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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 7 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 1.082s | source | bottom
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cynicalsecurity[dead post] ◴[30 Apr 24 18:06 UTC] No.40214106[source]▶
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1. kstrauser ◴[30 Apr 24 18:26 UTC] No.40214397[source]▶
I bet a huge portion of the people here are physically addicted to caffeine, a powerful psychoactive stimulant.
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2. lambdaba ◴[30 Apr 24 18:28 UTC] No.40214424[source]▶
As Terence McKenna used to say, caffeine is legal because it keeps the worker bees working throughout the afternoon.
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3. zingababba ◴[30 Apr 24 18:51 UTC] No.40214721[source]▶
He said that while high on cannabis, most definitely.
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4. lambdaba ◴[30 Apr 24 18:55 UTC] No.40214770{3}[source]▶
He was a self-confessed chronic user, granted, it was old-school weed so I don't know how that would scale with what's available nowadays.
5. underseacables ◴[30 Apr 24 20:53 UTC] No.40216213[source]▶
I think this is why North Korea allows marijuana and meth.
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6. hansoolo ◴[30 Apr 24 23:38 UTC] No.40217799{3}[source]▶
Can you give some evidence for that? Curious
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7. underseacables ◴[01 May 24 11:43 UTC] No.40221937{4}[source]▶
Google is your friend.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/world/asia/north-korea-cr...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn4ywx/north-korea-is-stoned...