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...alongside heroin and methamphetamine as a "drug of concern." Meanwhile, the lack of serious national debate surrounding the use of marijuana has left the country?s attitudes stagnant, with a knee-jerk reaction to the mere mention of any "illegal" drug meaning political estrangement for any politician willing to broach the topic...
Some of fmis best friends have come up to fm in recent weeks to broach the topic of the magis sincerity: is fm trying to be a real magazine, or are we just fucking kidding? Believe it or not, this is a matter to which fm has itself devoted a good bit of thought when contemplating its collective oomphalos while sitting on the collective can. In point of fact, last Thursday, when discussing the hot prospects for issue 4 and otherwise, there was almost a throwdown amongst fmis editors et alia, prompted solely by consideration of the question, consideration...
...resolve them may be a perennial symptom of youth or maybe even the human condition and no reflection on the merits of my education. However, my refined ability to argue a thesis in five to seven pages, double-spaced, does me no good at all in even attempting to broach them. If anything my swollen rational capacities make it more difficult for me to find anything to believe in, any source of beautiful illogical inspiration...
...carefully stops short of categorically ruling it out. But the talk among policymakers has never progressed beyond the instant conclusion that "we don't think the American people would support that." Neither, they reckoned, would Congress. They didn't order up contingency plans for such an operation or even broach the subject with Clinton, who remains opposed to the idea...
This initial ambiguity about the focus of the panel notwithstanding, the group accommodated those who wished to broach both subjects, relying on a free-ranging question-and-answer style that invited contributions from all participants...