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Unread 12-24-2012, 02:33 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Just found this tonight. There's a lot of stuff out there about why Chappelle left, but this is an 11 minute summary of the whole ordeal, in his own words.


It's actually pretty extraordinary. All I could think of while watching this was how many celebrities/performers (minor or major) didn't risk "walking away" from Hollywood like Chappelle did, and ended up overdosing/dying some other drug-related way. Really puts a very human spin on celebrity. How many celebrities have died doing drugs not just partying because they're a movie/rock star, but because they were desperately trying to deal with stress and pressure?

Some of you might be thinking "well no shit", but it's really interesting to me.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.

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