Free Drugs
Hamsterdam’s Homepage: The War on Drugs gets its own Wikileaks
Drugs are actually pretty boring, though my attitude has always been that though I may not agree with using chemical means to sit through Enter the Void I will die for your right to- well, not die die, just be mildly inconvinienced if it really is necessary. And if I don’t have better things to do.
I’m prepping for something big and smart about Bitcoin, and couldn’t help but be distracted by the discovery of The Silk Road (don’t bother with the link unless you’re using TOR). Silk Road is Hamsterdam from The Wire gone digital, a DMZ in the war on drugs where users can buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods (provided that they can’t be used to kill or injure others) in digital anonymity. Transfers are made using Bitcoins, a (practically) anonymous digital currency with some murky connections to Anonymous and Wikileaks and an exchange rate of $8 to one bitcoin.
Read more about Silk Road and Bitcoin on Wired.
Right now my drug of choice is Brazil Santos, a light, flavorful slow-dried coffee with a low acidity grown on one of Brazils hundreds of small (below 10 acre) family run coffee plantations.