appassionato, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Opium’s Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs

Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement’s origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness.
Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design.

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estelle, 8 months ago to socialpsych

"Duterte said: you can kill legally because they might fight back. They will fight back. And that was the loop of the narrative. They are drug addicts; therefore, they are armed. Because they are drug addicts, they will fight back. And, if they fight back, they must die."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-journalist-exposes-the-philippines-extralegal-killings

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