If we haven't made it clear yet, Indecent's main guiding principle is pretty simple: no narcs allowed. Especially when we invite academic and author Benjamin Y. Fong over to hang out in our parents' basement to talk drugs, drug policy, and drug culture, and how Americans especially love to get smashed.

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow and the Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. He's written for Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Outline and the New York Times, and he's the author of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge.

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