Vineland & War on Drugs

[pynchonoid]

Well, it's a sweet, beautiful time to be in Central
and Northern California, if you're not a C.A.M.P.
target.

Speaking of Pynchonian social movements, folks could
do worse than to check into government support for a
new medicine, Sativex, which seems to be positioned to
consolidate government-corporate control of what
Pynchon once called a useful substance, an assessment
with which millions of Americans agree, which is why
the gov needs to stay on top of it, I guess.  In
particular there's a recent interview with Lester
Grinspoon, MD that discusses Sativex within a
perspective that I think will make sense for some of
the folks in this forum, I'll email it to anybody who
wants to read it.

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Something that grabbed my attention in Michel
> Ryckx's great online resource.
> 
> From:
> Pynchon's Vineland: The War On Drugs and the Coming
> American Police-State
> by Dan Geddes 
> 
> “Although Pynchon cannot resist satirizing the
> counterculture along with its fascist oppressors,
> there is no doubt on which "side" he is on the
> struggle. Many of the main characters take drugs,
> including Zoyd's marijuana use, Takeshi's
> amphetamines, Ernie Triggerman and Sid Liftoff’s
> cocaine use, even Hub and Sasha's Benzedrine
> inhaler. (290) Vineland's cover shows a burning
> forest, suggestive of the government's attempt to
> stamp out marijuana use, a great nation’s war on a
> botanical species.
> Vineland is the story of the repression of the
> counterculture, and the origins of the wider culture
> wars. The War on Drugs is central to the current
> repression, and an important battlefield on which
> civil libertarians must defend their liberties.”
> 


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