Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States
Jun 20, 2024 · This smart and scrappy rag has earned it. Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States (June 2024,136 pp., $14 PB) Writing about drugs and drug policy doesn't have to come from academic presses or book-length journalistic reportage. Maia Szalavitz writes consistently cogent and well-informed short pieces on various aspects of ...
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New Report Challenges Meth Misinformation - StoptheDrugWar.org
Feb 19, 2014 · In a new report released this week, neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart and coauthors Joanne Csete and Don Habibi examines common assumptions about methamphetamine use and users and finds them wanting. Instead of careful, evidence-based analysis, rising concern about meth use has resulted in "a barrage of misinformation and reckless policies," Hart ...
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Drug Scare: Kids in Florida are Getting High by Sniffing Feces
Nov 5, 2007 · You can urine test them. You can take away their financial aid for college. But you can't stop the kids from getting high. Some people will try anything, and I don't think arresting them is going to help:Information BulletinNew Drug â JENKEMOn 09/19/07 Cpl. Disarro received and email from a concerned parent regarding a new drug called â Jenkemâ .
After Supreme Court Win, Antoine Jones Still Seeks Justice …
Mar 1, 2012 · Meet Antoine Jones, the Jones in US v.Jones, last month's Supreme Court case in which the high court held that tracking a vehicle's movements by placing a GPS tracking device on it without first obtaining a search warrant is constitutionally impermissible.That ruling set off an earthquake under the Justice Department, evidenced this week with reports that the FBI has turned off some 3,000 GPS ...
In Memoriam: Dr. John Beresford | StoptheDrugWar.org
Sep 28, 2007 · (courtesy Gaia Media Foundation and Erowid). Dr. John Beresford died on September 2, 2007 in a hospital in Canada. British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, when he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the New York Medical College and founded the Agora Scientific Trust, the world's first research organization devoted to investigating ...
DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Uphold Marijuana Prohibition, CA …
Oct 15, 2024 · Marijuana Policy. Justice Department Tells Appeals Court It Should Uphold Federal Marijuana Prohibition.The Justice Department last Thursday filed a brief with the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that Congress maintains broad authority to regulate marijuana and urging the court to uphold the federal ban on marijuana.
Tallahassee to Pay in Death of Informant Rachel Hoffman
Jan 8, 2012 · Rachel Hoffman, 23, a recent Florida State University graduate, inhabited student drug circles, but after she was busted and agreed to become a snitch in 2008, Tallahassee police sent her out into an entirely different world. They set up a "buy-bust" sting, giving Hoffman $13,000 in marked bills to buy ecstasy, cocaine, and a gun.