• BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    12 hours 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.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 hours ago

      Weed leads to more open mindedness. Why bother using it as an opiate of the masses when you have actual opiates. Push those instead while throwing anyone who has touched weed into the private slave system for superprofits.

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      5 hours 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.

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      10 hours 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.