Articles

Marijuana Made Easy Marijuana Made Easy

For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Cynthia Cotts

George Soros’s Long Strange Trip George Soros’s Long Strange Trip

Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Russ Baker

Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?

Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certai...

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter

An Old City Seeks a New Model An Old City Seeks a New Model

In early December 1984, an undercover police officer named Marcellus Ward met with a pair of heroin dealers above a candy store in southwest Baltimore.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Joshua Wolf Shenk

Harnessing the Rising Sun Harnessing the Rising Sun

Americans aren't much for history these days. History is for Europeans--for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolutio...

Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith

Kilroy Was There Kilroy Was There

In the summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler's apparently invincible Wehrmacht was grinding hundreds of miles into the Soviet Union, spreading mayhem all the way.

Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker

ER to HRC–Come in, Dear! ER to HRC–Come in, Dear!

Hillary Dear,

Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler

Response Response

I’m encouraged to see how much common ground there is between my colleagues and me. But some key differences remain. Peter Kornbluh contends that the distorting effect of all those…

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Michael Massing

Yes, Treatment, But… Yes, Treatment, But…

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh andMike Gray--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Elliott Currie

Perils of Prohibition Perils of Prohibition

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding though...

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Mike Gray

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