When I told my students in Rhode Island that Oregon had decriminalized all drugs, they were basically shocked at how such a state could do that. It wasn't like it was all a "wow that place is paradise" kind of response either. It was just...
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This is ridiculous and insubstantial, but sometimes the jokes write themselves. Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where 10,000 pounds of fentanyl hv been seized by Customs & Border patrol so.
The murder by a combination of politicians and gangs of 43 students training to be teachers in 2014 rocked Mexico to its core. To millions of Mexicans, it was the.
We lost George Segal last week. This....was not one of his best films. It's the 1985 ridiculous anti-drug TV film Not My Kid. I'd like to think that the pained expressions of Segal and Stockard Channing are not about their kid's drug use, but rather...
The issues around the COVID lockdown are complicated. Even outside of America completely--and predictably--blowing its opportunity to manage this disease, life does have to go on. Because when life doesn't.
In case you need to read about Foucault tripping at Zabriskie Point: But once he was “tripping his brains out”, what, finally, did Foucault see? Foucault in California, though filled.
Once again demonstrating that everything should be written by historians, Donna Murch has a great piece on how we are talking about opioid crisis, especially noting the deep racism underlying it. In March 2018, President Donald Trump delivered a forty-minute speech about the crisis of addiction...
The opioid epidemic is leading to prosecutors seeking to throw everyone in prison. All this did during the crack epidemic is destroy black communities and radically increase the nation's prison.
The answer to that question is of course multifaceted. But one part of the answer is, not surprisingly, the drug companies who profit handsomely by flooding the nation with opioids..
The opioid epidemic is real and terrible. However, a tax on opioids, even if it claims to be paid by the manufacturer, will probably end up leading to higher costs to the people who actually need these drugs to function on a daily basis with...
Sean Penn's interview with El Chapo, mediated by the Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, is one of the strangest events in recent history. The New Yorker has a feature on.
The Senate nearly unanimously passed a bill for new programs to fight against opioid addiction. Something can be bipartisan! Well, sort of. Republicans did much of the legwork on this,.