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In what the police called an unusual drug arrest, a Brooklyn man was charged on Wednesday with selling liquid marijuana. ...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
Andre Agassi does not appear, to me, to be financially motivated, He appears to be a human being attempting to grow and find a happier sustainable place in this world.
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...
Johann Hari | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
The unofficial slogan of the prohibitionists for decades has been: The facts will only undermine the war, so invent some that show how successful we are, fast. Look at the United States.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.
The Observer | Jamie Doward | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living
Drug addiction clinics say they are becoming increasingly concerned by the health risks associated with the chemical -- the only known example of the ...
guardian.co.uk | Alan Travis in Brussels | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Britain has become the online "designer drugs" capital of Europe with more than a third of all internet retailers that sell "legal highs" based in the...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
A series of investigations could spell the beginning of the end for the billion dollar, taxpayer funded troubled teen industry.
Shan Wells | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver
When even old George Will thinks Mary Jane is riding the Freedom Express, you know that national legalization can't be too far away.
Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment
Former "Full House" child star Jodie Sweetin has an autobiography, "Unsweetined: A Memoir," coming out chronicling her battle with drugs and alcohol, ...
Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.
Posted 10.26.2009 | Technology
See video below "What does a trip to hell look like inside the mind?" this National Geographic segment asks. Find out in the video below, which tak...
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver
After gentrification the problems populating inner-city neighborhoods like Five Points aren't solved. They just relocate.
nypost.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment
Mary Forsberg Weiland and her husband, Stone Temples Pilot frontman Scott Weiland, were so addicted to heroin they showed up to a Fourth of July party...
popeater.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment
He's a comedian, so who knows if he's joking or not, but David Cross is claiming he brought cocaine to the recent White House Correspondents' Associat...
The Los Angeles Times | Tony Barboza | Posted 10.20.2009 | Los Angeles
A former Redondo Beach reserve police officer has been arrested for allegedly drugging an acquaintance, raping him and shaving off the victim's body h...
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment
LONDON — Amy Winehouse's father says Britain is wasting money on drug addicts who are too quick to say "yes, yes, yes" to rehab. Mitch Winehous...
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver
Once destitute, dilapidated and shunned, speculators and trendsetters now serenade the Five Points or LoHi neighborhoods, singing their praises to the tune of million dollar residences.
New York Times | BARRY BEARAK | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
JOHANNESBURG -- The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop toget...
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter testified Friday the ex-Playmate "took more medications than I've ever seen anyone take...
Jeff Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
A key member of the House Intelligence Committee says the controversial brother of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai regularly helps U.S. intelligence, but should not be considered a spy.
Carole Bennett | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
Relapse is common when the alcoholic/addict has not had enough recovery under their belt through 12-step meetings, sponsorship, counseling or their own personal determination to rely on an arsenal of "tools" to ward off the relapse demon.
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — An anguished bodyguard, saying he had to tell what he knew about Anna Nicole Smith's death "or I'm going to die," testified Wednes...
Reuters | Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ivan Karakashian | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians struggling to cope with the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the trauma of war are turning to painkillers and tran...
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nytimes.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York