Tony Newman, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking but let's not get carried away and think that criminalizing smoking is the answer.
Tony Newman, CNN. August 2, 2009. Cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroin, meth and all other illegal drugs combined. Imagine if they were illegal.
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?"
Krystal Quinlan, AlterNet. July 6, 2009. Ruling on strip-searching case is the latest sign that the High Court's drug war fever may finally be breaking.
Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. January 16, 2009. As FDR did in 1933, Obama must now help end an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade against marijuana.
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.
George Rohrbacher, NORML. June 15, 2008. A Father's Day message to young pot smokers: "My mind still finds cannabis fun and enlightening after decades of inter-cranial adventures."
