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* [[Eternal Prohibition]]: All illegal drugs are still illegal in the far future, [[Status Quo Is God|as they should be]]; indeed, much of the Galactic Patrol's work is replicating a galactic DEA ([[Judge, Jury, and Executioner|with Judge Dredd's plenipotentiary powers]]). Drug pushing seems to be regarded as the most serious of crimes; the punishment is either death or [[Brainwashing for the Greater Good|corrective psychological therapy]].
** The Patrol focuses it's efforts on thionite, which is really nasty stuff (and more importantly, whose dealers are part of the Boskonian food chain). Bentlam weed, on the other hand, seems to be the equivalent of marijuana - the Patrol doesn't even bother mentioning it.
*** The Patrol does still arrest bentlam-peddlers and bentlam is still illegal to possess; the bentlam that Kinnison uses as a prop as part of one of his investigations is obtained from already-confiscated stocks of bentlam in the evidence room. However, its strongly implied that the only reason bentlam is in there is because many bentlam-dealers also push the harder stuff and in the course of busting them the Patrol is of course going to take everything while they're there.
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: [[Double Standard|Even the women]]. Tobacco is never once maligned in the series. Fine brand cigarettes are imported to Tellus all the way from Alsakan, all the way across the galaxy.
* [[Evil Only Has to Win Once]]: Inverted. The Arisians point out to Helmuth that there is absolutely no way to defeat them, and that if humanity proves incapable of using the Lens to defeat Boskone, then they'll just let him conquer and corrupt this iteration of Civilization while they wait for another one.
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