Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Monday, September 2, 2024

Oregon ends decriminalization of drugs, continues to experiment

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  Here's the story in the Washington Post Hard drugs illegal again in Oregon as first-in-nation experiment ends "Sunday marks the e...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Optimism and pessimism on psychedelic drugs as medicine

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 "Psychedelics" may prove to be a broad church, with psilocybin and LSD quite different from MDMA, etc., but here are two articles...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Are Swedish gangs becoming the hitmen of Scandanavia?

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 We're accustomed to drug violence among gangs even in wealthy countries, but here's a story from The Times (of London) suggesting t...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Black markets in everything bagels (in S. Korea)

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 South Korea is not a hub of everything bagels, it turns out. In fact they are banned. The NYT has the story: Why Everything Bagel Seasoning...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nicotine is hard to ban: Juul wins a reprieve from the FDA, and illegal vapes flood the market

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 Here are two stories by Jennifer Maloney at the WSJ: FDA Rescinds Juul Ban, Opening Door for Federal Clearance. E-cigarette maker’s product...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Marijuana policy and use in the U.S., 1979-2022, by Jonathan Caulkins, in Addiction

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 Here's a paper forthcoming in the journal Addiction: Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022 , by ...
Friday, April 5, 2024

Still illegal in Idaho

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  Here's a map from The Hill of places where marijuana will be legal to various degrees by the end of this year. Grey states are where m...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Cannabis in US airports

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  An anomaly of US Federal law is that marijuana is illegal on airplanes (interstate commerce) even when the airports involved are in states...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oregon is re-criminalizing drugs

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 The war on drugs is unforgiving, and neither criminalization nor decriminalization seems to be a winning strategy.  The NYT has the latest ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Guns and drugs on the U.S. Mexico border

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 Here are two stories about some of the illegal traffic on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. First, the war on drugs is fought with A...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The war on drugs is a war

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The war on drugs doesn't begin at U.S. borders. Here's a dispatch from Ecuador, in the WSJ: Ecuador Is at War With Drug Gangs, Presi...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Some year-end good news: U.S. homicides are down

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To put deaths in their grim perspective, we have a lot more deaths from drug overdoses than from homicides.  But we're headed in the rig...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Limitations of harm reduction: will Oregon recriminalize drug use?

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 The NYT has the story: To Revive Portland, Officials Seek to Recriminalize Public Drug Use . State and local leaders are proposing to roll ...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Drug addiction: not just opioids

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 Consumption of addictive drugs seems to come in deadly cocktails these days, which is making interdiction of drugs, and treatment of addict...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Balance of violence: prison-based criminal cartels, the case of Brazil's PCC.

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The vexed relationship between banned markets and black markets is perhaps nowhere clearer than when prison based gangs of convicted drug de...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The broken market for antibiotics, continued

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  Not only is the market for new antibiotics broken, companies that explore them are going broke. Here's a story from the WSJ: The World...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Magic mushrooms as therapy

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 The legal use of psychedelics in therapy is growing. The NYT has the story: A New Era of Psychedelics in Oregon . The state has pioneered a...