Drugs

Colorado Tax Enforcer Tells ’60 Minutes’: Weed Beat the Recession in Denver

By Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

That runs contrary to President Barack Obama’s logic: he said in 2010 that legalizing marijuana is not “a good strategy to grow our economy.” Denver appears to be proving the president wrong.

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Police Chase and Kill 3 Dogs in Marijuana Raid: "Like Shooting Deer"

By Alex Kane / AlterNet

'Marijuana Majority': New Website Celebrates the Sanity Behind Pot Policy Reform

By Tom Angell, Perry Rosenstein / AlterNet

Can a Psychedelic Drug From the Bark of an African Plant Cure Heroin Addiction?

By Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

11 Enemies of Marijuana Legalization

By Steven Wishnia / 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

Hondurans Caught in the Middle: U.S. Militarization and Narco Traffickers Threaten Indigenous Culture

Sharlene Mollett / AlterNet

6 Global Issues the Foreign Policy Debate Between Obama and Romney Won't Touch

FPIF Staff / Foreign Policy in Focus

Why Candy Crowley Should Have Asked Obama and Romney About Hemp

Martin A. Lee / AlterNet

No, Mexico’s Not Winning the ‘Drug War’

Nyki Salinas-Duda / In These Times

From Seed to Smoke: New Book Chronicles Marijuana's Complete History

Jonah Raskin / High Times

The Libertarian/Marijuana Conspiracy That Could Swing the Election

David Sirota / Salon

How Kids Are Getting Hooked on Pills for Life

Evelyn Pringle, Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

Dylan Lavene / The Fix

Class War: Why Poor Parents Are More Likely to Get Busted for Pot

Emma S. Ketteringham, Mary Anne Mendenhall / AlterNet

Amnesty International: Calderon Turned "Blind Eye" to "Torture Epidemic" in Mexico

Phillip Smith / StoptheDrugWar.org

The Truth About Workaholics

Chris Wright / The Fix

Powerful Court Quietly Takes Marijuana Case That Could Shatter Federal Prohibition Laws

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

At Annual NORML Conference, Legalization Initiatives Take Front and Center

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

10 Years in Prison for Legally Growing Medical Pot? The Feds' Insane Assault on Perfectly Legal Activity

Barry Scott Sussman / Online Publishing Company

Poor Kids Getting Prescribed ADHD Meds They Don't Need, Against Their Will

Katie J.M. Baker / Jezebel

5 Reasons Why Oregon's Weed Legalization Initiative Is the Most Radical on the November Ballots

Elisabeth Garber-Paul / AlterNet

This Week Marks 75h Anniversary of Federal Marijuana Prohibition

Paul Armentano / NORML

The 10 Most Wasted Countries

Ruth Fowler / The Fix

Puking Myself Clean: How I Tried to Kick My Opium Addiction at a Thai Monastery

Steven Martin / The Fix

Scandal Rocks Boston as City Realizes that Thousands of People Were Falsely Convicted for Drugs

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Sheriff Candidates Fight Over Who Wants to Legalize Marijuana MORE: 7 Reasons They Are Right

AlterNet

WA Initiative to Legalize Pot Enjoys Popularity at the Polls -- So Why Are Some Pot Activists Against It?

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

A Marijuana Revolution in the Making on Election Day

Paul Armentano / AlterNet

Big Pharma's Newest Money-Making Scheme: Adult ADHD

Evelyn Pringle, Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico Beg for an End to the Murderous War on Drugs

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

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