American dichotomy

[Antigen]

Two sites I'm looking at today:

http://mpcourtdocuments.netfirms.com/bl ... t%2022.htm

and

http://www.judgesagainstthedrugwar.org

It's like they come from two different planets (one of them possibly being Lilliput)

Were the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potato as an article of food. Government is just as infallible,[sic] too, when it fixes systems in physics. Galileo was sent to the Inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere.... It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=FF7485&aid=10247' target='_new'>Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia