In an outlandish case of judicial cruelty, Steven D. Corbin, of Caldwell County, MO, has just begun serving the seventh year of a 25-year sentence for involvement in the sale of less than six ounces o

During the past several years, five apparently separate events have taken place involving Colombia that are actually quite interrelated. The first was that during the late 1990s, massive oil resources

While the eyes of the world have been on Afghanistan since the terrible events of September 11, several major political changes have occurred in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia that have gone almost unnoti

Recent history judges a president on two things: the state of the economy and foreign affairs. During his two terms in office President Bill Clinton presided over an economy that boomed and simultaneo

Among the most important changes in the social perception of marijuana during the past three-and-a-half decades have been the general acceptance of marijuana as medicine (despite the US Federal Govern

Smoke it in a bowl, a chillum, a pipe, a joint, a blunt, a bong or suck on a vaporizer. Cook it in pizza, shrimp sauce or soup. Use it for medicine for the body, for the soul, for the head or for sex.

In November, 1894, The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission published the findings of an exhaustive research project devoted to discovering whether the use of cannabis, known in India as bhang, should be allo

by the HighWitness News Team: Dean Latimer, Steven Wishnia, Bill Weinberg and Peter Gorman