Being busy is a drug for most people
Taking a hit off that busy pipe, are you? Continue Reading
Drugs
Jay-Z offers one of the best summaries of The War on Drugs
I went to Montreal for New Year’s Eve 2008 to 2009. First word of caution: don’t go to Montreal for New Year’s Eve. It’s a beautiful city and it has a tremendous food/beer culture, but … on December 31 of a given… Continue Reading
7.6 tons of cocaine was seized in Peru recently. That’s somewhat important.
It’s not important in the context of “stopping the drug trade” — that’s not actually going to happen — but it is important in terms of this:
Brief thought exercise: is it really reasonable to think El Chapo will stay in prison this time?
The longest article written on the capture of El Chapo Guzman (at least in an American publication) ran in The New Yorker in early May, and pointedly addressed the fact there’s concern/mistrust among the Americans with regard to whether he’ll actually stay in… Continue Reading
Mandatory minimums are getting reconsidered, yes, but they partially only came about because Johnny St. Valentine Brown Jr. lied under oath
This isn’t a new story, but I just came across it and it seemed fairly interesting. Mandatory minimums may be on the way out, but one of the reasons they ever emerged in the first place was because of a massive perjury… Continue Reading
“Pimps are bitches” and other revelations from the $100 million sex worker industry in major American cities
From here: The Urban Institute’s report, released this week, draws on interviews with dozens of child pornographers, sex workers, pimps, traffickers, and local law enforcement officials in a bid to outline the inner workings of the business in eight American… Continue Reading
Could a mouth swab for cortisol levels change how we approach mental illness?
If you’ve never heard of cortisol, here’s a quick primer: Cortisol, known more formally as hydrocortisone (INN, USAN, BAN), is a steroid hormone, to be more specific a glucocorticoid, produced by the zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex.[1] It is released in response to stress and a low level of blood glucocorticoids. Its… Continue Reading
What Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, taught us about the world (and the true currency of being uncool)
The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman is certainly tragic, but it shouldn’t necessarily be called shocking — he was in rehab fairly recently. Clearly this was a struggle for him, and the struggle defeated him; it’s happened to many others who excelled at their… Continue Reading