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Gates Cambridge @gatescambridge.bsky.social · May 30

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

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 · May 27

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · May 27

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 · Feb 14

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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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Feb 8

War on #Drugs in the news: www.ft.com/content/ad53...

Mexico tries to tame ‘monster’ cartels to please Donald Trump

President Claudia Sheinbaum faces hurdles in fighting drug violence to placate US

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Feb 6

#Drugs in the news: www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...

‘Still shocking today’: Larry Clark’s addiction images – in pictures

When the director and photographer returned home from Vietnam aged 20, he began photographing his intimate circle of friends – and their heroin use

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · Feb 4

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 · Feb 4

Haven't yet read this one, but it's been on my list for awhile: repeaterbooks.com/product/drin...

Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy - Repeater Books

Big Alcohol is one of the most powerful and profitable industries in the world — yet this constellation of massive corporations, lobby groups, and governments faces almost no scrutiny for the immense ...

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Feb 4

So what could legal regulation beyond the profit motive look like? Some possible starting points to think through this question: doi.org/10.1086/707513

The Monopoly Option: Obsolescent or a “Best Buy” in Alcohol and Other Drug Control? | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 34, No 2

Abstract Given the attractive but problematic nature of psychoactive substances, legal markets in them are commonly subject to government controls, both as a source of revenue and to control levels of...

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Feb 4

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...

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 · Feb 4

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 · Feb 4

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 · Feb 4

#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...

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 21

War on #drugs in the news: www.ft.com/content/8ab2...

The war on drugs needs a new tactic: shame

Liberal reformers have been too hesitant to spell out the negative consequences for others

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 20

(War on) #Drugs in the news: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Trump said he will label Mexican cartels as terrorists in his inaugural speech. What’s at stake?

President confirms push to ‘wage war’ on drug cartels; critics say he should stop US arms used in drug war

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 17

“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.”

Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 17

#Drugs in the news (in which the effects of Israel's belligerence paves the way for US intervention in Mexico) (www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...)

Will Trump plan to label Mexican cartels as terrorists bring US military strikes?

President-elect wants to ‘wage war’ on drug cartels; critics say he should stop US arms used in the drug war

www.theguardian.com

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 17

#Drugs in the news: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Joe Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders

Total number of pardons and commutations issued by US president is now higher than any of his predecessors

www.theguardian.com

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Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social · Jan 4

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 4

Have/are people writing/thinking about this? Or is this a topic that's been overlooked in the way that it's been overlooked, say, in the field of transitional justice? www.justiceinfo.net/en/136157-do... 11/

Does transitional justice have anything to say on gang violence?

Mafias, gangs, cartels... All over the world, transitional justice is absent fron the scene. In-depth interview with Mark Freeman, expert in political transitions and peace negotiations, who tells us ...

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 4

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 · Jan 4

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Professor Graham Denyer Willis and Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro Win Grants | Centre of Development Studies

The grants will fund projects to examine why Brazil is building prisons exponentially, who benefits, and how the expansion in the number of prisons is changing Brazilian society - and not for the bett...

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 4

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 4

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Prisons and Crime in Latin America

Cambridge Core - Latin American Government, Politics and Policy - Prisons and Crime in Latin America

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Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social · Jan 4

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/

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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