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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Ronald "Shaka" HowardRonald "Shaka" Howard is a former crack cocaine addict who spent 25 years in the California Department of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Dorothy Johnson-Speight
Dorothy Johnson-Speight is the Executive Director of Mother's in Charge, a Philadelphia-based charity made up of...
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Published in: HomeThe environmental case for drug legalisation
The number of people in Colombia killed by US tobacco is way beyond the number of Americans killed by Colombian...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - "Forgiving her son's killer"
In this special preview clip from her upcoming interview, Dorothy Johnson-Speight speaks bravely and poignantly...
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Published in: HomeU.S. House to Vote on Amendment Blocking Funding for Obama’s Attack on Medical Marijuana
The U.S. House is expected to vote soon – possibly today – on a bipartisan amendment to the Commerce-Justice-Science...
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Published in: HomeThis is Maria. She will end the War on Drugs
Maria is a composite character based on many Mexican victims of the drug war - their words and actions - who...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Lynda Adams
Lynda Adams is the wife of Ken Adams (TENP #26), and like him, has battled an addiction to crack cocaine for over 30...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Ken Adams
Ken Adams of Oakland, CA has spent the last 30 years battling an addiction to crack cocaine. He has served a total...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Robert Halstead
Robert Halstead (son of Janet Maddox Goree featured last week) is serving a 30 year sentence for armed robbery at a...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug & Criminal Justice Front Line Report - March 28, 2012This week negative critique of the War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex goes mainstream (and, dare we say,...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Janet Maddox Goree
"The man who murdered my grandchild got probation, and my son, who didn't hurt anyone, got 30 years. How can that...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Chris Bava
Chris Bava is a former heroin trafficker who served 8 years in Federal prison following a worldwide sting operation...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug & Criminal Justice - Front Line Report: March 21, 2012
This week we take in the "Branson Follies" as The UK's most fun-loving Billionaire goes on the offensive with...
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Published in: HomePeace in Medicine: Inside California's Medical Cannabis Industry
Go inside the professional operations of Peace in Medicine, a licensed cannabis dispensary in Northern California...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug & Criminal Justice Policy Forum: Front Line Report - March 15, 2012It's hard to know these days which way the proverbial worm is turning when it comes to shifts in drug policy....
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Julie Falco & Dan Linn
Julie Falco and Dan Linn are two of the leading drug policy reform activists in the State of Illinois. They have...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of February 23rd 2012
The prison industrial complex has been one of the main beneficiaries of drug prohibition in the US. Since the Reagan...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of February 16th 2012
Last Saturday, singer Whitney Houston died at the age of 48. The toxicology reports are yet to be completed, but...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Lynette Shaw
Lynette Shaw was the owner of the very first legal cannabis dispensary in the State of California, which she opened...
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Published in: HomeJanusz Palikot’s ‘Cannabis Stunt’ Overshadowed a More Complex Debate about Drug Policy Reform in Poland
Palikot’s symbolic gesture played into the hands of a media that is eager to demonize the decriminalization...
