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How many bad economic decisions were based on cocaine usage back in the day? I think the point is that with higher paying and salaried jobs you are practically exempt from having repercussions due to drug usage while a lowerpaid wage worker is constantly in fear of getting fired over it.

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arguably, by a similar logic, world war 2 was started by terrible decisions made while high on speed

Has there actually been any hard evidence to support this idea? I know there's a fair bit to support Hitler being basically a junkie by the end of the war, but pre-war I'm pretty sure he was just a meglomaniacal psychopath.

Hitler was also talking cocaine eye drops, his personal physician was batshit insane. A good match of course as Hitler himself was too.

Of course no law would have prevented this because the Nazis made the law in Germany.

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