Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

These direct population-level effects make a mockery of the prevailing “Just say no” state rhetoric on illicit drugs, as the top-down global process of gangsterization makes the individual pathologization of crime look childish and silly. From a historical point of view, which individuals sell lattes and which sell eighths does not matter nearly as much as the broader patterns that constrain and produce those choices in the lives of particular people.