By Ryan Grim
Everything we all know approximately drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong
Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country journey of illicit drug use within the U.S.-from the pain (the large DEA bust of an acid lab in an deserted missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and tune festivals). alongside the way in which, Grim discovers a few magnificent truths. Did anti-drug campaigns truly inspire extra drug use? Did acid particularly disappear within the early 2000s? And did meth top years in the past? Did our Founding Fathers-or, larger but, their wives-get excessive simply up to we do?* strains the evolution of United States's lengthy and twisted dating with medicinal drugs* provides spectacular solutions to questions reminiscent of: how did heroin develop into renowned, while did the meth epidemic top, and has LSD long past the way in which of Quaaludes* according to strong reporting and wide-ranging research-including surveys, reviews, old money owed, and more
Not seeing that Eric Schlosser ventured underground to marijuana's black industry in Reefer Madness has a reporter proficient this type of willing eye on medicines and tradition. a robust and infrequently stunning heritage of 1 of our knottiest social and cultural difficulties, This is Your kingdom on Drugs leads you on a profound exploration of what it capability to be an American.
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Enron had relationships with more than 120 major financial institutions worldwide. Jeff McMahon, Enron’s treasurer since April 1998, coordinated the transactions so that the banks could not cherry-pick the most lucrative deals and shun the lower-value transactions. In reality, however, the treasurer’s office was little more than a front for dealing with the banks. While McMahon might make the initial introduction of a proposed transaction to a financial institution, he did not negotiate or consummate the 31 deals for Enron.
The fabric of fallacy they had so carefully woven was unraveling. “The Goldman Sachs of energy trading” was losing its grip on its publicity, the analysts, and its luster. One question led to another. Fastow knew how bad it really was, and he was increasingly terrified of being exposed—his lies laid bare. Not even Ken Lay’s wheeling and dealings with the Astros Major League Baseball club and friendships with past and current presidents could solve Enron’s problem. ” Meanwhile the pressure of questions about performance continued to mount as Enron struggled to meet earnings under its new business model.
She had been appointed to the bench by the first President Bush. Andersen got speedy, but it was difficult to characterize it as much of a trial. Andersen hired Houston criminal defense attorney Rusty Hardin to lead the defense team. Hardin, an experienced and highly regarded criminal defense attorney, got nowhere fast with Judge Harmon. The task force trial team of Caldwell, Weissmann, Buell, and Friedrich got its way with the judge. No one seemed to have noticed that Judge Harmon didn’t allow the defense to introduce the hundreds of thousands of 61 documents Andersen had retained.