• BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Kinda blows my mind that capitalists so desperately want marijuana to be illegal. It’s basically the closest real-world analogue to Brave New World’s Soma.

    You want the populace to be complacent? You need to let em blaze it.

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      4 days ago

      There’s already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.

    • sunflowercowboy@feddit.org
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      5 days ago

      This is why I really fear it. Then again it helped me find god. Which i then realized structurally does create the complacent worker through pacifying rather than inciting any real change. So I am back to thinking it is a crutch.