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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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In Favor of Robert Downey, Jr.'s Childhood

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Oct 6 2009, 10:58 AM ET Comment

A Goldblog reader, fed up with my Just Say No advice column, writes in to argue against marijuana moralizing:
I would hope you would evaluate marijuana use on the basis of scientific studies more than on government policies and general societal beliefs.  Societies and governments have been wrong about major issues in the past (slavery, alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, lax labor laws just to name a few examples). ... Rather than supporting the puritanical position that you either completely abstain from marijuana or you must be raising the next Robert Downey Jr., it would be more constructive to live in the real world and realize the best approach to this issue is to say that while you don't encourage the use of this drug as there are some risks inherent in marijuana use, if you are going to use this drug, you should use moderate amounts and take reasonable safety precautions.


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