Showing posts with label black market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black market. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Proposed age-adjusted smoking ban in the U.K.

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  The BBC has the story, about a proposal to ban smoking for everyone currently under the age of 18. (What could go wrong?) What is the UK ...
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 14, 2024

New Zealand repeals anti-smoking law that would have prevented tobacco sales to anyone born after 2008

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 In an earlier blog post , I wrote about a New Zealand anti-smoking law, saying "And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content o...
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, February 7, 2024

Marijuana black market persists in CA (despite the beginning of a legal market)

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 The LA Times has the story, about how legalization of marijuana in California so far failed to end the black market, complete with violence...
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...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Hitmen are common in film but otherwise scarce

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  The NYT considers the prevalence of hitmen in movies, and why it's hard to find one in real life. Hit Men Are Easy to Find in the Movi...
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 21, 2023

Cash for kidneys report in the Telegraph

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 The Telegraph has this story, by Samuel Lovett, Nandi Theint,  and Nicola Smith. For some reason I can't copy the headline, but the URL...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Black market monkeys for medical research

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 Monkeys used in medical research are supposed to come from carefully bred laboratory colonies, but the rising price has led to black market...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

"Professional blood donors" in India (where paying blood donors is illegal)

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  India allows only unpaid blood donation, from altruistic donors or from "replacement donors" who are friends or relations of par...
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...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Fentanyl

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  The NY Times has the story: Some Key Facts About Fentanyl . It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics. ...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Nicotine in New Zealand, banned for the future generation.

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 In New Zealand, the incidence of smoking is down, but not so much among the Maori. And now there's a law that cuts nicotine content of ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Pakistan police bust organ trafficking ring --transplants were carried out in private homes

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  Outlawing compensation for donors doesn't end black markets for kidneys from living donors, but may succeed in driving them out of hos...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Immigration, immigration law, and illegal immigrants in legal limbo. Should we have a statute of limitations after which immigrants become legal?

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We're seeing so much illegal immigration, maybe we should change some of our laws, at least to regularize the status of immigrants who h...