Some quick Notes on Videogaming at E3 before we get into this week's in-focus problem (this could be used as a term paper so read carefully!)

• I'm almost completely pro-Nintendo biased, so you know I was cheering when Nintendo made the announcement on Project Dolphin (internal name for next system) and some of it's features. They've teamed up with Panasonic to deliver DVD format and software that can play DVD movies too, unlikePSX2 (take that Sony!!). That's not all, they've also teamed up with IBM to deliver a 500 mHZ CPU. I'd be suprised if you could find that kind of speed in a desktop computer. Here's the kicker, they're starting off at the price of $175. Rare, Retro Studios, Left Field and other developers have already received developing kits so a host of games are expected at launch. This may include Mario 2. Don't worry, Donkey Kong 64 and Perfect Dark will still be for the N64, which leads us to our next bullet...

• There will be playable versions of DK 64 and Perfect Dark at the Rare booth in E3. Perfect Dark is made by the Goldeneye team with the same engine, only with a X Files twist. You are Joanna Dark, FBI agent informed of landing of spacecraft in AREA 51. You discover the bad aliens have taken the good aliens hostage, along with brainwashing the gaurds/security. No Bond liscense makes it suck you say? Consider that no liscence means more enmy creativity and they can make whatever weapons they want, like a Squirt Gun full of acid instead of a PP7. Cool...

• Just IN: Buy a Game Boy Camera NOW if you want to buy Perfect Dark. The GB Pak will make it possible, to take your picture with the GB Camera, and place it on a person's face in multiplayer. This could also be great for taking pictures of magazines. Who would in a heavily armed fight between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee? Personally it would also be good at venting rage. Take that for sending me to a physciatrist, just kidding. The GB Camera will also be selling out once the word gets to the public, so buy it now!

    And now we get to today's in-depth problem. What to do about the drug war?

    As we speak, the US is intangled in a billion dollar plus fight against drugs and drug dealers. They obviously have not paid attention to other countries that have solved their problem. One way, in Holland, has been to legalize drugs. The addict can get them from the nearest government office, but they have to give their full name and address. Then the government puts the person down on a list of people to help. In the meantime the addicts are heavily taxed, umping money into support and help.

    This eliminates the crime aspect of it as you no longer have drug dealers pushing in the streets. There are no turf wars for the good streets, no   shoot-em-ups when a addict doesn't pay. Eliminationg the big threat from society. Then the addicts alone are ingled out, and eliminated through NA meetings, group support and professional aid.

    This is what the US might want to do. Although Holland is a much smaller country, with some brain thinkers this could happen in the US too.