There's this relationship that you're drawing out here between harsh black market or prohibition market repression and weak legal market regulation. You write quote only by shedding the mystification of whiteness can we recognize that the drug war and pharmaceutical policy are connected elements of a single unequal system for providing and regulating psychoactive drugs. What would be the ramifications of recognizing this for the regulatory state for the drug war I mean more broadly for the entire organization of this country?
Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing their book Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America.
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