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Abolish the federal drug scheduling system. Full stop. No incremental reforms. It cannot be reformed. It is a political sledgehammer built to smash people. It has no basis in science or medicine, but in bludgeoning. That’s its nature.
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“MAPS is NOT a cult. The criticisms you raise in your hit piece are nonsensical.” “In the work I do — I regularly shake the patients and sometimes press hard against them as a form of resistance and it works.”
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Who was the conductor?
I'm excited to be speaking at the 4th Annual Conference on Psychedelics and Psychedelic Medicine in Boston! Join me on November 15th at 8:55AM EST for my presentation, "The Psychedelic Mainstreaming Train Temporarily Derailed." Learn more and register: lms.mghcme.org/psychedelics2…
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Wow, Vivek Ramaswamy comes out for defunding Veterans' health care ($120 billion). He wants to defund the $516 billion spent annually on programs with expired authorizations, and that's by far the biggest one (expired since 1998). cbo.gov/publication/60390
We shouldn’t let the government spend money on programs that have expired. Yet that’s exactly what happens today: half a *trillion* dollars of taxpayer funds ($516 B+) goes each year to programs which Congress has allowed to expire. There are 1,200+ programs that are no longer authorized but still receive appropriations. This is totally nuts. We can & should save hundreds of billions each year by defunding government programs that Congress no longer authorizes. We’ll challenge any politician who disagrees to defend the other side.
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Kamala got a bigger % of the popular vote in 2024 than Trump got in 2020. Don't get me wrong. It's a huge indictment of the Dems that either race was even close. But concluding from this time that The Voters have decisively spoken on immigration, culture war, etc, is just goofy.
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Because of RFK/Musk influence, large parts of the psychedelic industry who champion the so called “mental health revolution” will now politically realign and attempt to weasel their way into an administration who openly supports the execution of drug dealers, invading Mexico, and kicking people off healthcare, amongst every other anti-social policy in the works
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Or perhaps Florida has a fucked up concept of democracy
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Extremely few (almost zero) people are in prison for selling marijuana only. Almost all of them have a violence charge of some kind attached. If all inmates with just weed charges were released (distribution, possession etc) incarceration rates would be completely unchanged. Misguided and failed liberal decarceration strategy that prevents meaningful prison reform.
Replying to @elonmusk
Selling weed literally went from major felony to essential business (open during pandemic) in much of America & yet many are still in prison. Doesn’t make sense, isn’t right.
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Replying to @joerogan
They’ve been calling for an immediate end of the war nonstop for the last year.
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I hate to put a lot of highly paid pundits out of business, but look at this f**king graph
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Bernie was right about everything. Every decision Dems make over the next 4 years — selecting a new DNC Chair, prioritizing legislative battles, recruiting candidates, developing a midterm message — Bernie should be consulted first, and his analysis should carry the most weight.
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Of course Ross Ulbricht deserves to be pardoned in January. His life sentence was an abomination. Yes, Silk Road likely led to reduced violence and better purity in those drug transactions. But before he’s lionized, remember that he welcomed the sales of guns, organs, cyanide, and like a crime boss, took out multiple assassination contracts on perceived threats to his territory. He’s not a hero, just a young guy who ate mushrooms and became radicalized in his extreme libertarian and anti-social values.
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"Donald Trump’s team appeared to be quietly distancing itself from Robert F Kennedy Jr in the immediate aftermath of the election amid speculation that the former presidential candidate could be handed control of US public health agencies..." telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/…
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I’m seeing a lot of lefties talking about a failure to appeal to the working class but I think we should be more specific about some of the tensions embedded in this conversation, and I’m going to start with one of Biden’s signature policies - the expanded child tax credit /1
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Having written extensively about how real wages have risen strongly for working class Americans since 2019, let me be clear about a few things, on both the facts, and how we should interpret them. 🧵
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Replying to @agraybee
Yup, gen z thinks this economy sucks, wait until they get their first recession
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Biden's economic theory was that you can rapidly increase the wages of the poorest workers and the ensuing inflation could be mitigated with a soft landing. This proved correct, and voters hated it so much that no one will ever try it again.
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People - including top US journalists, perhaps especially top US journalists - don’t quite get how bad it’s going to be. How beyond term one it’ll be. How bad the Musks and RFKs will be. I don’t think even I fully accept how bad it’s going to be and I have been shouting how bad it’s going to be for years.
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