After decades of Republican victories, here’s how California became a blue state again
California hasn’t always been a lock for the Democratic presidential nominee. Republicans won the state in nearly every presidential election between 1952 and 1988. Ahead of an election that could see more blue in the Golden State than ever before, here’s ...
Another little angle I picked up casually concerning the "demonization" of nicotine: a few years ago I was in a casino and started chatting with a guy who was a chemist and he mentioned something about working with drugs. Just by way of conversation, I asked, "If you were emperor and could ban any single drug, which would it be?" He instantly said cigarettes.
I said, "Really? Nicotine can't be that bad compared to all these other crazy things, can it?
He said, "Oh, it's not the nicotine at all. It's all the additives. There are like 2500 compounds in a cigarette." Additives, huh?
I would say it's also why no one had heard of this: Project XA
So the picture starts to come together, doesn't it?
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