Posted 1:14 PM by Scoobie Davis

Weekend Stuff
I'm going to be posting over the weekend. I changed the name of my Ann Coulter page to attract more web surfers. I added some new blog links. One I wanted to specifically mention is Mark A. R. Kleiman's blog. A few years ago, I was a grad student in my first year and teaching a course on drugs and society. I heard about a conference at Harvard Law School sponsored by the Drug Policy Foundation (DPF) so I attended it. DPF is a pro-legalization group and I have heard all of the legalization arguments and I was skeptical (and I still am skeptical). Let me digress--I am strongly in favor of medical marijuana, access to syringes, the medical use of psychedelics, and jury nullification. I am strongly opposed to mandatory minimum sentences, asset forfeiture, and people like Bill Bennett. Anyway, Kleiman, who unlike about 95 percent of the people at the conference was not a legalizer, gave a talk and faced a slew hostile questions; he did a very good job of answering those questions, even though, unlike talk radio jocks, he didn't have a mute button.