Missoula Independent January 16th, 2003. The Temptation of Dr. Weed - This is not the first time reporters have called on Sands. Between 1999 and 2000, he was hounded by media from all over the world—the BBC, Mother Jones, the London Observer and Newsweek all wanted access to the man and his groundbreaking research. Sands was one of the world’s few experts on mycoherbicides—fungi that kill other living plants. Sands’ specialty was a fungus meant to replace toxic chemicals as the weapon of choice in a drug war battle plan designed to decimate crops of coca and cannabis in the jungles of Colombia.

ABC News July 30, 2002. The War on Drugs: A War on Ourselves? - Have you ever used illegal drugs? The government says a third of Americans have at some point — and about 5 percent use them regularly. The number may be higher, because how many people honestly answer the question, "Have you used an illicit drug in the past month?" Fighting drug use with prohibition has not made a substantial difference in the amount or crime and drug abuse in the United States, critics say.

ABC News June 20, 2002. Higher Immorality? - For Some Religious Groups, Drug Laws Do More Harm Than Drugs Themselves. "Christians for Cannabis, which describes part of its mission as "to provide encouragement, support and prayer for the [Christian cannabis user] subculture as a whole and those that work on its behalf," may be the extreme, but it is not the only religious group advocating an end to the war on drugs."

Ottawa Citizen Drug War Special - The excellent series of articles at The Ottawa Citizen which exposes the War on Some Drugs as the sham it always has been.

PBS Frontline: Drug Wars - Examine the history of America's anti-drug campaign, from government drug control efforts to the rapid rise and fall of the Colombian drug cartels.

Salon.com - Their excellent exposes' about the War on Some Drugs.

"More Reefer Madness" - Schlosser writes in 1997: "Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is, "in the grip of a deep psychosis."

CNN's Weed Wars - Slightly dated yet still valuable CNN series about the early days just prior and after California's passing of Proposition 215, providing for medical use of marijuana.

"Marijuana and the Law" - by Eric Schlosser (September, 1994). "The vigorous enforcement of marijuana laws has resulted in four million arrests since the early 1980s. Owing to mandatory-minimum sentences, many of those convicted are receiving stiff prison terms, even as violent criminals are released for lack of space."

"Reefer Madness" - by Atlantic Monthly's Eric Schlosser (August, 1994). "Marijuana has not been de facto legalized, and the war on drugs is not just about cocaine and heroin. In fact, today, when we don't have enough jail cells for murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals, there may be more people in federal and state prisons for marijuana offenses than at any other time in U.S. history."