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Fumesucker

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7. It's a failure of imagination to some extent..
Tue May 15, 2012, 01:17 PM
May 2012

A lot of us simply cannot imagine a world in which "drugs" are not illegal, the drug war has gone on longer now than the great majority of us have been alive and we have absorbed the attitudes and assumptions of that policy into ourselves at a level very similar to that of religion.

You might as well go to a devout Muslim nation and talk about making alcohol legal, the reaction would be very similar, just discussing it would make you socially unacceptable in a lot of circles, even circles where illicit alcohol use was common.



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