
On one point, I wasn't clear.
I should have said, "None of the drunks I have ever known, when they were sober, would not admit that they could not drive as well drunk as they could while sober. And none of the potheads I have ever known, when they weren't high, would admit that they could not drive as well high as they could sober."
Few, if any, propaganda efforts have been as successful as the potheads "But it doesn't hurt anybody" campaign. And it is a complete fiction.
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"