Subject: Illegal Drugs

• Gone to Pot: The Phoenix Global Marijuana March

  May 4, 2008

• Arpaio spouts SOS in new drug-conspiracy documentary

  May 23, 2008

• Thomas' TV Propaganda Cites a Drug Statistic Even the DEA Says Is Wrong

  July 24, 2008

• RATS! SNITCHING FOR TH SLEAZIEST COPS IN THE STATE ISN'T GOING TO LOOK GOOD ON YOUR RESUME!

  January 27, 1993

• THE HEMP IRE STRIKES BACK

  CANNABIS CLOTHIER, ACCUSED OF MARIJUANA SMUGGLING, IS ON THE LAM

  June 9, 1993

• Waiting to Inhale

  Luis Sharpe led a double life. In public, he was an admired NFL star. In private, he was a crackhead hell-bent on self-destruction.

  June 6, 1996

• Tokin' Resistance

  Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen

  December 12, 1996

• DPS Quits Federal Drug Unit

  U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration laments DPS' withdrawal after 13 years

  February 20, 1997

• Joint Attack

  Legislators, judges take aim at 1983 law activists say legitimizes pot use

  March 6, 1997

• Toke It or Leave It

  Weed lifts lid on Amsterdam pot confab

  November 20, 1997

• Methology - Part III

  Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  December 18, 1997

• Methology - Part I

  Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  December 18, 1997

• Methology - Part II

  Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  December 18, 1997

• Meth Mess

  Methamphetamine labs are springing up all over--in homes, apartments, motels. Who's making sure the toxins left behind are cleaned up? Nobody.

  January 22, 1998

• Doctors Seldom Face Prosecution

  March 19, 1998

• Immigrant Songs

  Los Tigres del Norte continue to document the complex lives of Mexicans in America

  May 7, 1998

• Drug Lord

  The bandit Jesus Malverde has been dead for nearly a century. He's still wanted on both sides of the border.

  February 11, 1999

• Smoking Section

  Valley pot heads pipe up

  October 31, 2002

• Where There's Smoke...

  Letters from the week of November 14, 2002

  November 14, 2002

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 17, 2005

  November 17, 2005

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 15, 2005

  December 15, 2005

• Arizona's Marijuana-Worshipping Church of Cognizance Seeks a Legal, Spiritual High

  courtesy of the Church of Cognizance The seal of the CoC, designed by "The Pope of Pot," Dan Quaintance. Should the State of Arizona carve out an exemption to its marijuana ban for the pot-worshipping, neo-Zoroastrian Church of Cognizance? That was but one of the legal issues at stake during oral arguments on February 18 before the Arizona Supreme Court in the case of the State of Arizona vs. Danny Ray Hardesty. A member of the Church of Cognizance, Hardesty was popped back in 2005 in Yav

  March 6, 2009

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 23, 2007

  August 23, 2007

• The Bong Show

  Pay $1,200 for a water pipe? Are you high?

  August 16, 2007

• To Each Theron

  April 27, 2006

• Meth Madness

  For $5 million, Arizona can grow its population of meth users -- just like Montana

  April 27, 2006

• The New Meth

  When it comes to preventing -- and treating -- crystal meth addiction, Arizona may be getting a clue

  March 30, 2006

• Methology Redux

  When it comes to Arizona's meth addiction, there are no easy solutions

  December 15, 2005

• Fast Times at Westwind junior high

  Any way you add it up, kids at one Valley middle school were dealing meth out of their backpacks

  December 15, 2005

• Meth Treatment

  Meth addiction isn't impossible to beat -- but the treatment's not cheap. And good luck finding it

  December 8, 2005

• Bad Medicine

  Locking up cold medicine makes the politicians feel good -- but it won't put a dent in Arizona's meth habit

  December 8, 2005

• Meth and Sex

  Tweakers, straight and gay, are obsessed with sex. The result is that pregnancy and HIV-infection rates among meth-heads are increasing at alarming rates

  November 24, 2005

• Ice, Ice, Baby

  Arizona moms are abusing meth more than any other drug. Want to get them clean, save the family and save tax dollars? Try dangling their kids as the carrot

  November 24, 2005

• Meth Fatalities

  Methamphetamine is number-one with a bullet when it comes to violent death in Phoenix

  November 3, 2005

• The New Boss

  Police have shut down most of the meth labs in Phoenix, but now the drug is a big import from Mexico -- cheap, pure and more plentiful than ever

  November 3, 2005

• Private High

  Toking up with Grandma

  October 20, 2005

• Moral Absurdity

  The Arizona Legislature should start caring more about children than zygotes

  April 14, 2005

• Gimme Shelter

  Michael Senger just wanted to ride out Armageddon. But Pinal County officials didn't like his pot farm, gun stash and half-built bomb shelter

  July 3, 2003

• Up in Smoke

  Valley glass blowers and head shops fear prosecution, as Operation Pipe Dream shuts down a local manufacturer

  March 20, 2003

• Reefer Mainstream

  Thousands of Arizonans smoke marijuana. Get over it.

  October 31, 2002

• The Lesser of Three Evils

  Mexico and U.S. authorities finally captured Arizona's leading drug kingpin. Good work, guys. Now let him go.

  February 14, 2002

• Mary Jane Girl

  The life and high times of Phoenix cannabis crusader Christie Bohling

  September 13, 2001

• Big Bong Theory

  Arizona's pro-pot advocates cast first stone in latest national effort to legalize marijuana

  September 13, 2001

• Falling Czar

  This is one drug test Rick Romley can't pass

  February 8, 2001

• American High

  With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable war

  January 4, 2001

• Drug War Cowboys

  The DEA may finally get its man

  December 21, 2000

• Rap and Roll (and Fold)

  Thanks to Dr. Dre and his partners in crime, smoking dope looks cool again

  August 3, 2000

• Chemistry Decree

  Local distributor of "party drug" ingredient held on $5 million bail in biggest GHB bust in U.S. history

  April 20, 2000

• City of Coke

  Cocaine from Mexico is the currency that drives gangster economics

  December 30, 1999

• Hemp, Hemp, Hooray

  Activists claim ruling makes Arizona safefor marijuana; authorities disagree

  February 1, 1996