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As a man who has far more historical perspective than most people merely by dint of the fact that I’m much older than most people, I’m startled by how drastically public attitudes have changed toward alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana since I was a beardless, clueless, and curious youth in the 1960s. (more…)
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Put your bongs down people and listen to me for a few minutes. I want to explain why I think marijuana is one of the most insidious substances known to man from the point of view of long-term self-actualization. (more…)
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Gary Johnson, despite numerous, cringe-worthy campaign missteps, a non-existent foreign policy, and an economic policy supported by approximately zero practicing economists, was the most successful Libertarian Party (LP hereafter) candidate of all time in both total vote and percentage terms. Almost half of the votes that the Libertarian Party has ever received in all presidential races put together went to the Johnson/Weed ticket in 2016. (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
April 20th (420) is celebrated by two groups whose ethos — self-indulgence in one case, sublimity and self-sacrifice in the other — could not be more fundamentally opposed: potheads (“420” being a code for marijuana) and Hitlerites (April 20th being Hitler’s birthday). I am reprinting this article alongside our normal Hitler commemoration hoping to lure in a few potheads and expose them to a more wholesome alternative. (more…)
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Ludzie, odłóżcie bongosy i posłuchajcie mnie przez chwilę. Chcę wam wyjaśnić, czemu uważam marihuanę za jedną z najbardziej zdradzieckich – z perspektywy długoterminowej samoaktualizacji – znanych człowiekowi substancji.
Kolegowałem się z kilkoma palaczami na pierwszym roku moich studiów. Oczywiście próbowali podzielić się ze mną swoim hobby. (more…)
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What follows is the transcript by V. S. of Michael Enoch’s Between Two Lampshades interview with Greg Johnson on The Right Stuff. You can listen to it here.
GJ: There’s another argument that I want to make about laissez-faire capitalism: (more…)
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Dejen sus bongs de lado y escúchenme por unos minutos. Quiero explicar porque creo que la marihuana es una de las más insidiosas substancias conocidas al hombre desde el punto de vista de la auto-realización a largo plazo.
En mi primer año universitario me juntaba con unos porreros. Naturalmente, ellos trataron de compartir su vicio. (more…)
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Put your bongs down people and listen to me for a few minutes. I want to explain why I think marijuana is one of the most insidious substances known to man from the point of view of long-term self-actualization. (more…)
Hieronymous Bosch, “The Temptation of Saint Anthony”
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There’s been a noticeable spike in the national debate about marijuana legalization, after CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta surprised everyone by announcing that marijuana is not only harmless but helpful. It’s the first time I can ever recall cheering anything said by a CNN correspondent.
Prudishness about drug use tends to be an “Old Right” thing. Just about everybody I know in the New Right has used drugs. (Except Greg Johnson, who is a bit of a narc.) Old-time right-wingers tend to associate drugs with hippies, and worry that somehow drug use leads to liberalism (or follows from it). (more…)