Fortunately -- with the help of a vintage Nicole Miller gown, my great-grandmother's pearls, hair set in a low side chignon topped with a Deco-inspired rhinestone comb -- I was ready for any speakeasy.
Long before the IRS began singling out groups with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, "marijuana" was a political buzzword that elicited special attention from the IRS.
As bad as drugs can be, Drug Warriors are worse. They raise the stakes of the drug fight, incentivize the drug gangs and push them to greater heights of violence. When a solution becomes worse than the problem it is time to abolish the solution.
The marijuana policy reform movement has never donated real money to candidates in a systematic effort to change federal law and laws in the 50 states. We are starting today, and by 2017, we are confident we will see the results.
Hearing "Let's do the time warp again" might inspire more thoughts of Rocky Horror Picture Show than a burlesque performance, but Speakeasy Moderne, currently in performances at Stage 72, delivers a thoroughly delightful time warp that, after experiencing once, one will probably want to do again.
On this day in history, March 22nd 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a bill making it legal to purchase and sell beer and wine with 3.2...
Surely Willie Nelson comes to mind for many people when the words "country music" and "marijuana" are mentioned together. Yet Willie has many younger allies these days as a new generation of "outlaw" artists are brazenly singing about pot.
America's unique level of gun violence is not something to scratch our heads at as if it is a bolt from the blue -- it is partially the expected outcome of immoral and ineffective government policies.
Unless people have been hiding under a rock this past couple months, they know that more than 55 percent of voters in Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana on November 6. Here is what I think we can reasonably accomplish by the end of 2013.
The New York Times published a fascinating op-ed yesterday on the history of race, alcohol and drug prohibition, and soft drinks. The prohibitionist p...
LINEVILLE, Ala. -- Clay County has almost 14,000 residents, around 100 churches and not a single place where you can buy a beer legally.
There's no B...
For those who want marijuana legalized, Tuesday's election brought major victories. But many were quick to point out that under federal law, pot remai...
Shut-in Pennsylvanians hoping for some liquid courage to help face the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy had little luck Tuesday--all liquor stores in the ...
The president, in refusing to bow to the intimidation tactics of the drug enforcement industry, has paved the way for my state, and possibly others, to show the federal government a new way forward on marijuana policy.
Almost as soon as movies could talk, they were making films about the gangsters who came to prominence by supplying liquor to thirsty Americans who didn't believe in the nanny-state laws against alcohol known as Prohibition.
Alcohol education should be introduced at a much earlier age to our youth. Children shouldn't be exposed to drinking through a Bud Light commercial, and college students should be taught when and how to moderate.
Like the 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting alcohol and 1919's Volstead Act enforcing it, what is sometimes derisively called Obamacare may end up once again proving the law of unintended consequences.
We would like to think that the government consists of men and women who are intelligent, logical and selfless individuals; sadly this is often not th...
NEW YORK -- The grandniece of infamous American crime czar Al "Scarface" Capone, is hoping a tell-all book she has penned will clear up decades of hal...
Why the vitriol toward those trying to get marijuana legalized? It seems to me that marijuana legalization is the only civil rights issue in America where it is still acceptable to mock the oppressed by questioning the selfish motives of those fighting for equality.