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Re:Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of ... by komali2 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:15AM (#17089173)
It's not helpful, if you want I guess we can start talking about Nixon and the drug wars and Iran contra and if we really wanna get into it light a joint cause before you know it I'll be ranting about the CIA selling coke in the streets and the American government's war on black people.

Fucking bullshit war on drugs man. Why doesn't our government have room for rationality?

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Re:Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of ... by andrei_says_ on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:33AM (#17089256)
Because the rational amongst us don’t vote as much? Because campaigns for both parties get funded by the same handful of people? Because we’re a religious country with a weakness for extremist views, and religion has been appropriated and weaponized by political forces?
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