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The Column of Lasting Insignificance

John Wilcock | Posted April 11, 2008 | Media


John Wilcock

The God of the Old Testament is "arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomachistic, capriciously malevolent bully"--Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion(2006)

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Clinton's Crack Cocaine Apology: Too Little Too Late?

Anthony Papa | Posted March 4, 2008 | Politics


Anthony Papa

Does former President Bill Clinton want to become a drug policy reform advocate? On its face, it would seem that way following President Clinton's keynote speech at the University of Pennsylvania last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Kerner Commission report that addressed the causes of racial disturbances in...

Pat Robertson Laughs About His Cocaine-Using Pal On "700 Club"

Huffington Post   |  Patrick Waldo   |   February 18, 2008 01:56 PM


On Monday morning's "700 Club", while discussing Hugo Chavez's decision to continue shipping oil to the U.S., Pat Robertson went off on a strange tangent about a producer who revealed the secret to his muscular physique: cocaine. According to Pat,...

Coca Is Not a Demon

Milagros Gamero | Posted January 29, 2008 | Living


Milagros Gamero

Recently, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made news in the United States when he made a statement indicating that his friend, Bolivian President Evo Morales, sends him coca leaves, which he chews on a daily basis, without any negative health effects. This raised many an eyebrow among members of the Bush...

Clinton Supporter Bob Johnson Apologizes To Obama For Drug Comments

CNN   |  Suzanne Malveaux   |   January 17, 2008 12:42 PM


High-profile Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson is apologizing to Barack Obama for comments he made last week regarding the Illinois senator's acknowledged drug use as a teenager. Johnson said he sent a letter to Obama Thursday morning and said he...

Intervention

Dave Hill | Posted January 16, 2008 | Media


Dave Hill

Last night on cable, I watched an exciting episode of "Intervention," the incredible program that shows some drug addict doing a bunch of drugs for at least half the show until the drug addict's entire family shows up at his house, bangs on his door, and starts crying and blowing...

Cocaine Vaccine Developed For Drug Treatment

AP   |   January 2, 2008 09:55 AM


Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug. "For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should...

Death Of Quiet Riot Singer Ruled An Overdose

AP   |   December 10, 2007 06:29 PM


The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose. Clark County coroner spokeswoman Samantha Charles confirmed the cause Monday after toxicology results were received Monday....

War On Drugs Update: Coast Guard Seized Record $4.7 Billion Worth Of Cocaine Last Year

AP   |  DEVLIN BARRETT   |   December 6, 2007 12:01 PM


The Coast Guard has reeled in a record 355,000 pounds of cocaine over the past year, results that officials say have forced smugglers to transport their drugs through costlier methods like semi-submersible vessels and liquefied drugs. Coast Guard officials are...

Smartest Drug Story of the Year?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted December 6, 2007 | Politics


Maia Szalavitz

In a 15,000 word story for Rolling Stone -- which Slate has called the "smartest drug story of the year" -- Ben Wallace-Wells provides a devastatingly compelling history of "How America Lost the War on Drugs." It is well worth reading and deserves wide dissemination.

However, it falls...

Cocaine Sentencing Long Overdue

Byron Williams | Posted November 25, 2007 | Politics


Byron Williams

There has been an ongoing debate about the sentencing differences handed out to those convicted of possessing crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine. It was nearly 20 years ago when Congress passed and President Reagan signed sentencing laws for crack-cocaine possession that in retrospect many feel are overly punitive and racist....

Thompson's High-Flying Adviser Has Drug Dealing Past

Washington Post   |  Matthew Mosk   |   November 4, 2007 12:07 AM


Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing. Thompson selected the businessman,...

Royal Family Going Down...

Martin Lewis | Posted October 29, 2007 | Entertainment


Martin Lewis

OK - the story so far.

Two British socialites who have hung out at London nightclubs with Prince William and Prince Harry are in prison without bail -- after legal proceedings held in total secrecy (without any public record) -- accused them of trying to blackmail a member of...

Stoned, Drunk And Surrounded By Women: Ronnie Wood Tells All In Autobiography

Daily Mail   |   September 29, 2007 11:21 PM


For three decades he's been at the money burning, drug crazy heart of rock and roll. Now, in his scorching autobiography, Ronnie Wood reveals the inside story of his outrageous life in the Rolling Stones. My fellow Rolling Stone Keith...

Angelina Jolie On Drug Past: "I Remember Taking LSD Before I Went To Disneyland"

Yahoo News UK   |   September 18, 2007 10:15 AM


Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie once took powerful drug LSD before a trip to children's paradise Disneyland. The Tomb Raider star admits taking the hallucinogenic drug before a trip to the tourist attraction in Orlando, Florida. She says, "I remember taking...

Cocaine Videotape Could Cost Model Kidd Over $1 Million

Daily Mail   |  Neil Sears   |   September 18, 2007 09:41 AM


Jodie Kidd could lose up to £500,000 worth of modelling contracts in the wake of claims that she procured cocaine for undercover reporters posing as businessmen. Miss Kidd, 28, has so far kept quiet about allegations that she admitted using...

Model Jodie Kidd's Videotaped Cocaine Shame: Bashes Liz Hurley, Calls Naomi Campbell "A F-ing Monster"

News of the World   |   September 16, 2007 10:14 AM


Supermodel Jodie Kidd is exposed by the News of the World as a coke-snorting drug fixer. In one short phone call the leggy beauty, a friend of Prince Charles and sons William and Harry, arranged for three grammes of cocaine...

Stevie Nicks: A Klonopin Addiction Consumed My 40s

Telegraph   |  Mick Brown   |   September 10, 2007 07:25 AM


During the 10 or so years that she was addicted to cocaine - back in the days when Fleetwood Mac's album credits would include a 'thanks' to their dealer - Stevie Nicks estimates that she must have spent more...

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