Steve Fox, AlterNet. November 9, 2009. Anti-pot propaganda drives most people to drink alcohol instead. But booze is far more dangerous than marijuana.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. October 23, 2009. We have a double standard -- promoting the recreational use of alcohol and banning the similar use of marijuana.
Paul Armentano, NORML. September 10, 2009. 41 percent of the U.S. population say they've tried cannabis at least once in their lives, 10 percent say they've used it in the last year.
Paul Armentano, Steve Fox, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 20, 2009. The stats for death and injury tied to alcohol on campus are staggering, yet students are more harshly punished for pot -- which is far more benign.
Paul Armentano, Steve Fox, AlterNet. August 15, 2009. The authors of a new book on misconceptions about marijuana respond to the torrent of comments on an excerpt published on AlterNet.
Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 6, 2009. A new book explains how we're steering people away from cannabis and toward the use of a very harmful and deadly substance: alcohol.
Norm Stamper, Huffington Post. April 22, 2009. Marijuana smokers show greater responsibility in their choice of drugs than those of us who choose (and abuse) alcohol.
Manfred Johnson, AlterNet. February 17, 2009. Have you ever noticed that a lot of the legal drugs out there -- including the popular ones, like alcohol -- are wildly overrated?
Karen Sternheimer, AlterNet. December 27, 2008. Poverty and family abuse -- not TV or the Internet -- are the causes of teen violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and unplanned pregnancy.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. August 19, 2008. The alcohol poisoning death rate in the United States is shockingly high, consistently between 300 and 400 a year. It's zero for pot.
Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, Christian Science Monitor. September 11, 2007. Research shows that exposure to alcohol in middle school raises the risk of social problems later in life.
Jan Frel, AlterNet: Video. May 2, 2007. Like us, most monkeys drink "responsibly," some get trashed all the time, and a small group goes for teetotaling ginger ales.
Philip Barron, AlterNet: PEEK. April 9, 2007. Philip Barron: A-B's line of alcoholic mixers may cross the line between appealing to young adults and pandering to kids.
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. January 4, 2007. AlterNet readers sound off about risks young women face in bars and nightclubs, the "she-asked-for-it" mentality, and who, if anyone, is a victim.
