Topic: drug trafficking

Ethics never comes up. The job is to push product, and once sold, “we wash our hands of the whole thing.”

Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.

Voter perception and the fear of a public relations black eye is always a motivating factor in politics.

Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?

What we really need most are substantive changes on the demand side.

…we’re often well behind the curve in terms of what’s actually happening in colleges and bars and on the streets around America.

And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.

It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.

These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.

Drug dealers at the higher levels of the marketplace are much like other businesspeople in their natural aversion to bad publicity.