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July 2, 2014
Susan Schulten
San Francisco Mapped Every Brothel, Opium Den, and Gambling Parlor During a Moral Panic in the 1880s
The ugly motive behind a beautiful diagram of old Chinatown
June 10, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Marijuana Might Make You a Worse Driver Than Alcohol Does
May 25, 2014
Richard A. Posner
We Need a Strong Prison System
But we need to imprison people for fewer crimes and for less time
April 30, 2014
Sarah Sloat
Ivy Leaguers Twice as Likely as Other Students to Use Drugs as Study Aids
February 22, 2014
Steven Poole
Queen Victoria Took Medicinal Marijuana
February 3, 2014
Alice Robb
A New Study Says Medical Marijuana Reduces Suicide
January 9, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is What the Average Medical Marijuana User Looks Like
December 23, 2013
Alice Robb
I Embedded with a Community of Meth Users
November 19, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Media Needs to Stop Stigmatizing Our Best Weapon Against Heroin Addiction
November 7, 2013
Liz Evans
The Most Famous Drug-Addiction Cliche is Also a Lie
Against "rock bottom"
October 11, 2013
Julia Fisher
Red State, Blue State; Meth State, Coke State
August 12, 2013
The New Republic Staff
This Is What Legal Pot Stores Look Like
August 12, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Non-Cynical Explanation for Eric Holder's Drug-Bust Switcheroo
July 26, 2013
Ryan Kearney
This Picture Proves that Immigrants Can't Carry 75 Pounds of Pot Across the Border
July 26, 2013
Ryan Kearney
Finally, a Classic Portrayal of the Ugly American Backpacker
Michael Cera gets high, and highly annoying, in 'Crystal Fairy'
July 10, 2013
Alec MacGillis
A Hard Film to Swallow
The anti-drug documentary that West Virginians refuse to watch
June 13, 2013
Colleen Kimmett
The Painful Politics of Painkillers
Opioids are deadlier than ever, but research into cannabis is still taboo
May 20, 2013
Jane Hu
Dear TV: 'Mad Men' Season Six Episode 8, Post 1
"Mad Men" takes speed
May 7, 2013
Graeme Wood
Subu Must Die
How a nation of junkies went cold turkey
April 26, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Too Hot for K Street?
Africa's first "narco-state" loses its fancy D.C. lobbying firm—but not for the obvious reason

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