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Value is Bound by Limitation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Unintended Consequences of Drug Policy

There are new opiates that are extraordinarily powerful and we don't know a lot about them you know they're new synthetic opioids. It's actually one of the unintended consequences of drug policy because making substances illegal is not an effective way to deal with their existence places like Portugal for example have legalized all drugs of abuse. People who take opiates really don't like them lots of people are like that it's not like everyone who takes them will immediately become addicted but some people are extremely sensitive to the sorts of opiate effects that produce addiction just like some people are sensitive to the effects of alcohol that produce alcoholism I had a friend he was a cool guy his name was Frank Irvin and he looked

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