Hamilton Morris

But what's interesting is we tend not to notice the way these manipulations play out until a decade or so has passed. Like you look back at the scare stories of the past and it's. It's literally laughable. It's a joke. Ha ha ha. Your brain on drugs. How stupid is this? Ecstasy makes holes in your brains. How stupid is this?

All these things, you know, I had this huge archive of news reports on MDMA and you have like, you know, cops. like lecturing other cops about like this is a pacifier like the MDMA user puts the pacifier in their mouth to enhance the the the drug pleasures that they experience it's all just like nuts but But the same thing is happening now.

All these things, you know, I had this huge archive of news reports on MDMA and you have like, you know, cops. like lecturing other cops about like this is a pacifier like the MDMA user puts the pacifier in their mouth to enhance the the the drug pleasures that they experience it's all just like nuts but But the same thing is happening now.

All these things, you know, I had this huge archive of news reports on MDMA and you have like, you know, cops. like lecturing other cops about like this is a pacifier like the MDMA user puts the pacifier in their mouth to enhance the the the drug pleasures that they experience it's all just like nuts but But the same thing is happening now.

We just are worse at noticing it until a little time has passed. So whatever the dominant narrative is – and I guess crucially before I even get into the examples because the issue is that these narratives are so dominant that – People don't even haven't even started to question them yet. And often there is some truth to it, right?

We just are worse at noticing it until a little time has passed. So whatever the dominant narrative is – and I guess crucially before I even get into the examples because the issue is that these narratives are so dominant that – People don't even haven't even started to question them yet. And often there is some truth to it, right?

We just are worse at noticing it until a little time has passed. So whatever the dominant narrative is – and I guess crucially before I even get into the examples because the issue is that these narratives are so dominant that – People don't even haven't even started to question them yet. And often there is some truth to it, right?

Like this whole drugs cause brain damage narrative that was the sort of scientific orientation of the 90s. It's potentially true, right?

Like this whole drugs cause brain damage narrative that was the sort of scientific orientation of the 90s. It's potentially true, right?

Like this whole drugs cause brain damage narrative that was the sort of scientific orientation of the 90s. It's potentially true, right?

under some yeah like drugs can damage your brain under some circumstances right for a typical person holes in their brain is not really the major concern it's more like disruption of their social and professional and educational existence through dependence on a substance that probably isn't in most instances causing irreversible neurological damage but it can still yeah have very negative manifestations of one kind or another

under some yeah like drugs can damage your brain under some circumstances right for a typical person holes in their brain is not really the major concern it's more like disruption of their social and professional and educational existence through dependence on a substance that probably isn't in most instances causing irreversible neurological damage but it can still yeah have very negative manifestations of one kind or another

under some yeah like drugs can damage your brain under some circumstances right for a typical person holes in their brain is not really the major concern it's more like disruption of their social and professional and educational existence through dependence on a substance that probably isn't in most instances causing irreversible neurological damage but it can still yeah have very negative manifestations of one kind or another

So now we went through this era of like a hyper reductionist conceptualization of addiction problems in the United States. So the entire opioid problem in the United States can be exclusively tracked to Richard Sackler, right? It's just, that's it. That's the whole thing. It's like, It's very convenient. Wouldn't it be nice? It sure would be nice if it were that simple.

So now we went through this era of like a hyper reductionist conceptualization of addiction problems in the United States. So the entire opioid problem in the United States can be exclusively tracked to Richard Sackler, right? It's just, that's it. That's the whole thing. It's like, It's very convenient. Wouldn't it be nice? It sure would be nice if it were that simple.

So now we went through this era of like a hyper reductionist conceptualization of addiction problems in the United States. So the entire opioid problem in the United States can be exclusively tracked to Richard Sackler, right? It's just, that's it. That's the whole thing. It's like, It's very convenient. Wouldn't it be nice? It sure would be nice if it were that simple.

If you could blame everything on Richard Sackler.

If you could blame everything on Richard Sackler.

If you could blame everything on Richard Sackler.

Yeah, that's it. That's the whole thing. That's why all those people died. Just one guy. But it's like, give me a break. He definitely played a role. I'm not saying it's completely false. But it's such a laughably reductionist... understanding of human motivations for drug use that I struggle to understand how any adult who has lived in the real world could think it is truly that simple, right?