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Why we love drugs

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Drugs Are a Great Drug for Capitalism

The most incontestable right we have, in my opinion, is the right to experiment with our own consciousness. The state at various times regards drug use as a tremendous threat. President Nixon believed that the reason young boys weren't willing to go to Vietnam was because of drugs and specifically because of LSD.

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