Right, because ideological purity is much better than pragmatism. You have no preference at all between the candidates, because none of them favour complete legalisation? You'd rather have no decriminalisation than just some?
The drug war is only one of many reasons that I am apolitical. I don't accept that I have a legitimate choice -- to me, voting would be tacit acceptance of the legitimacy of our political process.
Sanders filed a bill to remove cannabis from the controlled substances act altogether, which would defer any decision on its prohibition or legal status to individual states: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s2237/text. It's not full all-at-once nationwide legalization, but it's not a mere decrease in federal penalties either.
HPPD is definitely real, but I would describe that as a more or less constant experience of after-effects for weeks/months/etc.
I took enough LSD and other substances to experience HPPD that steadily faded over the course of about 3 months. Once it was over though, I never randomly experienced a small trip or anything.
From what I've read that idea comes from a myth that psychedelics build up in parts of the body (e.g. the spine) and can spontaneously be released. So, I wouldn't worry about it (and for what it's worth -- I'll get downvoted to hell for this -- but in the past I drove hundreds of times on psychedelics, without incident)
After having done seriously heaping amounts of psychedelics, I am still not sure If I can recommend them.
I don't even really know how psychedelics affected me, but I suspect they caused me to become more empathetic. I consider that to be an extremely positive aspect of their use.
Despite what many will tell you, tryptamines / phenylethylamines can be addictive for a certain personality type though.
Both your statement and your parent's are probably true. Extended forced isolation is incredibly psychologically damaging. Likely more so than being forced to interact only with "hardened criminals".
I'm confused. "It's not true" -- you seem to be saying that solitary confinement is better/safer than normal prison life. But then you say that people in prison are not so bad.
I don't think that people in prison are "inhuman", but I do think that they are "hard" in a way that would be extremely difficult for me as a very sensitive person. I think they'd have to be to get by in an environment like that. For example I can't watch Orange is the New Black -- it stresses me out.
Solitary confinement is not 'not having a cellmate'. Solitary confinement is being locked in a tiny concrete cell, with no bars, no windows, and no chance to speak with another human being. Indefinitely.
Wasn't this the whole situation with Dual_EC_DRBG? As far as I understand (which may not be that far when it comes to cryptography, admittedly), the NSA has already been caught intentionally weakening cryptographic standards via its influence over the NIST and by paying RSA.
RSA makes Dual_EC_DRBG the default CSPRNG in BSAFE. In 2013, Reuters reports this is a result of a secret $10 million deal with NSA.
According to the New York Times story, the NSA spends $250 million per year to insert backdoors in software and hardware as part of the Bullrun program.
Stop calling it "free internet". That's absolutely not what Facebook is offering.
> Do you think donating some money to farmers is going to help in any way? The government has been doing that for a long time (through subsidies and minimum purchase prices)
You're talking about two different things. Subsidies are different than unconditional cash transfers, the latter of which there has been recent promising research on:
