Back in April, 2004, over 2 1/2 years ago, I posted that you could Rest Easier. You can rest easy now. Richard Paey, 45-year-old father of three, wheelchair bound and disabled from a car accident in 1985, suffering also from multiple sclerosis, is safely locked away for the next 25 years because he purchased pharmaceutical-grade medication to ease his suffering. This is the original Hit & Run article from Jacob Sullum I linked to. It's taken this much time for his appeal to reach the appropriate District Court. Denied. There's a lot of information out there, so I really don't need to rehash it. Balko Sullum's Hit & Run follow up Warren Meyer Balko roundup of other insanities Well... I don't know what else I can say. Depressing? Disgusting? Embarrassing? Yes, especially embarrassing. To think that I could identify myself with a perceptual tag -- American -- in a place where others who identify themselves identically, not only actively support such a thing, but perform and carry it out, institutionally, as a matter of "justice." My conscience reels in the shame, even though I'm quite clear that I have nothing to do with this, am not responsible for the actions...