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| Temple of Dendur Egyptian art at the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Photograph: Alamy |
From Taki's Magazine:
From Dreamland to Nightmareland by Steve Sailer, an excellent book review of
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones (available on Amazon)
The story sounds much like the one told by Peachy Keenan in Pass Tents.
The picture is here because Steve mentions the Sackler family. They own a couple of pharmaceutical companies. Some people blame them for the opioid epidemic.
I still think drugs should be legalized. I have my own vision of what that would be like, but it's probably unrealistic. It might cut down on the number of deaths from unintentional drug overdoses and from gun battles over 'turf', and it might reduce the amount of craziness that comes with the synthetic drugs that people are cooking up, but it wouldn't cut down on unemployment and would probably exacerbate it. And those folks who are looking for a way to quickly make large sums of money are still going to be with us, and if dealing in illicit drugs is no longer a viable way to make a fortune, who knows what they will turn to.
Meanwhile, here in Oregon, a number of drugs have been decriminalized. Supposedly, users are going to be encouraged to seek treatment. Some tax money has been earmarked for that purpose. It may take a couple of years before we see any effect. We shall see.
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