The Drug Czar’s new webpage is reminiscent of many other infamous attempts to classify the All-Stars of previous prohibitions.

The Reagan era Meese Commission Report (1986) was designed to create shock and awe—and thus vast moral outrage—by its graphic descriptions of pornographic films and materials, only to become one of the best indexed summary guides to porn films published up until that time.

Then there was the Index Librorum Prohibitorum published by the Catholic Church until the mid-1960s, a list of everything the Church did not want Catholics to read.  Naturally, the Prohibitorum became the ultimate reading list for those seeking great works of literature, science and philosophy:  Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, anyone?—no kidding.

We know what’s said about people who do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.  But is the Drug Czar really crazy enough to think that his little webpage will not be made into a full size poster that’s taped to college dormitory walls throughout the country—should I say it?—throughout the academic world?

Whether he knew what he was doing or not, congratulations are due Drug Czar John Walters for giving this country what it’s always needed—a good five-cent druggie!

Giordano

the more they stay the same.

I guess I led a sheltered life -- this was in the early 60's -- I didn't even know that there were illegal drugs until 6th grade, when a "drug education" film showed us how to shoot heroin AND how to get money for our habit -- steal it from Gramdma's purse.