Open thread for night owls: Guns and marijuana—some folks would like to keep us in the dark

Daily Kos writes, Earlier today, I took note of Joaquin Sapien's interview with the physician who used to run the National Center for Injury Prevention Control at the Centers for Disease Control. That was until the National Rifle Association got Congress to chop 96 percent of his budget and alter the NCIPC's mission to keep its data collectors-and-crunchers away from anything that might promote firearms control. As if scientifically gathering information on the impact of guns in our society should actively, aggressively be avoided. As is true of so many things, ignorance isn't bliss. Unless you're its purveyor.…

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