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The drug war goes to college
What kind of vindictive social agenda could lead to a law that
denies financial aid to a student convicted of smoking a joint but not one
convicted of rape, murder, arson or armed robbery?
Up in smoke
The U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to close down California's pot buyer's clubs.
If Jenna Bush is a pothead, is it news?
By James Pinkerton
"Traffic" jams the drug war
It's rare for a movie to change the direction of a political debate in Washington, but this one has.
Hey, wanna smoke some Muggles?
Whoever came up with the "street" drug names in the White House drug office must have scored some radical Dinkie Dow.
Another pardon that stinks
Clinton pardoned a well-connected cocaine kingpin -- while letting countless low-level, mostly black and Latino, dealers rot in prison.
Make policy, not war
Robert Housman, former U.S. assistant director of strategic planning, and Dave Fratello, author of California's treatment-not-jail initiative, discuss the war on drugs.
Could Ashcroft roll back drug policy reform?
Bush's choice for attorney general might halt efforts to emphasize treatment over incarceration, opponents fear.
Hardest hit by the prison craze
Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society.
Hollywood kicks the habit
In the scorching new film "Traffic," director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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