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The leftist party of Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister and critic of the conservative government, said he had been charged based on admitting he had tried ecstasy once.

Mr. Varoufakis, a famously outspoken left-wing economist, author and critic of Greece’s conservative government, was charged with “promoting and advertising drugs,” according to his party, known as MeRA25, or the European Realistic Disobedience Front.

  • BilboBargains@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    Anything that comes into contact with people’s sensory experience quickly becomes completely irrational. We have drugs that are legal and doing huge harm and drugs that are illegal that are medicinal. People tell themselves they can taste the difference between red wine and white wine. That they can hear the difference between one speaker cable and another. Can we just admit that we are making all of this stuff up and focus on something more worthwhile?

  • Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    This is something that happened way back in 1989 when he was in Australia, mind you. In 2017, Athens former mayor admitted smoking marijuana multiple times. It absolutely went unnoticed, as it should have.

    Of course said gormer mayor belongs to the conservative party, so the Greek conservative society (and law enforcement) let it slide.

    Gotta love the double standards.