Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classif…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.
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