Drugs

Cops Are Recruiting Young Informants in the Drug War -- and Risking Their Lives

By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

When low-level drug offenders become informants in exchange for leniency, lack of protections can make for fatal results.

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Colorado Task Force: Let Tourists Use Legal Pot

By Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

AZ Court: You Don't Have to be High to Get a DUI

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Full-Body Pat-Downs in America's Schools: How the War on Drugs Is a War on Children

By Patricia J. Williams / The Nation

Will We Ever Learn to Think in Moderation?

By Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

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Drugs

Buzz About NYC Mayor's Move to Reduce Marijuana Arrests Is Way Overblown

Harry G. Levine / AlterNet

How High is Too High to Drive?

Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones

What Are My Rights When Marijuana Is Legal?

Scott Morgan / Flex Your Rights

Matt Taibbi: How One of the World's Largest Banks Got Away with Murder

Natasha Lennard / Salon

My Valentine's Day: 28 Years Ago Today I Was Sentenced to 15-to-Life

Anthony Papa / AlterNet

Why You Can Thank Our War on Drugs For Roses Grown by Exploited Labor and Toxic Chemicals

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Hemp Is Harmless, a Potential Economic Miracle, and Still Illegal in America -- But the Tide Seems to Be Turning

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

How the Latin American Drug War Will End

Nikolas Kozloff / AlterNet

When Will Obama Adress the Issue of Mass Incarceration in America?

Ethan Nadelmann / AlterNet

Severe Stroke Leaves Teenager Blind and Brain-Damaged: Is Synthetic Marijuana to Blame?

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

The Fascinating Story of "White Boy Rick": Feds Built Him into Drug Kingpin at Age 14, Then Threw Him in Prison for Life

Seth Ferranti / The Fix

Former Cop: How To Talk To Police About Pot

David Downs / East Bay Express

Bogus Child Abuse Charges for Pregnant, Drug-Using Women (Hard Times USA)

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Is There Pesticide in the Weed You're Smoking?

Evan Mascagni / Policymic

Why the Newest Psychiatric Diagnostic Bible Will Be a Boon for Big Pharma

Bruce E. Levine / AlteNet

Making Sure the End of Cannabis Prohibition Benefits the Small Farmer

Doug Fine / AlterNet

Why Republicans Should Support Marijuana Reform

Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon

Note to Mrs. Obama: Try Hemp in the White House Garden

Jim Hightower / Creators Syndicate

Colombia to Decriminalize Ecstasy, Meth

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

The Future of Marijuana Reform, After Huge Victories in 2012

Paul Armentano / AlterNet

Take Ecstasy, Save Your Relationship

Katie McDonough / Salon

3 Latin American Countries Working to Reform Drug Policy

Jeffrey Dhywood / AlterNet

Will the FDA Crack Down on E-Cigarettes?

Helen Redmond / AlterNet

Why You Can Expect More Student Athletes to be Busted for Pot

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

I Have Watched People Killed By Our Insane Drug Policies

Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos

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