The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no more messing around with legislatures, presidents, or other bothersome formalities. When MDMA (ecstasy) was made illegal in 1986, no elected official voted on that. It was done "in house." People are now in jail because they did something that an administrator declared was wrong.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.