Stories by Charles Shaw
Charles Shaw is a regular contributor to Alternet, Huffington Post and Reality Sandwich, and the author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality (2009, Reality Sandwich).
Posted on May 12, 2011, Source: openDemocracy.net
The Land of the Free punishes or imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation. Parenti explains why.
Posted on Oct 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Surveying Alexander Shulgin's pioneering work with phenethylamine compounds, the ‘alchemy of medicinal chemistry,’ and the threat posed by the Federal Analogue Act.
Posted on Jun 14, 2010, Source: openDemocracy.net
Inspired by the founders' Federalist Papers, a group of reformers have penned a series of essays exploring the role of cannabinoids in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Posted on Jun 11, 2010, Source: openDemocracy.net
Two UK based organizations are charting a course through the miasma of international drug policy by publishing detailed road maps for comprehensive legalization.
Posted on Mar 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
"The first sign that ibogaine is working is generally a loud buzzing or ringing in the ears ... Soon after that I begin to feel warm and things take on a light golden glow."
Posted on Mar 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet
A psychedelic plant from Africa has sparked an underground revolution in medicine.
Posted on Jan 5, 2010, Source: Reality Sandwich
Entering the world of "Dead Time," the period a convict spends in the county jail awaiting shipment to the penitentiary system which doesn't count towards the overall sentence.
Posted on Apr 8, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
The company had been struggling for years ever since they were bought up and corporatized in the middle part of the decade.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for treating illnesses and addictions with psychedelic compounds has made a miraculous comeback.
Posted on Apr 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The pattern of out-of-control consumption in the U.S. is not too different from the well-known behavioral patterns of substance abusers.
Posted on Aug 10, 2007, Source: Conscious Choice
The counterculture’s exceptionally eccentric soap company hits the big screen.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
As America responds to its oil addiction, the biotech industry is once again promising to save the world. And this time, they just might mean it.
Posted on Sep 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
An ex-convict says we cannot address poverty and race in America, nor can we talk about needless death and expense, without addressing the drug war.
Posted on Dec 4, 2004, Source: Newtopia
This exclusive interview with un-embedded journalist Dahr Jamail reveals an almost unrecognizable picture of Iraq and its people
Posted on Oct 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It's time to get prepared for Nov. 3 and the following weeks – the counting and manipulation could really get started after election night.
