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Pot famously supplies an extra measure of perspective, and perspective is very threatening to those who don’t want their authority questioned.
"We've been growing by about a million users a day for several days," said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. "It's proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they'll have a better time."
Traffic on Bluesky, an X Competitor, Is Up 500% Since the Election. How Will They Handle the Surge?
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One article, “Marihuana: Assassin of Youth,” published in Hearst’s countrywide chain of newspapers, famously claimed that “the weed from the devil’s garden” caused white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, and caused whites and black to dance cheek to cheek. He wangled money from alcohol and pharmaceutical companies to make antipot films. Reefer Madness is a cult classic today, but it succeeded then in swaying the vulnerable masses that marijuana was a portal to lewd behavior. One puff brought on irreversible insanity.
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