We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs …

P. J. O'Rourke
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We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2007). Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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