[edwardbernays]

Fact check: true. It's also completely up to the head of the NHS, who is currently noted drug enthusiast RFK Jr. Here's hoping he'll legalize LSD and mescaline! He's used enough mescaline and spiked enough people's drinks with it, and also forced LSD on his pet birds, so at this point it's pure hypocrisy for him to keep it scheduled. Of course, we should expect everybody to have much better morals and sense about it than he's ever had.

[wbl]

After the dead whale nothing should surprise me but what?

[dinkumthinkum]

Is this really for HN? This is leftist piffle, conspiracy theory, and unsubstantiated allegations. I’m not sure what it adds to the discovery by this undergrad. I don’t know.

[edwardbernays]

"Robert F Kennedy Jr And The Dark Side Of The Dream" by Jerry Oppenheimer, page 54:

> Back at the Kennedy compound before summer's end, away from Billings for the time being, he continued his bad behavior, feeding LSD to his parakeet, and forcing his brother David to trip on the psychedelic mescaline. Hallucinating, looking wide- eyed at his brother, he imagined the worst, screaming, "You're dying just like Daddy!"

Jerry Oppenheimer is generally considered to be a credible biographer and journalist.

That takes care of the charge of "leftist piddle, conspiracy theory, and unsubstantiated allegations." It is not piffle, it is written by a serious reported in a serious biographical piece. It is not a conspiracy theory, for it does not posit any particular conspiracy because typically those require more than one conspirator, and it is about as substantiated as many of the claims RFK Jr himself makes.

Having now established the substance of the claim I made, I shall proceed to establish its relevance. RFK Jr has a long history with drugs, as do many politicians. RFK Jr is the head of the HHS. The secretary of the HHS can initiate proceedings to deschedule drugs. It is hypocritical, given his own admitted history with drugs, to continue to imprison people for it.

For that matter, we have recently had Elon Musk (a notorious drug enthusiast) involved in the highest levels of government while actively doing copious amounts of illegal drugs. He should be in jail, like everyone else of lesser means who have been victimized by this senseless war on drugs. He won't be imprisoned, because he has money. It is the best evidence we have that the war on drugs is actually a war on the poor.

They don't care about drugs, or they'd enforce drug law evenly. Joe Rogan, a self-admitted fan of many schedule 1 hallucinogens, remains a free man in the proto-christian-nationalist state of Texas. It is hypocrisy.

It is time to end this war on drugs and move towards a sensible drug policy that is fair for all people and respects our basic freedoms.

So, yes, it is for HN, thank you.

[dinkumthinkum]

> Jerry Oppenheimer is generally considered to be a credible biographer and journalist.

> That takes care of the charge of "leftist piddle, conspiracy theory, and unsubstantiated allegations."

[Citation Needed]

You're idea of what constitutes a refutation is, and I mean this as nicely as possible, pretty ridiculous.

[rixed]

To me, the refutation looks significantly more substantiated than the charges.

[dinkumthinkum]

Then, this is a good opportunity to learn more about good arguments. The supposed "refutation" amounted to "the person that wrote a tabloid biography is credible because I say he is. There, now that I have proven his credibility ..." I mean, you can't actually be serious.

[edwardbernays]

Your initial rebuttal was "this is leftist piffle, conspiracy theory, and baseless accusations." It is not piffle. It is not a conspiracy theory, because no conspiracy was theorized about. It is not a baseless accusation, because I have a base for it. Yes, my refutation is more substantiated than your initial rebuttal. Cry about it. Substantiate your argument if you want it to be substantiated. Engage substantively if you want to be treated as doing such, "adult."