58. The War on Drugs is a War on Us

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 177 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about the War on Drugs, Tupac, and why Coloradans love to say "ganja"! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://projectknow.com/discover/how-do-you-say-it-drugs/ https://tinyurl.com/4j57bups https://tinyurl.com/2p8ybnx6 https://tinyurl.com/37un4m37 https://tinyurl.com/2vdbshc8 https://disa.com/maps/marijuana-legality-by-state https://cdapress.com/news/2015/jan/27/happy-rats-dont-do-drugs-5/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151021161034.htm https://tinyurl.com/mr7ydmmt https://drugtimeline.ca/ https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs https://tinyurl.com/2y8c6d4y https://drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war https://www.britannica.com/topic/war-on-drugs https://tinyurl.com/523r48d5 https://tinyurl.com/28k3ybrb https://tinyurl.com/yt7pcjc4 https://tinyurl.com/2e4tc6mb https://time.com/6090016/us-war-on-drugs-origins/ https://tinyurl.com/mvu2au87 https://tinyurl.com/4wfdky38 https://tinyurl.com/3bem4m43 https://tinyurl.com/y4xw6wes https://tinyurl.com/4ektnjd9 https://www.aclu.org/other/drug-war-new-jim-crow https://tinyurl.com/4sjhv9br https://tinyurl.com/5bxywyjx https://tinyurl.com/2p87wf87 https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/01/opium-history-addiction https://tinyurl.com/arfvtt6z https://www.history.com/news/drug-use-in-vietnam https://tinyurl.com/y45hfed6 https://tinyurl.com/325834um https://tinyurl.com/msxeercm https://tinyurl.com/bdwsbtdx https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra https://tinyurl.com/2p8yefnt https://tinyurl.com/3fnth976 https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/harm-reduction https://tinyurl.com/2kstnexd https://tinyurl.com/kvjt88at https://tinyurl.com/23vnk66y https://drugpolicy.org/Legal-Regulation-Safer-Supply https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7840515/ https://tinyurl.com/5c2ntfse https://tinyurl.com/mrj3x3tu

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:26.4	I'm your host, Madeline.
0:28.0	And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:29.2	All right, Kenna.
0:32.6	Today, I would like to start the episode by asking you.
0:34.1	This is a hard one.
0:34.8	Okay.
0:41.8	Okay, do you know anybody under the age of 50 who you think has never in their entire life done an illegal drug?
0:48.0	Yes, I do. Really? Who is it? You don't have to say their name. You could describe them.
1:00.0	My friend, he is one of my best friends. He is Gen X. He's about 10 years older than me. And he has never done drugs in his life. Wow. And he tried a, he tried a Zima one time in the 90s. Oh, the like light clear beer.
1:10.0	Yeah. And it gave him a headache and he's like never again.
1:12.7	And he has been completely straight edge ever since unless you count. He drinks a lot of coffee.
1:18.3	Oh, okay. That's interesting. But that's legal. It is legal. It's not an illegal drug. Um, that's pretty good that you're
1:24.6	able to conjure that. I was really racking my brain and I was even going through all the straight edge people I knew.
1:29.3	But the thing is, he is close to 50.
1:31.3	He is close.
1:32.3	Because he's almost 10 years older than me.
1:35.3	I think he's 8 years older than me, 9 years older.
1:37.3	But I still think Gen X I would expect them to have done an illegal drug.
1:42.3	He never has.
1:45.6	And you know what?
1:51.8	He's one of those people who just like, those rare people who just like, he's just so imaginative.
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