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Phillip Smith is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He has been a drug policy journalist for the past two decades. He is the longtime author of the Drug War Chronicle, the online publication of the non-profit StopTheDrugWar.org, and has been the editor of AlterNet’s Drug Reporter since 2015. He was awarded the Drug Policy Alliance’s Edwin M. Brecher Award for Excellence in Media in 2013.

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One of the reddest states in America just voted for a very progressive medical marijuana initiative

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Trump country is opioid country

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What it’s like for an American drug reformer to go to a country with a compassionate system

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The drug test-free workplace: 7 occupations that don’t require you to pee in a bottle to get hired

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Trump and Sessions are playing “bad cop-good cop” in the drug war

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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Saturday, April 9, 2016. The U.S. Air Force says it has deployed the bombers to take part in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group. It is the first time the Cold War-era heavy bombers will be based in the region since the 1991 Gulf War, when they operated from neighboring Saudi Arabia. (Staff Sgt. Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force via AP) (AP)

The U.S. bombing campaign against “Taliban heroin labs” is bad drug war theater

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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2013 file photo, partygoers smoke marijuana during a Prohibition-era themed New Year's Eve invite-only party celebrating the start of retail pot sales, at a bar in Denver. Colorado is on the brink of becoming the first state with licensed pot clubs. Denver officials are working on regulations to open a one-year pilot of bring-your-own marijuana clubs. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

6 states that could pass marijuana initiatives this year

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8 things we now know that happen (and that don’t happen) when we legalize marijuana

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In rebuff to Sessions, federal Marijuana Justice Act filed in House

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Why Jeff Sessions’ war on weed is a futile pursuit

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4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines

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The top ten U.S. drug policy stories of 2017

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The 3 states best positioned to legalize marijuana in 2018

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012 file photo, the Surgeon General's Warning appears on a pack of Camel cigarettes purchased at a Chicago area news stand. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A Tennessee judge’s outrageous abuse of the drug court system

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Cops abuse senior couple mistaking hibiscus for marijuana

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5 ways to avoid a marijuana-related trip to the emergency room

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Last year there were more arrests for marijuana than for violent crime

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People who trip on psychedelics are more likely to be environmentally conscious

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Trump moves backward on drug sentencing. California progresses

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Campus cannabis: The top 7 stoniest small colleges

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3 famous philosophers who took psychedelics and pronounced it mind-changing

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Joe Arpaio has been a world-class jerk a lot longer than you ever knew

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Debunking a key line of Republican attack on Medicaid and poor people

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Why are so many pot shops in poor neighborhoods?

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