If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that comes from… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement.… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.” — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that economic machine,… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
