Sick Boy

I'm sick and trying to recover for tomorrow's shindig at Ben's house. Today I had Nostalgiapaoolza and listened to Sepultura's "Roots" the Unrestrained.net Compilation CD and my old Band Strangled With A Halo's "Thus, I Never Existed..." Unrestrained.net was a music reviewing site that the aforementioned Ben and I started in 7th grade, which then changed focus and became defenestratedzine.com in 8th or so. Listening back on the old band, some of our songs were really good--the later stuff. And the part that I'll always regret was that I wrote the best shit after we recorded. You ever wonder why sometimes the moment you start getting good and really start making it a bit, everything falls apart?

Here's something I thought of, now, I've never been a drug user--never interested me--that and I was straight edge for 4 and a half years. But after reading that some kid up in Maine got arrest for having a bunch of plants I thought my opinion should be made public. Now I must admit some DJ on WBCN or WAAF I think said this like 5 years back or so, but I concur.

Whta they should do is make government-run Pharmacy-esque places. Where people can come in and buy any type of currently illegal drug. However their purchase are tracked and in the case of things like Heroin, amount they get becomes smaller and smaller. This gets rid of the street crime that comes along with dope dealing. Also you would make using no-longer illegal--these two things would probably decrease our prison population by 50-75% or more. I think I read that somewhere between 10-20% of the US population is behind bars. And it's due to our backwards thinking on drugs.