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Mexican officials argue the legislation is designed less to change the situation than to clarify the law and go after the traffickers harder. Indeed, while using small amounts of drugs may now be fine, selling drugs is still illegal. The law clearly states any person dealing narcotics will be sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's New Drug Law May Set an Example | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

One night Doc's ex-girlfriend Shasta shows up on his doorstep asking for help. It appears that her new squeeze, the powerful real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann, may be the target of a kidnapping scheme. When Mickey disappears - and Shasta too - the lovelorn Doc, with quantities of superior weed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Pynchon's Magical Mystery Tour | 8/1/2009 | See Source »

As you might guess, things that come between a Nevadan and his land don't sit well, and over the past decade, there's been nothing more disruptive than the environmental movement's good intentions. Nye County rancher Jim Berg, 68, doesn't call himself a Libertarian, but he thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libertarians: A (Not So) Lunatic Fringe | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Politically, all sympathies are with the underclass. The gentry, the police, the law conspire against the working class. In The Woman I Lost, the Federales are rapacious: knocking down an old lady, stripping the blouse off a young woman, dragging a woman by the hair as she clutches her baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

Jose and Julio Rosa say they are just humble Puerto Rican fishermen. But the brothers know how to hook marlin-size political symbolism. Last Thursday, when they heard that 216 of their protesting compatriots were rounded up by U.S. federales for occupying the Navy bombing range on the small Puerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Guns of May, the Sounds of Countrymen | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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