John Christopher Quotes
A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
Christopher, John. Something About the Author Autobiography Series, edited by Adele Sarkissian, vol. 6, Gale Research, 1988, p. 335.
One of the major problems with marijuana was that since it was illegal, the supply was not regulate. One result was that there was no labeling and the consumer had no idea of the strength of the active ingredient (THC) and could not monitor his/her dosage. At the time of this quotation, the state of Colorado had just legalized the selling of marijuana but required that all marijuana sold carry labels which inform the consumer just how much THC he/she would be taking.
Regulation had been adopted to make sure that certain products were made to standards and appropriate quality. A small fee was taken by the regulator to attest to the quality and place a seal on it. However, the system degenerated into a system where one had to pay the fee and everything passed inspection without regard for quality. Child was one of the first observers of the criticality of implementation of regulatory schemes and the danger that a regulatory system was vulnerable to corruption.
Those greedy airplane, bus, and train operators who do not follow all the safety rules and make the investments in safety undercut the prices of the responsible operators that do. Therefore she placed great emphasis on getting the bad ones out of business. However Congress would only grant limited powers and limited budget for inspection and regulation to the Federal agencies responsible.
Sam Youd, known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
