Clara ([info]anotherthink) wrote,
@ 2007-11-02 12:22:00
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The NYT Freakonomics column does a point/counterpoint on marijuana legalization/prohibition. It gets 133 comments; most of these comments are at least moderately thoughtful (i.e. more substantive than "yea moar weed!11!"); NOT ONE of these comments advocates prohibition. Hmmm...

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[info]derloos
2007-11-02 08:15 pm UTC (link)
In the end, drugs are just one more way of natural selections, aren't they?

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[info]anotherthink
2007-11-02 08:33 pm UTC (link)
Not sure I understand what you mean by that.

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[info]derloos
2007-11-02 08:46 pm UTC (link)
Well, some people chose to use it - and lose the fight.

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[info]anotherthink
2007-11-02 09:06 pm UTC (link)
The article was about marijuana; there are no recorded human deaths attributed to marijuana overdose.

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[info]derloos
2007-11-02 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Yeah I know. But I sometimes talk to people who smoke weed more or less frequently. Strong impressions.

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[info]anotherthink
2007-11-02 09:21 pm UTC (link)
If it doesn't kill you, it's not natural selection at work.

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[info]derloos
2007-11-02 09:24 pm UTC (link)
The natural selection doesn't mean death every time it works. IMHO.

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[info]vahkvahk
2007-11-02 09:29 pm UTC (link)
That's patently untrue. All it has to do is to make it less likely that you'll reproduce. If heavy marijuana use is genetic (or can be environmentally passed to offspring), and stoners are less likely to get laid / get knocked up, then it could, in fact, have a non-trivial natural selection effect.

Not that I buy either premise, but 'death' is not necessary for natural selection by a long shot.

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[info]anotherthink
2007-11-02 09:32 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, true, I was thinking of that; but I doubt it's what the original commenter had in mind (not to mention probably untrue in this case).

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[info]dragonladyflame
2007-11-03 10:21 am UTC (link)
I give it 10 years.

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