People can 'microdose' by taking a small dose, but commonly microdosoing means to take a very small dose every 2 or 3 days so it affects them throughout the period,. So we just have a different meaning of the word microdosing, referring to taking small amount in general for you, and taking a very small amount every 2-3 days to get prolonged effects for me.

I studied chemistry at university, so I understand this to the degree necessary to explain it to others properly.

Gas chromatography can show you what chemicals are in a pure sample that you put into it, it can't be used to test if people are on any type of drugs.

Yeah no one is microdosing ketmaine, it's an anaesthetic dissociative that essentially puts you do sleep, MDMA will lose effectiveness and drain your serotonin as time progresses, something that has use if taken 2 months apart not everyday. However LSD and Psilocybin are effective things to microdose, I've done both, all they do is make you more focused, energetic, and able to fully complete a task more easily.

More people are independent than you think:

It's closer to: 28% republican 38% independent 29% democrat

https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

Still shows that they are oversampling democrats and under sampling independents.

Cheap calorie dense food tastes incredibly good.

Low calorie density food is not expensive

Yes I was saying that cheap food is more likely to be highly dense in calories, but I was not saying that food which is low in calories is inherently expensive.

Because we have so much great tasting cheap food - places that are poor have a lot of great tasting cheap food available. That's what sells.

Food with lots of cheap ingredients is mainly what is in poor areas, this food has lower nutritional value and is higher in things such as trans fats or processed sugar, those are a significant factors, along with taste, which causes it to sell in those areas. Cheap ingredients allow something to be more profitable even at a cheap price.

So again it's not food deserts that are making black people fat. They have agency. They choose to eat delicious if unhealthy food.

People having agency doesn't remove the fact that socioeconomic factors also exist and have an overall effect on the quality of food that is easily available effecting the quality of life of literally everyone.

The problem with your theory is that for most people in the first world the major challenge of eating healthy is not lack of nutrients or a lack of nutrient dense food - but its simply too many calories.

That is kinda of what I was saying, that cheap, calorie dense food, is the normal go to for lower class Americans, and a higher percentage of black people are lower class socioeconomically. It's also more prevalent in poorer areas meaning people who are already poor (and thus are less likely to have the time ) have to travel further distances to get healthier food, increasing it's real cost.

Blacks die at a higher rate due to higher rates of obesity, cardiovascular problems, etc. from unhealthy diets and lifestyles.

I wonder if the much lower standard of living that has been in black communities since Jim Crowe affects the black poverty rate?

I think Trump doing opportunity zones and criminal justice reform will help more than encouraging healthy lifestyles, the government has tried to encourage healthy lifestyles in all Americans and all Americans are getting more obese at a very high rate

Here you can see that some statistics.

Americans are getting fat even when the government gives advice to be healthy https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/954/90/sites/default/files/images/2012/08/blogs/democracy-america/oecd_obesity_2009.png

Black Americans are more likely to be poor https://cdn.talkpoverty.org/content/uploads/2017/09/13164317/image-1.png

Poor people are more likely to be obese. https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/diabetes/60/11/2667/F1.large.jpg?width=800&height=600&carousel=1

Black people are more likely to be obese, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/351-400/db360-fig2.png

Saying something to the effect of: 'Black people just need to eat healthy it's not that hard' doesn't really show that the main issues are socioeconomic and healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food in term of calorific content. Trump's own actions on race inequality, trying to economically promote black neighbourhoods to be equal with white neighbourhoods is the way forward and your comment trivialises a major problem in American society to a choice to be unhealthy.