ABSTRACT
TWO DOZEN women accuse a popular come-dian of surreptitiously drugging then raping them; his decade-old admission of the crime surfaces, and his crimes receive enormous media attention. The White House releases a plan to fight the recent upsurge in heroin abuse. A Manhattan court sentences the founder and kingpin of Silk Road, an Internet drug supply empire, to life in prison. A former Drug Enforcement Agency undercover agent publishes a memoir chronicling his experiences fighting the drug war in Mexico and
Afghanistan. On a block in Harlem, a small group of homeless men pass around and puff on a joint of K-2, a new form of synthetic marijuana; each falls into a stuperous, almost paralyzed silence.
