At 5:16 AM 3/16/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

(I'll spare the usual stuff about how the Founders smoke a pipe of cannabis now and then, how "canvas" comes from the Dutch word for this herb, how special interests got hemp and "reefer" outlawed, and how the effects fell mainly on the poor and inner-city folks.)

I meant "and how the effects of criminalization fell mainly on the poor and inner-city folks." Just thought I should make this clear, because many who advocate drug laws do so out of some notion that by illegalizing some drug they are _helping_ the poor folks. In fact, they are helping to destroy inner cities by making illegal drugs a profitable thing to trade. And since people living in cities are more likely to come in contact with police than are folks living in suburban areas, the implications of illegality are even more strongly felt. Far removed from crypto, except the the sort of thinking that says the FDA and DEA know best what people ought to be allowed to buy and ingest is very similar to the thinking that government agencies know best what codes and ciphers people ought to be allowed to use. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."