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You mean as in, the government is daring people to do those things? Or do you mean that the government is threatening us?

I mean I don't react well to impositions, I tend to take them as a challenge.
If I can't find a reason why something is wrong, then the likelihood is I will try to find out for myself.

Yes, I think you're right. They say drug use is much lower in the Netherlands because the government has left it alone and people see it as normal or ordinary. Jeffrey Tucker says that once upon a time, smoking weed was seen as tacky, but governments pushed so hard against it that it's seen as cool, rebellious, counterculture.