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@KeithNHumphreys Groucho said it best: youtu.be/xHash5takWU

For the record, I'm against this

@KeithNHumphreys @DrDanMO Sorry (and a bit surprised) to hear that. Eminem told me that you dumped her.

@shdwstar @billgearon3 @LukeNiforatos These are drawings that claim to show that regulation is the least harmful option. They are mental models, not empirical. They may or may not happen to be right, but they don’t prove anything.

@stigerik3 @billgearon3 @LukeNiforatos Market regulation is the least harmful option.

1/ NEW STUDY: Researchers audited 161 "regulated" marijuana dispensaries in LA, Vegas, Denver, Portland, and Seattle. What they found should end the myth of the well-regulated marijuana market. Forever. A thread. 🧵

@taylorburrowes Thank you so much for keeping it real. Men don’t have to aspire to perfection - Henry Cavill and Chris Pratt are adequate for most women!

I don’t speak for all ladies, but I want you guys to know that this is a solid body goal.

@billgearon3 @LukeNiforatos The experience with alcohol regulation always made me sceptical if cannabis regulation. Seems like there was reason for scepticism…

I bought booze regularly when in high school 50 years ago. Drinking was and is a right of passage in American society. The alcohol drug cartel has destroyed more lives and killed more people than sll other drugs combined and continues to kill over 1000,000 on average annually with no end in sight. But yeah pot is the big problem. Party on drunken slobs you are the best of us.

@nguyenhdi Also - at what point should we be talking about emotional cargo?

"Luggage" & "baggage" are the same thing, so why do we say "emotional baggage" but not "emotional luggage"?

@KeithNHumphreys Stable, but a little hoarse…

@KeithNHumphreys And two others: Those who can extrapolate from existing data

@KeithNHumphreys Hope the applause didn’t wake you up…

@KeithNHumphreys @Jerry_Ratcliffe @HistoryBoomer I like this one: youtu.be/gO0jiJw7GaY

Some academics who denounced the idea of objectivity and declared themselves activists are for some reason shocked that policymakers and the public now view them not as trusted, objective scientists but as...activists.

@OrinKerr @KeithNHumphreys You people always blame me! What did I do this time?

@KeithNHumphreys The elites, that’s why.

@AlexBerenson And the framing: ‘decriminalized people who use drugs’. It’s the act of using drugs that is in question. You don’t criminalize people who speed. You criminalize speeding.

Yes, "harm reduction" and drug legalization have failed so profoundly EVEN BRITISH COLUMBIA ENDED ITS DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION EXPERIMENT. It happened four weeks ago. You haven't heard it because the legacy media refuses to report it. You still don't hate them enough.

@inimitablepgw This is bloody funny!

Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

@KeithNHumphreys It may be my background in alcohol policy speaking, but it’s almost like increased availability leads to increased use leads to increased harms…

@Micro_DarkWave @NicoReznof Indeed, the experience with alcohol was an important part of why many of us were critical of cannabis legalization. And legalization of sports betting…

@NicoReznof Just the same as whiskey and beer.

@ChristineTatum @TheDamaniFelder I remember reading stuff from people who deplored the clean-up of the downtown area back in the early 2000s. It was all about gentrification and disneyfication of the gritty ‘real’ urban landscape. I guess those people got their way in the end…

I arrived in NYC 72 hours ago for a five-week work project in Manhattan — and this city is a MESS. The drug use. The mental illness. The trash and grime. The aggression and crime. The abandoned buildings. The homelessness and hustlers. It’s painfully obvious and pathetic — and it’s a different city than the one I last visited just before the pandemic hit. Spoke last night for quite awhile with a police officer who told me tourists stop him at least a dozen times a day to say something like, “I thought people were exaggerating!” or to ask “What has happened to New York?!” Everyone is talking about the problems — including the people who live here. They know there is no sugarcoating any of this.

New Yorkers have had the free trial of Mamdani socialism for barely a month and are already not happy with it. Imagime that. Some people insist on learning the hard way.

@KeithNHumphreys Indeed he was!

@KeithNHumphreys I guess Clark’s comedy act sort of undermined his blistering guitar playing. Though if you see those old shows, the audience certainly appreciated his musicianship.

@KeithNHumphreys I second that. Just check out Glen Campbell playing ‘Gentle on my mind’ with Roy Clark nodding along approvingly: youtu.be/ETkzK9pXMio?si…