So clear and incisive: thank you. I didn't know about Vermont as poppy source nor about the 19th century drug demonization of Black people and Chinese people. This country has certainly turned its Puritan/profiteering into evil directions. Horrible.
Racism--I am not optimistic. Drug policy, tho, is getting somewhat better and one of the drivers is that the recent opiate problem, runs across racial and to a lesser extent class lines. If you get a chance see the films 'Dopesick' and 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.' Both are streaming. The first is drama, the second a documentary.
So clear and incisive: thank you. I didn't know about Vermont as poppy source nor about the 19th century drug demonization of Black people and Chinese people. This country has certainly turned its Puritan/profiteering into evil directions. Horrible.
Thanks, Ann. The history is, of course, more complex than i was able to get in in a small space, but it was a (bitter) taste.
Do you think this situation will ever be better? Certainly not in my lifetime!
Racism--I am not optimistic. Drug policy, tho, is getting somewhat better and one of the drivers is that the recent opiate problem, runs across racial and to a lesser extent class lines. If you get a chance see the films 'Dopesick' and 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.' Both are streaming. The first is drama, the second a documentary.