John Sinclair: Opponents of pot as histrionic as ever

[marmar]

from the Detroit Metro Times:




Read the news ... oh, boy
Still shrill: Opponents of pot as histrionic as ever.

By John Sinclair
Published: February 2, 2011


I said goodbye to Amsterdam after a long and productive winter spent living and working in the bosom of my extended family at Radio Free Amsterdam, serving as poet in residence at the 420 Café and daily enjoying the freedom to smoke marijuana at will whether one is sick or not.

Arriving at the London St. Pancras train station, I caught the Piccadilly tube to my modest quarters at the Headpress bunker in Wood Green and picked up a copy of the Evening Standard on the way, only to find a full-blown revival of the Reefer Madness approach on the front page of the Health & Beauty section from a writer named Sophie Goodchild: "OUT OF THEIR MINDS: THE TRUTH ABOUT TEENS, CANNABIS AND PSYCHOSIS."

"The award-winning foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn describes how his son Henry turned from talented artist to disheveled wreck," Sophie reports.

"'He stopped shaving or washing his hair and went barefoot, so his feet became septic. He also soiled his jeans more than once.' .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/columns/read-the-news-oh-boy-1.1098701

[NoPasaran]

1. John Sinclair? There's a name I hadn't heard in ages n/t

[safeinOhio]

2. Saw him in Ann Arbor

around 1991 at a showing of "10 for 2". Saw him often in the late 60s.