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It’s just not natural by Cathal Sheerin (August 2008)

From sheep’s testicles to strychnine the use of performance-enhancing substances in sport has a long, if dishonourable, history. Cathal Sheerin reports

George Bush’s joint by Rebecca Schoenkopf (July 2008)

In this extract from her new book, Commie Girl in the OC, Rebecca Schoenkopf, the ‘queen bee/black widow of alternative journalism’, goes inside the federal propaganda machine against marijuana

Smoking the celestial dream by Steve Platt (July 2008)

Steve Platt looks back at the role of cannabis in the ‘counter culture’ of the 1960s and 1970s and how people on both sides of the political and cultural divide believed that a hardy psychoactive plant could change the world. He wonders how it could ever have aroused such passions – both for and against its use – and asks why it’s still illegal