Long but well worth the read.... A War Against the Planet's Inhabitants by SERMCAP Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 02:41:36 PM PSTMy son, all six foot one gorgeous inches of him, has to be among the laziest creatures on earth. This is not hard to believe, given my own proclivities. My firmly Republican and White supremacist grandfather repeatedly reminded me--I "was the laziest White man(that he) knew." Unfortunately, my boy combines this lackadaisical approach to life with another trait, also possibly inherited. He's not the luckiest young fellow; "if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all," he might say. Both of these qualities are particularly pertinent in the context of his just passed 18th birthday, when he found himself under the auspices of Georgia's probation system because a police officer found him with a little less than an ounce of pot during a traffic stop to examine a broken license-plate illumination bulb. To establish the tone and lay the basis for the text to follow, folks might want to look at the following lovely YouTube video that the Marijuana Policy Project produced. This diary is long, but at least many of the points that it develops show up in miniature on the small screen. I have been hesitant about writing this diary--maybe more bad luck will follow any tendency to examine things too closely. But I have researched the species-wide homicidal madness of the 'War on Drugs' for thirty-odd years now, and I've been threatening to begin some disciplined thinking and writing about it, to supplement the occasional piece of journalism that I've been able to produce. This is a first installment of that process, bookended by the procedural disposition of matters with my own child. His laziness aside, losing him would be a tragic blow, not only to me, but also to our collective community, which so sorely needs such good-hearted and well-intentioned sorts as my number one kiddo; and we should not fool...