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Topic: drug culture

South Carolina, Charleston, College of Charleston, Greek life, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, fraternity houses. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"On to the decadence of a late empire"

Chauncey DeVega
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Cops abuse senior couple mistaking hibis

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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Locked up for pot

Phillip Smith - Alternet
(Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project - www.humanconnectomeproject.org, www.loni.usc.edu via AP)

Philosophers and psychedelics

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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Pot helps crack addicts wean off the addictive drug (Photo by maxknoxvill via Pixabay)

Trey Reckling - The Fresh Toast
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"Let us now praise the pot!"

Neal Pollack
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