Hello my name is Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, PhD; I am an economics professor at San Jose State University, and I am awesome.
Why might I be awesome? Well you should read some of my stuff.
I have a really good opinion about the current financial crisis that everyone should read and consider:
It is a long entry, but really sheds some light on why our country is heading down the wrong path with their bail-out plan, heading straight for a mixed socialized democracy. This will inevitably collapse at some point as all socialist countries do, but don't worry, life goes on. Plus this isn't what makes me extra awesome. If you were reading my article about our crisis and thought to yourself, hey I wonder who this guy is and if he has written anything else?
Well, google me, really, google my name: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel.
Ready for the awesome part, check out link number 6 or so on google. Go ahead, I'll wait. You'll know which one I am talking about when you see it.
Let me read you a few favorite quotes of mine:
"In the United States, regular users of opiates at the turn of the century numbered somewhere between 200,000 and 1 million, out of a population of 76 million, leading to a general recognition that excessive opiate use was peculiarly American. The majority of these users were white, middle or upper-class women, with an average age over forty."
"Throughout history, some very prominent and successful individuals have been regular opiate users. Dr. William Halsted, the father of American surgery and founder of Johns Hopkins Medical Center, was a morphine user all of his adult life, yet none but his closest friends knew. He died at the age of seventy, having performed some of his most brilliant operations while an addict. "
"In short, all of the supposed evils of heroin are either (1) total fabrications or (2) consequences of the anti-heroin laws themselves"
"The solution to the heroin problem is complete legalization"
I rule
3 comments:
Rock and roll, Ethan. But seriously, why can't you just start with pot like everyone else in the civilized world.
I just googled that article. This is one of those situations where the libertarians have the right solution to a problem but the country will never go along with it because it's counter-intuitive.
The best point about how government regulation of legal sales could possibly make drugs safer:
"Reported "overdoses" actually result from lethal combinations of heroin and other substances. Sometimes, these combinations result from taking heroin with another drug, like alcohol (as did Janis Joplin) or cocaine (as did John Belushi). More often, the other substances are those with which the heroin is cut, including quinine, strychnine, talc, battery acid, and sugar. Street-quality heroin contains these impurities only because it is illegal."
i promise i wasn't looking up herion articles, i was reading his economic article, thought he made a lot of sense then googled him. how was I supposed to know he would give me gold. the more i read, the more libertarian i become, i should have figured he would be against anti-drug laws
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