I thought it was pretty cool that Stardock got that issue on the radar. No idea if it affects the game much, but I noticed it on Ron Paul's profile and was like, hey, neat! It's getting a lot of attention lately and I was glad to see it wasn't totally ignored....
Until I got a closer look at the blurb about it:
Really? More "health damaging" than smoking tobacco? Brain damage? Who came up with the copy for this, Nancy Reagan? This isn't the 80s anymore, and there's too much easily accessible information for me to understand why we have anti-pot scare tactics IN MY GAME!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22731735
http://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20120103/marijuana-smoking-not-linked_to-chronic-breathing-problems
Not saying you guys should care about my political views, but this game does lend itself to honest political discourse.
Absolutely correct doogles. But hey, while they were way off on the facts, at least they didn't use the "Reefer Madness" poster as the icon. That would have been over the line. Good follow-through on posting those links by the way.
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