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Astral  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda - James Hamblin - The Atlantic

    Soon French Wine Coca was illegal -- because of the alcohol, not the cocaine.
That is perhaps the strangest sentence I've read in a while. It's crazy to think we survived through thinking all sorts of drugs were safe.




thenewgreen  ·  4320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The more closely you look at drug policy, in the US at least, the more you tend to realize that it's not based on any sort of rational thinking.