Stories by Kristen Gwynne

Kristen Gwynne is an associate editor and drug policy reporter at AlterNet.  Follow her on Twitter: @KristenGwynne subscribe to Kristen Gwynne's feed

Fired Eagle Scout Delivers 70,000 Petitions to Local Chapter

Posted on: Aug 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

TSA Agents: Anti-Terrorist Program Targets Blacks and Latinos

Posted on: Aug 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Interactive Timeline Chronicles Attacks on Reproductive Rights

Posted on: Aug 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Is the NYPD Really Stop-and-Frisking Less?

Posted on: Aug 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet

10 of the Top Travel Destinations to Get High

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Here are some travel spots where the drug culture is as fascinating as Italy's cuisine.

Anaheim Police Fire Shots at Burglary Suspect

Posted on: Jul 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Watch: Violent Stop-and-Frisk Video Reveals Dark Side of "Anti-Gun" Tactic

Posted on: Jul 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Racial Tensions and Questionable Killings by Police in Anaheim: 9 Things You Should Know

Posted on: Jul 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet

It’s best-known as "happiest place on Earth.” But just four miles away from Disneyland, a cloud of tear gas and public outrage has swept over Anaheim.

OWS Updates: DC Mayor Asks Feds to Evict Occupiers, Nigeria to Shut Down Oil Production, Occupy the Dream Plans for MLK Day

Posted on: Jul 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

In Wake of Colorado Shooting, NYC "Stop-and-Frisk" Mayor Demands National Gun Control Policy

Posted on: Jul 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Watch: Prominent Drug Reform Activist Ethan Nadelmann Goes Head-to-Head with Drug Warrior on CNN

Posted on: Jul 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet

How Felon-Branding Will Ban a Historic 6 Million Americans From This Year's Vote

Posted on: Jul 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

J11: Zuccotti Re-Occupation Stirs Nostalgia for Last Fall

Posted on: Jul 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Will the Courts End Stop-and-Frisk?

Posted on: Jul 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Police Reform Activists Targeted by NYPD Won't Give In to Threats

Posted on: Jul 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Two activists found a surprise in their local police precinct--a poster with their mug shots, calling them "professional agitators" and providing police with their address.

Forget the Propaganda -- Here's the Drug War Data That Really Matters

Posted on: Jul 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Pharma Giant Glaxo-Smith Kline Will Pay Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in US History

Posted on: Jul 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Colombia Will Decriminalize Small Amounts of Weed and Cocaine

Posted on: Jun 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Rudy Eugene -- AKA the "Miami Zombie" -- Was Not High on Bath Salts, Toxicology Report Shows

Posted on: Jun 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Life Without Parole for Pot? 10 Worst Cases of Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Posted on: Jun 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Our government spends more than $7 billion annually to enforce marijuana prohibition in shockingly cruel ways, but the efforts have not deterred marijuana use.

New Report: Drug War is Fueling the Global HIV Pandemic

Posted on: Jun 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Legal Aid Society Sues New York City over Bogus Pot Arrests

Posted on: Jun 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Uruguay May Be First Country to Legalize Pot

Posted on: Jun 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Reckless: DEA Applauds Congress for Escalating Prohibition

Posted on: Jun 19, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Huge Multiracial Father's Day March Tells Bloomberg and NYPD, 'No More Stop-and-Frisk!'

Posted on: Jun 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Momentum has been building in the movement to end stop-and-frisk, but many were still amazed at the size of the crowd Sunday.

Hilarious: Jon Stewart Eviscerates the Senate Banking Committee for Kissing Jamie Dimon's A$$

Posted on: Jun 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The Daily Show Uncovers Corporate Conspiracy -- And a Big Revolving Door -- Behind Simplot's Water Contamination

Posted on: Jun 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Chicago PD Taser 8-Month Pregnant Black Woman Over Parking Ticket

Posted on: Jun 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

NY Sen Skelos is Against Pot Law Reform, Too Worried About People Carrying "10 Joints in Each Ear"

Posted on: Jun 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

'My Baby was Taken Away Because of an Illegal Pot Arrest': Video Series Kicks-Off to Support New Law to End NYC's Bogus Pot Arrests

Posted on: Jun 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Did Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Officers Kill a Latino Vet? Autopsy Suggests Violent Arrest Led to Death

Posted on: Jun 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

DOJ Demands End to Florida's Voter Purge

Posted on: Jun 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The Dumb and Dangerous Anti-Drug Propaganda in the Miami Zombie Story

Posted on: May 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The media love a story about people going crazy from drugs. But that's rarely the true story.

Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board Will Investigate ALEC for Lobbying Violations

Posted on: May 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Courts Expose Stop-and-Frisk as Racist, Unconstitutional NYPD Harassment Strategy: 8 Important Facets of the Legal Decision

Posted on: May 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

A US district judge has exposed the NYPD game as an illegal system of quotas and racial profiling imposed on field police from the top of the NYPD.

New Book Says Teenage Obama Was a Huge Pot Head -- So Why Won't He Legalize It for the Rest of Us?!

Posted on: May 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Mitt 'Not Concerned with the Very Poor' Romney Visits West Philly, Gets Lesson in Keeping it Real

Posted on: May 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Prohibition, 2012: Senate Passes Ban on Fake Pot, 'Bath Salts', 2C-E in Amendment Added to FDA Safety and Innovation Act

Posted on: May 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker Calls Drug War a "Nightmare," Tweets About Racist Incarceration

Posted on: May 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Watch: California Alliance for Retired Americans Awesomely Refutes Alan Simpson's Angry Name-Calling

Posted on: May 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

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