WASH TUB SERIES


It was a real nail-biter of a game last night. By the bottom of the ninth I ran over to watch the end at City. I needed to hear Little Buddy Big League sing. The Lil' Bud's mojo is still working and there is a real possibility we could end the baseball season with the Sox against the Sox. Somebody told me today that the last time they played against each other in a series was when the curse allegedly started and the Babe pitched the game. I love the concept. One of the teams would finally break a long losing streak.

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I was delighted to run into Meagan McColgan who is in town visiting her Dad. She looked fabulous in her green Italian wool suit and is still shaking up the San Francisco scene. She's working on an interesting conceptual art project that will debut in a Detroit opening next month.

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RIP - LEGAL WEED

The smoke finally lifted on the cloudy legal status of marijuana in Ontario today. The court issued a narrowly tailored decision making possession and cultivation of medical marijuana legal and removed one of the barriers to becoming a certified medical consumer. The requirements to obtain the license however are still reported to be onerous. Recreational cannabis use is now once again defined as illegal.

Not a great decision but I wouldn't cancel my tickets to Toronto just yet. From all reports, the police rarely enforced simple possession there anyway unless you were particularly indiscrete or committing some other crime. Of course you won't be able to smoke in the cafes anymore but I hear it's still an herb friendly town.

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REAL SCIENCE

Meanwhile, the BBC reports that researchers from the Max-Planck Institut in Munich are calling for fresh research into the potential of cannabis-like compounds to help alleviate epileptic seizures. Apparently there are reports dating back to the 15th century talking about the use of cannabis to treat this disease.

My friend Elmer tells me the Max Planck Institut is Germany's oldest and most prestigious all-sciences research institute. It regularly produces Nobel Prizewinners in both physics, chemistry and the life sciences. These guys are the real deal but you won't see this story on Fox News.

Speaking of FOX, a recent study reports that the station's regular viewers are the most misinformed people in the country. The obvious conclusion to this data is they should legalize marijuana and make O'Reilly illegal.

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IN THE NAME OF THE LAW

Last word goes to Dan Solano, of Police Officers for Drug Law Reform who answered an old email of mine that had been languishing in some folder for months. He responded to my thanks for his work in the field with this note:

Thanks for the kind words, we are just doing what we swore to.

To PROTECT and SERVE not INVADE, STEAL AND KILL.

Someday law enforcement will figure out that the only things we are guaranteed in the drug war is:

That someone in law enforcement will steals drugs, either from the evidence locker room or drug raids, drug dealers.

That someone in law enforcement will accept money to protect drug operations or shipments.

That someone in law enforcement will "test a lie" to seal a drug conviction.

Yes it's sad, but so very true.

On that note I will try and sleep knowing that American police agencies are tied up for more than 2 million hours a year on pot arrest........ (Gives the rapist, armed robber, pedophile, and all the other predators ample time to hurt the citizens of our country)

Even though he's now a retired police officer, I still feel safer knowing he's out there. Thanks Dan.

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