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...called "crack tax" applies to controlled substances like marijuana and cocaine, and also illicit alcoholic beverages like moonshine. It allows someone to anonymously purchase stamps in person from the Department of Revenue based on the type and amount of the substance ($3.50 for a gram of marijuana, $50 for a gram of cocaine, etc.) with the understanding that doing so cannot be used against them in a criminal court. Posessing drugs is still illegal - the tax works completely outside the criminal justice system. A stamp cannot provide immunity from criminal prosecution, and a conviction of possession isn't required...
...with fellow profligate Ryan Adams (a mere five albums in three years) would seem like the exact wrong move, but as a producer, Adams brings along his excellent backing band, the Cardinals, and a shrewd instinct for songs that keep Willie focused. The two originals and nine covers--including Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns to the effortless speak-singing that made his greatest hits so poignant. Best of all is a closing minor-key version of Amazing Grace; Nelson and Adams...
...matter of walking through the markets and seeing what inspires. Food must be ordered a week in advance through the Army supply system, and menus must conform to the Basis of Issue, the per-meal allowance for each soldier of meat, eggs, cheese, fish, sugar-all calculated to the gram, with nutrition as well as economy in mind...
...which can cause genetic diseases and gene mutations, not to mention iodine-131 (which causes thyroid cancer), strontium-90 (which causes leukemia and bone cancer), and cesium-137 (which causes muscle cancer). Then, of course, there is plutonium-239, which is so toxic that just one-millionth of a gram is carcinogenic. The United States has over 100 nuclear reactors, each of which produce about 200 kilograms of plutonium-239 per year. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki used 6.2 kilograms of plutonium...
...preferable to authenticity. Authenticity isn’t something Oldham has to worry about any longer. “Summer” proves that his sound can hold up in the proving ground of country music: the southeast. Oldham can now truly lay claim to the musical lineage as Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams. What a difference one summer can make. —Staff Writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu