[105403] in Cypherpunks
Re: Off Topic But Truly Beautiful (fwd )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Tue Nov 10 22:41:54 1998
In-Reply-To: <3648ABF9.515D@lsil.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:08:10 -0500
To: mmotyka@lsil.com, Cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 4:11 PM -0500 11/10/98, Michael Motyka wrote:
>> In the summer of 1984, 10th-grader Irwin Nanofsky and a
>> friend were driving down the Apalachee Parkway on the way
>> home from baseball practice when they were pulled over by
>> a police officer for a minor traffic infraction.
=2E..
>> As policy analysts and hemp advocates alike have been
>> quick to point out, the apparent legality (for now) of
>> Nanofsky's "pot orange" may render debates over the
>> legalization of marijuana moot. In fact, Florida's top
>> law enforcement officials admit that even if the
>> cultivation of Nanofsky's orange were to be outlawed, it
>> would be exceedingly difficult to identify the presence
>> of outlawed fruit among the state's largest agricultural
>> crop.
Once again technology makes the laws irrelevant.
Gotta love it.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather na=EFve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
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