Drug War

End the drug war. Cops lost that battle almost 50 years ago. The biggest losers in that drug war have been black, brown, and poor white people whose lives and fundamental civil rights (the US Constitution’s 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments) are being destroyed by ruthless, militarized robo…

“You can’t do drugs right now, everything has Fentanyl in it.” I wasn’t necessarily surprised when someone told me this. I had heard about the outbreak of Fentanyl. However, it hasn’t really received the media coverage that it likely deserves. The DEA is already on the case, and they have…

testimony from an expert When I see doctors praising antidepressants online, it plucks my last and final nerve. I ask myself, why, in 2023, are doctors still praising a treatment protocol from the 1970s that has turned 1 in 4 American women into wards of the healthcare state? Now, the…

in response to ‘A Talking Cure for Psychosis’ by Matthew M. Kurtz, Scientific American print edition, March 2023 Dear Professor Kurtz: When we say that drugs by themselves have not solved the problem of psychosis, I think we must specify which drugs we are talking about. As you know…

By Kurt Alec Mira The season of love came quickly, but not without its familiar surprises. In a span of 28 days, February reminded us that we are still humans who long for love amidst all heartbreaking affairs around us. Here are the events that defined the shortest month of…

The last I posted here was a year ago. I revisit last year’s list of what I thought was going to be interesting in 2022, and give you substantial updates on each what’s important about it, and how the significance of this topic has changed, from this view, a year…

Medellin, Colombia, June 2022. Juan Manuel Santos was the president of Colombia from 2010–2018. He campaigned and governed from the center-right. He rose under the graces of former president Alvaro Uribe, but broke free to form his own path, his own political identity. …

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has been accused of many, many (many) things, but imagination isn’t one of them. So it was no surprise last week when the world’s foremost Big Tex impersonator unveiled what he hopes will be a signature piece of second-term legislation, a predictably draconian crime bill that…

How much blood has been split over a plant? How many children made into orphans, how many wives widowed, husbands widowered, all in the name of this plant? What plant? Marijuana, coca, opium poppies, etc. All can be used to make or are themselves illegal drugs. These arbitrary laws were…