Of all the old-fashioned ways to insult someone, insults aimed at someone's performance in the bedroom have long been the best for causing a fight as ...
Two major Mafia-like organizations—dubbed drug cartels—evolved from this illicit, lucrative trade: the first in Medellín, led by Pablo Escobar, and the second in Cali. In the political sphere the transition from National Front to moderate political competition between Liberals and Conservatives in...
Rick Harrison, who has homes in Las Vegas and Oregon, is admittedly a collector of “odd stuff,” as he told thewhen he tried to sell one of his homes. Rick has spent so many years in the pawnshop business that he has certainly had a chance to collect some eclectic pieces for his ...
The first widely known public figure victim of fentanyl was the musician-performer Prince in 2016. Authorities say it is possible he did not know he was taking it. Because of its powerful addictive properties, it has become the drug of "choice" for many cartels, who are now flooding the U...
Pendergrant briefly considers developments before 1900, but the majority of his work focuses on Latin American coffee cartels and increasing demand in the United States. Thurston, et al. 2013 is even more heavily focused on the twentieth and twenty-first century, with several chapters based ...
s history of allegedly making deals with drug cartels, Peña Nieto explicitly promised not to do the same. Given that the PRI did not win an outright majority in the legislature, it remained to be seen just how easily he would be able toimplementhis plans. Peña Nieto was inaugurated ...
Judging from the drug cartels that have allegedly infiltrated show business circles and the recent nationwide drug testing in schools, the Philippines must be awash in narcotics of all kinds. Things were not always this way, though. Back when all the addicts had to go on were meth and marijua...
And now we are hearing that Tether, a “stablecoin,” is in just as bad shape as FTX was, and istied closely to FTX,“US government-backed rebels in Myanmar, along with al-Qaeda-affiliated Sunni rebel groups of Syria, drug cartels, which, according to some journalists, are deeply in...
However, the drug is so addictive, and so greatly impacts the makeup and functioning of the human brain, it is now illegal to buy, sell, or produce it in the United States. The Harrison Act of 1914 was the first legislative act to render the sale and use of the drug illegal. When ...
Post WWII and the Emergence of Major International Drug Trafficking- This era marks the growth of drug trafficking cartels, the heavily funded, militarized war on drugs and an explosion in recreational drug use in the 1960s. "One important argument we make is that often the war on drugs has...