What is more terrifying, more threatening to the essence of whatever it is that we call freedom, than slavery? What is more insidious than a force that comes from the outside–outside of the body politic, outside of the political body–and threatens us with imprisonment and maybe even death? What reaches deeper than those forces, those …
Patterns: drugs
Lubrication
Just a little lubrication. Something to make the differences glow. I can see them now, temporary and fluctuating lines between what things are what they are not. Categories, spaces, spaces filled with things that today, for now, just seem to work. But they vanish as soon as they appear. Things, events, occurrences, thoughts, actions—each appears …
Holding science hostage: part 2
Last week I wrote about a recent legal action by the medical marijuana advocacy organization Americans for Safe Access (ASA), who claims that the official federal position on medical marijuana relies on outdated and altogether false scientific facts about the dangers and efficacy of marijuana for medical use. Again, let’s take a look at the …
