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LAST WORD FIRST

I've realized in order to make my new posting method work and still maintain the narrative style we're all used to I'm finally going to have to learn to think and post in reverse chronological order.

Rising to the challenge, today marks the start of last word first and the honor goes to Peter Bourne, President Carter's Drug Czar.

''We did not view marijuana as a significant health problem--as it was not....Nobody dies from marijuana. Marijuana smoking, in fact, if one wants to be honest, is a source of pleasure and amusement to countless millions of people in America, and it continues to be that way.''

Source: PBS's Frontline: ''Drug Wars,'' October 2000

And it shall continue to be true until the end of time.