"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.“


-Abbie Hoffman

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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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