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By Will Godfrey 10/21/11

Cameron Douglas Smuggles Heroin and Coke into Jail, GOP Candidate Would Give Full Pardons to Pot Offenders, and Why Baseball's Hooked on Chewing Tobacco.

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Cameron Douglas Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Heroin and Cocaine into Jail [NY Daily News]
GOP Candidate Johnson Would Consider Full Pardons for Nonviolent Marijuana Offenders [Huffington Post]
US Navy Sailor "Tried to Smuggle Five Kilos of Coke Out of Colombia" [ABC News]
Man Who Robbed Drugstore Three Times Has Standoff With Police [WHAS11]
How the Chinese are Learning to Drink Wine [CNN]
Heroin Stolen from Sheriff's Evidence Locker [Chicago Tribune]
Jonny Gomes Can Attest to the Addiction of Chewing Tobacco [Press Democrat]

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Will Godfrey is the former editor-in-chief of TheFix. He was also the founding editor-in-chief of Substance.com, and previously co-founded a magazine for prisoners in London. His work has appeared in Salon, Pacific Standard, AlterNet and The Nation among others. He is currently the Executive Director at FILTER. You can find Will on Linkedin and Twitter.

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