emptywheel

It's weird how decapitating cartels keeps leading to new, more violent cartels

It works every time. Enforcement budgets continue to be justified. IC continues to protect preferred traffickers by hurting competition.

@donwinslow Maybe we need to look beyond the supply issue and ask, why is there such a demand? Why does heroin suddenly seem so attractive to people? As drugs are typically an "avoidance" method, what are so many Americans running from?

France, 1789-1799

Is this just a story so people don’t think about all the heroin coming in from Afghanistan? There’s no wall to stop that is there...

Worked for France

Ask the French

Only once. Post mortem. Dictator Cromwell.

Only on vampires.

well, the reoffending rate is low.

No, but Portugal seems to have a good idea.

The good news is old ladies can't get their pain pills anymore

Sure. Every time we kill AQ's #2. Or IS' #2. Or..

do you think RFK would have won the nomination/election?

1793

There is a surgeon who says he can fix that issue now.

Often it lets bad guys with better political connections make money, instead of the wrong bad guys making it.