I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself. - Hugh Downs

In today's anti-drug climate, people don't want to hear about the commercial potential of marijuana. The reason is that the flowering top of a female hemp plant contains a drug. But from 1842 through the 1890s a powerful concentrated extract of marijuana was the second most prescribed drug in the United States. In all that time the medical literature didn't list any of the ill effects claimed by today's drug warriors.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.