Pollan is the naive one. The legalization message is a great one, and IMO pretty reasonable for almost every drug... except modern pharmaceutical opioids. A jo

Pollan is the naive one. The legalization message is a great one, and IMO pretty reasonable for almost every drug... except modern pharmaceutical opioids. A journalist relaxing with poppy tea and writing about the experience is nice and cute, but when it comes to destroying lives, oxycodone and fentanyl are in a class of their own. The legalization issue cannot be disentangled from the problem of big pharma and powerful opioids. Every year they manufacture and market billions of dollars worth of the most addictive drugs that humanity has ever known. These drugs are already effectively legal in the US.