August/September 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Medical Marijuana Madness

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• A Menace To Society

  Peter Bagge

  Sick people who smoke pot to get better...and our government's tireless efforts to stop them!

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Bad Buzz

  Jacob Sullum

  Blocking alcohol inhalers.

• Saudi Censors

  Matt Welch

  Friendly tyrants.

• Armed With a Camera

  Julian Sanchez

  Protecting protesters' rights.

• TSA on eBay

  Jesse Walker

  Selling passengers' possessions.

• Lifetime Commitment

  Kerry Howley

  Surveillance in the Sunshine State.

• Quienes Libre?

  Matt Welch

  Cut off from Cuba.

• Flood Insurance

  Charles Paul Freund

  Koranic weather forecast.

• Death of the Auteur

  Julian Sanchez

  Film filtering freedom.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Spokesman for Speech

  Julian Sanchez

  Floyd Abrams interviewed by Julian Sanchez.

Data

• Data: Pot Bust

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes and Source

Columns

• Soul Survival

  Cathy Young

  Is "the new neuromorality" a threat to traditional views of right and wrong?

• Capturing Tom Friedman

  Matt Welch

  The Times columnist does foreign policy punditry by clich�.

• Rant: ID Card Trick

  Jacob Sullum

  Can we count on the DMV to foil terrorists?

Features

• The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't

  Sally Satel & Christina Hoff Sommers

  How the trauma industry exploited 9/11.

• Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs

  Kerry Howley

  Prescription laws make us sicker and poorer.

• The Iconoclast

  Shikha Dalmia

  Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection

• Self-Medicating in Burma

  Kerry Howley

  Pharmaceutical freedom in an outpost of tyranny.

• All Happy Families

  Julian Sanchez

  The looming battle over gay parenting.

Culture & Reviews

• Who Killed PayPal?

  Radley Balko

  "Consumer advocates" can make life miserable for consumers.

• Illegal Cities

  Robert Nelson

  Life among the Third World's squatters.

• Under the Spell of Malthus

  Ronald Bailey

  Biology doesn't explain why societies collapse.

• A Rumble on Sesame Street

  Jesse Walker

  The politics of public broadcasting.

• The Search for Real Absinthe

  Jacob Sullum

  Like Tinkerbell, the Green Fairy lives only if we believe in her.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Genghis Kitsch

  Kerry Howley