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No money, no justice

From The Washington Post Magazine, a cover story on the peace drug: Post-traumatic stress disorder had destroyed Donna Kilgore's life. Then experimental therapy with MDMA, a psychedelic drug better known as ecstasy, showed her a way out. Was it a fluke — or the future? Smartest drug story of the year: Rolling Stone on the war on drugs. The dark lure of "pain compliance": Nothing in the curious history of Tasers suggested just how powerful an appeal the weapons would hold for police officers; and alarmed by recent incidents? Wait'll you see what the company is planning for 2008. No money, no justice: A review of Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago’s Cook County Public Defender’s Office by Kevin Davis. Trouble with authority: The extreme power expert witnesses wield in courtrooms is only now coming under the microscope. An article on Foxy Knoxy and the case of the honorary missing white woman: The cable-news murder case you don't have to feel guilty about following.