The Chronicle will be back next year, er, next week.
Your ink-stained wretch of a Chronicle editor spent this past week relocating from the frigid steppes of the Dakotas to the friendlier clime of Northern California's Sonoma County, the land of milk and honey. Once I made it over Donner Pass on I-80 with the help of tire chains, it was all downhill from there...
Next week, in honor of the coming of the new year, I will put on my best Janus face(s), and the Chronicle will look back at the big news of '08, as well as looking forward at what should be/could be the big news of '09, so stay tuned for that pair of features a week from today.
I've also got a pile of drug policy-related books that are begging to be read and reviewed. I'll be working on that in the next few days as well, so you can expect to see some reviews dribbling out in the coming weeks.
Now, it's the day after Christmas, and I have to venture out to the shopping malls in search of a router for my new Internet set up. See you next year, and next week.
digg
redditBREAKING!
Comment posted by mntnman04440 on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 2:45pmChange.gov is taking questions again.
I suggest that we concentrate on calling a special commission.
drug addicts?
Comment posted by mlang52 on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 3:17pmDo you equate drug use with addiction? Then lets call a spade a spade and call out the millions of people in this country that "use" the drug, alcohol, as well. As a result of such an enlightened attitude, maybe we could prohibit alcohol again!!
Thing is, alcohol prohibition pushed its marketing into the organized crime syndicates in this country in the earlier part of the twentieth century. It resulted in the deaths as related to these syndicates, much more than the deaths related with the use of alcohol. That is to say nothing about the corruption that went on with other criminals involved in politics.
Then, it comes to surmise, with the continued prohibition we can maintain the drug dealer's income at a good level, assuring their survival in our country. But, yes, we must continue prohibition because it is good for the incomes of the dealers! Forget the dead in Mexico fighting each other because of the prohibition laws, they are just collateral damage, anyway. Why should we give a damn?! Lets keep the dealers rich and supply our high school youth with an easily obtainable supply of all types of drugs! NOT!
Any reasonable person must realize,that, if we have not achieved a drug free country after the extended prohibition of drugs, it is never going to happen! Yet, we read of new initiatives all over the world, to gives us a drug free world. Sad thing is that if the alcohol is legal, we will never, ever, be a drug free society. Sounds sort of hypocritical to me!