reefer madness

By Hernán Panessi via El Planteo.  Prejudices, funny looks and confusion: at times, cinema also served as a propagator of stigmatizing discourses. In fact, in 1934, an official production code was created in the United States (with the complicity of the major film studios), to determine...

The state of Ohio sues pharmaceutical companies for pushing painkillers. Missouri cops carry opioid antidotes in their cars. Judges everywhere play doctor, forcing abusers to choose between anti-addiction injections or jail. And the U.S. military — which has been dealing with opioid addiction...