Wired is running two articles about yer drugs of abuse today, first the illicit and then the licit. In How Safe Are Your Illegal Drugs?:

“Terrorists could poison drug supplies and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probably can’t do anything about it.

Politicos have warned that dirt-cheap, high-potency heroin will soon flood world markets and cause an epidemic of overdoses in the wake of the Taliban evacuating opium supplies before the first bombs hit Afghan soil. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Because the drugs are illegal, health officials are not authorized to monitor the purity of such substances — not just heroin, but marijuana and ecstasy and other illicit drugs. This coming at a time when authorities are on high alert against bio and chemical attacks.”

Not to mention that a number of DEA personnel have been transferred to FAA duties after the hijackings.

In Pushing pills to the anxious? concern is raised about whether manufacturers of psychopharmaceuticals useful for the treatment of anxiety are trying to profit from the climate of fear in New York and elsewhere with their current marketing strategies.