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.
Combining grassroots organizing, legal action, pressure on the banks and eviction-day sit-ins, activists in East Boston are winning the fight to keep people in their homes.
Posted on Jan 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Obama's drug czar has said "legalization" isn't in his vocabulary. Here's why it should be.
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Drug researchers are trying to replicate marijuana's therapeutic effects, but without the "side effect" of getting people high.
Posted on Jul 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Let's hope the changes mark the beginning of the end of New York's Rockefeller drug laws.
Posted on Apr 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
The "Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics" conference in New York presented an older and wiser psychedelic movement.
Posted on Sep 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
My grandfathers, like many other illegal immigrants, helped usher in the world's greatest period of working class prosperity.
Posted on Aug 5, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Five signs that pot might become legal soon -- and five reasons why it probably won't.
Posted on May 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: Indypendent
The Still We Rise march was about New York City, not the country.
Posted on Aug 31, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Chelsea, the neighborhood closest to the Republican Convention in New York, is decidedly not Bush country.
Posted on Jul 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
Moralistic pot foe blows millions in slot machines but the man's fanatical policies live on.
Posted on May 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: In These Times
