Wednesday, January 14, 1998:
Search-And-Seizure Case Goes To Supreme Court ('Associated Press' Account In 'Orange County Register' Notes The Case Originated In The Portland Suburb Of Boring, Oregon, When A 45-Member SWAT Team Invaded A Man's Home Without Knocking)
Follow-Up - Time Served ('Willamette Week' Notes Portland Attorney Found Guilty Of Giving $40 To Heroin Addict To Buy Another Fix, Which He Died From, Gets His Life Restored - Oregon Supreme Court Is Satisfied One Of Its Own Deserves No More Than 18 Months Probation, One-Year Suspension From Practicing Law - Time Served)
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Charged With Driving Drunk (Jim Townsend, Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor In Snohomish County, Washington, Will Be Arraigned Tuesday In Seattle)
DEA - Sufficient Grounds Exist To Remove Marijuana From Schedules I And II (Press Release Update On Yesterday's News, With More Commentary By Jon Gettman)
DEA Seeks Medicinal Review For Marijuana (CNN Report)
Medical Marijuana Patients' And Caregivers' Fund Will Defend 11362.5 (An Immediate, Urgent Goal Of The Fund Is To Support Litigation In Opposition To The Federal Lawsuit Against Six Northern California Medical Marijuana Dispensaries)
How To Help The Cannabis Buyers Clubs (News Release From American Medical Marijuana Organization Provides E-mail Addresses And Other Contact Information For Online Activists)
Garden Grove Targets Cannabis Clubs ('Orange County Register' Reports City Revokes Business License Issued To CBC Only Three Months Ago)
Re - Questions (E-Mail Cites Research Cannabis Use Decreases Alcohol Use)
Use Of Medication Should Not Be A Crime (Letter To Editor Of 'San Francisco Chronicle')
Farmers Reject Hemp (Delegates To The American Farm Bureau Convention In Charlotte, North Carolina, Reverse Position On Research In 198-168 Vote, Cutting Off Nose To Spite NORML's Face)
Lungren - Stop Selling Marijuana Trading Cards (California Attorney General Tries To Intimidate San Francisco's InLine Trading Cards)
Attorneys General Slam Marijuana Trading Cards (AGs From 22 States Jump On The Demagogic Bandwagon To Censor InLine Classic Cards)
Lungren Vs. Medical Pot (Letter To Editor Of 'San Francisco Examiner' Criticizes California AG)
Crackdown To Hit East Palo Alto Gangs (City Officials Upset San Mateo County Sheriff Didn't Consult With Them Before Announcing 10-Officer Strike Force That Will Target Four Key Gangs And Drug Dealers In Minority Community)
Young Start To Drinking Predicts Alcoholism - Report ('Reuters' Item On New Study From National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism, NIAAA)
Gingrich Promotes Drug War (The GOP Speaker Of The US House Of Representatives Addresses Lawmakers In Olympia, Washington, Suggesting They Focus On Four Goals, Beginning With 'Ridding The Nation Of Drugs' - No Comment Reported From American Medical Association)
How To Lobby Online In Support Of SB 6271, Washington State's Medical Marijuana Bill (Including A List Of Legislators' E-mail Addresses)
Boston Sheraton Settles Employee Spying Case (ACLU News Reports Attempted Persecution Of Pot Smokers Costs Boston Hotel $200,000)
Pentagon To Scrap Armed Patrols Along Border (The Defense Department Decision Comes In the Wake Of The Fatal Shooting Of A Teenage Goat Herder Along The Texas Border Last Year By A US Marine)
Focus On The Family - Marijuana Usage (Dr. Voth Strikes Again! - Notorious Topeka Anti-Pot Zealot Given Airtime To Spread Lies About Cannabis By KXXV-TV In Waco, Texas)
Renewed Call To Decriminalise Cannabis (Britain's BBC Relates What Home Secretary Jack Straw Heard When His Own Backbencher, Labour MP Paul Flynn, Urged Him To 'Go Dutch' And Decriminalise Cannabis)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 29 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists)
Bytes: 128,000 Last updated: 5/23/98