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...Sabet downplays the damage that marijuana prohibition causes to society. In the U.S. last year, approximately 734,000 people were arrested for marijuana offenses. That is 734,000 people who dealt with the humiliation, anguish and monetary damage that entails being handcuffed, fingerprinted, forced to appear before a judge, making bail and serving probation. Would we tolerate this treatment for the use of alcohol or cigarettes...
...Kevin A. Sabet...
...Kevin A. Sabet is a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University where he is studying for a Ph.D. in drug policy issues. He is a former speech writer former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey...
...sold at auction in London. It had been made in France somewhere around 1780, probably by a craftsman named Martin Carlin: a spindly, exquisite and useless object, all tulipwood and Sevres porcelain plaques, the very epitome of the court taste of Louis XVI. An Iranian oilman named Henri Sabet paid $415,800 for it and so became the owner of the most expensive piece of furniture in history...
...polite reaction to this news would be to smile at human folly and hope that M. Sabet's Persian cat sharpens its claws on something else. On the other hand, the episode was more redolent of Louis XVI's time than the mere style of the table would suggest. Sabet's excursion into le goût royal cost the equivalent of the collective income of 1,260 of his fellow Iranians, who earn an average $330 or so a year; and with it the creak of imaginary tumbrils with real collectors in them grows a little...