Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 26, 2013

ha ha

Acid can make a difference……not that I would know…….But, what was with the paisley shapes everywhere….?

Shouldn’t that flashback be in glorious black & white?

A reminde that GBT’s artwork was even MORE crude!

Wait, what happened to Zipper?

But California, which sorta, kinda, went half-way with medical (Prop.215) but no follow-up regulations to administer and register dispensaries, is still a mess. And despite promises, feds are still sticking their oars in.

Prohibition corrupted the pols, cops, and courts in the twenties, and this one is no different!

Rick still wears a tie? Not a pajama pundit yet…

So who remembers what year J’ACCUSE was? That was a road trip through Alabama, wasn’t it? The one seed bust? I’m gonna guess 1976.

I hear the dog’s voice as that of Felix Unger.

The sole purpose of drug laws is to oppress and incarcerate African american men and provide a legal excuse to deny them jobs and a decent standard of living.

Nothing sad about having a mind like a steel trap!

lol, and then i think about the legal drugs, sugar, coffee, nicotine,high fructose corn syrup. and of course the ones Pharma sells, but we all know Pharma runs the Government nowadays. thank Sen Baucus of Montana for that.

Sugar is by far the worst of these, and then the fat making death enhancing high fructose corn syrup.

legal is a matter of profit in America nowadays. If Business can’t make a profit off of it, it ain’t legal, yet.

If that original was ’73, Zonker is looking in remarkably good shape for his age.

Ah yes, my handler is frowning at these guys. Time to point on them. The Clever Hans exception to the Fourth Amendment.

Yeah, it was really early in the strip, I remember it too. ’72 sounds about right to me as well.

So now, we’re drinking coffee in the kitchen. It was a fun trip for the fifteen minutes it lasted. Zonk, you want to go back and apologize to McFriendly’s and ask for your job back? With a cut in pay?

For people educated in the 21st century, Clever Hans was a “counting horse”. However, he could only “count” when his trainer was present, because the trainer was involuntarily providing visual cues toward the correct response. This could be a problem with “drug-sniffing” dogs if not properly trained. In humans, there was a similar problem with “recovered memories”. People remembered childhood abuse but only when prompted by an overzealous hypnotic therapist.

> sadly, I remember that original comic

No no no, you’re a [underline]winner[/underline] ’55: lottsa us older folks have memory issues.

What a pile of libertarian comments, as if pot is the world’s most important moral issue. Sugar is worse on the social fabric than pot? What blather.In contrast, there’s not one comment about the origin, meaning of, and moral significance of the phrase “J’Accuse.” What a bunch of Duhs you are.

And you are here because….?

If anyone wants to take a break from the drug debate, the original J’Accuse strip can be found here (6/20/73: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1973/06/20

I have that strip. The dog was channeling the Dreyfuss affair.

Maybe it was a Belgian Malinois.

Isn’t that flashback from the same roadtrip where the boys first met Joannie “Then I decked him” Caucus?

Issa accusation, not proof of guilt.

Zonker remembers?

Ah, the classics! I remember this one, wether Zonk does or not.

Ha! Great throw-back from GT.

And Zonker’s ultimate moral/lesson learned from those days (daze?) …. will that be repeated? ….. “It may or may not be wrong, but it sure is against the law.”