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  • Death of a drug lord

    In "Killing Pablo," Mark Bowden details the 16-month game of cat and mouse that finally took down Medellín cartel founder Pablo Escobar -- with the help of the U.S. government.
    By Douglas Cruickshank May 24, 2001

  • Hey, wanna smoke some Muggles?

    Whoever came up with the "street" drug names in the White House drug office must have scored some radical Dinkie Dow.
    By Tom McNichol February 15, 2001

  • Ground zero in the Colombian drug war

    The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict?
    By Ana Arana December 5, 2000

  • Tulia's witch trials

    A drug sting case in a small Texas town shows how drug war paranoia can feed the fires of injustice.
    By Arianna Huffington October 11, 2000

  • Hard-to-swallow soup for a kid's soul

    Should I tell my sons about the drugs, the drinking and the jail in Daytona?
    By Callie Milton September 27, 2000

  • Portrait of a drug czar

    Gen. Barry McCaffrey drives his government office like a lockstep battalion, but some contend his ruthless schedule and egomaniacal ways are only hurting his effort to bring sanity to America's drug policy.
    By Arthur Allen August 30, 2000

  • Can needles heal crackheads?

    A groundbreaking study says they can and do, helping acupuncture inch toward Western acceptance.
    By Michael Castleman August 16, 2000

  • Hard time for soft crimes

    Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that.
    By Bruce Shapiro July 31, 2000

  • The corruption of Col. James Hiett

    When the commander of U.S. anti-drug efforts in Colombia got involved in drug running, Congress should have rethought its massive military aid bill -- but it didn't.
    By Bruce Shapiro July 5, 2000

  • Fighting drugs with choppers and poison

    Even advocates of U.S. military aid think the anti-narcotics package will only unravel the peace with Colombian guerrillas.
    By Ana Arana July 5, 2000

  • Horseplay

    New Zealand's Olympics-bound equestrian is accused of snorting coke and having unprotected gay sex.
    By Jack Boulware June 28, 2000

  • The war on drugs

    Prisons, profiling and propaganda: Salon's coverage of the U.S. government crackdown on illegal-substance abuse and the drug trade.
    May 2, 2000

  • Immunized against addiction

    Can a simple vaccine kill the appetite for cocaine? Researchers may soon find out.
    By Dawn MacKeen April 26, 2000

  • "Dead, I can't do anything"

    Francisco Santos, a former kidnap victim of drug lord Pablo Escobar, became a symbol of hope for Colombians weary of violence and fear. But when leftist guerrillas ordered him killed, he had to flee to the U.S.
    By Ana Arana April 5, 2000

  • Colombian woman caught with cocaine in her unmentionables

    Smuggler's bra-stuffing scheme will cost her big.
    By J.A. Getzlaff March 20, 2000

  • Going Dutch

    Can America learn from the Netherlands' drug policy of tolerance and ambiguity?
    By David Downie March 13, 2000

  • The elephant in the room

    Presidential candidates are silent on the failure of the U.S. war on drugs.
    By Michael Massing February 22, 2000

  • Is being hooked a choice?

    A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
    By Andy Dehnart January 10, 2000

  • Dead senator running?

    LBJ's son-in-law Chuck Robb once seemed to be on the fast track to the White House, but these days, he's considered the senator most likely to lose his job in 2000.
    By Jake Tapper November 17, 1999

  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
    By Susan Emerling October 29, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Shoddy journalism in George W. Bush case? Plus: Blaming Apple for geological events; "Law & Order" spin-off's salacious camerawork.
    Letters to the Editor October 26, 1999

  • Publisher halts George W. Bush bio

    As J.H. Hatfield's credibility crumbles, St. Martin's Press stops distribution of his new book, which says the GOP front-runner was arrested on drug charges in 1972.
    By Daryl Lindsey October 21, 1999

  • Is Hatfield the real McCoy?

    Under attack, the author of a new George W. Bush bio lies low while its editor takes the hard questions -- and stands by the drug-arrest allegation.
    By Craig Offman and Daryl Lindsey October 20, 1999

  • Colombia's powder keg

    Washington's ill-conceived policy could hurt human rights and fuel the drug trade.
    By Robert D. Lamb October 7, 1999

  • Death in custody from "excited delirium"?

    Some coroners say suspects are dying not from police brutality but an obscure medical disorder.
    By Christian Parenti September 29, 1999
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