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Jan.21.2013
Every Martin Luther King Day lately, I find myself thinking about how Dr. King would feel about today's America, and I find myself thinking that he wouldn't be too happy. Post-Jim Crow, something like one out of every seven American black men has done prison time, and there are currently more...
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May.05.2012
Why are so many things in our culture described as a battle...a struggle we're waging...a war we're fighting? We have the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on cancer, the war on poverty, the war on war.
The war on drugs began in the early 70's by then President Nixon. But isn't drug use and...
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Nov.09.2011
I have on hand an ad for Lydia Pinkham’s vegetable tonic, which sold in the bazillions of bottles in the Victorian era and which contained the dreaded alcohol. The ad in question says that a young woman's health depends on taking the tonic, as well as getting lots of fresh air, good sleep, and...
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Nov.05.2011
Yesterday I read that the Province of Alberta has four times the amount of prescription drug abuse as Quebec. They don't know why.
I can hazard a guess...:)
When I was in my 20's I had a close friend who was hooked on some prescription pain killer. She had an important job and few noticed she...
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Apr.10.2011
Watching a big drug bust downtown from my car. Latino-looking guy in a BMW. A uniform stopped him, but he was immediately surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothes fuzz, one wearing a balaclava. Then another copper arrives with a drug-sniffing mutt, who goes beserk over the car -- in & out all...
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