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Flowers of Evil

by Michael Pollan,

Last season was a strange one in my garden, notable not only for the unseasonably cool and wet weather — the talk of gardeners all over New England — but…

Goblet of Jam Madness

by Harper’s Staff,

The following “street terms” for marijuana can be found on the website of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Airplane Assassin of youth Astroturf Baby Bammy Bo…

This is Your Bill of Rights, on Drugs

by Graham Boyd, Jack Hitt,

How we the people became the enemy

America’s Altered States

by Joshua Wolf Shenk,

When does legal relief of pain become illegal pursuit of pleasure?

Opium, Made Easy

by Michael Pollan,

One gardener’s encounter with the war on drugs

Laughter, gunfire, and forgetting

by Charles Bowden,

An elusive tale of the Mexican drug war

The War on Drugs: A Judge Goes AWOL

by Jack B. Weinstein,

The War on (Some) Drugs

by Stephen Jay Gould,

A Political Opiate

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The war on drugs is a folly and a menace

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