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This Colonial Disease

This Colonial Disease

On the relationship between addiction and colonization

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Nov 17, 2024
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Quitting smoking is easy, you know. I’ve done it a dozen times.

The last time I quit, the time-before-this-time I mean, I had a curious thought about tobacco. How is it that this plant, long held as one of the most sacred medicines on this continent, is now one of the most harmful, toxic, heavily-abused substances on t…

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