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Peter McWilliams 2000 Deaths

Peter McWilliamsAge: 50 self-help author who championed the legalization of marijuana for medical uses. His books include The Word Processing Book: A Short Course in Computer Literacy and Ain…

Jennifer Capriati

Tennis star Jennifer Capriati turned pro at age 13 and reached the semifinals of the 1990 French Open at age 14. The next year she became the youngest-ever women's semifinalist at Wimbledon, and in…

The Supreme Court: Forcing Drug Tests

Forcing Drug TestsThe Supreme CourtControlling Our BodiesLimiting Abortion RightsDenying the Right to DieUsing MarijuanaForcing Drug Tests Another stage of the war on drugs placed pregnant…

Decline in Drug Use among American Adolescents

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In September 2007, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, led by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…

Andy Dick

Andy Dick got his start in comedy TV in the 1990s, as a regular on The Ben Stiller Show (1992) and News Radio (1995-99). His career peaked in 2001, as the star of MTV's The Andy Dick Show a talk…

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary was a psychologist whose research on the effects of LSD and other mind-altering drugs made him a symbol of the American counterculture movement. As a teacher at Harvard in 1960, Leary…

How High

Director:Jesse DylanWriter:Dustin Lee AbrahamUniversal Pictures; R; 96 minutesRelease:1/02Cast:Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatundé “Rap's invalidated my ghetto credibility” announced Pharaoh…

Robert Mitchum

Hollywood tough guy Robert Mitchum made a career of playing insouciant fatalists and unscrupulous rogues, especially in noir films of the 1950s. He was in the movies for more than five decades,…

Lemmy Kilmister

Name at birth: Ian Fraser KilmisterLemmy Kilmister was the face and driving force of the rock group Motörhead, a U.K. metal band known for songs such as 1980's "Ace of Spades." Kilmister got into the…

Lil Wayne

Name at birth: Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.Rapper Lil Wayne is known for his next-generation mix of whimsy and menace -- what the Baltimore City Paper called a "gravelly, giggly idiot-savant patter"…