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.
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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.
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.
There's already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.
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.
Here is a summary with a link to the PDF: https://bigthink.com/health/carl-sagan-on-smoking-marijuana/
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.
If you are as smart and educated as Carl Sagan, I’m sure weed isn’t doing the heavy lifting.
Yeah for people like Sagan, the "serenity" he's referring to is probably more about quieting his mind.
Can't win em all. Also, weed in the UK is rubbish /s
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.
To make an apple pie you gotta first create the universe. Def a stoner thought lol
Don't forget "from scratch" lol
"Scratch" his itch for some of that killer skunk weed, the devil's lettuce!
When I show up to an in-person interview high, in hopes they'll think that's my regular behavior: