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Award-winning investigative journalist (and dad) Peter Gorman has spent more than 20 years tracking down stories from the streets of Manhattan to the slums of Bombay. Specializing in Drug War issues, he is credited as a primary journalist in the medical marijuana and hemp movements, as well as in property forfeiture reform. His work has appeared in over 100 national and international magazines and newspapers.

Peter Gorman's love affair with the Amazon jungle is well-known to people in the field. Since 1984 Mr. Gorman has spent a minimum of three months annually there generally using Iquitos
Peru as his base. During that time he has studied ayahuasca the visionary healing vine of the jungle with his friend the curandero Julio Jerena. He has collected artifacts for the American Museum of Natural History botanical specimens for Shaman Pharmaceuticals and herpetological specimens for the FIDIA Research Institute of the University of Rome. His description of the indiginous Matses Indians’ use of the secretions of the phyllomedusa bicolor frog has opened an entire field devoted to the use of amphibian peptides as potential medicines in Western medicine.



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1: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #22

2: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #21

3: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #20

4: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #19

5: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #18

6: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #17

7: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #16

8: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #15

9: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #14

10: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #13

11: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #12

12: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #11

13: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #9

14: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #10 The Doctor Is In the House

15: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #8 Chavez flexes and the US blinks, with a short history lesson in US politics. Meanwhile, the US once again hits record highs for marijuana arrests and incarceration rates. Let’s see you beat that, Canada! Hooray!

16: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #7 The long arms of the US Drug Warriors reach into the lives of the riveriños of the Peruvian Amazon, while professional snitches ruin lives and run free.

17: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #6 Continuing the 38-year idiocy of the War on Drugs, this month’s displays of barbarism by the powers of prohibition include the arrest of Marc Emery at the behest of the DEA, the arrest of 44-immigrant convenience

18: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #5 Med-Marijuana Busts in Cali; Rene Boje One Step Closer to Extradition from Canada, Corruption in Mexico and Detante in Peru.

19: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #4 At last, some cops on our side of the fence: LEAP springs into action.

20: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #3 Flip-Flop Over Afganisthan Dope; Marijuana Psychosis in Cannabis Researchers; New York Mafiosi Busted for Pot Grows and Other Amazing True Life No Bullshit Drug War Cow Pies!

21: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #2 Meanwhile, the Drug War continues to rage with the fury of hell. Time to wake up and stop it, kiddies.

22: A Tree Swing in the Yard - A House Is Just a House Until It’s a Home

23: Killer Weed: The Gorman Diaries

24: STAN WATERMAN: UNDERWATER GENIUS

25: DR. BILL KARESH: VETERINARY CONSERVATIONIST

26: Canamo, Chile: The Southern Hemisphere’s First Magazine of Cannabis

27: 35-YEARS ON A TRUMPED UP CONSPIRACY: The James Tranmer Story

28: Quanah Parker: Last Chief of the Comanches

29: The Good Red Road

30: The Peyote Eaters: A Visit With the Native American Church

31: Drug War Follies - Skunk Magazine Issue #1

32: YOUR CHILDREN ARE DYING

33: THE McCAFFREY SCANDALS

34: THE CANNABIS CUP

35: Crushing Butterflies Under Iron Boots

36: SUSPECTED POT DEALER KILLED

37: THE STRANGE AND TRAGIC CASE OF JIMMY MONTGOMERY

38: PSYCHEDELIC SUPERSTARS

39: Paraphernalia: Smokin’ Hot Legal Issue Again

40: The Myth of Colombian Coca

41: OPERATION GREEN MERCHANT: AN OVERVIEW

42: FORFEITURE: THE SEIZING OF AMERICA - Part 1

43: EVO MORALES: Bolivia’s New President Faces Uphill Task

44: DUAL PROSECUTIONS: PAYING TWICE FOR THE SAME CRIME

45: THE ROGUE’S GALLERY OF DRUG WAR MONSTERS

46: TRUE CRIME: THE HUMAN TOLL IN THE WAR ON DRUGS

47: Dr. Tod Mikuriya: Shrink Rapped

48: Drug War Enforcers: The US DEA

49: Cannabis Spirituality The Short History of Our Church

50: THE BAD NEWS: 25 Years For Six Ounces of Weed

51: COLOMBIA QUAGMIRE: FARC Indictments Spell Escalation in Andean Oil War

52: Coca Country Updates: Colombia, Peru, Bolivia

53: THE CLINTON DRUG WAR LEGACY The Gentlest Ride into Hell American’s Have Ever Experienced

54: The Cannabis Innovators -part 2 Socal Change: Heros and Legends in the Pot Trade

55: The Cannabis Innovators Heros and Legends in the Pot Trade

56: MARIJUANA AND THE QUESTION OF RELEGALIZATION

57: SIXTY YEARS OF REEFER MADNESS: Prohibition Follies from Anslinger to McCaffrey

58: Mary Lynn Mathre, RN: Rx for Medical Marijuana

59: HOWARD LOTSOF: TAKING AIM AT ADDICTION

60: Kenny Jenks: Aids Battler

61: Mark Stepnoski: This Cowboy’s Smokin’

62: The HIGH TIMES Interview: ALBERT HOFMANN: THE FATHER OF LSD

63: WADE DAVIS: STUDENT OF THE PLANTS

64: Hemp Times Interview—Wade Davis

65: THE HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: CLYDE BELLECOURT, FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT

66: HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: PETER DUESBERG

67: HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: BROWNIE MARY RATHBUN

68: Drug War Follies #31

69: Drug War Follies #30

70: Drug War Follies #29

71: Drug War Follies #28

72: Drug War Follies #27

73: Drug War Follies #26

74: Drug War Follies #25

75: Drug War Follies #24

76: Drug War Follies #23

77: The Trans-Texas Corridor: The Road to Salvation or the Highway to Hell?

78: The Annexation Boom: Six Years Down the Road to City Sprawl

79: TASERS: WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR BULLY COPS

80: SMUGGLER’S BLUES

81: PLAN COLOMBIA: THE PENTAGON’S SHELL GAME

82: LINEMAN DOWN

83: LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION: LEAP

84: Welcome to Johnson County, Texas: Come on Vacation, Leave on Probation

85: Ice Burn - A Cautionary Drug Tale

86: THE HIGH COST OF BEING POOR

87: From the Amazon to Pecan Street

88: DYING AT HOME - The Life and Death of an Ordinary Person

89: When David Becomes Goliath Our Disenchantment with Walmart

90: DAY WORK - Better Than Nothing but Not by Much

91: Border Wars

92: Bhang! Bhang! You're High!

93: Three Stones to Mark a Fire: India's Forgotten Artist

94: SNAKE CHARMER

95: MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN INDIA’S ANCIENT ALTO RAINFOREST

96: Ganja on the Ganges

97: A WEDDING IN PERU

98: What Gringos Expect from Trips to the Amazon

99: The Vision Seekers: Matses Indians of Peru

100: The Floating Slums of Iquitos: Acculturation in the Peruvian Amazon