- NEW! You know those super-duper arthritis pain medicines that gave people heart disease? Well, it looks like they weren't any better than meds already available on the market. Duhhhhhh
- NEW! Ugly story: puppies' bellies cut open and sewn back together to smuggle heroin WARNING: has somewhat disturbing photo
- NEW! The rate of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs being written for pre-adolescents in skyrocketing in the UK
- NEW! The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) has produced a report on the morality and practicality of "pharmacotherapy", drugs that neurochemically treat drug addiction. The potential for the government to abuse these drugs is great indeed. You can get it here (PDF format), either by left-clicking or right-clicking and saving it. (Saving it might be easier, since it weighs in at a hefty 52 pages.) For a good critiqua and criticism of pharmacotherapy, go here
- NEW! Humerous\serious article about the so-called "cough medicine high" craze, media scaremongering, and corporate evasiveness. A must-read!!
- NEW! Conservative judge supports reforming ultrastrict drug laws--and of course, he's getting abused left and right for it
- NEW! Medical marijuana studies in CA going slower than expected
- Boy REPORTEDLY dies from LSD overdose It should be kept in mind that it is virtually impossible to die from an LSD overdose, so this report is suspicious. Go here for more information
- Medicinal marijuana program in Amsterdam isn't working, because cheaper pot can be bought from coffeeshops
- 3 states, Montana, Alaska, and Oregon, have proposals on their ballots for lessening current marijuana laws (*The original link for this no longer works, so we direct you to visit this similar story here)
- Big victory for edible hemp! Hemp Industries Association has won a key battle in court; hemp seed products are now totally legal in the US
- A lengthy article on pharmeceutical drug abuse among teenagers (and a damning social commentary to boot)
- Psychedelics are slowly getting the cred they deserve as legitimate medicines
- Hurricane flooding has an upside: a surge of psychedelic mushrooms sprouting
- If Hastert really wanted to find a wealthy supporter of the drug trade, he should look at Republican-loving religious nut Sun Myung Moon
- More Soros\Hastert nonsense. Soros now wants an apology (which he deserves)
- Dumbass caught selling pot from booth at county fair
- Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, an antidrug fucknut, thinks millionaire George Soros, who supports decriminalization, is selling illegal drugs. Not only does Hastert not have any proof for this claim, he doesn't seem to understand that Soros is the source of money to many drug reform groups, not a benificiary.
- A narcotics agent shot and killed an unarmed man who he mistook for a suspect. Another casualty of the insane war on drugs.
- Rats can get hooked on drugs. Wow, um, way to go, Science
- The Illegality of Pot is Criminal An editorial by by Tracy McLelland
- This story is all about how doctors and other experts use websites like Erowid provide accurate information about psychedelic drugs (the article is from April\May '04)
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- NEW! Absolutely hottifying photos of a shooting incident in Iraq of an innocent family, with children ***NOTE***: Contains graphic imagery
- NEW! Britain now has an Abu Ghraib-style scandal of their own
- NEW! Pope John Paul II continues to oppose Iraq War
- NEW! The Pentagon has produced a report that strongly criticizes the Bush administration for its failures in the War on (some) Terror and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. You can read it for yourself here
- NEW! Editorial by Scott Ritter: The War on Iraq Has Made Moral Cowards of Us All
- NEW! A grim story of the realities of "post"-war Iraq
- NEW! More looming rumors of a military draft. Despite Bush's denials, more National Guard and Army Reserve personell are expected to fight this pointless war
- Editorial by Pierre M. Atlas, on why many conservatives oppose the war in Iraq as strongly as many left-wingers do
- More bad shit from Camp X-Ray, this time from a British prisoner
- Rummy FINALLY admits there were no WMDs in Iraq
- The U.S. is losing the war on terror in large part to extremely poor information gathering and organizing, two things al-Qaeda is very good at
- At least 2,000 pages may be missing from Taguba report(from May 2004)
- Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, was secretly detained for 4 months in 1995
- Well well well... Ney York City just decided to repel the PATRIOT Act. Don't beat yourself up if you didn't know--Big Media decided it didn't matter
- More of the good stuff from cartoonist Mark Fiore
- Common criminals are being treated as terrorists
- An anonymous CIA agent states the obvious(although they may be revelations to some of you): bin Laden don't give a rat's ass about our "freedom", he is trying to wage war against the West, and he's unfortuneately doing a very good job at it
- 3 years later, no one is quite sure how al-Qaeda is financed
- Judge throws out lawsuit by a fired FBI translator who tried to warn of security failures For a similar (but unrelated) story about how people who try to expose and plug security leaks get punished, go here.
- 9\11 commission determines Saddam Hussein's Iraq was not involved with al-Qaeda in planning or executing 9\11, and that Saddam and bin Laden have no connection
- Would-be al-Qaeda terrorist Niaz Khan told the FBI bin Laden's plans for 9-11 more than a year before it took place
- Workers at Camp X Ray in Gitmo were ordered not to talk to the lawyers of the detainees
- How the late Ronald Reagan helped fund Osama bin Laden during the '80s
- FBI admits to wrongly arresting Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield in connection to the March 11th train bombing in Madrid, Spain
- More info that the Red Cross knew 90% of Abu Ghraib prisoners were innocent
- Soldiers, veterans, and their families oppose Bush
- Media lies and distortions about Kosovo and the Middle East
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