Stories by Steven Wishnia
Steven Wishnia is a New York-based journalist and musician. The author of Exit 25 Utopia and The Cannabis Companion, he has won two New York City Independent Press Association awards for his coverage of housing issues. He is looking for a job.
Let's hope the changes mark the beginning of the end of New York's Rockefeller drug laws.
Posted on Apr 3, 2009
Enraged by the prospect of $700 billion of their taxes going to speculators, hundreds of protesters hit Wall Street on Thursday.
Posted on Sep 26, 2008
The "Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics" conference in New York presented an older and wiser psychedelic movement.
Posted on Sep 25, 2008
Economists estimate tens of billions for governments if we taxed pot like tobacco and stopped wasting money on the drug war.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008
My grandfathers, like many other illegal immigrants, helped usher in the world's greatest period of working class prosperity.
Posted on Aug 5, 2008
New study says New York's cannabis crackdown is both racist and fraudulent -- and that more have been arrested under Bloomberg than Giuliani.
Posted on May 9, 2008
Five signs that pot might become legal soon -- and five reasons why it probably won't.
Posted on May 1, 2008
Pot isn't illegal because the paper industry is afraid of competing with hemp -- it's because of racism and the culture wars.
Posted on Feb 21, 2008
The Dem candidates have good positions on medical marijuana, but they need to stand up for comprehensive changes in our drug laws.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008
Bush's pick for a CA prosecutor post of hardliner Joseph Russoniello signals a possible crack down on the state's multi-billion dollar pot industry.
Posted on Dec 30, 2007
I pledge allegiance to the human race, to everyone from Bangladesh to Uganda who wants to make the world a better place, not to the billionaire thugs demanding blind obeisance to their divine dominion.
Posted on Jul 1, 2005
Two California women are asking the nation's highest court to prevent the federal government from interfering with their medical-marijuana use.
Posted on Nov 30, 2004
The election results show there is still substantial support for liberalizing the nation's drug laws – just not too far or too fast.
Posted on Nov 4, 2004
In Philadelphia and its suburbs, voters' mix of concerns on issues points to no clear advantage for the candidates. That's where the activists come in to play.
Posted on Oct 22, 2004
The Still We Rise march was about New York City, not the country.
Posted on Aug 31, 2004
Chelsea, the neighborhood closest to the Republican Convention in New York, is decidedly not Bush country.
Posted on Jul 26, 2004
The mix of Democrats who have criticized the Drug War the most are the ones considered least likely to win. Here's a rundown of pot-minded candidates.
Posted on Jun 11, 2003
Moralistic pot foe blows millions in slot machines but the man's fanatical policies live on.
Posted on May 15, 2003
In spite of mounting evidence of the drug war's failure and a burgeoning movement for reform, Bush's drug policy is likely to be more conservative than compassionate.
Posted on Apr 3, 2001
