That is nothing. In the late eighties I was caught in routine sweep and found in possesion of a small amount of cannabis, less than a joints worth. There was never any sugestion of anything other than for personnel use. I had never been in any other previous trouble with the law. I wrote out a full statement addmitting possesion. I pleadded guilty in court, apologized for my stupidity, made every effort to play their game. I was given seven months imprisonment. The punishment didn't stop there. In various aspects of my life, twenty years since, I still run up against problems caused by that judment. Finding a mortgage, getting insurrance, applying for work or travel visas etc. is now a lot harder even imposible. Smoking a few joints in my late teens afects life in my forties. I came out of prison angry over the way the system screwed me. The anger has not deminished over the intervening years. With a growing sence of indignation and realization of the fact that the fight against recreational drugs lead by the US is a fucking moral discrace the world over. Faced by that evil and its propaganda lies I have become a multi headed hydra. Where they tried to cut me down they failed. Over the last twenty years I have expounded, promoted and introduced countless thousands of people to the use of all manner of psychoactive substances. This fight continues to this day in many forms, one of them being the writting on this and other boards.
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