War on Drugs
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On the shifting sands of family, specifically: whose counts?
*These* heroin users have families? How is that any different from the addicts who came before?
addiction, children, developmental biology, drug trade, drug users have families too, family, Francis Slay, Gangster Warlords, graduate school, heroin, incarceration crisis, Ioan Grillo, Lean In, life without law enforcement, mass incarceration, mouse lemur, opiates, painkillers, racism, rehab instead of prison, treatment instead of prison, unethical hiring practices, violence in St. Louis, War on Drugs, working mothers
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On Ioan Grillo’s ‘Gangster Warlords.’
At great personal risk, Ioan Grillo documents the horrific violence fueled by U.S. & European drug policy.
cartels, cocaine, courageous journalism, cycles of violence, drug dollars killing fields and the new politics of Latin America, drug use in Silicon Valley, drugs, Gangster Warlords, harms caused by U.S. drug policy, heroin addiction, heroin crisis, horrific violence, incarceration crisis, Ioan Grillo, Knights Templar cartel, legalization, living cheaply, marijuana, mass incarceration, microclimes, murders in Mexico, narcoterrorism, Silicon Valley, vigilante uprising, violence in Latin America, War on Drugs
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On bitcoins and privacy.
Bitcoins: either I or other people were suffering from some fundamental misunderstandings.
antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Bitcoins, black markets, blockchain, Canadian pharmaceuticals, civil liberties, cost of medicine, cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., drugs, economics, freedom of speech, GHB, gun control, healthcare spending in the U.S., how anonymous are bitcoins?, how could the government protect your property rights if they don’t know what you own, how much computer power would it take for someone to steal your bitcoins?, imported pharmaceuticals, John Bohannon, law enforcement, legalized drugs, legalizing drugs, monetary policy, money supply, opiate abuse, ownership, ownership by majority vote, policing, prescription drugs, privacy, property rights, Ross Ulbricht, senseless regulation, Shadow, ShadowCash, speculation, The Silk Road, transaction log, War on Drugs, wealth, what makes a law just
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On sex work, reparations, a global wealth tax, and the connection between the three.
Many people are upset that Amnesty International finally came out in favor of decriminalizing sex work. Not me. I think decriminalizing sex work is a step in the right direction. Sex workers’ lives are often miserable. Their underground status denies them police protection; instead, they are often actively abused by the police. The philosophical rationale for…
a good idea in theory, abuse of power, Amnesty International, amphetamines, arguments against legalizing drugs, Ayn Rand, Behind every great fortune there is a crime, black market heroin is unsafe, childhood nutrition, communism, cotton, creepy parallel between gene duplication and oppression, decriminalization, decriminalized prostitution, decriminalized sex work, economic reparations, empirical evidence, feminism, feminist, free school breakfasts, free school lunches, global wealth tax, guaranteed income, heroin, heroin overdoses, history of United States, how did the United States become a superpower, how high would the wealth tax need to be to guanantee everyone a subsistence income, how much money do people need to live, human dignity, human rights trading cards, immigration, immigration laws, income inequality, inequality, justice, land entitlement, legalized prostitution, legalized sex work, link between current wealth and slavery, Lydia Cacho, misogynistic culture, misogynists, misogyny, original sin, police abuse, poverty, Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function, price and demand, price equilibrium, prostitution, quality control, racist home loans, racist lending policy, reparations, school funding, selling organs, sex slavery, sex work, slavery, Slavery Inc, supply and demand, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, United States, violence in Mexico, War on Drugs, War on Drugs harms Mexico, wealth begets wealth, wealth inequality, wealth tax, welfare, where did United States wealth come from, which laws are fair, which laws are just, who should receive reparations, why are drugs illegal
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