Wednesday, April 15, 1998:
Gordon Smith To Speak Out Against Medical Marijuana In Portland 9 AM Tomorrow, April 16 (Media Advisory From Office Of The US Senator Representing Oregon)
Re - Gordon Smith And Medicinal Marijuana (List Subscriber Notes US Senator Is Campaigning Against A State Initiative On Taxpayers' Time)
Gordon Smith Contact Information (List Subscriber Tells You How To Let The US Senator And Anti-Medical Marijuana Zealot Know What You Think)
A Dose Of His Own Medicine ('500 Words' Staff Editorial In Portland's 'Willamette Week' Responds To Chemical McCarthyism In The Oregon Legislature By Posing The Same Sorts Of Questions To Oregon Senator Randy Miller He Asked Of Ron Eachus Last Week)
Former Agent Charged With Growing Pot ('Associated Press' Story Broadcast By KOIN, Portland's CBS Affiliate, Notes Medford, Oregon, Cultivation Bust Of A US Forest Service Employee Who Formerly Busted Other Growers)
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Orders The Closure Of The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club (News Release From Office Of California Attorney General Dan Lungren Says Judge Garcia Issued An Injunction Based On The Club's Own Admission That It Had Sold Marijuana To Other Dispensaries)
Judge Orders Medical Marijuana Club Shut ('Reuters' Version)
Marchers Protest Arrest, Ask City To Back Medicinal Use ('San Jose Mercury News' Says Members Of The Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center Protested Outside San Jose City Hall On Tuesday, Objecting To The Criminal Charges Filed Against Director Peter Baez And Petitioning San Jose Officials For Renewed Cooperation)
Marijuana Activist Gets Warning After Release (Belated 'Orange County Register' Account Of Cancer Patient Todd McCormick's Release From Federal Pretrial Detention)
Marijuana Initiative Gets Big Financial Boost, Again ('Associated Press' Says Washington State Medical Marijuana Initiative 692 Has Already Received Contributions Totaling $375,000 From Three Out-Of-State Millionaires, George Soros, Peter Lewis And John Sperling)
Marijuana Pipes Smoked Out Of Smoke Shops ('University Of Washington Daily' In Seattle Examines Consequences Likely From Passage Of Washington State House Bill 2772, Prohibiting Paraphernalia)
Re - Marijuana Pipes (Letter Sent To Editor Of 'University Of Washington Daily' Explains Several More Aspects Of Washington State HB 2772, Which Allows Police To Impose A $250 Fine Without Having To Prove That A Retailer Knows A Product Is Intended For Illegal Drug Use)
Sound Bite (List Subscriber Documents Hypocrisy Of Assertion That The United States' War On Some Drug Users Is For The Benefit Of The Children)
Burying The Constitution 'For The Children' (Op-Ed In 'Orange County Register' Says That, In The Wake Of What's No Less Than A Moral Meltdown Among Our Youngsters, The National Priority Of Trying To Stop Kids From Smoking Cigarettes Is Like The Police Chief Whose Squad Was Summoned To Stop A Robbery In Progress At A Downtown Department Store - Upon Arrival, The Chief Discovered He Didn't Have Enough Men To Cover All The Entrances, So He Assigned His Men To Cover The Building Next Door Because It Didn't Have So Many Entrances)
Drug Reactions Kill Over 100,000 A Year In US, Report Says ('Associated Press' Article In 'Dallas Morning News' Says A New Report In Wednesday's 'Journal Of The American Medical Association' Says Bad Reactions To Prescription And Over-The-Counter Medicines Kill More Than 100,000 Americans A Year, And Seriously Injure An Additional 2.1 Million - Fatal Drug Reactions Killed 0.32 Percent Of All Hospital Patients)
Adverse Drug Reactions High On Death List ('Toronto Star' Version)
Prescribed Drugs Make One In 15 Sicker - Study - Medicines Kill 106,000 Patients A Year ('San Jose Mercury News' Version)
Study - Drug Reactions Common - Side Effects From Medications Are The Sixth Leading Cause Of Death In The United States ('Orange County Register' Version)
The Million Marijuana March (URL For Mass Demonstration May 2 In New York City)
Dutch Marijuana Use Lower Than Previously Thought - New Study Shatters American Myth That Relaxed Dutch Marijuana Laws Cause Increased Marijuana Use (News Release From The Lindesmith Center In New York Notes New Dutch Survey Confirming That With Decriminalization, People In The Netherlands Use Less Cannabis Than Americans)
Alleged Drug Kingpin Benefits From Mexico's Inept Justice System ('New York Times' Article About The US Pursuit Of Rafael Munoz Talavera, A Mexican Multimillionaire Who Is Accused Of Running A Cartel That Smuggled Tons Of Cocaine Into California Several Years Ago, Including A Still-Record 21.4 Tons Seized In Los Angeles In 1989 - A United Nations Survey In 1996 Asked Mexicans How Much Confidence They Had In Their Judicial System And 80 Percent Responded 'Little' Or 'None,' The Worst Showing Of Any Latin American Country)
Caine Court Date (Randy Caine Says The Trial For His Constitutional Challenge To Canadian Cannabis Prohibition Is 'On' Again, For Monday, April 20)
Cops Burn Pot Myth - Don't Believe The Hype ('Calgary Sun' Quotes Calgary Police Who Say Their Repeated Tests Show Canadian Marijuana Is No More Potent Than Cannabis Cultivated Elsewhere)
Safe Until Proven Harmful (Letter To Editor Of 'Edmonton Sun' Cites Evidence Contradicting Staff Editorial Opposing Decriminalization Of Marijuana, Even For Medical Purposes, Because The Ignorant Journalists Whose Business Is To Sell Advertising 'Don't Believe The Medical Evidence Supports It')
Leader - Now Drug Plague Hits The Poor (Staff Editorial In Britain's 'Independent' Notes The Country's Prohibition On Illegal Drugs Is Quite Futile And Expensive - But Disagrees With Cannabis Decriminalisation As One Step In The Right Direction, Unlike 'The Independent On Sunday')
Vicar Calls On Ministers To Legalise Heroin (Britain's 'Independent' Says The Reverend Peter Green, From Dudley, West Midlands, Yesterday Called For A Debate Into The Drug's Illegal Status And Said That Leaving The Distribution Of Heroin In The Hands Of Organised Criminals Was 'Fraught With Dangers')
Drug Tsar Warns Of Cut-Price Heroin (Britain's 'Independent' Says Keith Hellawell Announced At A Press Conference Yesterday That Record Amounts Of Heroin Were Seized By Customs Last Year)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 42 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, Including Original And Excellent Commentary Such As The Feature Article, 'Tobacco Deal Dead,' By Dr. Tom O'Connell)
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