????????

Charles' advice is as always good in my humble opinion. Yes,
Seb, by all means visit again. It's a fascinatingly diverse place--always
baffling to take in or characterize. Americans don't even try. But
spending more time here can't help but make you a better reader of
Pynchon--not that you're not a good one already.  The point is, one
can't learn much about America staying home and watching reruns of "Judge
Judy."

The quote sounds like one of those nonbinding resolutions of
Congress--something like declaring a National Adopt Elian Gonzalez Week? 

Me, I'm off for Holland.

			P.