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War on Drugs

  • The American Maginot Line

    A couple of links to very helpful information for those who have never given much consideration to how the US/Mexico border represents and enforces American Imperialism and settler colonialism. For most Americans, there is a lot still to learn; these… Continue reading

    The American Maginot Line

  • DOJ & HSBC Settle It: The War on Drugs is a War on Poor People

    Thanks to my good colleague & brother Carl Sachs for pointing out this story. More to think about in the war on drugs as a war against the average citizen when banking institutions are allowed to do business with the… Continue reading

  • The New Jim Crow: Enslaving our Future

    In case you don’t have it in you to read the book–which I highly recommend as something you SHOULD read–here is a very nice overview. Do not let yourself believe that incarceration in the United States of America is doing… Continue reading

  • The Most Deadly Drug: Alcohol

    In 2009, David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist who served as chair of Britains Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD, published a paper in a medical journal that offered a provocative thesis: horseback riding, he wrote, was more dangerous than… Continue reading

  • James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana

    Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading