Prohibition Yet Again by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

Dear Concerned Readers,

A lot of United States citizens don’t realize that Coca-Cola had various amounts of cocaine in its original formula from 1886-1929:

Coca-Cola Used to Have Cocaine in It

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cocaine-coca-cola/

I don’t know if the hydrochloride salt or free base of cocaine was utilized. The famous first psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud used the injectable cocaine hydrochloride salt in 1884:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/payngv/a-brief-history-of-freuds-love-affair-with-cocaine

http://www.freudfile.org/cocaine.html

Prohibition has never actually done in useful work in the United States. The act of banning a substance or behavior just makes it more prevalent in our country. I like William F. Buckley’s conservative and libertarian stance of legalizing all drugs and have their licensing, manufacture, sales, and taxation be done by our federal government. Such an action would take away the stigma and criminality of  a disenfranchised and ostracized United States much maligned and abused minority. Why aren’t the modern Republicans behind this idea which would render the illicit drug and female trafficking industries impotent in the face of an almost omnipotent United States government.

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

 

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

 

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

 

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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