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In Support of e-Cigarettes
In Support of e-Cigarettes as a Substitute for Tar-Containing Tobacco Cigarettes As a recent convert to e-cigarettes I made a simple test to satisfy what I had known since I was a teenager. If you inhale on a tobacco … Continue reading
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Return to the Snake Pit Long have we condemned the mentally ill in our society to counter-therapeutic residence in prisons. Those unable to cope with living in society are subjected to dehumanizing captivity in prisons designed to punish the defenseless … Continue reading
Sundance Award: “The House I Live In”
The wretched story of race, crack, crime, and how black youth bear the brunt of what is a racially focused crime that singles out black youth. This is a crime with roots in the importation of the crack cocaine phenomenon … Continue reading