BOULDER HIGH SCHOOL APPLAUDED

I applaud Joel Becker and the rest of the panel that spoke honestly
to the Boulder High School students in April. For your honesty, thank
you. I, like everyone else, including Wayne Laugesen, used to be a
kid - a kid who appreciated and took to heart the honesty from adults
around me rather than the same conservative garbage that is always
fed to adolescents. I had parents who took Becker's approach,
encouraging me to experiment responsibly. To date, I do not have any
illegitimate children, no STDs, nor a substance-abuse problem. I took
the responsible advice of my competent parents and mentors. Did the
drugs help me? No, of course not. For the most part, drugs can't
perform that function, though I wouldn't disregard it completely just
because the law says otherwise. The law has said so many absurd
things in the past and still in the present that to regard the law as
some kind of truth would be a severe act of ignorance. To take the
law as truth would be to take pride in the act of our slave-owning
ancestors, our Native-American-killing ancestors and our present
leaders fighting for oil-control. There, I said it. So, if Joel
Becker broke the Colorado law in April, may it wise us up a little
bit and make a positive change in the way we consider how the law
governs our ability to speak and act as truly free individuals in a
potentially not-so-free country.

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