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Category Archives: Drugs
The Heart Attack Euphemism
Young Orthodox men, often married with children, keep dying of drug overdoses. Their families called the deaths heart attacks. The pattern shows up in LA, Brooklyn, Lakewood, and Queens. Rabbi Zvi Gluck of Amudim has reported more than sixty opioid-related … Continue reading
Will Trump Attack The Mexican Cartels?
I like the Venezuela attack. I don’t support it, but I like it. If Obama or Biden had done this, I would have hated it. This is my aesthetic reaction to politics. I enjoy the spectacle of American power asserting … Continue reading
Your Brain On Love
Many people take illegal drugs to alter their mind. I don’t want to mess with my mind in any dangerous way, so I don’t drink or drug. Here are the ways I like to alter my mind. * Modafinil. It’s … Continue reading
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When Porn Still Mattered: The Luke Ford Story
I wrote about the porn industry from 1995 to 2007. ReactionaryMBA tweets: “Can you do a show on what you learned?” I was interviewed for the 2011 documentary “After Porn Ends” about the lives of porn stars after they leave … Continue reading
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Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
Marcia Angel writes in 2009 for the New York Review Of Books: Consider the clinical trials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinical trials to show … Continue reading
A Real War On Drugs
New York Times: Across the Philippines, the killing of some 1,300 drug suspects in the last two months has frightened hundreds of thousands of people like Ms. Bongol into turning themselves in. Officials cite the estimated 687,000 people who have … Continue reading
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The Philippines launches a “REAL” war on drugs
BLOG: via Daily Mail. But Duterte warned that he is a leader of a sovereign country and is answerable only to the Filipino people. ‘Who is he to confront me?’ he said, adding that the Philippines had not received an … Continue reading
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Drugs In Hollywood
Comments: Cocaine is like a small forest fire in the brain. Meth is like a large forest fire. In either case, the results aren’t good. Ultimately, it’s a matter of genetics how the damage is ultimately expressed. With cocaine, a … Continue reading
The Ferguson Effect Is Real
Steve Sailer writes: But the government’s strategy has been more sophisticated than I anticipated in 1999. Crack was so apocalyptic that the government seems to have been following a multimodal drug war strategy that has been pretty effective: – Come … Continue reading
Ann Coulter: OK, Who Ordered The Mexican Heroin?
From Ann Coulter at VDARE: See, much earlier, by Sam Francis: What We Really Get From Mexico, November 21, 2002. Heroin use in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2007 and 2012 alone, and the New York … Continue reading
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