Cover Story: Proscripted Prescription
Cannabis-based medicines may be available in Europe as soon as next year. When will the U.S. government acknowledge the healing powers of weed?

News: The Real Cancun
Green Bloc of Sonoma County takes on the WTO. Plus: Bioneers is a family affair.

A Key to Slow Time: From the minds of Antenna Theater comes a whole new way of measuring our days in the universe.

Seed of the Mind: Chiyomi Longo's painting in full flower.

Critic's Picks: A guide to the week's best arts, theater and music events.

Unarresting: The bounty hunters of 'Cowboy Bebop' look cool even when their plans heat up.

Turning Up the Heat: Drummer John Santos carries the Latin jazz torch.

Nut-Blobs: Here's to Circus Peanuts, America's strangest candy for over 100 years.

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