POSTER: Side Event for Commission on Narcotic Drugs 2025 #CND68 M Conference Room 7 Friday March 14 10 - 11am www.LawEnforcementAction.org LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION PARTNERSHIP ADVANCING JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY SOLUTIONS How Organized Crime Uses Prohibition to Corrupt Public Institutions Fact from fiction: We have become accustomed to seeing corruption on our screens, from film and television, to news reports and anecdotal evidence. We invite you to watch our digital speaker panel to hear the reality we all face with systemic corruption: CND 2025 THE HISTORY & CORRUPTION OF DRUG MARKETS Sanho Tree Sanho Tree is a military and diplomatic historian and a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Link: bit.ly/SanhoCND Major Neill Franklin (Ret.) worked undercover and knows the reality behind 'The Wire'. Link: bit.ly/NeillCND CND 2025 THE REAL WIRE: HOW POLICING IS AFFECTED BY DRUGS AND CORRUPTION Major Neill Franklin (Ret.) CND 2025 CROSSING BORDERS: THE LEGACY OF INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION Ethan Nadelmann Ethan Nadelmann has a PhD from Harvard University and is founder of the Drug Policy Alliance. Link: bit.ly/EthanCND

If you’re in Vienna for #CND68, check out my video interview panel with @policeforreform.bsky.social on Friday. You can also watch it now here: youtu.be/UlnvpdZ0o5M. Thanks to @jasontron.bsky.social for the great editing and illustrations!

No, thank you! There’s a reason @steverolles.bsky.social coined the term ‘Final Boss’ for you, this video demonstrates just that. You gave a wholesale takedown of just what we’re dealing with corruption, historic and modern context. Thank you.

I’ve been rubbish at promoting things lately so just a reminder that this recent chat with Alex Winter is a great one I feel. Very relevant to so many aspects that we all face with digital communications and how it’s shaping the world.

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Whilst doing an edit thingy on QR codes, I found myself identifying the different codes by a foolproof manner…

“The whale looking one is x,
The upside down trousers one is y,
The alien looking one is…”

I’ve got my finger on the pulse of technology I can tell you.

Humans desperately need to get away from the notion that an accumulation of wealth = superior intellect.

Sure, having personal wealth is some kind of skill, but we’re witnessing how it is pretty low on the metric of actual intelligence.

This is quite a read. We shut the door on prisons and believe them to be someone else’s issue. But it’s a social collective issue. The most basics of human functionality is hard to accomplish.

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Channel 4’s Threads has consistently been one of the best social media accounts for many moons now. Whoever runs it deserves an award.

One of the things about Musk and his constant badgering in UK affairs… I almost want to see him try his luck over here as the British sense of humour would tear his fragile ego to shreds… he just wouldn’t cope. He’d have no idea how to handle or interpret us. This is the land of Boaty McBoatface!

Sending best wishes to all U.S friends and colleagues. Have a wonderful day and get some time out!

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I trumpeting to all I can - The Shopping Conspiracy is a must-watch. As ever I caveat with I haven’t checked to numbers and stats that are used, but narratively it’s pretty much impossible to argue with and highlights the problem we all know exists if we really care to think about it.

Thank you so very very much!

@jasontron.bsky.social of the fabulous Stop and Search podcast is here and well worth following.

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And I’m on here too now.