Will Robots Be the Drug Dealers of the Future? | The War on Drugs

We ask three experts about what might be coming next in the ever-changing picture of the War on Drugs.

A world flooded with ultra-powerful synthetic opioids, people buying drugs from AI dealers, Mexican cartels pouring methamphetamine into Europe – there are some terrifying prospects on the horizon. And yet, the US, the birthplace of the War on Drugs itself, might just be beginning to turn a corner in how it thinks about this whole failed enterprise.

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