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Comment on Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist.

TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If alcohol was discovered today, it would be considered as harmful a substance as opium and it would be banned. But humans have been consuming it for thousands of years, so it’s been normalized and grandfathered into society.

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ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
We’ve been doing opium for thousands of years and still deem it harmful enough to ban. Hell, it’s bad enough that it has actually been used as a weapon in the past to destabilize nations.

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Tujio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Beer is arguably the foundation of human society. Grain (and the harvesting of it) is a building block of civilization, and beer is inextricably linked to that.

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