Posts Tagged ‘ drugs ’
From the Guardian today: The US has lost confidence in the Mexican army’s ability to win the country’s drugs war, branding it slow, clumsy and no match for “sophisticated” narco-traffickers. Classified diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks also reveal a growing sense of alarm within Mexico‘s government that time is running out in the battle against organised [ READ MORE ]
I’m reading Keith Richards’ biography, Life. Aside from being a great read, it is also full of wisdom (surprisingly enough). In it, Richards recalls the early years of heroin and cocaine in the UK. To start with, the drugs were legal and controlled by the government, who distribute the drugs through pharmacies, making sure users [ READ MORE ]
There are many health and social problems that are related to drug use, but society’s current way of addressing those problems – criminalisation – has been a total failure. Evidence for this can be seen on the Mexico-US border, where violence perpetrated by drug cartels has reach war-like proportions. Legalisation of all drugs is the [ READ MORE ]
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