Browsing Archive: September, 2011

Pot Smokers-The Last Oppressed Minority

Posted by Ken Boyer on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : Messages from Jay 

In Canada this title might have read “the last oppressed majority” since 53 per cent of Canadians are in favor of decriminalizing simple possession of cannabis. Prime Minister Jean Chretien while still in office a few years ago promised to completely remove criminal penalties against possession of personal amounts of marijuana and hashish.  “But don’t light up yet,...


Continue reading ...
 

Don't quit your day job

Posted by Ken Boyer on Monday, September 12, 2011,

   It is the first week in September and summer holidays are over. I feel a kind of excitement as I wave my wife off to work. She still has a job. I don’t. Unless you call writing a job. Someone once said that opinions are like assholes-everybody has one. That is probably the reason why it is so hard to make a living by writing-everybody wants to do it. Everybody wants...


Continue reading ...
 
 

         Diving from the cliffs at Rick's Cafe 

Author


Jay Carter Brown.......author of Smuggler's Blues, is a businessman and a freelance writer who was brought up in the west end of Montreal. Because Smuggler’s Blues is based on true stories, the author’s name and the names of all of the characters have been changed.
Make a Free Website with Yola.