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A Man from Pasi community (a Dalit or untouchable community of India) serving toddy (Palm wine), a traditional alcoholic drink made from the sap of palm trees. (Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lessons from Bihar, India's booze ban

Niko Vorobyov
Speakeasy-Style Bar / Club, view from the bartop (Getty Images/Jitalia17)

A speakeasy blending myth and mixology

Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu
General view of a weed / marijuana shop - 7th Heaven on Koh Chang Island in Trat province. Koh Chang is a popular tourist resort island situated about 350 km south east of the capital, Bangkok, Thailand. (Paul Lakatos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why Thailand's weed battles matter

Niko Vorobyov

The Jazz Age

Amanda Marcotte
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Phillip Smith - Alternet
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You'll never drink again

Lisa McGirr

Asha Parker
(AP/Chris Pizzello/Salon)

Twilight of the War on Drugs

Keri Blakinger, Jeff Stein
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A distraught relative is held back after three men on a public bus were killed by unknown gunmen in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday March 1, 2013. (AP/Bernandino Hernandez)

Don Winslow on the drug war

Elias Isquith
"Half Baked" (1998) (Universal Pictures)

Drug war's racist conclusion

Matthew Pulver
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Phillip Smith - Alternet
(Screen shot, Fox News)

O'Reilly on pot in the ghetto

Elias Isquith
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Prachi Gupta
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

John Paul Stevens: Legalize it

Elias Isquith
(AP/P. Solomon Banda)

America's fired up about hemp

Lindsay Abrams
(Alice Keeney/AP)

CJ Werleman - Alternet
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Amanda Marcotte - Alternet
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Drug war is hopeless

Josh Eidelson
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