Having been out of the psychedelic drug scene for an embarrassingly long time, I have no idea if this is happening elsewhere in the U.S., but Barlow writes that powder cocaine has become peculiarly abundant and cheap in New York and that pot and the psychedelics are scarce and expensive.
Once again, one can see clearly what the War on Some Drugs is really about. It’s the culture, stupid. It certainly isn’t about public safety, since coke and booze are the perfect combination for social depravity of all sorts. Instead, it provides a beautiful opportunity to jail the blacks and hippies who prefer the non-Republican drugs. It makes huge bank for one’s wing-tipped colleagues.
Barlow draws parallels to the last time this drug inversion happened in New York; during Bush the Elder’s administration, and is concerned about the volatile combination of cocaine, alcohol, money and power.
I’m concerned too. I have four young reporters on the ground in Manhattan filing stories for Utne Online. I didn’t have this sense of foreboding on the eve of the Democrat convention in Boston.
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