CELEBRITIES LINE UP FOR HOLLYWOOD'S WONDERLAND

Is Celebrity Rehab Effective?

With So Many Going To Get Sober, It Now Just Seems Like A Trend

Lindsay Lohan, show here parting at the nightclub Warehouse on April 12, 2007, in Tokyo, is one of many celebrities who have checked into rehab.

Not so long ago, alcohol and drug addiction in Hollywood were considered taboo, something shameful. But now hardly a week goes by without a celebrity announcing they've checked into rehab.

Young Hollywood just loves to party but the seduction of alcohol and drugs has led many to rehab facilities like Wonderland, co-founded by Howard Samuels. It was reportedly where Lindsay Lohan went to get sober the first time.

"I have kids lining up at the door that are 19, 20, 21, that are on cocaine on a daily basis. They're doing ecstasy. They're smoking pot 24 hours a day," Samuels said.

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A John Lennon tribute by Allison Margolin

Today is the 26th anniversary of John Lennon's death. It is especially significant in these times to remember the message he propagandized through billboards in the time before his death: War is over if You Want It.

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FAREWELL DAVID CONN

David Conn, 56; prosecutor won convictions in Menendez case
By Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer

David Conn, the former prosecutor whose successful retrying of the Erik and Lyle Menendez murder case in 1996 won accolades and then an abrupt demotion, has died. He was 56.

I Loved David Conn

BUSH BRINGS BACK MARTIAL LAW

By Allison Margolin



Today is the craziest day in news because President Bush has admitted what some of us already knew: that this nation is under martial law and it's getting worse. President Bush announced that he wants and will ask congress to agree that convictions based on coerced evidence is admissible. In the words of the article in today's LA Times, Bush's Plan Allows Coerced Evidence, A1, this system is "military style."
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LA TIMES GOES HIGH TIMES TODAY!

LA Times profiles my life, and documents a day I won a decision involving one hundered-fifty marijuana plants, and also got an order granting the return of the plants.

ALLISON'S LETTERS FROM BERKELEY 9/11 Post

Letters from Berkeley

By Allison Margolin

I came to Berkeley to know that I wasn't crazy. I came here because I knew that there are crazier people than me, and that I can learn from them.Nothing is as it appears. That's why we go to Harvard; it's why our parents want us to go there.

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