The Journalist Peter Wilby in a recent Guardian article discusses the so called war on drugs, likening it to the Prohibition years in the USA and reasoning - quite rightly in my view - that drugs should be legalised.
However, he states that Prohibition and the adulterated alcohol that resulted was responsible for the blind blues singers of this period, although he does not give a reference for this statement. As far as I know the blind bluesmen where blind from birth or early childhood and anyway could not have been such superb guitarists if their central nervous system was so affected by alcohol.
What do other 'catters think?
Doc John
Joe, is it in order to publish Peter Wilby's e-mail on the Mudcat as he does publish it in the Guardian newspaper. It's: peter.wilby@gmail.com