Article One: This piece was written on the occasion of the Drug Enforcement Agency's attempt in early 2002 to ban hemp food products with even trace amounts of THC. The piece appeared in the February 28 - March 6, 2002 issue of the Colorado Springs Independent under the title "Driving While Hippie." It also appeared in the February 28, 2002 issue of the Boulder Weekly under the title "War on Ponytails."

Article Two: This piece was written on the occasion of the summer 2005 Supreme Court decision legitimizing federal attempts to enforce anti-marijuana laws against medicinal marijuana users, particularly in various states where medicinal marijuana use has recently been legalized. Too long for most newspapers, the piece was posted on the website Hippyland.com in August of 2005. Here is a still-longer, revised version called "'My What Big Teeth You Have!': Why The Supreme Court Threw Granny in the Slammer."

Article Three: Entitled "Drugs: A Primer for the Sensible," this piece has never been published besides on this site. I originally intended it as an entry for Bloggèd Be @ Happily Hippie but decided it would be better here due to it length, among other things.

Article Four: Arguing that Colorado’s Amendment 44, which would legalize the possession of an ounce of marijuana by adults, is in essence a civil-rights movement, an in-state version of this piece ran as a “Speaking Out” column in the October 5th-11th, 2006 Colorado Springs Independent; they called it “Hippie Hating and Hippie-Baiting.” Here's the national version; I call it “Selma with Dreadlocks.” (The Gingrich hippie-baiting date has now been corrected to 1994.)

Article Five: "4/20 and the Pin of Pot Laws" analyzes 4/20 through the lens of ethnic-hippies theory. Published in the April 27, 2007 Boulder-based Colorado Daily as "4/20 Thoughts," the piece that appears here contains minor revisions.