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[-] Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 27 points 8 months ago

I read your comment and wondered what Provigil was. Modafinil. I guess I should not be surprised they were all on uppers and downers.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

If there’s one thing I’m not gonna shit on Trump for, it’s letting his White House hand out pills like candy. Although it’s pretty shitty to do while still enforcing archaic drug laws

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The people running your country shouldn’t be drugged out. Yeah, hypocrisy is bad.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Provigil isn’t “drugged out”?

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Sustained drug abuse has negative long term effects.

You can support legalization in support of individual choice, and also condemn the personal use while in positions of (extreme) power.

I don't give a shit if my mechanic has an amphetamine habit as long as he can physically do the job required of him. I care very much if my president and his advisors are cracked out while holding the reins to this country.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

“Cracked out”? It’s modafinil lol

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Multiple Whitehouse staffers claimed that amphetamines like Adderall were handed out like candy, no questions asked, no prescriptions necessary, and the pharmacist is being sued for lack of record keeping IIRC.

Nice try, though.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The pills shit has been standard practice at the white house. It only got out of hand under trump.

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