Reason.tv: Alan Bock, rest in peace

Alan Bock, longtime editorial writer at the Orange County Register, died on May 18 at his home in Elsinore, California. Alan was a champion for liberty and a good friend to many of us at Reason. Alan, you'll be missed.

Alan wrote four books, including Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana (2000). In 2007, Drew Carey interviewed Alan about that book for a reason.tv program on medical marijuana. Here are some excerpts from that interview.

Approximately 5 minutes.

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Comments

[Concerned Citizen]

Like we could afford to lose another champion for liberty. Rest in peace brother. The gov't can't touch you now.

[Doktor Kapitalism]

Wait for the Funeral and Cemetary Affordability Reform Act of 2018...

[Doktor Kapitalism]

Cocaine and meth are on Schedule II, yet marijuana is Schedule I. Seriously?

[rather]

Is it me, or is libertarianism the leading cause of death in men over 50?

[Binky]

I'm pretty sure neither you nor libertarianism is the leading cause.

[1001001]

An obit does not serve well as a good Open Weekend/Rapture thread. We better see something else soon.

[Pants Fan]

You know it's gonna be the end of the world when Macho Man dies.

[Doktor Kapitalism]

Maybe we'll just have to convert this one. If that'll even work.

[1001001]

It just seems kinda...wrong.

[Doktor Kapitalism]

You've got a point there.

[1001001]

*pours a bottle of body oil on the ground*

[1001001]

intended as response to Pants Fan in honor of RtMMS

[rather]

I don't give a shit if the 'rapture'. Nothing would bore me more to live with christians full-time

[Doktor Kapitalism]

You would be left behind, would you know?

Actually, that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, if all the Christians got to go to heaven, and everyone else got to stay on earth. Less religious conflict, I'd think (though no joy in the Middle East).

[Pants Fan]

you'd be shocked by which "Christians" didn't go.

[Doktor Kapitalism]

Religious right among them, little doubt.

[Pants Fan]

as well as the Religious Left

[rather]

A. I don't believe the crap
B. If their is a god, I'm bitch slapping him
C. I prefer to live on the wrong side of the 'pearly gates'. Friday nights I'll meet jesus on the outside; even he wants to party

[Doktor Kapitalism]

Rebellious kids.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hopefully he passed some of his talent on to those he left behind.

[Doktor Kapitalism]

Reason, why can't I post more than two links? Is is a software thing, or are you just being mean?

[Doktor Kapitalism]

The comments upthread of this got deleted. I'm confused.

[Pants Fan]

max appears deleted

[rather]

you never can post more than 2, and the spam filter 'activates' for no reason too

[rather]

You're right Max was delete. Reason, how does free speech work?

[Squirrels]

"Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason at any time."

[rather]

Selectively enforced BS

[Jesse Walker]

It's very selectively enforced. Max has been leaking his drivel onto Hit & Run for years; we kicked him out when he rolled into a memorial thread and started heckling a dead guy. Alan Bock's friends and family are likely to come here, and they don't need to read some troll's boorish look-at-me act.

[capitol l]

Sounds like bullshit.

Jesse, you guys are the magazine and have the right to ban whomever you see fit,but to arbitrarily ban someone based on taste sets a dangerous precedent.

In a free society is it moral to just disappear unpopular commenters? We must set an example as two percenters that all speech is allowable no matter how disagreeable it is.

[Warty]

Is this a joke? If anyone ever needed banning and retroactive abortion, it was Edward.

[capitol l]

Funny, you say that. I always reckoned that you conjured max/ed.

[Warty]

If Edward did not exist, I should have to invent him.

[capitol l]

The same could be said of all of us.

[rather]

Yes, Mr. Bock's family may visit, and it certainly would hurt their feelings but I can see in that short interview the man had a clever wit, and would not take offense himself.

For the record, when I die you may say whatever you want.

At my grandmother's funeral, half the people were drunk, and the other half complained about the indignity of it all.

Guess who bought all the booze?

[rather]

Shit, Max was raptured!!

[LibertyMark]

Jesus, it isn't censorship if Reason decides to delete Maximum Fucktits from this forum, for one thread, out of deference and respect for Alan Bock and his family. You all can fuck off if you can't see the common decency in that.

[rather]

precisely the reasons not to delete

[Vig Vee]

Wow this makes a whole lot of sense. Wow.

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