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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.
Author Charles Barber discusses Americans' unrealistic notions about happiness. We've medicalized a lot of life issues that aren't mental illnesses.

The Diarrhea Diet

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 15, 2008.
In lieu of exercise or a healthy diet, Americans now have the option of losing weight with a drug that causes bowel incontinence.

Colbert Gets "Doped Up" to Interview Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. March 15, 2008.
Nadelmann: "There has never been a drug free society in human history."

UN's Drug Czar Lashes Out on Reformers: "You’re All On Drugs!"

Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: PEEK. March 13, 2008.
UN Drug Czar Antonio Maria Costa made a rare appearance before the drug law reform community last November. He made quite an impression.

Study Says Marijuana Use Doesn’t Raise Cancer Risk: Will the Media Care?

Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: Health and Wellness. March 6, 2008.
So for the second month in a row we have researchers from New Zealand telling us that pot smoking has little-to-no association with cancer.

Anti-Pot Propaganda Reaches a Whole New Level of Lameness

Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: PEEK. March 5, 2008.
Ooh, a journalist is going to inject himself with pot -- to warn people of its "dramatic" effects.

Why Is Marijuana Illegal? [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 14, 2008.
Find out what the experts have to say...

Prescription Drugs, Not Illegal Ones, Killed Heath Ledger

Scott Thill, AlterNet. February 14, 2008.
The media pounced on his admitted love of weed and coke but did little to investigate the prescription drugs that did him in.

Yet Another Clintonite Attacks Obama for His Drug Use as a Teen

Blue Texan, Firedoglake AlterNet: Election 2008. January 14, 2008.
I guess getting knocked off your inevitability perch in Iowa, barely winning NH and blowing your national lead makes personal destruction politics OK.

America's Love-Hate Relationship with Drugs

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. January 9, 2008.
Many prescription drugs have effects similar to those of illegal drugs. But we still view some users as criminals -- the others as patients.

CIA Jet Carrying Four Tons of Cocaine Also Made Trips to Gitmo [VIDEO]

Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Video. December 27, 2007.
Perhaps the reason why the CIA’s well-documented role in the global drug trade is never really acknowledged is because it never really ended.

Bill Shaheen’s "Drug Baiting" of Obama Hurts Wife’s Senate Campaign

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 27, 2007.
I think the political lesson here is also clear -- some campaign tactics are simply best left to Republicans.

It's Time to Legalize Drugs

Ethan Nadelmann, Foreign Policy. December 20, 2007.
Rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue.

Clinton Campaign Co-Chairman Resigns Over "Drug-Baiting" of Obama

Oliver Willis, Oliver Willis.com AlterNet: PEEK. December 14, 2007.
The whole episode has just been so stupid and insulting.

Clinton Campaign Is Backwards on Racist Drug War

Tony Newman, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 13, 2007.
Now Clinton's behind the curve on another war.

One Step Taken Towards Ending the War on Drugs, One Hundred More to Go

Ezekiel Edwards, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: PEEK. December 12, 2007.
The Supreme Court has slowly begun to recognize the problem with the 100-to-1 ratio and the inflexibility of sentencing guidelines.

The Life and Times of John Sinclair [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 3, 2007.
An early victim of the War on Drugs who faced 20 years to life in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman, Sinclair served 29 months of a 9-1/2-to-10-year sentence before his legal victory on appeal changed the law for good.

Romney Launches Campaign Against Honesty

GottaLaff, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. November 26, 2007.
GottaLaff: Obama's admission that he inhaled marijuana as a youth has Romney all worked up.

"American Gangster" Reinforces American Stereotype

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. November 8, 2007.
The new movie American Gangster reinforces the enduring stereotype that the drug problem comes with a black face.

Marijuana Replaces Opium As the Top Crop in Afghanistan

Paddy, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2007.
Paddy: Poor people need to live too. So they do the only things they can to make a buck.

Top Fred Thompson Donor Is a Drug Dealer

Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. November 4, 2007.
Howie Klein: The same contributor also gave tens of thousands to other Republicans like Susan Collings and Lamar Alexander.

Crack Cocaine Sentence Reductions Finally Begin

Jeralyn Merritt, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 1, 2007.
Jeralyn Merritt: The 100 to 1 ratio between powder and crack cocaine penalties has no rationale or scientific basis.

Is The US Winning The War On Drugs? [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 25, 2007.
Should drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine be legal? Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, clashes with David Murray, chief scientist at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Louisiana's New Governor May Be a Minority, But His Policies Are Racist

Megan Izen, AlterNet: PEEK. October 24, 2007.
Megan Izen: Bobby Jindal is a GOP poster child for minorities. He's rejected Hinduism for Catholicism, changed his name and became a Republican.

Getting Real About the Economics of Cocaine

Bill Piper, AlterNet. October 24, 2007.
President Bush's plan for battling the war on drugs will only cost taxpayers dearly and make trafficking more profitable.

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