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October 12, 2006
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I believe it is becoming accepted mainstream science that there has been some coevolution between psychoactives, from nicotine to alcohol to thc and human societies, quite possibly even the human race.
sometimes this entanglement takes perverse forms, though. one recent, and by recent i mean "kids these days weren't even born when it happened", incident is recounted from personal experience by kanikoski here. so but india, 15 years later, oneups and outweirds the bulgarian one day no-drink rule. there is a local election here tomorrow, small-scale, in the words of my local main contact dude, "if this was helsinki, it would be like the kapteeninkatu regional election". so in india I guess we're talking a million people, tops. and the level of excitement is palpaby not there. so, to make sure the area, full of religious, socially conservative vegetarian teetotallers doesn't fall further into chaos, there is a strict rule in force: HOTEL MINIBARS SHALL NOT BE RESTOCKED FOR A WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION.
why do i end up travelling to places like this?
Posted by matti at October 12, 2006 07:53 PM