Theo di Castri is organising an exhibition to expand drug education to include more on the history & politics of drugs and drug policy. In Cambridge, from 30th May to 10th June - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/s... @theodicastri.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social #drugs
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Folks in Cambridge! Join us this Friday at 7PM for the opening of an exhibit featuring a series of transmedia art pieces created by communication students at the Universidad Iberoamericana & @homertoncollege.bsky.social.
We can’t arrest our way out of the overdose crisis. But Congress is trying with the HALT Fentanyl Act, which blocks health research & increases mandatory minimums for fentanyl-related substances. Tell your Senators to vote NO & prioritize health, not handcuffs: engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/vote-...
Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
Haven't yet read this one, but it's been on my list for awhile: repeaterbooks.com/product/drin...
So what could legal regulation beyond the profit motive look like? Some possible starting points to think through this question: doi.org/10.1086/707513
If #drughistory teaches us anything, it's precisely that we need to imagine models of legal regulation that do not simply turn psychoactive substances over to profit-seeking entities. (if you haven't yet read @dhbuffalo.bsky.social, READ IT!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
But this seems like a misdirection from the more important issue at stake: namely, ought psychedelics be turned over to for-profit business ventures ?
I'm not familiar enough with the internal politics of the #psychedelics world to weigh in on the article's allegations re: @psymposia.bsky.social's tactics (thoughts on this welcome!)
#Drugs in the news: New York Times pushing a fear-mongering "story of how a small band of anticapitalist activists helped sink the first psychedelic compound to come before the F.D.A." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/h...
“If the US decides to [launch drone attacks on Mexico], like Israel has been doing all around its territory, they will be able to...The international environment restraining the use of force is much more permissive than it was a few years ago.”
#Drugs in the news (in which the effects of Israel's belligerence paves the way for US intervention in Mexico) (www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...)
Have/are people writing/thinking about this? Or is this a topic that's been overlooked in the way that it's been overlooked, say, in the field of transitional justice? www.justiceinfo.net/en/136157-do... 11/
A question I've long had is: what alternative readings of and responses to transnational organized crime might more critical/radical/progressive traditions (e.g. Marxists; abolitionists) be able to put forward to counteract the "common sense" proposals being put forward by the IMF? 10/
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 8/
Another possibility the IMF blog fails to consider is the possibility that economic growth (in its current form) might in fact be a driver of (especially organized) crime in the region and that expanding prison systems actually drive the expansion of organized crime academic.oup.com/book/3746 6/
Others point out that, "even if the Milei administration is successful in removing members of organized crime groups from Rosario’s streets, funneling more convicts into Argentina’s overcrowded prisons has failed to stop crime bosses’ operations" insightcrime.org/news/milei-e... 5/
Yet others (I think, rightly!) caution against taking the official discourse about the "success" of such policies at face value and suggest, for example, that the drop in homicides may in fact reflect a pact made between the state and the criminal world www.batimes.com.ar/news/argenti... 4/
The strategy consists of "territorial control of high-risk neighborhoods by the Federal Police, stricter prison systems for high-profile offenders, and collective prosecution of criminal groups under...the anti-mafia law". It's lauded for reducing homicides in Rosario by 65% in 11 months. 3/
This recent piece by the IMF (featured in adamtooze.substack.com), for example, frames the "comprehensive strategy" implemented in Rosario Argentina as an exemplary case study www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Art... 2/
