Spiegelman in Santa Cruz
By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, April 15, 1992 Somebody in the UC Santa Cruz...
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New York Times Salutes Dana Beal
Sunday May 2, 2021 Today’s New York Times ran a quite respectful account of Dana Beal’s career under the headline “The Long March to Legal Marijuana.” The news hook was the “Joints for Jabs!”...
Read MoreClaud Cockburn’s ‘Double Personality’
In his autobiography, I, Claud…, Cockburn describes being recruited to write for the Daily Worker in late 1936:“It was about this time that Mr. Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whom I had never met,...
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Fred Hampton’s Chicago
After watching Judas and the Black Messiah, I called John Woodford for a reality check. In the...
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Shig’s Accusation
March 3, 2021 When Ferlinghetti died I thought maybe I should write what I knew about Shig’s...
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Nora Volkow, Our de facto Drug Czar
President Biden has not yet named a new director of the White House Office on Drug Control Policy...
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The Villain Leshner
By Fred Gardner 2/22/21 I don’t know which chemicals are released in which parts of the...
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‘Drug Use For Grown-Ups’
Dr. Carl Hart, a neuroscientist on the Columbia University faculty, is the most audaciously...
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COVID-19 and Cannabis
By Fred Gardner 1/2/21 Joe D. Goldstrich, MD, is 82, sharp as a tack, and intent on avoiding...
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