Revolving Door: DEA’s No.2 quits amid reports of previous consulting work for Big Pharma
apnews.com
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he previously consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned for a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments and did similar work for the drugmaker that became the
  • kava@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    Cartels are essentially the same as multinational corporations. They just have the added benefit of the use of violence. They’ve already entered the legal weed industry.

    Casinos were legal and the mob was all over it. Unions in the NE were controlled be the mob. Legalizing something does not mean organized crime is going away.

    But it would reduce violence and suffering that our current drug laws create so ultimately still better