Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. November 23, 2009. The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.
Steve Fox, AlterNet. November 9, 2009. Anti-pot propaganda drives most people to drink alcohol instead. But booze is far more dangerous than marijuana.
Jag Davies, AlterNet. November 4, 2009. The federal govt. is still blocking the process that would allow the marijuana plant to be brought to market as a prescription medicine.
Sara Libby, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2009. Is the Times really this hard up for story ideas that they need multiple columnists writing about their adventures getting pot?
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. October 28, 2009. An exclusive look at the historic testimony prepared for a special hearing on legalizing marijuana to the California Assembly.
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.
Josh Richman, Oakland Tribune. October 19, 2009. Oakland International Airport may be the nation's only airport with a specific policy letting users of medical marijuana travel with the drug.
Stephen Webster, Raw Story. October 11, 2009. In spite of a law on California books for over a decade allowing sales of pot, L.A. DA Steve Cooley suddenly announces, "The time is right to deal with this problem."
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. October 2, 2009. Emery is in jail in Vancouver, awaiting extradition to the US to accept a five-year plea bargain for selling marijuana seeds to US customers.
Tony Newman, AlterNet. September 30, 2009. Marijuana's coming-out party is kicking into high gear across America -- but way to many people still are getting cuffed for it.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. September 23, 2009. Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
Fred Gardner, O'Shaughnessy's . September 1, 2009. Phillip Northcutt started legally cultivating medical marijuana to deal with PTSD from fighting in the Iraq. It wasn't long before the police and the courts caught up with him.
Fred Gardner, O'Shaughnessy's . August 28, 2009. New research shows here seems to be something in pot that actually undermines cancer, instead of causing it. -- and the media are doing their best to ignore it.
Harry G. Levine, AlterNet. August 10, 2009. Marijuana possession is legally decriminalized in NY State. Nonetheless, NY City makes more pot arrests than any city in the world. How do they do it?
Russ Belville, NORML. August 4, 2009. Everywhere you look, corporate media are covering pot stories, except for the issue of its illegality and the lives ruined by prohibition.
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. July 25, 2009. Drug researchers are trying to replicate marijuana's therapeutic effects, but without the "side effect" of getting people high.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. July 17, 2009. Pot has lots of medicinal and financial benefits, but TV stations still do everything they can to avoid mentioning it.
Ryan Patterson, AlterNet. July 16, 2009. In light of the toll that marijuana prohibition takes on the lives of our neighbors, can we justly say "that's the price you pay?"
