Friday, September 5, 2025

PRODU vs. CONSU in Drug War

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Photographs by Carlos Villalon for WSJ


ON THE NEWS

The paper edition of the Wall Street Journal on September 4, 2005 contains 2 articles about drugs.

On page A3 in the U.S. News section
Surprise Tests Flag More Use Of Fentanyl At Work:

More Americans are testing positive for fentanyl use in randomized workplace drug tests, highlighting a persistent challenge for employers.

On page A16 in the World News section
Buffett's Son Battles Colombia's Cocaine Trade:

From his Illinois farm, the idiosyncratic middle child of Berkshire Hathaway’s chief executive has devoted himself to quietly bankrolling a nation-building experiment in Colombia—coaxing coca farmers like Sánchez to step off the lowest rung of the country’s cocaine industry.


Yet another Politics

DOC NGU's DOODLE

[9/4/25] - The first article is about CONSUmption of illegal drugs. The second article is about PRODUction of illegal drugs. It is hard to look into a mirror and see ourselves as the cause of the problem. No matter how successful we could achieve overseas to curtail the PRODUction, as long as there is CONSUmption in the US, new PRODUction will pop up somewhere else. The war on drugs should be a war on CONSUmption; it is a war to be fought on US soil; it is a war within ourselves; it is a war we have not attempted fully; it is a war that we can win, since only us that we can control.

Within the ORB (Opportunity, Responsibility, Benefits) framework, the You-Have-One-Brain-One-Life (YHOBOL) program targets US CONSUmption.

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