> > For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political > crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of > righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, > need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp. In > this case, I mean the high-minded part literally. And so, a deal: give us > drugs, after a certain age — say, 80 — all drugs, any drugs we want. In > return, we will give you our driver's licenses. (I mean, can you imagine how > terrifying a nation of decrepit, solipsistic 90-year-old boomers behind the > wheel would be?) We'll let you proceed with your lives — much of which will > be spent paying for our retirement, in any case — without having to hear us > complain about our every ache and reflux. We'll be too busy exploring > altered states of consciousness. I even have a slogan for the campaign: > "Tune in, turn on, drop dead." > > A fantasy, I suppose. But, beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis, > a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our > drug laws. It is going on in state legislatures, like New York's, where the > draconian Rockefeller drug laws are up for review; in other states, from > California to Massachusetts, various forms of marijuana decriminalization > are being enacted. And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators > Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, > which would directly address drug-sentencing policy. > --http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889021,00.html
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