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Friday, August 3, 2012
Everybody Must Get Stoned?
Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher, a longtime legalize-pot activist--a joker AND a toker-- reviews a book on the subject, set naturally in Northern California, in this Sunday's NYT. Good title: "Too High to Fail." Got a kick out of Bill referring to the book being "loaded"--with facts. Author of book even got taken into custody in Mendocino. The 'war on drugs' is America’s longest war. It has cost taxpayers $1 trillion in the last 40 years, Fine notes, and it has turned our nation into 'the most highly incarcerated society in history.'”
is author of a dozen books (click on covers at right), ;He was the longtime editor of Editor & Publisher. Email: gregmitch34@gmail.com Twitter: @GregMitch
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