Attention LA Readers: Tenacious D-rug Benefit

On June 3, the Drug Policy Alliance is hosting an "Un-Cabaret Comedy Evening" benefit in Los Angeles to finance its efforts to bring "reason, compassion, and justice" to the nation's drug war.

Tickets start at $380 (most of which is tax-deductible) and the entry price includes booze, food, and appearances by the likes of Tenacious D, Bill Maher, Kevin Nealon, and others.

For more information, go here.

DPA is headed by Ethan Nadelmann, whom I called "perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for new drug laws that "hold people responsible for their actions, but don't punish them for what they put into their bodies" in my recent Washington Post review of Martin Torgoff's Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000.