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"Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs".
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America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

— L. Neil Smith

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws." in the context of ""Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs"." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About L. Neil Smith

Lester Neil Smith III (12 May 1946 – 27 August 2021), also known by his nickname El Neil, was a libertarian science fiction author and political activist, whose works include the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probablity Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.