Stories by Kristen Gwynne

Kristen Gwynne covers drugs at AlterNet. She graduated from New York University with a degree in journalism and psychology.

No Justice for 62-Year-Old Man, Pepper Sprayed to Death by Florida Police

Posted on: Dec 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Krugman: The Economic Debate is Dominated by Dangerous Lies

Posted on: Dec 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Ny Times Op-Ed: To End Ridiculous Pot Arrests, Jurors Should Refuse to Convict Marijuana Arrestees (And Can Do So Legally)

Posted on: Dec 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Economic Justice? BofA to Pay $335 Million Settlement For Predatory Lending, Financial Abuse of Blacks and Latinos

Posted on: Dec 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Anti-Drug-War Advocate Gary Johnson Will Now Run for President as a Libertarian, Not a Republican

Posted on: Dec 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Rep. Allen West Compares Dems to Nazis, and the House Tables a Resolution to Condemn His Comments

Posted on: Dec 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Egyptian Women Defend Their Role in the Revolution, 10,000 March Against the Army's Brutality

Posted on: Dec 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

CA Collective Pushes Back Against Federal Crackdown, Proposes Ballot Initiative to Regulate Medical Pot

Posted on: Dec 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Happy Birthday, Bill Hicks: Why We Can Still Learn From, And Laugh At, The Great Critic and Comedian

Posted on: Dec 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Hicks was one of America's best stand-up comics, but also established himself as an insightful critic of American politics and mainstream culture.

Study: Why Teen Pot Smoking Could be a Good Thing (And What We Can Learn From Teens Who Choose Weed Over Beer)

Posted on: Dec 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Teens are smoking more weed, while cutting down on alcohol and cigarrettes cigarrettes, because they do not perceive marijuana to be as harmful as did generations past.

Bradley Manning, Re-Occupation, and the WGA: Occupy Wall St. Updates

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Risking Lives: In 2012 Spending Deal, House GOP Slaps Ban on Federally Funded Syringe Exchange Programs

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Study: Death Penalty Use Reaches New Low (Still Not Low Enough)

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

McQueary Testifies in Penn State Sex Abuse Hearing: 'I Thought I Was Talking to the Head of Police'

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Accountability! SEC Charges Former Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with Fraud Related to Subprime Mortgages

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Tea Party Founder Arrested for Packing Heat on an Airplane

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Journalist-Provocateur Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Obama Will Not Veto National Defense Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of U.S.Citizens

Posted on: Dec 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Study: 1 in 5 U.S. Women Has Been Raped, Even More Have Been Abused

Posted on: Dec 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Victims of the Recession: New Report Shows 1 in 45 Children Are Homeless Annually, a 38% Increase Since 2007

Posted on: Dec 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Study: Drug Courts Are Not The Answer

Posted on: Dec 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet

More Corruption: How Ohio Republicans Will Redistrict the State to Empower Themselves and Save the GOP Millions

Posted on: Dec 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Politics Before Science: the House Votes to Step Up Prohibition, Criminalizing Dozens of New Chemicals

Posted on: Dec 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Anecdotal evidence beat out science in debate over the bill, which will ban 40 relatively unknown chemicals found in bath salts and fake pot, and make researching them difficult.

Urgent: Ban on Federal Needle Exchange Funding May be Restored in Next 8 Hours

Posted on: Dec 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet

When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts

Posted on: Dec 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Patrick J. Sullivan's experience as a cop is making him an exception when it should make him an example. The former "Sheriff of the Year" has a very shady past.

From Vancouver to Florida and up to New York: "Occupy the Roads" Creator Explains Her Vision (And Need for Gas Money!)

Posted on: Dec 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet

NPR: 'Occupy' is 2011's Word of the Year

Posted on: Dec 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Shame on You: PA Liquor Control Board Blames Drunk Girls (and Their Friends) for Being Raped

Posted on: Dec 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Feds Force Hundreds of California's Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to Close

Posted on: Dec 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet

California and Nevada Attorney Generals Announce Joint Investigation into Foreclosure Fraud

Posted on: Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet

3,000 Protesters Wage Sit-Ins at Congressional Offices in D.C., Demand Officials Hear Voices of Unemployed

Posted on: Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet

In Texas Welfare Office, Mother Denied Food Stamps Shoots Her Two Kids Before Killing Herself

Posted on: Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Victory for OWS: Governor Cuomo Taxes the Rich and Eases the Burden of the Middle Class

Posted on: Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Stigma Over Science: CDC Calls Organs from the Non-Monogamous "Risky"

Posted on: Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Senate Refuses to Vote on Shaheen Amendment, So Rape Victims in the Military Still Can't Get Abortions

Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Tomorrow: OWS Protests Tear Gas Manufacturers and Financial Backers in Solidarity with Egypt

Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

2001's "Sheriff of the Year" Arrested for Exchanging Sex for Meth

Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Occupy Phoenix Demonstrators Arrested, Pepper Sprayed for Protesting ALEC Meeting

Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Shocking: Latest Victim of The War on Weed is a Former Marine Living with AIDS

Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Kentucky Church Votes to Ban Interracial Couples (One Showed Up, And They Got Scared)

Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

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