Wednesday, January 7, 1998:
ACLU Urges Court To Change Marijuana Measure Title ('Associated Press' Notes Officials In Oregon Are Continuing Their Effort To Recriminalize Possession Of Less Than One Ounce Of Marijuana, This Time By Wording The Repeal Measure's Ballot Title To Confuse Voters)
Pot Measure Lights Up In Court - Ballot Title At Issue In Front Of Supreme Court (Different 'Associated Press' Account Broadcast By KOIN, Portland's CBS Affiliate)
NewsBuzz - On The Rocks ('Willamette Week' In Portland Quotes A Few Statistics On Annual Alcohol Use In Oregon - But Perhaps Since There Is No War Against Alcohol Users, Doesn't Mention Dozens Of Oregon Teens Who Die In Car Accidents After Drinking It, Or More Than One Thousand Other Oregonians Who Die From Drinking It, While Thousands Of Others Are In Jails, Prisons For Nontoxic Cannabis)
High Times With Peter Gorman And Art Bell (Thursday Night's Syndicated Radio Talk-Show With Art Bell Features The 'High Times' Writer And Editor Discussing Tours He'll Lead To Peruvian Amazon Featuring Ayahuasca Rituals)
Losers - Oregon Department Of Corrections (Scoreboard Column In 'Willamette Week' Notes DOC Has Been Breaking Law For Three Years By Not Making All Prisoners Work Full Time)
USS California Deployed To Counter Drug Smuggling (Nuclear Cruiser Disembarks From Bremerton, Washington, For Five-Month Mission To The Caribbean And Tropical Pacific)
Carrying A Gun During Drug Crime Is Defined (US Appeals Court Rules 'Carrying' Means Weapon Must Be Accessible, Reduces 17-Year Sentence)
Zumwalt Denies He Sold Cocaine (Duvall, Washington, City Councilman Denies Charges During Trial)
Professor Roger Roffman From University Of Washington's Medical Marijuana Treatment Program To Be On Seattle Television January 25
Editorial - State Supreme Court Handcuffs The Judges ('San Francisco Chronicle' Blames California Supreme Court Judges For Upholding 'Three-Strikes' Law Spawned By Media-Induced Fear And Ignorance)
Ritalin, The Drug Of Student Choice (Letter To Editor Of 'Oakland Tribune')
Cleaned Out (Michael Dix and Tracy Burns, Busted For Marijuana And Cocaine Possession Nine Months Ago, Come Home To Find Cops Have Taken All Their Possessions Without Due Process Because They Didn't Buy Iowa Tax Stamps For The Illegal Drugs)
Ignoring Impact Of Legal Drugs (Syndicated Editorial By Arianna Huffington Of Creators Syndicate Asks Why We Punish People So Severely For Using Illegal Drugs, While Drug Companies Make Billions Selling Mood-Altering Drugs To Millions Of Americans, Including Children?)
Letter To Editor & Response In JAMA ('The Journal Of The American Medical Association' Favorably Reviews A Pro-Drug-War Book That Endorses Drug-Testing But Doesn't Cite Any Scientific Evidence For It)
Industrial Hemp Bills And Initiatives In The US (Update Compiled By The Colorado Hemp Initiative Project)
Humboldt Brewing Making Beer With Hemp - Naturally (Former Oakland Raiders Star Mario Celotto Owns Brewery In Arcata, California, Using Hemp Seeds)
County Drug Court Idea Worth Study (Anderson, Indiana High-School Student Challenges Mandatory Urine Test)
US Government Brings First Tobacco Criminal Case (Justice Department Alleges DNA Plant Technology, A California Biotechnology Firm, Conspired With Brown & Williamson To Develop High-Nicotine Tobacco Plant)
Biotech Company Admits Developing High-Nicotine Tobacco ('San Jose Mercury News' Version)
US Company Charged With Plot To Develop High-Nicotine Tobacco ('Ottawa Citizen' Version)
Box Mailed To 'Miami Herald' Contained More Than $1Million Worth Of Cocaine, Heroin (Sent From Colombia To The Paper's Business Department)
Legal Booze Is No Excuse For Legalizing Drugs (Misleading Letter To Editor Of 'Miami Herald')
JAMA Articles Referred To By 'Miami Herald' Letter To Editor (Two Studies On Domestic Violence Associated With Illegal Drugs Report Vast Majority Of Disturbances Involve 'Alcohol And Other Drugs,' Suicide, Weapons; 44 Percent Previously Arrested For Violent Acts; 'Use' Undifferentiated From 'Abuse' In JAMA Terminology, Also Violence Due To Prohibition Rather Than Illegal Substances Themselves)
Behind Bars (Public Broadcasting's 'NewsHour With Jim Lehrer' Reports On New CASA Study Alleging 80 Percent Of America's 1.7 Million Prisoners Are There Due To 'Abuse' Of Alcohol, Other Drugs)
Crackdown On The Border Is Paying Off, Officials Say ('Operation Rio Grande' Along South Texas Border Said To Result In 'A Dramatic Drop In Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants,' Although 'Marijuana And Cocaine Seizures Have Increased,' Operation 'Has Failed To Shut Down The Principal Smuggling Corridor On US 77' - 'It's A Slow Process,' Says Commander)
Fatal Heroin Overdose Rattles Family Of Haltom City Man (Alcohol Impaired Recovering Texas Addict, Sister-In-Law Tells 'Dallas Morning News')
Administrator Says Hospital 'Vindicated' - Riverside's Substance Abuse Funding Will Be Reimbursed By State Commission (Texas Commission On Alcohol And Drug Abuse Will Pay Houston Hospital $2 Million For Treatment Provided While Its Sate Funding Was Suspended During A Three-Year, $6 Million Investigation Into Alleged Misuse Of Funds By Scores Of TCADA Contractors, Which Turned Up Nothing)
Marijuana Is Medicine (Letter To Editor Of 'Lethbridge Herald' In Canada About History Of Cannabis As Herbal Medicine)
Suing For Peace In The War On Drugs (A Vancouver, BC, Constable Concludes That Prohibition Just Won't Work)
Kingston, Ontario, Police Bust Erewhon, Off The Cuff Hemp Stores (Allegedly Disregarding Ontario Supreme Court By Confiscating Literature, Hemp Products)
Editorial - Cuckoo's Nest ('Ottawa Citizen' Disapproves Of Tobacco Prohibitionists In California, Colorado)
End Marijuana Prohibition (Britisher's Letter To Editor Of 'The European')
Time To Take Pot Luck (Editorial Columnist At 'The Scotsman' Says The Law On Cannabis Is Not Working And The British Prime Minister Should Establish A Royal Commission To Consider Legalisation)
Request For Help From Europe (Prime Minister's Command To All 60 British Labour EU MPs May Swing European Policy Away From Harm Reduction To Swedish Model)
In Panama, Sounds Like More Of Same (No Latin American Country Has Announced Participation In New 'International Drug-Interdiction Center' At Howard Air Force Base, Where Up To 2,000 US Troops Will Stay After 1999)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 28 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists)
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