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Even if you triple the official Chinese number that only gets you to about 54% of the US rate. Your speculations about China sound about right to me, but as a European looking in f…

Sure, rich democracies are outliers, but you did say "one of the freest societies on the planet", which I parsed as somewhat stronger than "one of the rich democracies" or "not thi…

What metrics are those? The US has the biggest prison population in the world by a big margin, 655 per 100k people (El Salvador is in second place with 604/100k and China is at 118…

In Norway hectograms are frequently used. We use them for things like potato salad at the deli counter, pick'n mix candy, berries and small-time-dealer quantities of hash.

They weren't alone.

In Indonesia they're legal, you can buy mushroom shakes at the beach. In general there are endemic psilocybin mushrooms most everywhere, though it might be illegal just to pick the…