If we haven't made it clear yet, Indecent's main guiding principle is pretty simple: no narcs allowed. Especially when we invite academic and author Benjamin Y. Fong over to hang out in our parents' basement to talk drugs, drug policy, and drug culture, and how Americans especially love to get smashed.

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow and the Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. He's written for Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Outline and the New York Times, and he's the author of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/09/the-irrationality-of-modern-drug-laws-in-one-chart/

https://time.com/6340590/drug-war-politics-history/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/harm-reduction-public-health.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094672

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/31/concern-about-drug-addiction-has-declined-in-u-s-even-in-areas-where-fatal-overdoses-have-risen-the-most/

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2022/June/unodc-world-drug-report-2022-highlights-trends-on-cannabis-post-legalization--environmental-impacts-of-illicit-drugs--and-drug-use-among-women-and-youth.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/briefing/us-drug-policy-reducing-harm.html

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/drug-policy-reform/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302017/

https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/assets/Documents/220228-KT-LSE-SPP-policy-brief-FINAL.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34809536/

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57119/1/more-young-people-are-using-drugs-to-escape-problems-than-have-fun

https://www.mic.com/life/young-people-drug-use-report

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g5dq/young-people-taking-more-drugs-new-research

https://time.com/5572691/420-marijuana-mexican-immigration/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.17104/1611-8944_2015_1_115

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

https://theoutline.com/post/7909/why-some-south-american-indigenous-tribes-give-their-dogs-psychedelic-drugs

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Produced by Pete Musto & Max Wolfson

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