"Just look at all the money that has been spent on the problem - all the laws we have put in place, all the educational programs we have implemented, all the police operations that have swept through our inner cities. And yet all we have succeeded in doing, apart from creating a self serving bureaucracy dedicated to the problem, is to have imprisoned thousands without really solving the problem at all. In fact, all we have achieved is the criminalisation  and marginalisation of the poorer sections of our society. Surely we should admit now that the solution to the problem lies in not trying to solve it at all. We should legalise it, and thus regulate it. That, to me, appears to be common sense."

Alfredo E. Nonexisto. Chairman of the Campaign to Legalise Violence.
City of Arsoles, 2035.

Fantasy writer Michael Moorcock has described the novel the Lord of the Rings as effluence. But if the Lord of the Rings is effluence then surely Michael Moorcock's work is diarrhoea of the most liquid kind. It poured out at a prodigious rate and it was pretty thin stuff.