Charles Shaw is a writer and activist living in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He is the author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics and Spirituality, and the Director of The Exile Nation Project. Charles serves as editor for the Dictionary of Ethical Politics and the oD Drug Policy Forum.
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 28, 2010A weekly summary of news and developments in drug policy and criminal justice reform in the US and UK.
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 14, 2010A weekly summary of what's going on in drug policy and criminal justice reform in the US & UK.
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Published in: HomeThe Cannabis Papers: a citizen’s guide to cannabinoids
Taking their inspiration from "The Federalist Papers," a group of Illinois reformers have penned a series of 36...
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Published in: HomeThe failed politics of sentencing reform
In his exceptional white paper, American drug policy expert Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation...
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Published in: HomeEssential Reading on the US Prison-Industrial Complex
Three must-reads on prison and race in America
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Published in: HomePsychedelic Nostalgia: Barlow on the early days of LSD
Former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow's reminiscences on the introduction of LSD to the American consciousness.