HunterSThompson_says

Ah! I've been reading your book for the past 72 hours - this is REALLY good stuff man!

I really can't thank you enough for writing this, because frankly it is the sort of message that needs spreading.

I'm interested in your take on the current wave of uprisings in the mideast and north Africa, and their likely effects on the Bin Laden/Al Queda "positive feedback loop" you talk about in Section one of your book. Do you see these current events as strengthening or weakening the Jihadi movement, or is it simply too soon to tell?

Second question: in an imaginary world, where you were given the reins over US foreign/drug policy for long enough to enact whatever change you desired, where you take our drug laws? What would you see as a desirable end-state for drug legislation in this nation?

That's about what I figured. Honestly, I think Portugal is the future of drug treatment and legislation for most of the west, but there is something I worry about, and that is the legitimate use of mind-altering substances by aware, educated, and risk-conscious human beings.

(bear in mind, I'm only just starting Part II)

Do you address in your book at all the prospect of people taking and doing drugs because they want to, and because they have that right as free citizens of the world? Even Portugal still goes after the drug suppliers, and to me, recreational drug use is just that - recreation. I'm not opposed to treatment for the genuinely addicted or sick or mentally disturbed, but do you envision any place in the future for those who wish to alter their own consciousness?