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[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Kinda blows my mind that capitalists so desperately want marijuana to be illegal. It’s basically the closest real-world analogue to Brave New World’s Soma.

You want the populace to be complacent? You need to let em blaze it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Weed leads to more open mindedness. Why bother using it as an opiate of the masses when you have actual opiates. Push those instead while throwing anyone who has touched weed into the private slave system for superprofits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

There's already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Did Sagan say that in writing? I know he wrote a few things about his experiences with pot, but those were informal, anecdotal writings, and this sounds much more formal, almost like a public statement meant for publication, or a speech.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sensitivity and fellowship, yet my (former) friend who is a big stoner has gone all-in on conspiracy theories and is championing the Reform party in the UK because Labour are apparently race traitors. Guess weed can't do all the lifting.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If you are as smart and educated as Carl Sagan, I’m sure weed isn’t doing the heavy lifting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago

Yeah for people like Sagan, the "serenity" he's referring to is probably more about quieting his mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Can't win em all. Also, weed in the UK is rubbish /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

Maybe weed isn’t relevant in that case, let’s not forget that in the US, weed was promoted by liberals and opposed by the MAGA crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To make an apple pie you gotta first create the universe. Def a stoner thought lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't forget "from scratch" lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

"Scratch" his itch for some of that killer skunk weed, the devil's lettuce!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When I show up to an in-person interview high, in hopes they'll think that's my regular behavior:

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