1998 News
About Cannabis and Drug Policy
May 28-June 3

Thursday, May 28, 1998:
• NORML Weekly News (California Medical Association Backs Removal Of Marijuana From Schedule I Prohibitive Status; NORML, Others Testify Against DEA Marijuana Eradication Program At Washington, DC Hearing; San Francisco Officials Explore Distributing Medical Marijuana In Wake Of Cannabis Healing Center's Closure; International Drug Reform Coalition Declares 'Global Days Against The Drug War')
• Judge Approves Medical Marijuana Use ('San Francisco Chronicle' Says Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Catherine Gallagher Ruled Yesterday That Peter Baez, Co-Founder Of The Now-Defunct Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center, Doesn't Have To Worry About Failing Urine Tests While Awaiting Trial)
• The Fall Of St. Peter - Why Public Officials Abandoned Medical Marijuana Advocate Peter Baez.('The Metro,' A San Jose, California Weekly, Recounts The Case Of Peter Baez And The Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center And Finds Police Acted In Bad Faith)
• I Think You Guys Took It In The Shorts (San Francisco Bay Area Activist Forwards A Message From Peter Baez Saying The District Attorney Tried To Get 'The Metro' To Spike Today's 'St. Peter' Article)
• Spotlight Shifts To Small Pot Clubs ('San Francisco Examiner' Publicizes Three Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Left In San Francisco After The Shutdown This Week Of The Cannabis Healing Center, The State's Biggest And Oldest Cannabis Buyers' Club)
• San Francisco May Use Health Department In Pot Wars - Supervisor Says Cities Can Dispense Medical Marijuana ('San Francisco Chronicle' Says City Officials Are Scheduled To Meet This Afternoon In Mayor Willie Brown's Office To Work Out A Policy On How To Get Marijuana To People Who Need It - The City's Department Of Public Health Is Considered The Most Likely New Distributor)
• Thurston's Crowded Jail Copes With Illnesses, Too - Corrections Officers Deal With More Visits To Clinic (The Tacoma, Washington 'News Tribune' Notes Thurston County's War On Some Drug Users Is Largely A War On Sick People - Between 1994 And 1997, The Number Of Inmates Treated Annually At The Jail's Part-Time Medical Clinic Rose From 1,300 To 2,541, While The Daily Inmate Population Rose From 284 To 391)
• Four Downtown Petitioners Join In Police Complaint (Las Vegas 'Review-Journal' Says Five People Collecting Signatures For A Nevada Medical Marijuana Initiative Have Filed Complaints With The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau After They Were Thrown Off Fremont Street On Friday, Detained And Threatened With Arrest If They Ever Returned, By Cops Who Refused To Give Their Badge Numbers Or Names)
• City's Marijuana Law Under Fire ('The Ann Arbor News' In Michigan Says Mike Rogers, A Former FBI Agent And Republican State Senator From Livingston County, Wants The City Of Ann Arbor To Go Back To Criminalizing Marijuana Possession Or Lose About $1.3 Million In Revenue Sharing Money From The Upcoming State Budget - Rogers Says The City's Once-Infamous $5 Marijuana Ticket Law, Ratcheted Up To $50 In 1974 By City Voters, Sends The Wrong Message To Children)
• 1.5 Tons Of Cocaine Seized ('Chicago Sun-Times' Says The DEA In Chicago Has Busted Five People, And Expects To Bust More, After Wiretaps Led Agents To $5 Million In Cash And Cocaine Valued At $31 Million To $155 Million - The Largest Chicago Cocaine Seizure In More Than A Decade And Perhaps The Largest Combined Seizure Of Drugs And Money In Chicago History)
• Raiders Net Millions, Ton Of Cocaine ('Chicago Tribune' Version)
• A NORML Essay Contest ('The Mountain Eagle' In New York Says The Schoharie County Chapter Of The National Organization For The Reform Of Marijuana Laws Will Award A $500 Prize To The High School Senior In New York's Capitol Region Who Writes The Winning Essay On The Theme, 'How Does The War On Marijuana Threaten America's Constitutional Democracy?')
• Farmer - Hemp Makes Animals Healthy ('New York Times' Interviews Donnie Colter Of Kentucky, Who Has Been Testing Hemp Meal As A Feed Supplement On His 1,000-Acre Farm Near Willisburg With The Help Of The Kentucky Industrial Hemp Association)
• Ex-Drug Czar, Marijuana Allies Clash Over Pot's Medical Use ('Orlando Sentinel' Notes William Bennett Spoke Wednesday In Orlando At The Marijuana Education Summit, A Seminar For 400 Police, School And Youth Officials, Aimed At Fighting The Legalization Of Pot For Medical Purposes, Sponsored By The Florida Department Of Law Enforcement, The Drug Free America Foundation, And Save Our Society From Drugs)
• Mexico Says Arrests Son Of Alleged Cartel Hitman (According To 'Reuters,' The Man Arrested On Charges Of Drug Distribution Is The Son Of Alleged Hitman Ismael Higuera, Alias 'El Mayel,' Suspected In The 1993 Murder Of Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Posadas Ocampo And An Attack On Crusading Anti-Drugs Magazine Editor Jesus Blancornelas)
• Cultivating Compassion - Local Club Provides Weed For Those In Need ('The Ottawa Xpress' Says A Group Called Compassionate Use Of Medicinal Marijuana Has Been Operating In Ottawa Since January)
• Democratic Governments Under US Pressure To Step Up Anti-Drug Efforts (InterPress Third World News Agency Says A Book To Be Released Soon In Montevideo, 'Democracies Under Fire - Drugs And Power In Latin America,' Charges That Anti-Drug Policies Promoted By The United States In South America Are Generating Serious Internal Conflicts There As Washington Insists That The Military Take The Lead In Anti-Narcotics Enforcement)
• Stone Pledges To Hound Out Hoons ('The Australian' Says Chief Minister Shane Stone, A Fan Of Zero Tolerance Policing Programs In New York And Los Angeles, Has Pledged That Hardline Measures Will Be In Place In The Northern Territory By The End Of The Year - Stone Will Consider Hounding 'Drug Users' And Itinerants Away To Other States A Success, But If A US-Style Crackdown On Minor Offences Means Expanding Jails, Then 'So Be It')
• Medical Science - Halting The Irreversible (Britain's 'Financial Times' Gives An Update On Israeli Neurologists Using Cannabinoids To Halt Or Reverse Severe Brain Damage After Traumatic Injuries)
• Video-Link Aid In Drug Fight (Britain's 'Daily Telegraph' Says European Community Justice Ministers Will Discuss Today Plans To Allow Foreign Witnesses To Give Evidence In British Trials)
• The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 44 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original News Summary For Activists)
• Weekly Action Report On Drug Policies, Year 4, Number 13 (Summary For Activists Of International Drug Policy News, From CORA In Italy)
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  Friday, May 29, 1998:

• Signature Count (Paul Loney, An Attorney And Chief Petitioner For The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Initiative Petition, Says The Campaign Has Officially Collected 40,770 Signatures Of The 73,261 Needed By July)
• Oregon State University Releases Results Of Study On Hemp (News Release From OSU In Corvallis Says The OSU Agricultural Experiment Station Has Just Published A Study Of Scientific Literature On The Feasibility Of A Hemp Industry In The Pacific Northwest - Soon To Be Online)
• Will Durst On Medical Marijuana (List Subscriber Posts An Excerpt From The Comedian's Web Site On The Campaign By State And Federal Officials Against California Medical Marijuana Dispensaries)
• Pot Shopping In Delightful Dolores Park ('San Francisco Chronicle' Columnist Scott Ostler Walks A Mile In The Shoes Of San Francisco Residents With AIDS And Other Serious Medical Conditions Who Have Been Endangered By The Closure Of The Cannabis Healing Center)
• San Francisco Seeking Pot Club Alternatives ('San Francisco Examiner' Says That, After A Meeting Thursday With Mayor WIllie Brown, Police Chief Fred Lau, District Attorney Terence Hallinan, Sheriff Michael Hennessey, Public Health Director Mitch Katz And Others, San Francisco City/County Supervisor Tom Ammiano Vowed To Introduce Legislation As Soon As Monday Asking The City Attorney's Office To Draw Up A Model For The Distribution Of Marijuana To Medically Ill Patients)
• San Francisco Trying To Devise Way To Dispense Medicinal Pot ('San Francisco Chronicle' Version)
• Getting Marijuana To Patients ('Sacramento Bee' Notes The California Senate Thursday Barely Passed SB 1887, Introduced By John Vasconcellos, The Democrat From Santa Clara, Creating A Medical Marijuana Distribution Task Force - Assembly Must Still Approve)
• Officials' Vendetta On Medical Marijuana (Letter To The Editor Of 'The San Francisco Chronicle' Notes It's The Responsibility Of California Attorney General Dan Lungren To Enforce The Law Exempting Medical Marijuana Patients From The Illegal Drug Statutes, Not Play Semantics With It So He Can Indulge His Personal Prejudices At Taxpayer Expense)
• Re-Open The Compassionate IND Program (Veteran Medical Marijuana Activist Keven Zeese Notes The Federal Government Already Supplies Eight Americans With Pot From Its Five-Acre Farm In Mississippi, And Could Re-Open The Program, Closed For Political Reasons By The Bush Administration)
• New SB 2048 Passes Senate - Start Calling And Faxing Assembly Members (California NORML Says It's Time To Start Calling Legislators And The Governor To Support A California Senate Bill To Reform The State's 'Three Strikes' Mandatory Minimum Law, Which Falls Particularly Hard On Marijuana Offenders)
• DEA Supervisor Convicted Of Stealing $120,000 In Drug Funds ('Associated Press' Doesn't Say Whether Clifford T. Shibata, A 24-Year Drug Enforcement Administration Agent In San Francisco Who Embezzled The Money Between 1994 And 1996, Justified His Actions As A Harm Reduction Measure)
• Court Excludes Drug-Courier Profile Testimony ('The Arizona Republic' Says The Arizona Supreme Court Ruled 3-2 Thursday That Testimony About Police Profiles Of Typical Drug Couriers Cannot Be Used To Convict People Of Drug Offenses, Overturning The 1996 Marijuana Trafficking Conviction Of Robert Lee - Allowing Testimony About Such Police Profiles Would Amount To 'Guilt By Association')
• Carrie Nation's Ax Waving (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Houston Chronicle' By A Former Smoker Suggests That What This Country Is All About Is The Right To Make Individual Choices Without Fanatics Waiving An Ax At One's Head)
• Rostenkowski Says Country-Club Prisons Are A Myth (Cable News Network Interviews The Former Congressional Heavyweight From Chicago After His Release From Prison - 'We Don't Seem To Be Winning The War Against Drugs, But We've Put A Lot Of Young People Behind Bars')
• LSD Threat Called Hoax ('Standard-Times' Says The 'Blue Star' Urban Myth Has Resurfaced In New Bedford, Massachusetts)
• News Of The Marijuana Education Summit In Orlando (Marijuana Policy Project In Washington, DC, Forwards An Inspiring Account About Florida Activists Whose Counter-Demonstration Took The Wind From The Sails Of Bill Bennett And Other Know-Nothings At The Marijuana Education Summit, A 'Seminar' Wednesday For 400 Police, School And Youth Officials Fighting The Legalization Of Pot For Medical Purposes)
• Hemp Fans Want Government To Legalize Crop (Excerpt Of 'Associated Press' Article From 'The Houston Chronicle' Says Several More Groups, Including The NAIHC And The Resource Conservation Alliance, Are Preparing To Petition The DEA Anew To Legalize Industrial Hemp)
• Nutritional Benefits Of Hemp Seeds (From The May Issue Of 'Hemp' Magazine)
• A Failed War On Drugs (Two Letters To The Editor Of 'The Washington Post' Take Issue With General Barry McCaffrey, The Drug Czar)
• Operation Casablanca's Sting (A Translation Via 'World Press Review' Of A Political Column In Mexico City's 'Reforma' Which Says What Is Surprising About The Exchanges Between The United States And Mexico In The Aftermath Of The Sting Is Not The Arrogance Of The US Government But The Unusual Vigor Shown By President Zedillo In Protesting US Violations Of Mexican Sovereignty)
• Melon Boxes From China Filled With Drugs ('Canadian Press' Notes The Biggest Heroin Bust By Customs Officers This Year, More Than 10 Kilograms Of Heroin Seized On The Waterfront In Vancouver, British Columbia)
• Halton Drug Raid A Bust (Columnist Andrew Dreschel In 'The Hamilton Spectator' In Ontario Says Halton Police Spent About $6,000 To Mount The Recently Disclosed Drug Sting At Oakville's General Wolfe High School, But The Total Street Value Of The Marijuana, Hashish And Magic Mushrooms Seized In The Two-Month Covert Investigation Is Only About $1,000 - Not Much Bhang For The Buck)
• Re - Halton Drug Raid A Bust (Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The Hamilton Spectator' Praises Andrew Dreschel's Column, Noting A Survey By The Canadian Centre For Substance Abuse Suggests That Nonusers Of 'Drugs' Cite Health Concerns Rather Than The Threat Of Legal Sanctions In Deciding To Abstain)
• Re - Halton Drug Raid A Bust (Another Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The Hamilton Spectator' Also Applauds Dreschel's Column, Noting There Is Little Evidence Scattered Arrests Of This Sort Have Any Long Term Effect On Drug Consumption, And May Be Counterproductive In Creating Resentment Against The Dominant Culture's Hypocrisy)
• Re - Halton Drug Raid A Bust (Local Correspondent Notes Halton Police Had Their PR Machine On The Radio The Other Day, Justifying Their Undercover Operation)
• Drugs Were Smuggled In Clothes - Cops ('Toronto Sun' Notes Bathtub Smack Has Arrived In Toronto From Afghani Smugglers, Who Saturated Women's Clothing With High-Grade Heroin Before Putting It In The Mail - Once It Arrived, The Clothes Were Washed In Bathtubs And The Crystallized Heroin Collected From The Tubs)
• Health Officials Trying To Kill Critical Parts Of Drug Report ('The Toronto Star' Says It Has Learned That Top Canadian Health Officials Are Trying To Suppress Parts Of A Secret Report Criticizing Health Canada's Study Of A Drug That Increases Milk Production In Cows)
• At What Point Will You Surrender? (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Calgary Sun' Responds To The Editor's Parenthetical Remark Regarding The Drug War)
• Helicopter Giants Battle Over Colombian Drug Missions ('Defense Daily' Version Of A Previously Reported Story About How Military Suppliers Influence How The War On Some Drugs Will Be Carried Out)
• Peru, US Building Anti-Drug Military Training Center (Cable News Network Says The Base Being Built In Northwestern Peru To Combat Drug Traffickers Using Jungle Waterways Is Part Of A $60 Million, Five-Year Program Agreed Upon By The Two Countries In 1996)
• Families And Friends For Drug Law Reform - New Web Site (URL Posted For Australian Harm Reduction Group Featured In The April 3, 1997 Portland NORML Weekly News Release)
• Moore's Claims Naive If Not Worse (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Canberra Times' From A Member Of 'Australian Pharmacists Against Drug Use' Stands Up For Salvation Army Prohibitionist Brian Watters And Against ACT Health Minister Michael Moore, Who Attacked The Prime Minister's Decision To Appoint Watters Head Of The Australian National Council On Drugs)
• The $500 Million Drug Gang ('The Herald Sun' Describes An Australian Group Who Organized The World's Biggest-Known Illegal Amphetamine Business, With Laboratories In Queensland And Victoria, Supplied With Chemicals And Equipment Smuggled In From China)
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  Saturday, May 30, 1998:

• County Treasurer Accused Of Choking Girlfriend ('Associated Press' Says Bob Dantini, Treasurer Of Snohomish County, Washington, Is Accused Of Choking The Woman And Threatening To Kill Her After She Allegedly Hid His Cocaine)
• Monthly Monday March To End Prohibition (List Subscriber Posts Update On Seattle Demonstrations - The Next One, June 8 In Westlake Park, Is Part Of The International 'Global Days Against The Drug War' Rally)
• City Of San Francisco May Get Into Medical Pot Business (Cable News Network Notes City Officials Are Looking For Loopholes In State And Federal Laws That Would Allow The City To Distribute Marijuana, Possibly Through The Health Department - Officials Believe Their Long Experience With AIDS Gives Them The Right To Send A Message To The Federal Government About Marijuana Laws)
• Pot Club's Peron - Such A Dope ('San Francisco Chronicle' Columnist Ken Garcia Blames The Victim In A Rather One-Sided Diatribe Against Dennis Peron, Co-Author Of Proposition 215 And Former Proprietor Of The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers' Club, Shut Down Without A Jury Trial In A City Where The Board Of Supervisors And 80 Percent Of The People Voted For Proposition P)
• Ex-DEA Agent Convicted Of Stealing $178,000 ('San Francisco Chronicle' Version Of Yesterday's News About San Francisco DEA Agent Clifford Shibata)
• Candidates Make A Late Pitch For The Undecideds ('San Francisco Examiner' Notes California Gubernatorial Candidate Jane Harman Would Support Efforts By City Officials To Provide Marijuana To Sick People, Though She's 'Not Sure' It's The Right Answer For Sick People In The Rest Of The State - The Leader In The Polls, Gray Davis, Who Opposed Proposition 215, Said He Supports Legislation By State Senator John Vasconcellos Urging A Three-Year Study Of The Effects Of Marijuana On Particular Ailments)
• Repeal Exemptions Of Tobacco, Alcohol (A Pharmacist's Letter To The Editor Of 'The Boulder Daily Camera' In Colorado Says It's Absurd To Debase The Constitution With The Idea That The Deadliest Of All Drugs, Tobacco - The Drug That Kills More People Than All Other Drugs Combined, Including Alcohol - Should Specifically Be Exempt From The Drug Laws, While Users Of Less Deadly Drugs Are Subject To Prison, While Pretending That We Have Equal Protection Under The Law)
• 'Cocaine Mom' Undergoes Sterilization ('Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Article About A Woman In Waukesha, Wisconsin, Detained By An Unconstitutional Secret Court During Two Pregnancies, Now Known Statewide As The 'Cocaine Mom')
• Cops Mistake Remains For Drug ('Associated Press' Article In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Says Michael Anthony Horne Sued The City Of San Antonio, Texas, On Thursday, After Spending A Month In Jail And Losing His Job, His Pickup, His Apartment And His Military Reserve Status When Police Refused To Believe His Grandmother's Ashes Weren't Methamphetamine - In A Case Reminiscent Of 'Curse Of The Cocaine Mummies,' The Remains Tested Positive)
• In Texas, It Was Ashes To Ashes, This Is A Bust ('Los Angeles Times' Version)
• Was Bag Granny's Remains Or Dope? ('Orange County Register' Version Quotes Horne's Lawyer Saying He Wanted To Know More About The Field Test, Because Either 'Someone's Lying Or I Have Got A Case Against The Manufacturer Of The Test, Too')
• Latest Campus Unrest Fired By Alcohol, Not Social Activism ('Associated Press' Has The Nerve To Suggest That American College Students Fighting Repressive Prohibitionists For Their Right To Party Aren't Social Activists)
• Anti-Drug Cooperation In Jeopardy, Mexico Tells US ('Los Angeles Times' Says Operation Casablanca, The Biggest Money-Laundering Investigation In US History, Has So Incensed Mexican Officials That They Are Now Warning It Will Damage 'Vital' Anti-Drug Cooperation With The American Government)
• Mexico's Most Violent Drug Kingpins Go Underground As Feds Turn Up Heat ('Associated Press' Says The Gangland-Style Shootouts That Plagued Tijuana Have Abruptly Stopped As The Arellano Felix Brothers Replaced Violence With A Quieter, More Businesslike Style)
• Operation Weedeater - Two Convicted In Huge Drug Case ('Calgary Herald' Notes Charges Were Dismissed Against 14 Marijuana Cultivators After A June 1995 Raid Of 55 Residences Because Police Used Illegal Means More Often Than Not)
• Rock Denies Cover-Up On Milk-Boosting Drug ('The Toronto Star' Says Canadian Health Minister Alan Rock's Office Issued A Statement Yesterday Denying The Newspaper's Allegation That Health Canada Suppressed A Study Of A Veterinary Drug Designed To Increase Milk Production In Cows)
• Drugs In Our Schools (Alarmist Staff Editorial In 'The Hamilton Spectator' In Ontario About The Halton Police Carrying Out A Drug Sting At An Oakville High School That Resulted In 14 Drug Trafficking Charges Against Students)
• War? What War? Colombians Don't Want To Know ('Toronto Star' Says Peace Seems Just An Afterthought As A Blood-Soaked Country Gets Ready To Vote)
• Elections And Mayhem In Colombia (11th-Hour Colombian Election Summary In 'The Chicago Tribune')
• Colombian Voters Hope To Clear Slate (Pre-Election Synopsis In 'The San Francisco Chronicle' Says That No Matter Who Wins, The Voters Will Cast Out A Disgraced And Despised Government, The Samper Administration, Whose Four-Year Term Has Been Dogged By Charges That He Won The 1994 Election With The Help Of $6.1 Million From The Cali Drug Cartel)
• Accounting Firm In Colombia Bought Laundered Money ('Associated Press' Says A US Government Affidavit Filed In US District Court Alleges Price Waterhouse Executives In Colombia Knowingly Bought More Than Half A Million Dollars In Laundered Drug Money On The Currency Black Market)
• Dutch Medical Marijuana Update (Dutch List Subscriber Says Raw Cannabis Capsules Are Undergoing Product Comparison Tests With Marinol)
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  Sunday, May 31, 1998:

• Deschutes Voters Set Inmates Loose ('The Oregonian' Makes It Seem Like Nobody Is Locked Up For Consensual Crimes In Rural Deschutes County, Oregon, Where Voters Rejected An Operating Levy - More Than Two Dozen Of About 44 People Who Work At The Jail Are Expected To Be Laid Off And More Than 100 Of 160-Plus Inmates Will Be Let Go July 31)
• Davis, Harman Back Medical Marijuana (California NORML Says Yesterday's 'San Francisco Examiner' Quoted Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates Gray Davis And Jane Harman Saying They Would Support City Officials Seeking To Provide Medical Marijuana In San Francisco)
• People V. McWilliams Press Release (Update From Southern California Attorney James Silva On The Cases Of Steven McWilliams And Dion Markgraff, Associated With A Defunct San Diego Medical Marijuana Cooperative - Preliminary Hearing Begins June 2 In San Diego On Separating Their Cases)
• Gates Hide Lives Of Drug Abuse ('Los Angeles Daily News' Item In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Says Police In Encino, California, Have Learned That Phil Hartman's Wife Was Suffering From Long-Term Cocaine Abuse)
• Drugs Behind Youth Crimes, Senator Says ('Associated Press' Item In 'The Los Angeles Times' Says Senator Christopher S. Bond Of Missouri Gave The Weekly GOP Radio Address Saturday, And Blamed Illegal Drugs On What He Alleged Were Increasing Incidents Of Juveniles Arrested For Murder, Rape And Armed Robbery)
• Quick News - May 1998 (Update From Fred Quick Of Quicktrading Books On New Marijuana-Related Publications, Promotions)
• Study - Internet 'Addicts' Often Show Other Psychiatric Disorders, Treatment May Help ('The Associated Press' Says Psychiatrist Nathan Shapira Of The University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine Will Present A Study Monday At The Annual Meeting Of The American Psychiatric Association In Toronto In Which 14 People Who Spent Too Much Time Online Were Found To Have A High Incidence Of Manic-Depression And Other Disorders)
• Border Patrol Beefs Up Staff In War On Drugs, Illegals ('The Orange County Register' Says The US Border Patrol, Authorized To Hire 1,000 New Agents Annually For Five Years Through The End Of 2001, Has A New Priority In Addition To Ending Human Rights Abuses And Widespread Corruption Along The Mexican Border - Ensuring That The Agency Hasn't 'Lowered Standards')
• Mexico's Unquenchable Fires (According To The 'Washington Post,' Out-Of-Control Forest Fires In Mexico Previously Blamed On Marijuana Cultivators Now Are Caused By More Complex Factors, And Are Burning Where The Sun Doesn't Shine Anyway)
• Drug Warriors Are Child Killers (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Calgary Sun' Notes Fewer People Used Or Were Harmed By 'Drugs' Before Prohibition)
• Drug Fears Behind Man's Burning ('Halifax Daily News' Says A Woman Whose 15-Year-Old Son Had Allegedly Overdosed On Crack Cocaine, And Her Sister Have Both Been Charged With Attempted Murder, Breaking And Entering, And Arson After A Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Man Was Set On Fire For Allegedly Selling Drugs To Children)
• We Must All Make This An Issue (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Calgary Sun' By Multiple Sclerosis Patient And Medical Marijuana Activist Lynn Harichy Urges Everyone With Compassion To Write To Their MPs)
• Re - We Must All Make This An Issue (Letter Sent To Editor Of 'The Calgary Sun' Disputes The Editor's Parenthetical Comment That 'Pot Is Already Virtually Decriminalized For Personal Use')
• Narc Cop Had Teens All Fooled ('The Toronto Sun' Gives A One-Sided Account Of The Undercover Drug Sting By Halton Regional Police At General Wolfe High School, Which Led To The Arrests Of 14 Teens, Including Some Non-Students)
• When You Grow Up (Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The Hamilton Spectator' In Ontario Says Its Prohibitionist Staff Editorial Yesterday Shows The Author Is 'Still In The Stage Of Accepting Without Question Your Parents' Orders')
• US-Panama Drug Center Falls Through (According To 'The Associated Press,' Panama President Ernesto Perez Balladares Said Thursday The Anti-Drug Center Would Amount To A Continued US Military Presence In Panama, Despite His Previous Insistence It Would Not)
• Security Forces To Co-operate In Drugs War ('Reuters' Says A Meeting This Week In Kingston, Jamaica, Among Police And Military Chiefs From 11 Caribbean Countries Featured The US Military's Southern Command Taking A 'Leading Role,' And The Head Of Jamaica's Military Security Forces In The Caribbean Announcing Plans To Set Up A 'Joint Co-ordination Unit' As Part Of Greater Co-operation In The Fight Against Illegal 'Narcotics')
• Drug Traffickers Return To Old Route ('New York Times' Article Reprinted In 'The Seattle Times' Says Colombians In The Illegal Drug Industry Are Returning To The Familiar Routes Between The Bahamas And Florida After Concentrating On Other Routes In The 1980s And 1990s - Drug Enforcement Administration Officials Say They Seized More Cocaine In The First Three Months Of 1998 In The Bahamas Than In The Previous Three Years Combined)
• Drug Traffickers Returning To Bahamas-Florida Route (Original 'New York Times' Version, Slightly Different)
• Amid Problems, Colombia Facing Crucial Vote ('Dallas Morning News' Article In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Says That, As Colombia Confronts A Deepening Civil War, Corruption, And International Disrepute As A Drug-Trafficking Haven, Many Colombian Voters Are Openly Doubtful About The Ability Of Any Candidate In Today's Election To Lead Their Nation Out Of Its Current Morass)
• Long Arm Of The Drugs Law (Britain's 'Independent On Sunday' Notes The US Immigration Office Has Told A 42-Year-Old Woman She Will Be Deported Back To England From Her Los Angeles Home In September And Must Leave Her Three Children, Her Husband And Her Job When Her Current 'Humanitarian' Visa Runs Out, Because 22 Years Ago She Was Convicted In A British Court Of Possessing 54.4 Grams Of Hash)
• Mothers-To-Be Who Drink Face Detention (Britain's 'Daily Telegraph' Notes The Latest Prohibitionist Fad In The United States)
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  Monday, June 1, 1998:

• Epitope Gets FDA Approval For Opiate Test ('Reuters' Notes The Suburban Portland, Oregon, Company Is Almost Ready To Market A Device That Will Supposedly Detect Any Or All Drugs Of Abuse Using A Single Oral Specimen)
• Two Initiatives On Track, Others In Trouble ('Associated Press' Says Medical Marijuana Initiative 692 In Washington State Appears Headed For The Fall Ballot, Thanks To Strong Financial Backing - As Of May 1, Supporters Had Raised Nearly $400,000)
• Two Arrested In Fatal Shooting ('The Associated Press' Says A 47-Year-Old Tacoma Man And A 30-Year-Old Seattle Woman Have Been Arrested In Tukwila, Washington, For Allegedly Killing An Illegal 'Drug' Seller While Attempting To Rob Him)
• Medical Use Of Pot Legal In Colorado Until 1995 ('Rocky Mountain News' Gives An Update On The Coloradans For Medical Rights Ballot Initiative Campaign By Noting That Chris Paulson, Heading The Current Opposition To The Initiative, Co-Sponsored A Medical Marijuana Law In 1979 That Survived For Nearly Two Decades, Useless, Until It Was Repealed As 'Obsolete' In 1995)
• Appeal Judge Rules Not Allowing Medical Necessity Defense For Marijuana Is 'Immoral' - AIDS-Cancer Patient Peter McWilliams Ready For Trial (Bulletin From The Best-Selling Author Himself Notes Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kym Worthy Ruled Today In Detroit That He Could Use The Medical Necessity Defense In His Marijuana Possession Trial - With URLs For Related Articles)
• Cocaine Was A Killer 34 Times Last Year (Typical Piece Of Biased Mainstream Journalism In 'The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' About The 1997 Cocaine Body Count In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fails To Note Such Things As Those Who Purposely Used The Drug To Commit Suicide, Allows The Medical Examiner To Get Away With Attributing To Crack Five Underweight Babies Probably Killed By Lack Of Social Services And Prenatal Care, Neglects Mentioning That Hundreds Of People Die From Alcohol, Tobacco And Prescription Drugs For Every Death Attributed To Cocaine, And Fails To Provide A Cost-Benefit Analysis Weighing The 34 Deaths Against The Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Milwaukee Is Probably Paying To Sustain Cocaine Prohibition)
• Parents Urged To Lead By Example In Drug Fight ('The Chicago Tribune' Discusses Drug-Use Prevention Strategies In The Context Of A Recent National Telephone Survey Of 500 Parents, Released Last Week By The Hazelden Foundation, The Minnesota-Based Coalition Of Treatment Centers, Which Found Only 23 Percent Of Parents Said They Forbid Their Children To Drink Alcohol Before They Reach Legal Age - About 60 Percent Tell Their Children They Prefer They Not Drink, But If They Do, The Parents Will Arrange For Transportation Home)
• UV Medical Defense - Marijuana Use In Mammals (List Subscriber Posts URL For A Photo Showing Marijuana Use By A Cow, An Ancient Defense Adaptation To An Illness Called Excito-Toxic Neuroendocrine Stress Response, Caused By Harmful Ultraviolet Radiation And Other Sources Of Chemical Free Radicals)
• President's Column - The National War On Drugs - Build Clinics, Not Prisons (Anti-Drug-War Editorial In 'The ACP-ASIM Observer,' Published By The American College Of Physicians, Urges Internists To Rethink Their Attitudes Toward Addiction To Illicit Drugs - Plus Commentary From Two Physicians)
• Focus Alert Number 64 (DrugSense Asks You To Write A Letter Protesting CBS News' Decision To Revive The 'Crack Baby' Myth - Plus Lots Of Research To Cite)
• Dan Rather Tonight (Oregon Activist Says The CBS Evening News Will Feature An Eight-Minute Story On Efforts By Kentucky Farmers To Bring Back A Hemp Industry)
• The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather (The Transcript Of A Feature By Sharyl Attkisson About Would-Be Kentucky Hemp Farmers)
• Risky Herbicide (Staff Editorial In The Waco, Texas, 'Tribune-Herald' Opposes The Use Of Tebuthiuron To Eradicate Cocaine In Columbia)
• Still Seeing Red - The CIA Fosters Death Squads In Colombia ('The Progressive' Says In The Name Of Fighting Drugs, The Central Intelligence Agency Financed New Military Intelligence Networks In Colombia In 1991, But The New Networks Did Little To Stop Drug Traffickers - Instead, They Incorporated Illegal Paramilitary Groups Into Their Ranks And Fostered Death Squads)
• Public Letter To Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations (Text Of The Letter Calling For An End To The Global War On Drugs, Written On The Occasion Of The United Nations General Assembly Special Session On Drugs In New York June 8-10 - Including The 500 World Leaders Who Signed It)
• Mexico's Police Seize 1.3 Tons Of Cocaine ('The Orange County Register' Says Prohibition Agents In Tamaulipas State, Which Borders Texas, Also Seized A Total Of More Than Seven Tons Of Marijuana In Recent Weeks - The Largest Cocaine Bust Netted 1,128 Pounds)
• The US At Odds With Itself On Mexico ('The Washington Post' Says The Recent Massive Money-Laundering Sting Against Mexican Bank Officials, 'Operation Casablanca,' Surprised And Upset Various US Government Officials At The Highest Levels Dealing With Mexico On Other Issues - Coordination Has Never Been A Strong Point Of US Foreign Policy, But In The Case Of Mexico, We Have Reached The Point Where Semi-Autonomous Law Enforcement Agencies Such As US Customs And The Drug Enforcement Administration Are In The Pilot's Seat)
• Readers Take Issue With My High School Bust Column (Andrew Dreschel Of The 'Hamilton Spectator' In Ontario Ponders Again The Undercover Drug Sting By Halton Police At Oakville's General Wolfe High School)
• Mentally Ill Commit Less Crime Than Alcoholics (Britain's 'Independent' Says A Study Published Today In 'The British Journal Of Psychiatry,' Based On Statistical Research Carried Out In Australia, Shows The Risk Of A Serious Crime Being Committed By Someone Who Is Mentally Ill Is Similar To That Of Someone In Their Teens Or Twenties - Alcoholics And Other Drug Addicts Are Twice As Likely To Commit A Violent Crime As A Schizophrenic - But No Breakdown Is Offered Of The Proportion Of Alcoholics Compared To Other 'Drug Abusers,' Or What Other Drugs Were Abused, Or Even How Abuse Was Defined)
• Riots In Geneva ('The Spotlight' Says Thousands Of Anti-Globalist Protesters Rampaged Through The Streets May 16-17 In The Worst Public Disturbances In Switzerland In Memory)
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  Tuesday, June 2, 1998:

• Shooting Spurs Debate On Prozac's Use By Kids ('The Oregonian,' Which Believes Not Enough Research Has Been Done To Justify Rescheduling Marijuana, A Natural Antidepressant For Some People With Mood Disorders, Grapples With The Discovery That Much Less Research Has Been Done On Prozac And Other Potentially Toxic Antidepressants, And None On The Children For Whom Such Pharmaceutical Drugs Are Increasingly Being Prescribed)
• Patient May Sue Police For Pot Arrest (According To 'The Los Angeles Times,' Dean Jones, 62, A Military Veteran In Simi Valley With A Valid Physician's Recommendation For Cannabis, Says He Will Sue Police For Violating His Rights As A Patient After He Was Arrested Last Month For Cultivating More Than A Dozen Pot Plants - Police Say The Law Doesn't Apply)
• City Shake-Up ('The Daily Times' In Maryland Says Two Weeks After Taking Office, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman Put Longtime Police Chief Coulbourn Dykes On Unpaid Administrative Leave Amid Allegations Dykes May Have Pulled The City Out Of A Countywide Undercover Drug Team In An Attempt To 'Prevent The Detection Of Mismanagement Of Public Property By The City And Its Agents')
• Coast Guard - 'We Need More Money For Drug War' ('The Washington Post' Covers A Speech By Admiral Robert E. Kramek, Stepping Down From His US Coast Guard Position As Coordinator For Interdiction Efforts)
• Department Of Defense Involvement In The Counterdrug Effort - Contributions And Limitations (The Air Command And Staff College Of The US Air Force Posts An Abstract - And URL For The Full 55-Page Adobe Acrobat Document - Of A Research Paper Claiming Clinton's Reduction Of Interdiction Funding From 1993 To The Present 'Reduced The Success Of The DOD Interdiction Effort')
• Lott Says Senate Anti-Smoking Bill `Teetering' (According To A 'Newsday' Article In 'The Seattle Times,' US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott Said Yesterday That Attempts To Make The So-Called 'Anti-Teen-Smoking Bill' Tougher On The Tobacco Industry Could Lead To Its Defeat)
• Potent Heroin From Mexico Now Second In US Trade ('Washington Post' Article In 'The Seattle Times' Says Mexican And US Law-Enforcement Officials Agree That The Mexican Share Of The US Illegal Drug Market Has Expanded Rapidly - Mexican Heroin Has Increased In Purity Six-Fold In The Past Two Years - According To Prohibition Agents, Colombian And Mexican Drug Cartels Have Largely Taken Over Heroin Distribution In The United States From Asian Organizations, Whose Share Of The American Market Has Plunged From 90 Percent To 28 Percent Since 1992)
• Mexican Heroin On Rise In US (The Original 'Washington Post' Version, With More Details)
• Mexican Heroin On The Rise In US - Report (AFP Version)
• Albright Says Anti-Drug Sting Needed Better Coordination ('Associated Press' Article In 'Tampa Bay Online' Says Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright Admitted The US Should Have Informed Mexican Officials About 'Operation Casablanca,' Speaking Tuesday At The Three-Day Annual Meeting Of The Organization Of American States In Venezuela)
• Drugged Son, 4, Was Like 'Zombie' ('Toronto Sun' Says An Ontario Mom Is Accused Of Giving Her Child Ritalin And Crack Cocaine To Quell His Hyperactivity, After Doctors Refused To Do So, Leaving The Child In A State Where He Would Sit For 90 Minutes Without Moving - She Is Accused Of Using Crack Herself, With Some Moderation)
• Pot Is Not Almost Decriminalized (Three Letters To The Editor Of 'The Calgary Sun' Take Issue With The Editor's Parenthetical Comment To A Letter From Lynn Harichy)
• Samper Defends Record - Colombian Leader Says Peace Is Closer (In The Wake Of The First Round Of Elections For Colombia's New President, 'The Washington Post' Reviews The Four-Year Term Of Ernesto Samper, Whose Term Expires August 7)
• US To Increase Support For Colombian Army ('The New York Times' Says The Clinton Administration Is Expanding Its Support For Colombian Government Forces, Concerned About The Growing Power Of Rebels It Deems 'Leftist' And The Flow Of Illegal Drugs)
• Drug Trafficker Sent To US For Trial ('The Washington Post' Says Jose Castrillon Henao, Alleged To Be 'The Primary Maritime Transporter For And A Member Of The Cali Cartel,' Has Been Unexpectedly Expelled From Panama, Where He Was In Jail Since 1996, And Transported To The United States To Stand Trial On Charges Of Illegally Importing More Than 15 Tons Of 'Drugs' There And Laundering Millions Of Dollars In Illicit Proceeds)
• Prisoners Kill For Clothes To Buy Drugs ('Reuters' Says Prison Authorities In Venezuela Have Started Giving Uniforms To The Country's 25,000 Inmates To Combat The Clothes-For-Drugs Trade)
• Howard's Drug Policy Helps Finance The Nuclear Arms Race (Press Release From The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Documents The Connection Between Pakistan's Nuclear Tests And The Australian Prime Minister's Zero Tolerance Policy On Drugs)
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  Wednesday, June 3, 1998:

• District Judges Reject Drug-Expert Testimony; Prosecutors Plan Appeal ('Associated Press' Says Pierce County Prosecutors In Tacoma, Washington, Are Throwing Out 35 Driving-Under-The-Influence Cases, Citing A Recent Decision By Five District Court Judges That So-Called Police 'Drug Recognition Experts' Don't Know What They're Talking About)
• Narc Alert - Do You Know These Lawbreakers? (The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative Posts Photos Of Two Undercover Agents Who Attempted To Break The Law By Using Forged Documents To Obtain Medical Marijuana And Were Apprehended And Exposed During A Press Conference At The Dispensary May 21)
• Officer Exemption (List Subscriber Suggests A Way To Distribute Medical Marijuana Legally To Patients In California Protected By Proposition 215 - He Says The Federal Controlled Substances Act Allows Police To Possess, Transport, Distribute And Manufacture Controlled Substances As Long As They Do So Pursuant To Enforcement Of A State Or Local Law)
• Pair Face Court Date For Cannabis Club Work ('Orange County Register' Doesn't Say Whether Two San Diego County Men, Steven McWilliams And Dion Markgraaff, Associated With An Unnamed Medical Marijuana Dispensary, Will Be Tried Separately Or Together)
• Alatorre Accused Of Using Drugs With City Contractor Officials ('Los Angeles Times' Says Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alatorre Repeatedly Used Cocaine With A Friend And Convicted Narcotics Offender While Aggressively Helping Him Obtain Government Business, According To Allegations Contained In Court Documents And Supported By Interviews)
• Report - Councilman Used Cocaine With Friend ('Associated Press' Version In 'The Los Angeles Times')
• Minor Revolution In Orange County, California (List Subscriber Says Superior Court Judge Tony Rackauckas's Successful Campaign For District Attorney Sends A Message That Voters Do Not Want Vigorous Enforcement Of The State's Three Strikes Law)
• Real Choice On Issues In Attorney General Race ('The San Francisco Examiner' Notes Republican Nominee Dave Stirling, Who Fought Against Proposition 215 But Opposes Suing The Tobacco Industry Over Smoking Costs, Is Running Against Democratic Nominee Bill Lockyer, Who Supports Medical Marijuana, For The Seat Being Vacated By Dan Lungren)
• It's None Of Your Business ('San Francisco Chronicle' Columnist Jon Carroll Says The Government And Major Corporations Want To Change People's Views On Privacy - If You're One Of Us You Have 'Nothing To Hide' - The Message We Get From Television Cop Shows Is That People Who Insist On Their Rights Are Scum - They Are Always Guilty - People Who Ask For Lawyers Are Only Interested In Thwarting Justice)
• Saturday Demonstration At Orange County Federal Building In Santa Ana, California, Commemorates Casualties From The War On Some Drug Users (Orange County Hemp Council Says The 'Funeral' For Loved Ones Lost To The Drug War Will Feature Many Groups And Speakers, Including Todd McCormick, Cliff Schaffer, Representatives From Families Amending California Three Strikes And The Cannabis Freedom Fund)
• Border Agent Slain During Arrest ('Associated Press' Says A US Customs Border Patrol Agent In Arizona Was Shot To Death Early Wednesday While Trying To Arrest Five Suspected Marijuana Smugglers, Who Then Escaped From The Agent's Partner)
• Let's Federalize All Crimes, And Get Rid Of States (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Arizona Star' By An Inmate At A Nearby Federal Prison Examines The Rationale For Making Virtually Any Crime A Federal Offense)
• Panel Ponders Approach To `War On Drugs' ('The Salt Lake Tribune' Says Two Of Utah's Top Prosecutors, David Schwendiman And Jerome Mooney, A Federal Judge, Bruce Jenkins, And Attorneys Neal Gunnarson, Mary Corporon And Robert Archuleta Agreed Tuesday Evening That It May Be Time To Temper The War On Some Drug Users, During A Panel Discussion At St. Mark's Cathedral In Salt Lake City Titled, 'Voices From The Front Lines - Should We End The War On Drugs?')
• Ex-Chief Pleads No Contest To Drug Count ('The Tulsa World' Says Former Collinsville, Oklahoma, Police Chief Don Abel Pleaded No Contest Tuesday To A Charge Of Distributing A Controlled Substance, Ephedrine, To A Former Dispatcher - Don Able's Defense Attorney Expects Able To Receive A Deferred Sentence)
• Bombshell - Police Spy Fuels Charges Against Chief Coulbourn Dykes ('The Daily Times' In Salisbury Maryland, Says The Salisbury Mayor's Effort To Oust His Police Chief Is Motivated By Allegations From Another Cop Assigned To Spy On An Undercover Drug Operation That The Police Chief Mismanaged Funds Derived From Selling Cars Seized During Undercover Drug Operations)
• Police Spy Fuels Flames Surrounding The Suspension Of Chief Coulbourn Dykes (A Lengthier Account In The Salisbury, Maryland, 'Daily Times' By Salisbury's New Mayor, Barrie Parsons Tilghman)
• Feds Overrule State Law Again (List Subscriber Summarizes A Bulletin Tonight From WRKN In Nashville, Tennessee, Saying Federal Drug Agents Raided Tobacco Shops In Downtown Nashville And Confiscated Anything That Could Remotely Be Called Paraphernalia, Ignoring Tennessee Law, Supposedly In Order 'To Protect The Children,' Though No Children Were Allowed To Enter The Stores)
• Study Sees Addiction In Older Women (According To 'The Associated Press,' A New 180-Page Report To Be Released Thursday By The National Center On Addiction And Substance Abuse At Columbia University Says 11 Percent Of Women Over 59 Abuse Or Are Addicted To Psychoactive Prescription Drugs And About 7 Percent Abuse Or Are Addicted To Alcohol, But Less Than 1 Percent Who Need Treatment Receive It)
• New Revelations - The CIA And Drugs (ANTIFA, An Anti-Fascist Group, Posts Two Documents, The First An Article From Robert Parry's Newsletter, 'The Consortium,' The Second Former DEA Agent Celerino Castillo's April 1998 Testimony To The House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence)
• UN To Seek Support For Anti-Drug Effort ('The Washington Post' Says The United Nations Plans To Seek New International Backing During A Special Meeting At UN Headquarters June 8-10 In New York For The Most Ambitious Counternarcotics Effort In Its History, But The United States And Other Industrialized Nations Are Resisting Pleas To Fund The Program, Partly Because It Would Spend Billions Of Dollars In Some Of The World's Most Corrupt Or Repressive Nations - However, President Clinton And More than 30 Heads Of State And The Representatives Of 130 Other Nations Are Expected To Endorse The Overall Objective Of The Plan, To Eradicate The World's Entire Production Of Heroin, Cocaine And Marijuana Within 10 Years)
• US Said Balking At Funding For UN Anti-Drug Effort ('Reuters' Version)
• UN Television Ad Press Release - Please Distribute Widely (DrugSense Notes The Group Common Sense For Drug Policy Is Airing An Advertisement In Nine Major American Cities June 4-8 To Coincide With President Clinton's Appearance Before The United Nations General Assembly Special Session On Drug Control Policy - The Ad Features Clinton Giving The Speech He Ought To Deliver Before The United Nations, Stating Some Obvious Truths - The War On Drugs Is Not Being Won And It Will Never Succeed - URLs For RealVideo And .MPG Versions)
• Scholars Urge UN To Review Drug War ('The Stanford Report' Says At Least 10 Stanford University And Hoover Institution Scholars Are Among A Group Of Prominent Americans Signing An Open Letter To The United Nations Secretary General, Urging Him To Initiate A Critical Review Of The International Drug War When The General Assembly Holds A Special Session On Drugs June 8-10 In New York)
• Mexico To Prosecute Undercover US Customs Agents ('The New York Times' Says Mexico Has Advised The United States That It Will Seek The Extradition Of Prohibition Agents And Informers Who Carried Out The 'Operation Casablanca' Undercover Money-Laundering Sting On Mexican Soil, And Charge Them With Entrapment - Illegal In Mexico - Engaging In Money-Laundering, And Usurping The Authority Of Mexican Law Enforcement)
• Drug Cartel Smashed, Mexicans Say ('The Los Angeles Times' Says Mexico's Top Anti-Drug Official, Mariano Herran Salvatti, Told Reporters In Mexico City Tuesday That Police Had Arrested The Suspected Leaders Of The Country's Main Synthetic Drug Cartel, Luis And Jesus Amezcua-Contreras, Dealing A Powerful Blow To Methamphetamine Trafficking Into California And Other American States)
• Officer Aided Crime Bosses, Police Charge ('Vancouver Sun' In British Columbia Says Chiu Ping Philip Tsang Of The Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit Is To Appear In Provincial Court Today For Allegedly Passing Confidential Police Information To Organized Crime Figures)
• Is There A Virtual Jail? (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Calgary Sun' Lampoons Its Claim That 'Pot Is Already Virtually Decriminalized For Personal Use')
• Marijuana Not Banned Substance For Commonwealth Games Tests ('The Associated Press' Says Athletes Competing At This Year's British Commonwealth Games In Kuala Lumpur Will Not Be Stripped Of Their Medals If They Test Positive For Cannabis)
• DrugSense Weekly, Number 49 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, From DrugSense)
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