How America Lost the War on Drugs : Rolling Stone
I’ll read just about anything that opens with Pablo Escobar, Chernobyl, elephants, the rejection of the physical world or submarines. I know that’s a weird list, but I have a treasured book or two for each item. More if I count online pieces. This one goes on the list.
Three years later, when lawmakers finally regulated tablets of pseudoephedrine, they created an exception for pills sold in blister packs. “Congress thought there was no way that meth freaks would buy this stuff and pop the pills out of blister packs, one by one,” says Heald. “But we’re not dealing with normal people - we’re dealing with meth freaks.…”