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My strong suspicion, though I don’t know how to prove it, is that the reason is that marijuana’s a weed, you can grow it in your backyard, so there’s nobody who would make any money off it if it were legal. Tobacco requires extensive
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Most of what chomsky says, so far in this book, I agree with but this just seems insane in 2019 where Marijuana is an industry that is using extensive capital inputs and technology.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
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“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.”
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“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
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― Culture and Value
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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