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

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, fa…

- Charles Bowden

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

- Charles Bowden

Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this …

- Charles Bowden

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 lici…

- Charles Bowden

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what i…

- Charles Bowden

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 and salsa cruda and red wine.…

- Charles Bowden

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

- Charles Bowden

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 could do this instant …

- Charles Bowden