Robert Altman Quotes
I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Robert Altman: The Oral Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
The judge, at the time was only summarizing the science evidence for the physiological safety of the drug in its natural grown state at that time. Unfortunately drug dealers have learned to extract the active ingredient, THC, and produce marijuana, much more potent than the 1988 variety. Nor did the judge address the behavioral consequence of extensive marijuana use where we know now that some people who get into extensive marijuana smoking tend to have negative consequences for ability to study, concentrate on operating machinery, develop a personal relationship and the like. The extent to which The more potent marijuana represents a physiological health risk ( as opposed to psychological) however is not as well known for lack of research of what the effects are because the government has refused to allow marijuana to be used in experiments nor have they funded any of their own studies. As of 2011 there has been no study that demonstrates serious physiological harm.
Perry was an extreme right wing law and order conservative, but like many extreme rightists had a streak of libertatrianism.
Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Altman is known as a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, comparable to such directors as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet and David Lynch. Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.
