Randy Credico, Huffington Post. November 22, 2008. Enough is enough. It's time to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws, a 36-year failed experiment in racism, injustice and government waste.
Jordan Smith, Austin Chronicle. July 23, 2008. Just in time for the Olympics, the U.S. takes the gold medal in several drug use categories, according to a recent WHO report.
Charles Shaw, AlterNet. July 11, 2008. After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for treating illnesses and addictions with psychedelic compounds has made a miraculous comeback.
Stephen Elliott, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. June 20, 2008. Could you imagine how mainstream media would be portraying Mrs. Obama if she had Mrs. McCain's past?
Vince Beiser, Huffington Post. June 17, 2008. If only we could forgive the thousands of imprisoned casual drug users in the way we've forgiven Barack Obama.
Jan Frel, AlterNet: DrugReporter. June 12, 2008. 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. June 6, 2008. Mothers suffering from depression are increasingly pushed into taking pills, putting them and their infants at great risk.
Steve Connor, The Independent UK. June 4, 2008. Scientists hope to produce enough of the drug within two years to help the approximately 500 million people suffering from malaria worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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