'Acordia', by Gary Beck

'Acordia', by Gary Beck

I kept a confident, positive look on my face as the Governor of Louisiana, Alicia deVray, prepared to sign the document that would enact the first free drug community in the world. She turned and looked at me, I nodded encouragingly. She looked at the horde of reporters holding  cameras, phones, recording devices, and signed. There was a long moment of silence, then a round of weak, tentative applause from the legislators. Alicia wasn’t looking …