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Gates Cambridge @gatescambridge.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Theo di Castri is organising an exhibition to expand drug education to include more on the history & politics of drugs and drug policy. In Cambridge, from 30th May to 10th June - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/s... @theodicastri.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social #drugs

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Scholar organises drugs education exhibition - Gates Cambridge

Theo di Castri is organising a drugs education exhibition in Cambridge.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Folks in Cambridge! Join us this Friday at 7PM for the opening of an exhibit featuring a series of transmedia art pieces created by communication students at the Universidad Iberoamericana & @homertoncollege.bsky.social.

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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 14/02/2025

We can’t arrest our way out of the overdose crisis. But Congress is trying with the HALT Fentanyl Act, which blocks health research & increases mandatory minimums for fentanyl-related substances. Tell your Senators to vote NO & prioritize health, not handcuffs: engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/vote-...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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...

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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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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

But this seems like a misdirection from the more important issue at stake: namely, ought psychedelics be turned over to for-profit business ventures ?

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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!)

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#Drugs in the news: New York Times pushing a fear-mongering "story of how a small band of anticapitalist activists helped sink the first psychedelic compound to come before the F.D.A." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/h...

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How a Leftist Activist Group Helped Torpedo a Psychedelic Therapy

The fallout from the F.D.A.’s rejection of MDMA-assisted treatment for PTSD worries researchers and experts who fear other psychedelic drugs in the pipeline could be jeopardized.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

“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.”

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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/

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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/

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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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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Others point out that, "even if the Milei administration is successful in removing members of organized crime groups from Rosario’s streets, funneling more convicts into Argentina’s overcrowded prisons has failed to stop crime bosses’ operations" insightcrime.org/news/milei-e... 5/

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yet others (I think, rightly!) caution against taking the official discourse about the "success" of such policies at face value and suggest, for example, that the drop in homicides may in fact reflect a pact made between the state and the criminal world www.batimes.com.ar/news/argenti... 4/

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Security success or truce? What explains the drop in violence in Rosario?

Something has changed in Rosario since late 2023. The most violent city in Argentina saw a 62% drop in homicides year-on-year between January and August. Is a new zero tolerance approach working, or i...

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The strategy consists of "territorial control of high-risk neighborhoods by the Federal Police, stricter prison systems for high-profile offenders, and collective prosecution of criminal groups under...the anti-mafia law". It's lauded for reducing homicides in Rosario by 65% in 11 months. 3/

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This recent piece by the IMF (featured in adamtooze.substack.com), for example, frames the "comprehensive strategy" implemented in Rosario Argentina as an exemplary case study www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Art... 2/

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Breaking Latin America’s Cycle of Low Growth and Violence

Crime directly costs the region mora than 3 percent of GDP and lowers growth. Economic instability, in turn, drives higher rates of crime. Actions can be taken to break this vicious cycle.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

@kunktation.bsky.social would be curious to hear your thoughts on where you see someone like Marianna Mazzucato's approach to "green growth" fits into the panorama you sketch out in your article (e.g. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/green-growth-and-the-right-kind-of-innovation/)

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Green Growth and the Right Kind of Innovation

“We want to reform capitalism and achieve sustainable, inclusive growth.” Celebrated economist argues that the opponents of growth are focused on the wrong target. The real problem is the kind of grow...

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Zoë Dubus @zoe-dubus.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

💥The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, has just published an important editorial. A selection: « Problem drug use and physical dependency—contrary to popular belief—only affect around 10% of those who use drugs. […] The disastrous impact of

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Great compilation of essays exploring the history/cultural significance of Adderall in US: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

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Club Med | Broadcast

Dispatches from the Adderall Epidemic.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Looking for interesting/alternative formats for a potential edited volume. Ideas and examples most welcome.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hey! Sorry! I thought this would tag you to the original post in English. Still figuring out how this platform works! I think it should be visible on my feed?

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Quiero construir una mapa gemela en español asi que sugerencias en español estan muy bienvenidas tambien.

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I've been working on a visual map to illustrate the multiple entry points into discussions re: drugs. What titles am I missing? What other thematic clusters could be added? app.mural.co/t/chapter520...

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Rethinking Drugs

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Carl Erik Fisher @drcarlerik.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I wrote about the specific technology design features that can weaken our self-control. A brief review of some recent commentary and classification What makes the internet addictive? carlerikfisher.substack.com/p/what-makes...

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What makes the internet addictive?

The next hellsites. What makes us stay online. Bluesky. The allure of simplicity and the inexorable pull toward complex design features eroding our self-control.

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