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200 unstudied new drugs are being sold in the UK.

This is partly a side-effect of prohibition. If the basically safe drugs, such as pot and MDMA, were legal, most people would stick to them.

Some of them might be dangerous, while others might be fairly safe. Even those that are safe, in themselves, might become dangerous due to prohibition, which means you can't be sure what you're getting or how much.

There are some young people that will try any drug. A few such people were present in the AI lab in the 70s. The rest of us told them this was foolish.

Corporations that spend money on state judge elections effectively buy themselves immunity.

The Catholic Church is taking control of a growing fraction of US hospitals, and makes those hospitals deny various kinds of health care.

I think that general hospitals should not be allowed to deny care based on prejudices. Limited-duty clinics, which don't accept emergency patients and do not count as a hospital, perhaps can be allowed to do so.

Florida wants to speed up the death penalty so that doubts about someone's guilt don't need to cause embarrassment.