Allen Ginsberg — "How much of the juvenile delinquency and robbery and problematic crimes in New Y…"
How much of the juvenile delinquency and robbery and problematic crimes in New York that are clogging all the courts and making everything such a mess might be traceable to narcotics crimes which could all be eliminated by simply changing the treatment of narcotics! If you sent all the junkies to doctors the black market would disappear. if you legalize marijuana there will be no use for a narcotics department.
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American Beat poet whose Howl (1956) faced an obscenity trial and became a counterculture manifesto.
Closely associated with
Jack Kerouac (Beat novelist, On the Road) and William S. Burroughs (fellow Beat, Naked Lunch).
For an intellectual contrast, see
T.S. Eliot, high-modernist poet of The Waste Land — Ginsberg's open-line confessional Beat verse was a deliberate rejection of Eliot's allusive academic formalism — the two halves of mid-century American poetry.
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Interview with Fifth Estate Magazine, advocating for drug legalization to reduce crime and bureaucracy
