30 YEARS AGO IN REASON.

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"A few nights ago, at a local outdoor rock concert, the strangest haze of smoke hung over the crowd. For anyone downwind who didn't happen to like the smell of pot, I guess that cloud would be pollution. To the freaks, it was pure ecstasy."

Lanny Friedlander, "Ripping Off Mother Earth: The Theft of the Environment"

"As Ralph Nader and other 'liberals' are painfully dis covering, there seems to be a regular pattern in the history of [regulatory] agencies--they invariably come to represent and serve the special interests of the established companies in the industry supposedly being regulated."

Robert Poole Jr., "Infinite...