Category Archives: Crime & Punishment

Drugs are back! And they’re traveling.

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The Colombian Navy seized a semisubmersible vessel carrying cocaine to Australia, where the drug is 6 times more valuable than it is in the United States. Qs. What is a “semisubmersible vessel”? I know, I know … Continue reading

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Maybe the fentanyl problem is, uh, dying down?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [A] Washington State coroner who had accused his political rival of spiking his energy drink with fentanyl admitted to snorting the drug himself after removing it from a dead body.

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Is the atmosphere in the US right now like that in 1930’s Germany?

It’s generally understood that a country is not vulnerable to a dictatorial take-over if  its domestic, economic and political climate(s) are in good shape. So I’ve done a bit of research to make a comparison between the United States a … Continue reading

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