Drugs

Confronting the Truth About our Deadly Drug Policy on Overdose Awareness Day

By Meghan Ralston / AlterNet

Friday, August 31, is dedicated to understanding a new epidemic.

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The Straight Dope: Marijuana's Miracle Compound Contains Weed's Medical Benefits Without the High

By Melinda Misuraca / North Bay Bohemian

Militarizing the Police and Killing Natives: How the US Drug War Is Ripping Honduras Apart

By Annie Bird / AlterNet

In California, 911 Callers Reporting Overdose Won't Face Drug Charges

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

Synthetic Marijuana Turns People Into Zombies, Says Atrocious Govt. Anti-Drug Propaganda

Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes

Teens Dying From Heroin Overdoses Because They Fear Arrest: Why We Should Distribute Naloxone

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Drugs

Arkansas Medical Marijuana Initiative Makes the Ballot

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

The Case for Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

A World of Hillbilly Heroin: The Hollowing Out of America, Up Close and Personal

Chris Hedges / TomDispatch

Health Care Disaster: Why Drug Dealers Are Competing with Doctors to Help Addicts

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

How Times Have Changed: When a Marijuana Farmer Cried Out, 'Thank God, the Police!'

Doug Fine / Gotham Books

Why Are No Women Celebrity Stoners Willing to Come Out of the Greenhouse?

Greta Gaines / AlterNet

Watch: How the US Funds Repression and Murder in Honduras

Fault Lines / Al Jazeera English

Where Are the Bad Guys? Crackdown on Medical Pot Attacks the Sick and Working

Amanda Reiman / AlterNet

Mexican Poet Retired His Pen When His Son Was Murdered -- Now He's Turned Tragedy Into a Movement to the End Drug War

Jamie Haase / AlterNet

Smoke Signals: A Psychoactive Journey Through Marijuana's Fascinating History

Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog

Doped-Up Nation: How America Became a Country of Addicts

Richard Juman / The Fix

Olympic Athletes Were Using Plenty of Drugs in London: Why Don't We Let Them Use the Safe Ones?

Russ Belville / AlteNet

Can Pot Treat Cancer Without The Devastating Effects of Chemotherapy?

Martin A. Lee / Simon and Schuster

Eric Holder's Connection to Obama's 'Fast and Furious' Attack on Medical Pot

Martin A. Lee / AlterNet

New Act in Congress Would Help Combat Overdose Epidemic Killing Off Americans

Grant Smith / AlterNet

How America's Prescription Drug Addiction Crisis May Get a Whole Lot Worse

John Farley / AlterNet

New Bill Could Finally Legalize Hemp in the US

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Athlete Expelled from Olympics for Pot, Supposedly Because It's a 'Performance Enhancing Drug'

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Mexican Poet's US Caravan for Peace Tours to End the Drug War

Tom Hayden / The Nation

How the CIA's LSD Mind-Control Experiments Destroyed My Healthy, High-Functioning Father's Brilliant Mind

W. Henry Wall, Jr. / NewSouth Books

How Legalizing Drugs Would Strengthen Democracy From Afghanistan to Mexico

Inge Fryklund / Foreign Policy in Focus

Shocking Revelations About the FDA Exposed: Rubberstamping Drugs and Dangerous Medical Equipment, Spying on its Own Scientists

Martha Rosenberg / Truthout

How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste System in America

Mark Karlin / Truthout

When Aging and Addiction Collide

Jennifer Matesa / The Fix

What If Drug Users Organized Like Unions?

Ben Christopher / AlterNet

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