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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. June 22, 2009. Once the law takes effect, the state will be the first in the nation to have one officially licensed nonprofit center selling marijuana.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 15, 2009. Pot entrepreneur Richard Lee envisions a professional marijuana industry much like the one that exists in Amsterdam.
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.
Nathan Comp, In These Times. April 20, 2009. Once derided and dismissed by lawmakers, law enforcers and the law-abiding alike, marijuana reform is now sweeping the nation.
Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom. April 18, 2009. Marijuana has been used as an aphrodisiac for thousands of years. So what exactly is it about weed that turns people on?
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. March 26, 2009. We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal?
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. March 12, 2009. What was bad for Phelps, silly of Kellogg's, was apparently good for a food bank in San Francisco ... but the story doesn't end there.
Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake AlterNet: DrugReporter. March 9, 2009. The United States Attorney for Los Angeles is confusing his staff with contradictory memos about medical marijuana busts.
