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librarianpirate: vindicatedcommunications: wooliebear: librarianpirate:

I find this heartbreaking. Margaret Wise Brown (who wrote Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, among others) left her royalties to the 9 year old son of her next door neighbor. This article (written in 2000) is the story of how that affected him.

Goodness, I just want to give him a hug and the number of both a good therapist and a good accountant.

I feel really bad for his kids.

katharinec:

The whole thing is gold (yay visibility!) and includes input from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)! Here are a few of my fave excerpts, but seriously - just read the whole gosh darn thing and rejoice REJOICE at the visibility this gives sensible drug policy!

Here in the United States, four decades of drug war have had three consequences:

First, we have vastly increased the proportion of our population in prisons…

…Second, we have empowered criminals at home and terrorists abroad…

…Third, we have squandered resources.

Concise, awesome description, huh? Continuing onward:

I’ve seen lives destroyed by drugs, and many neighbors in my hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, have had their lives ripped apart by crystal meth. Yet I find people like Mr. Stamper [who is the former police chief of Seattle and an active member of LEAP] persuasive when they argue that if our aim is to reduce the influence of harmful drugs, we can do better.

Read it all. Now!