Friday, February 21, 2025

Peter Bensinger, DEA Chief Who Profited from Drug Testing, Dies at 88

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Cartoon: John Trever for the Albuquerque Journal If you've ever lost a job or a job opportunity because you failed a marijuana piss test...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Trump Names Former Drug Prisoner Anne Marie Johnson As ‘Pardon Czar’ While Continuing to Appoint Prohibitionists

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Johnson at a celebration of the First Step Act in 2019  During a press event marking Black History Month held even as his administration wo...
Friday, February 14, 2025

As U.S. Schoolteacher Marc Fogel Is Released from Russian Prison for Pot, Injustices Continue

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After spending 3 1/2 years in a Russian prison for bringing a small amount of medical marijuana into Russia, Pennsylvania-born international...
Monday, February 10, 2025

RIP Tom Robbins: Our Boomer Petway

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Robbins in 1981 I'm not ashamed to say I was pretty much in love with Tom Robbins, who died yesterday at the age of 92. The only persona...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Bob Dylan Biopic "No Direction Home" Misses the Politics -- And the Pot

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For a moment, I loved it.  Watching Timothée Chalamet step off a bus in Greenwich Village on a quest to find Woody Guthrie, wearing that cla...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Marianne Faithfull: She Walked in Beauty

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Marianne Faithfull, the honorary Rolling Stone who was central to the drug-fueled rock music scene in 1960s England, has died at age 78. Fai...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas Hallucinates with Mandrax in "Maria"

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Angelina Jolie is winning acclaim and award nominations for her portrayal of O.G. opera diva Maria Callas in the movie  Maria , which follow...