The gleanings of the morning

A couple of interesting articles on the treatment of mind-altering drugs in science fiction, one from eminence-grise Robert Silverberg, ca. 1974, and one from Robert Marcus, the head of a drug-policy lobbying group called Drugscope.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED112299.pdf

http://ansible.co.uk/DreamDust.pdf (could use some copyediting....)

And with that, off to a meeting in which I'm supposed to help sit in judgement on a prospective university administrator. I doubt that I'll have much opportunity to singlehandedly preserve academic freedom or job security, though.