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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:00 am

Marijuana, medical marijuana, and the law. The Justice Department says it won’t go after legal users. Now the country must decide how to live with legalized pot.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:00 am

The rural nightmare of crystal meth and how one Iowa town decided to fight back. Nick Reding and “Methland.”

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:00 am

Pharmaceutical companies – and some scientists – are pushing to make drugs like Adderall and Ritalin mainstream performance enhancers.

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Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 10:00 am

America’s health care costs are breaking budgets all over, but the tab for pharmaceuticals just keeps rising.
In 1980, Americans spent $12 billion on prescription drugs. Now it’s more like $200 billion. More than any other country — and yet we don’t live longer than others.
Reporter Melody Petersen asked what’s going on. What she found was [...]

 
Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 10:00 am

From American streets to Andean coca farms, the United States has battled drugs since Richard Nixon was president. And yet, some 35 years and 500 billion dollars later, drugs are everywhere, and cheap, and Americans are using them in epidemic proportions.
Critics say the War on Drugs is lost — half a million people in prison [...]

 
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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