New Orleans Looking at gang and cartel driven crime from drug dealing to murder, one country after another, including the US, has tried militarizing and increasing police forces and expanding incarceration exponentially, yet crime and violence remain persistent and ubiquitous. Nowhere has the of violence been greater than in Mexico. The Sinaloa cartel …
Category: Drugs
Bottle Caps and the Mystery of Tylenol Deaths
Pearl River I have to agree with Helen Jensen, the Chicago-area nurse that first figured out that a killer had poisoned people she was caring for at her hospital by tampering with a bottle of Tylenol, when she says that the killer, “changed the world because of what he did.” I have to admit …
The Analogue Act Catch-22
Pearl River I got a call from a PR man for the University of California Press flaking a book about drugs. I’m a bystander on this issue, so my first kneejerk reaction was, “not interested.” He kept going through and said this guy’s work wasn’t really so much about drugs as it was about …