If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.
Rick StevesThere's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.
Rick StevesI think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.
Rick StevesAs a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
Rick StevesI would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.
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