Writer's Block: I'll meet you down at the big yellow joint

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Because political bodies, despite the fact that marijuana is less addictive, think the populace is incapable of weighing risks for themselves.

A similar question would be: Why is alcohol legal?
It does far more harm to society than tobacco, costs the health services far more to deal with and, if it were rated today by British standards of drug classification, it would be a Class A drug.

Government loves to get on heir soap boxes and tell us how they are determined to make the 'hard' decisions - as long as they are the hard decisions that won't lose them votes.

Writer's Block: Ten minutes in heaven

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Possibly Robert Mugabe.
Failing that, maybe Lucy Liu.

For completely different reasons, of course.

Interestin'...

As a result of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, BP boss Tony Hayward leaves the job.
He leaves with a nice pension pot of £11,000,000.

That's a cool £1m per worker who died in the disaster.

Sleep well, Mr Hayward.

Film Review

Daybreakers:

Contrivance after contrivance. Don't bother. Really. It's nothing you haven't seen before.


Clash of the Titans:

Average to good CGI. Barely two-dimentional characters involved in just-above-hum-drum fight choreography.

Writer's Block: Super Computer

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Make me coffee.