Lumifer comments on LINK: An example of the Pink Flamingo, the obvious-yet-overlooked cousin of the Black Swan

Lumifer 7 Nov 2015 5:56 UTC
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The article glosses over the reasons for criminalization except for a single unbacked reference to “xenophobia”.

Google is your friend. The criminalization of marijuana is well-documented.

Furthermore, the fundamental problem of which the isolation of cocaine was emblematic is getting worse as technology improves.

So we have nothing to worry about plants humans consumed for millenia—like Cannabis sativa and Papaver somniferum?
- VoiceOfRa 7 Nov 2015 6:10 UTC
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  So we have nothing to worry about plants humans consumed for millenia—like Cannabis sativa and Papaver somniferum?
  
  Unless chemists start concentrating the relevant chemical, or they’re used by people whose ancestors haven’t had millennia to adept to them. Yes, this applies to alcohol as well.