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2009-04-20 :: lolife // drugs
Pot vs. Alcohol

This is a phenomenally convincing article by a former police chief about the major policy inconsistencies regarding alcohol and marijuana. Alcohol is legal and highly costly to society. Yet no one wants to prohibit it. Why? Because we tried it and it didn’t work. How dense do you have to be to not apply the [...]

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There are rumors that Sanjay Gupta may be nominated as Surgeon General. I don’t have a strong opinion on it (yet) but I do have to take exception to this article he wrote: Why I Would Vote No On Pot. It’s not a bad article — he lists the health benefits of marijuana as well [...]

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2008-10-23 :: lolife // Politics
Hedge funds and hemp

Andrew Lahde, whom I have never heard of, apparently made a bunch of money betting against the sub-prime market. He recently closed his fund and wrote a “Jerry McGuire” letter saying so long and fuck you, basically. He concludes the letter by talking about how the this nation has its head up its ass in [...]

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