Vetulani, Jerzy (18 October 2010): Nawet czarownice wiedziały, co sprzedają, interview. Dziennik Polski (in Polish).
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There was a discussion in one of Polish TV stations. In that discussion, I told that mountaineering causes much more disasters than marijuana does. I do not know anyone who would die by marijuana, and some of my mountaineers friends paid off their passion in disability. But the presenter had a prepared punch line – she said that 85 percent of Poles are against the legalization of marijuana. I added then that in the eighteenth century, 96 percent of Poles were for smoking witches. Unfortunately, my punch line was cut out. And in this simple way, the media demonize the problem.

— Jerzy Vetulani

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There was a discussion in one of Polish TV stations. In that discussion, I told that mountaineering causes much more disasters than marijuana does. I do not know anyone who would die by marijuana, and some of my mountaineers friends paid off their passion in disability. But the presenter had a prepared punch line – she said that 85 percent of Poles are against the legalization of marijuana. I added then that in the eighteenth century, 96 percent of Poles were for smoking witches. Unfortunately, my punch line was cut out. And in this simple way, the media demonize the problem." in the context of "Vetulani, Jerzy (18 October 2010): Nawet czarownice wiedziały, co sprzedają, interview. Dziennik Polski (in Polish)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jerzy Vetulani

About Jerzy Vetulani

Jerzy Adam Vetulani (21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist and pharmacologist, one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.