Theo Di Castri
@theodicastri.bsky.social
Historian of the Social Sciences, Education & Drugs/Drug Policy
Convenor of Post-Prohibition: Research, Pedagogy & Action, CRASSH Network
Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
Convenor of Post-Prohibition: Research, Pedagogy & Action, CRASSH Network
Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
Haven't yet read this one, but it's been on my list for awhile: repeaterbooks.com/product/drin...
Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy - Repeater Books
Big Alcohol is one of the most powerful and profitable industries in the world — yet this constellation of massive corporations, lobby groups, and governments faces almost no scrutiny for the immense ...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Haven't yet read this one, but it's been on my list for awhile: repeaterbooks.com/product/drin...
So what could legal regulation beyond the profit motive look like? Some possible starting points to think through this question: doi.org/10.1086/707513
The Monopoly Option: Obsolescent or a “Best Buy” in Alcohol and Other Drug Control? | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 34, No 2
Abstract Given the attractive but problematic nature of psychoactive substances, legal markets in them are commonly subject to government controls, both as a source of revenue and to control levels of...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So what could legal regulation beyond the profit motive look like? Some possible starting points to think through this question: doi.org/10.1086/707513
If #drughistory teaches us anything, it's precisely that we need to imagine models of legal regulation that do not simply turn psychoactive substances over to profit-seeking entities. (if you haven't yet read @dhbuffalo.bsky.social, READ IT!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
White Market Drugs
The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Her...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If #drughistory teaches us anything, it's precisely that we need to imagine models of legal regulation that do not simply turn psychoactive substances over to profit-seeking entities. (if you haven't yet read @dhbuffalo.bsky.social, READ IT!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
But this seems like a misdirection from the more important issue at stake: namely, ought psychedelics be turned over to for-profit business ventures ?
February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
But this seems like a misdirection from the more important issue at stake: namely, ought psychedelics be turned over to for-profit business ventures ?
I'm not familiar enough with the internal politics of the #psychedelics world to weigh in on the article's allegations re: @psymposia.bsky.social's tactics (thoughts on this welcome!)
February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm not familiar enough with the internal politics of the #psychedelics world to weigh in on the article's allegations re: @psymposia.bsky.social's tactics (thoughts on this welcome!)
“If the US decides to [launch drone attacks on Mexico], like Israel has been doing all around its territory, they will be able to...The international environment restraining the use of force is much more permissive than it was a few years ago.”
January 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“If the US decides to [launch drone attacks on Mexico], like Israel has been doing all around its territory, they will be able to...The international environment restraining the use of force is much more permissive than it was a few years ago.”
Have/are people writing/thinking about this? Or is this a topic that's been overlooked in the way that it's been overlooked, say, in the field of transitional justice? www.justiceinfo.net/en/136157-do... 11/
Does transitional justice have anything to say on gang violence?
Mafias, gangs, cartels... All over the world, transitional justice is absent fron the scene. In-depth interview with Mark Freeman, expert in political transitions and peace negotiations, who tells us ...
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January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Have/are people writing/thinking about this? Or is this a topic that's been overlooked in the way that it's been overlooked, say, in the field of transitional justice? www.justiceinfo.net/en/136157-do... 11/
A question I've long had is: what alternative readings of and responses to transnational organized crime might more critical/radical/progressive traditions (e.g. Marxists; abolitionists) be able to put forward to counteract the "common sense" proposals being put forward by the IMF? 10/
January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A question I've long had is: what alternative readings of and responses to transnational organized crime might more critical/radical/progressive traditions (e.g. Marxists; abolitionists) be able to put forward to counteract the "common sense" proposals being put forward by the IMF? 10/
January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Another possibility the IMF blog fails to consider is the possibility that economic growth (in its current form) might in fact be a driver of (especially organized) crime in the region and that expanding prison systems actually drive the expansion of organized crime academic.oup.com/book/3746 6/
More Money, More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America
Abstract. This book reviews the rapid rise of crime and violence in Latin America over the last few decades and offers an explanation to a striking paradox
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January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Another possibility the IMF blog fails to consider is the possibility that economic growth (in its current form) might in fact be a driver of (especially organized) crime in the region and that expanding prison systems actually drive the expansion of organized crime academic.oup.com/book/3746 6/