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"The stories they told of how the drugs changed the island were by turns bizarre, thrilling and tragic. No one expected in early June 2001 that they would still
by daodedickinson 7y ago
"The stories they told of how the drugs changed the island were by turns bizarre, thrilling and tragic. No one expected in early June 2001 that they would still be talking about the effects of the cocaine nearly two decades later."
Reminds me of when a copy of the New Testament reached the Inuits on Belcher Island...
"The hunting was poor in Canada's Belcher Islands in the winter of 1941, and a meteor shower led some Inuits to suspect the world was coming to an end. It was around this time that a 27-year-old tribal shaman named Charlie Ouyerack proclaimed himself Jesus Christ, and anointed his pal Peter Sala—the tallest man on the island who also happened to be the best hunter and ice navigator—as God..."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vvvm44/how-two-men-used-the-bible-to-unleash-mass-murder-in-the-arctic https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vvvm44/how-two-men-used-t...