At one point hemp was THE commodity like oil is now. Hemp was essential to travel, light, clothing, engineering and nutrition. They way they changed the perception from the most important thing any statesman had to worry about to something that only poor unwashed people bothered with because they were "addicted." It's nuts.

Imagine in the future once industry has moved on from oil and no one really cares about it except for Mexicans making cool hotrods and getting laid. So they ban oil because they're afraid of the Mexican hotrodders getting too much white tail. Blows my mind.

Just because other countries have runaway inflation doesn't mean we need to as well.

I think it's more that you need to download the app to see what's going on there and there's almost no friction to sign in if you're already on Instagram. It's a deliberate FOMO play that's actually kind of brilliant and seems to be working out well.