There is a quiet, growing practice in modern medicine that deserves a name. Not a euphemism. Not a press-friendly acronym. A name that fits. It is the deliberate denial of pain relief to post-operative patients.It is cruel, barbaric, and stunningly dishonest. Under the banner of “curbing opioid abuse,” some surgeons are now performing invasive procedures—real…
The United States Built the Narco-Terrorism Crisis —Then Declared “War” on the Consequences Two citizens died. Washington celebrated it as a win.Domestic demand remains insatiable – guaranteeing a repeat. ANALYSIS AND ACCOUNTABILITY Two lives were taken on international waters. Their deaths were ordered through policy machinery so desensitized to consequence that it labeled the strike…
“If we legalize drugs, addiction will skyrocket, crime will explode, and society will collapse.” That’s the prohibitionist greatest hit. You’ve heard variations a thousand times: drugs “destroy communities,” “ruin families,” and “turn cities into war zones.” The implied solution is always the same: criminalize, punish, and police our way to safety. Here’s the reality: the…
If governments insist on waging a war on drugs instead of caring about people, the least we can do is wage a war on preventable harm. That’s what harm reduction is: a big, unapologetic “No, actually” to the idea that people deserve to suffer or die for using certain substances. Prohibition doesn’t stop use. It…
In the lab, acetylation is about as ordinary as boiling water. It’s the simple process of attaching a tiny chemical tag — an acetyl group — onto a molecule. Chemists do it every day to change how substances behave: aspirin is made that way, cellulose acetate for film and plastics too, even your own cells…
As summer appropriations season kicked off, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee quietly dropped a bombshell in its report on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilConVA) spending bill: Maybe let veterans use cannabis and psychedelics. The July 21, 2025 report acknowledges that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has concurred with a Department of Health and Human Services…
Recently, I was involved in a debate on Andrew Wilson’s debate group “The Crucible.” I lost, but learned a lot. Namely, not to become angry when my opponent resorts to ad-hominem attacks. I was called a “junky retard” at least eight times. I was also threatened with being kicked off of the server for “tone…
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was founded in 1973 under the guise of fighting drug trafficking and abuse. But after more than 50 years, trillions of dollars, and millions of arrests, drug markets remain as strong as ever. If the DEA were to succeed in its mission, it would eventually put itself out of a…
Follow a US Dollar from its creation at the Treasury to the death of a young man.