Ryan Grim, who wrote "This is Your Country on Drugs", believes that drug policy reform advocates need to be careful and take regulation seriously to avoid a backlash.
Ryan, now that everyone else has sort of put themselves on the spectrum, where would you describe yourself?
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Ryan Grim, who wrote "This is Your Country on Drugs", believes that drug policy reform advocates need to be careful and take regulation seriously to avoid a backlash.
Ryan, now that everyone else has sort of put themselves on the spectrum, where would you describe yourself?
Ryan, now that everyone else has sort of put themselves on the spectrum, where would you describe yourself? I write in the book toward the end of it that if you don't take regulation seriously and if it's just a complete free for all, that the history of American drug policy shows that it is not a one directional thing.
Ryan wrote a book called "This is Your Country on Drugs."
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The hosts discussed Ryan Grim's book, "This is Your Country on Drugs", which was said to be his best-selling book. They joked about how it appealed more to younger men and mentioned that they were going to have a debate about weed on the next episode.
This is your country on drugs right behind us.
That's a great book.
Is it your best-selling book? Buy them both? We've got people...
It was my best-selling book.
Okay, but that one the problem the problem with that one for sales is that it really appealed to like 22 year old men.
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Krystal recommended the book because it came out in 2009 and foreshadowed the current direction of marijuana legalization, even though she used to work as a weed lobbyist.
If I were an expert on the history of getting high in America, Buy This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim for the expert tape.