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10 May 2019, 8:41 pm

An interesting interview about Australia's NSW system, and I think a lot of what's said toward the end here pretty much applies anywhere that the economics are like this.


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11 May 2019, 12:48 am

Seems as though some people in this thread took the movie Reefer Madness seriously.... :roll:

Also Denver just decriminalized shrooms.... :twisted:

and I am going to smoke smoke some marijuana right now.


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11 May 2019, 1:00 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
Seems as though some people in this thread took the movie Reefer Madness seriously.... :roll:

Also Denver just decriminalized shrooms.... :twisted:

and I am going to smoke smoke some marijuana right now.


Likewise! :lol:


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11 May 2019, 1:32 am

smoke smoke smoke that mary-j-
puff puff puff on it
you'll smoke yourself to death!
tell st. peter at the golden gates,
that you hates to make him wait
but you just gotta have another mary-j



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11 May 2019, 2:07 am

Does anyone really expect the drugs to surrender? :lol:


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11 May 2019, 2:18 am

a generous amount of bloody mindedness keeps the drug war going.



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11 May 2019, 2:23 am

auntblabby wrote:
a generous amount of bloody mindedness keeps the drug war going.


And profit motive.


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11 May 2019, 2:25 am

the selfish profit motive is the bloody minded root of all evil in this hellworld.



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11 May 2019, 2:28 am

auntblabby wrote:
the selfish profit motive is the bloody minded root of all evil in this hellworld.


I assumed 'bloody minded' meant stubborn/obstinate, like it usually does, fwiw.


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11 May 2019, 2:36 am

funeralxempire wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
the selfish profit motive is the bloody minded root of all evil in this hellworld.


I assumed 'bloody minded' meant stubborn/obstinate, like it usually does, fwiw.

the profit motive is mightily stubborn, as it is hard-wired into those among us who are financially talented. that is why entreprenurialism cannot really be taught in any proper way. like any other talent, you either have it or you don't.