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...Robert Yancey, a program director at a New York City drug clinic called Turning Point, blames the dangerously lax attitude toward cocaine in the 1970s for fueling the drug's popularity - and fostering the crack epidemic of the 1980s. One law enforcement official in Philadelphia says a contemporary analogy is the growing abuse of prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere...
Since 2005, for example, experts had been arguing that mortgage-lending standards had grown unsustainably lax, that real estate prices couldn't keep rising, that a sharp housing correction was in the offing. They were right. But those who actually worked in the business of writing, packaging and investing in mortgage loans couldn't act on such concerns and expect to stay employed. There was too much money to be made running with the herd. Or dancing with it, as Citigroup CEO Charles Prince put it in a memorable July interview. "As long as the music is playing...
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...Enforcement, however, was lax. And the ordinance did not take into account several large "psychic fairs," run by Salemites but often staffed by out-of-towners, that breezed in yearly to take advantage of high season. These events infuriated several of the store owners. Says Barbara Szafranski, owner of the shop Angelica of Angels, "Why should [a fair owner] come in and make fifty grand in one flush when we spend all year trying to get close to that...
...month with his slain dog beside him, he told them he had wanted to free the animal's mind. He also said he had ingested magic mushrooms, which contain the hallucinogen psilocybin. The incident played into a running debate over whether the Netherlands' famously liberal drug laws are too lax with psychedelic mushrooms. Also in July, a Danish tourist raced his car through a campsite, and a 19-year old man from Iceland jumped out of a window; both had taken magic mushrooms, known in Dutch as "paddos," as had a French teenager who jumped off a bridge...