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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
