Peter McWilliams' 1993 treatise on consensual crimes such as prostitution, gambling, drug use, etc. has aged well. A veritable treasure trove of pithy quotes from ancient Greek philosophers to Milton Friedman and Jimmy Durante (!), and useful facts and statistics make this an all-time favorite. McWilliams philosphy boils down to: You should be free to do whatever you damn well please as long as it doesn't harm the person or property of another.
"Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?" - Jimmy Durante
"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues" - Abraham Lincoln
Ironically, or perhaps prophetically, McWilliams contracted AIDS and was growing his own weed to help combat the effects of his AIDS meds, like nausea etc. Our benevolent Federal government raided his home and held his mother's house as collateral for his bail. If McWilliams were to fail a weekly urine test she would lose the house!
Tragically on June 14, 2000 this champion of liberty, confined to a wheelchair due to the advance of AIDS, choked to death on his own nausea-induced vomit while attempting to take a simple bath.
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