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Thursday, September 3, 1998

The NORML Foundation Weekly Press Release (French Police Threaten To Prosecute British Company For Marketing Hemp Products; California Legislature Closes Without Deciding On Medical Marijuana Research Center; Judge Allows California Buyers' Clubs To Remain Open, Rejects Oakland Plan To Immunize Dispensary From Prosecution; Judge Finds City-Imposed Restrictions On Scheduled Marijuana Rally Unconstitutional)
Training For The Worst At US Prisons (An 'Oregonian' Article About SORTs, Special Operations Response Teams, Whose Purported Mission Is To Quell US Federal Prison Riots - But 'SORTs Were On Patrol During The Los Angeles Riots, And SORTs Are There To Back Up Teams In Other States When A Riot Gets Too Much For The Home Team To Handle')
Marion OKs Joint Sheriff, Corrections Board ('The Oregonian' Notes Marion County, Oregon, Has Reorganized Its Sheriff's Department And Corrections Department)
Kaites Accuses Foe, Hit By Own Mud ('The Arizona Republic' Describes An Amusing Case Of A Typical Drug Warrior, Democratic State Senator John Kaites, Who Publicized The Arrest For Marijuana Possession Long Ago Of His Republican Opponent For Attorney General, Tom McGovern - But McGovern Was Exonerated And Wednesday Signed An Affidavit Saying He Had Never Used An Illegal Substance, And Challenged Kaites To Do The Same, Whereupon Kaites Had To Admit He Had Smoked Marijuana In High School After First Denying Ever Breaking Any Law)
Kaites Calls Primary Foe A Criminal, Admits Smoking Pot ('The Arizona Daily Star' Version)
DARE Program To Be Reviewed For Changes (According To 'The Houston Chronicle,' Houston Police Chief CO Bradford Said Wednesday That Houston's $3.7 Million DARE Program, Called 'Only Marginally Successful' In A Recent Report, Would Not Be Taught At Local Schools Again In Its Present Form)
Marijuana Harvest Brings Out The Authorities ('The Cleveland Plain Dealer' Describes The Expensive Annual Effort To Eradicate Marijuana Planted In Corn Fields In Ohio, Which Ranks Among The Top 10 States In Marijuana Growth)
Health Chief Pushes Needle Exchange (According To 'The Standard-Times,' Massachusetts State Public Health Commissioner Dr. Howard H. Koh Said Yesterday He Would Welcome Any Opportunity To Resurrect Plans For A Needle-Exchange Program In New Bedford - The Idea Has Too Much Scientific Merit To Ignore)
Ding-Ding, Ice Cream, Hashish ('Reuters' Says Two 20-Year-Olds Busted For Selling Cannabis From Their Ice Cream Truck In Brooklyn, New York, To A Group Of Teenagers Aged 15 And 17 Face Eight And One-Third Years To 25 Years In Prison)
The Perils Of Music Journalism ('The Dallas Morning News' Says A New York Reporter Who Interviewed Country Music Star Willie Nelson Before A Long Island Concert Last Week Said He Was Incapacitated By The Singer's Second-Hand Cannabis Smoke - Even Though Nelson's Performance Apparently Didn't Suffer)
Initiative 59 Wins In Court! (A List Subscriber Says The Washington, DC, Medical Marijuana Measure Sponsored By ACT-UP! Will Be On November's Ballot - DC Superior Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle Ruled Today That Thousands Of Signatures In Support Of DC's Initiative 59 Were Improperly Excluded By The DC Board Of Elections And Ethics)
Where Was All That Pot Going? (The Lexington Herald-Leader' Describes The Effort To Be Expended Trying To Find Out Who Put 2.5 Tons Of Marijuana In A Shipment Of T-Shirts From Jamaica To Kentucky, And Who Was Supposed To Receive It - Federal Prohibition Agents Said It Was The Largest Amount Of Processed Marijuana Ever Seized In Kentucky - Thanks To Prohibition, Kentucky-Grown Marijuana Is Now Superior To Jamaican)
FDA Accuses MS Drug Maker Of Making False Claims (According To 'Reuters,' The US Food And Drug Administration Has Said Teva Marion Partners, A Kansas City, Missouri-Based Company, Was Wrong To Claim Its Drug Copaxone, Generically Known As Glatiramer Acetate, Was Capable Of 'Slowing, Preventing Or Reversing . . . The Progression' Of Multiple Sclerosis, A Disease That Afflicts Three Million People Worldwide)
Thieves Put Hemp Crop At Risk ('Monday Magazine' Says Farmers In Saanichton, On Vancouver Island, Want To Publicize That They Are Growing Legal Hemp So People Will Quit Stealing Their Non-Psychoactive Crop In An Attempt To Get High)
Police Dash High Hopes Of Youth (A Different Version In 'The Victoria Times Colonist')
Medical Doctors Oppose Legalizing Heroin ('The Province' In Vancouver, British Columbia, Says A Report From A Subcommittee Of The British Columbia Medical Association Rejects Proposals For A Heroin Maintenance Program And Instead Urges A Better-Funded, Better-Co-Ordinated Public Health Strategy)
How Many Drug Warriors Does It Take? (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Edmonton Sun' Has Little Sympathy For A Prohibition Agent's Plea For More Money To Carry On A Lost Cause)
Pot Scam Lands Man In Jail For Four Months ('The London Free Press' In Ontario Says A London Man Who Claimed He Grew Marijuana To Raise Money To Fight A Paternity Suit Got Full Marks For A Novel Excuse Yesterday - And Four Months In Jail)
Cannabis Law Change In Offing ('The New Zealand Herald' Says Cannabis Could Be Decriminalised Or Even Legalised Under A Re-Think Of Drug Laws Proposed By The Country's New Minister Of Police, Clem Simich, Who Yesterday Compared The Law Against Smoking Cannabis To Alcohol Prohibition In The 1920s And Suggested It Was Time For A Change)
Parents Hire Drug Spies ('The Herald Sun' Says Parents In Brisbane, Australia, Are Paying Private Detectives Up To $20,000 To Spy On Their Children And Find Out Whether They Are Using Drugs - The Detectives Are Also Using Private School Teenagers To Infiltrate Peer Groups)
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Friday, September 4, 1998:
Monday March To End Prohibition - September 7, 1998 (A Press Release From The Washington Hemp Education Network Says The Labor Day Rally In Seattle Will Focus On Prison Labor Issues)
Gang Member Charged In Woman's Slaying (An 'Associated Press' Account Of A Murder Attributable To Drug Prohibition Says A $1 Million Arrest Warrant Has Been Issued For 19-Year-Old Joshua Christopher Robinson Of Seattle In The Shooting Death Of A Young Mother During An Argument Over Crack Cocaine)
High Court Nixes State DUI Trials For Sailors ('The Associated Press' Says The Washington State Supreme Court Ruled 5-4 Thursday In The Case Of Two Sailors Charged With Driving Under The Influence Of Alcohol That Defendants Who Are Tried And Punished Under Military Law Aren't Subject To Civilian Courts For The Same Crime - And Vice Versa, If The State Prosecutes First)
The Quiet Crusader - Jeff Jones Has Good Reason For Taking The Heat In The Medicinal Marijuana Battle (A Feature Article In 'The San Francisco Chronicle' About The 24-Year-Old Director Of The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, Flagship Of The Industry)
Teen Was Stripped For Wire, Girl Says ('The Orange County Register' Says The Former Girlfriend Of 17-Year-Old Methamphetamine Informant Chad MacDonald Of Yorba Linda, California, Testified Thursday Against The Three Men Who Tortured And Killed The Snitch Before Raping And Trying To Kill Her)
Drug Prohibition (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Los Angeles Times' Says Ending Prohibition Is The Only Way To Remove Temptation From Corrupt Los Angeles Police)
Hernandez Settlement Does Not Ease Pain (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The San Antonio Express-News' Expresses Doubt That The Government's Payment Of $1.9 Million To The Family Of Esequiel Hernandez Jr., The High School Goatherder Killed By Camouflaged Marines On An Anti-Drug Patrol Along The Texas-Mexico Border, Will Have Any Deterrent Effect On Future Government Abuses)
Two Clive Officials Resign Posts ('The Des Moines Register' Says City Councilman John Schiefer And Zoning Commissioner David Ennen Of Clive, Iowa, Resigned After A One-Month Investigation Into Alleged Pot Smoking At A Party)
Out Of The Station, Into A Fire (A Cautionary Tale In 'The Saginaw News' Says David E. Markle, A Saginaw, Michigan, Fire Department Administrator, Has Been Charged With Growing Marijuana At His Home And Maintaining A Drug House After Police Found Minors Drinking Alcohol In His Back Yard During A Loud Party Thrown By His 18-Year-Old Daughter While Her Parents Were Out Of Town)
Drug-Search Scam On I-80 (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Des Moines Register' From The Assistant Director Of The Iowa Civil Liberties Union Criticizes A Recent Instance Of Prohibition Agents Using The 'Drug Stop Ahead' Strategy For Snaring Motorists Who Seem To Take Action To Avoid Inspection)
End Drug War (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Chicago Tribune' Points Out The Recent Death Of A Chicago Prohibition Agent Is Attributable To Prohibition, Not Illegal Drugs)
Police - Baby Was Used To Conceal Smuggled Drugs (According To 'The Associated Press,' Police In Raymond, Maine, Say A Six-Month-Old Baby Who Tested Positive For Cocaine Was Used By Her Stepfather To Conceal Drugs Smuggled From Lowell, Massacusetts - The Child's Mother Is Serving A Federal Prison Sentence For Armed Robbery)
Former Prosecutor Tries To Beat DWI Charge On Technicality ('The Associated Press' Says A Former Prosecutor In White River Junction, Vermont, Is Trying To Avoid A License Suspension Resulting From A Charge Of Driving While Intoxicated By Saying A Police Officer Stood Too Close While She Called Her Lawyer)
Police Seize Marijuana Plants As Tall As Trees ('The Associated Press' Says Prohibition Agents Eradicated 500 Plants Over The Last Week In Rensselaer, Saratoga And Washington Counties, New York, Some As Tall As 12 Feet With Trunks 10 Inches Thick - No One Was Busted)
Police Get Bird's-Eye View Of Pot Fields ('The Daily Gazette' Describes The Annual Helicopter Assault On Corn Fields In The Schenectady, New York, Area - Marijuana Grown Outdoors Was The State's Number One Crop In 1997, Based On Eradication Figures And The DEA's Estimated Value Of $2,000 To $9,000 Per Plant)
Re - Initiative 59 Wins In Court (A Bulletin From Colorado Citizens For Compassionate Cannabis Comments On Yesterday's News That A Medical Marijuana Measure Will Be On The November Ballot In Washington, DC, Without Any Support From Americans For Medical Rights - Includes A Url For The Text Of The DC Initiative)
Millions Urged For Prisons ('The Atlanta Journal-Constitution' Says Georgia Department Of Corrections Commissioner Wayne Garner Wants Taxpayers To Spend Nearly $149 Million Next Year On Three New Prisons, Plus $6 Million To Expand Existing Prisons)
Respect Will Come When Drugs Are Forced To Go (An Op-Ed In 'The Los Angeles Times' By The White House Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, Tries A Different Approach From The Usual 'Only Losers Use Drugs' Line, Making The Rhetorical But Unfounded Assertion That 'Drug Use Among Athletes Broadcasts A Mixed Message That Puts Athletes, Their Sports And Our Children At Risk' - As If No One Had Ever Heard Of Babe Ruth)
Scientists Don't Know If 'Andro' Is Dangerous (According To A 'Dallas Morning News' Article In 'The Toronto Star,' Tim Ziegenfuss, An Assistant Professor Of Exercise Science At Eastern Michigan University, Says That Except For A 1962 Study On Two Women, 'There's Not A Single Published Report In The US As To The Effects Of Androstenedione On Testosterone')
Tobacco-Firms Lawyers Face Accusations of Deception (According To An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Seattle Times,' Today's 'Wall Street Journal' Says The US Justice Department Believes Lawyers For Brown And Williamson Tobacco Corporation, The Nation's Third Largest Cigarette Manufacturer, May Have Engaged In A Criminal Plan To Deceive Federal Regulators)
Cigarettes From The Skies Helped Soldiers Survive (An Op-Ed In 'The San Francisco Examiner' By A Vietnam Veteran Who Smoked Free Cigarettes Distributed By The Military Applauds The Government's Decision To Stop Paying Smoking-Related Health Benefits For Such Veterans)
Potato Chips Seasoned With Cocaine In Mexico (According To 'Reuters,' The Mexican Television Network, 'Televisa,' Said Thursday That School Officials Have Taken To Searching Students' Backpacks After Homemade Potato Chips Sold Outside A School In Downtown San Luis Potosi Came Were Found To Include Small Packets Of Cocaine Wrapped In Plastic)
'Major' Durham Pot Gang Busted ('The Toronto Sun' Says Prohibition Agents In Fenelon Falls Believe The Durham Region's Marijuana Trade Has Been Dealt A Severe Blow With The Arrest Of Seven Men And Seizure Of $300,000 In Pot - About The First Time In History Such A Result Would Be Likely)
Ailing Prison Drug-Smuggler Gets Jail Time ('The Winnipeg Free Press' Says Kenneth Mollard, A Frail 57-Year-Old Maintenance Worker Who Helped Smuggle Marijuana And Cocaine Into Stony Mountain Prison, Was Sentenced To 26 Months In Jail Yesterday - While An Undercover Agent Involved In The Police Sting That Apprehended Mollard Was Paid $150,000)
Doctors Leaders Rule Out Random Tests After Shock Drugs Survey ('The Associated Press' Says A New British Survey Of 114 Doctors Who Have Graduated Recently From The University Of Newcastle Found Those Who Used Alcohol And Illegal Substances Did So Mostly For Pleasure - 93 Percent Drank Alcohol, More Than 35 Percent Of The Men And 19 Percent Of Women Used Cannabis, And 13 Percent Of Men And 10 Percent Of Women Used Other Illicit Drugs, Including Magic Mushrooms, LSD, Ecstasy, Amyl Nitrate, Cocaine And Amphetamines)
Alarm Over Junior Doctors' Drug Abuse (The Version In Britain's 'Guardian')
Alarm At Doctor's Drug Use ('The Scotsman' Version)
Fat May Rival Smoking As Health Threat (A 'Toronto Star' Update On The Eighth International Congress On Obesity In Paris Says Organizers Of The Conference Are Optimistic About A New Drug Called Orlistat That Has Been Found In Clinical Trials To Promote Weight Loss By Reducing The Body's Absorption Of Dietary Fat - The Drug, To Be Marketed By Roche Holdings AG Under The Name Xenical, Is To Go On Sale In Europe This Month And In The United States Some Time Next Year)
Michelle Smith Appeals Suspension ('The Associated Press' Says Olympic Swimming Champion Michelle Smith Filed An Appeal Thursday With The International Court Of Arbitration For Sport In Lausanne, Switzerland, Of Her Four-Year Suspension For Tampering With A Drug Test - Why Someone Would Put Alcohol In A Urine Test Isn't Explained)
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 57 (An Original Summary Of Drug Policy News From The Drug Reform Coordination Network)
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Saturday, September 5, 1998:
Voters Around The State To Decide On More Than Measures ('The Associated Press' Notes Local Governments In Oregon, Freed From The 'Double Majority' Rule For The First Time Since 1996, Are Loading The November 3 Ballot With Tax Increase Measures, Including Proposals For More Jails For The Insatiable War On Some Drug Users)
An Aerial War On Pot Growers ('The Orange County Register' Portrays The Annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting In Humboldt County, California - This Year, The District Attorney Is Allowing Medical Marijuana Patients With 'The 215 Letter' To Keep 10 Plants, Even Though An Oral Recommendation Is All That's Required By Law - Meanwhile, Because Of Budget Constraints, There Is No Basic Law Enforcement In Much Of The County, No 911 Service, No Resident Deputies)
24-Year Smuggling Sentence Upheld ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says A Federal Appeals Court In San Francisco On Thursday Upheld The Sentence Of Canadian Real Estate Dealer Michael Medjuck For Smuggling 70 Tons Of Hashish, The Largest Shipment Ever Seized By US Prohibition Agents)
'Chad Had A Big Mouth' (According To 'The Orange County Register,' Attorneys For Two Suspects In The Beating And Strangulation Of Chad MacDonald, A 17-Year-Old Recruited By Police In Brea, California, Said Friday That The Teen-Ager Was Killed Solely Because Of His Work As An Informant)
Pot Petitioners Sue Buckley ('The Denver Post' Says Coloradans For Medical Rights, Who Sponsored A Measure That Would Legalize The Medical Use Of Marijuana, Sued Colorado Secretary Of State Vikki Buckley On Friday, Claiming Buckley Has Improperly Kept The Issue Off November's Ballot)
Will Foster On 'Dateline' (A List Subscriber Says The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Patient Sentenced To 93 Years In Prison For Growing His Own Medicine Will Be Featured Sunday Night On NBC Television)
Deputies Strip-Search Police ('The Des Moines Register' Says Police Officer Edwin Gordon Of West Des Moines, Iowa, Was Busted Friday After Some Money Disappeared During A Drug Raid)
Marijuana Arrests Down In Milwaukee, But Up In Suburbs, Report Says ('The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Says Statistics Compiled By The Wisconsin Office Of Justice Assistance Show Arrests For The Sale Or Possession Of Marijuana In Milwaukee Declined 6 Percent Since Common Council Enacted A Decriminalization Ordinance A Year Ago, While Arrests In Suburban Milwaukee Increased 7.5 Percent)
Local Man Faces Jail For Legal Weed ('The Brattleboro Reformer' Says George Singleton, A Dredlocked African-American From Putney, Vermont, Was Jailed In Oklahoma For 25 Days And Faces A Trial October 8 And One-Year Prison Sentence Because Oklahoma Police Say A Reasonable Person Might Think The Legal Herbs He Was Transporting As Part Of His Job Were Illegal Substances)
Man Says Cocaine Dealers Took Over His Laconia Apartment ('The Associated Press' Says Police In Laconia, New Hampshire, Made The Biggest Crack Cocaine Bust In The City After A Man Reported His Apartment Has Been Taken Over By Drug Dealers From New York And Massachusetts)
Undercover Officers Fan Out To Check College Drinking ('The Associated Press' Says As Many As 20 Liquor Enforcement Agents Worked Undercover At College Campuses Across New Hampshire This Weekend To Crack Down On Underage Drinking - A New State Law Increases The Minimum Fine For Minors In Possession Of Alcohol From $50 To $250)
Milford Man Charged With Possessing $100,000 Worth Of Marijuana ('The Associated Press' Notes A Connecticut Businessman Faces Felony Drug Charges After Police Say He Picked Up Three Packages At A Mail Boxes Etc., Each Containing About 30 Pounds Of Marijuana Shipped From San Diego)
Attorney General Hopefuls Admit Pot Use (The Times Union' Says Three Out Of Four Democrats Running For Attorney General In New York Say They Used Marijuana In College - And The Other One Simply Won't Discuss The Subject)
Troopers Seize $26 Million Worth Of Cocaine At Turnpike Rest Stop ('The Associated Press' Notes New Jersey Police Found 1,200 Kilograms Of Cocaine Friday Hidden Inside Five Crates Of Rotting Watermelons In A Tractor-Trailer Rig Seemingly Abandoned Near The New Jersey Turnpike)
National Guard Drug War Hits Snag (An 'Associated Press' Article From Pennsylvania Says That While The Overall Federal Budget For The War On Drugs Has Increased, President Clinton Asked Congress To Fund National Guard Counterdrug Programs At $148 Million In The Fiscal Year Starting October 1, Down $13 Million From This Year - So Guard Officers, In Direct Violation Of The Hatch Act, Have Stepped Up Their Lobbying To Restore And Increase Funding)
Medical Marihuana Reconsidered (An Undated But Recent Addition To The Overseas Publishers Association Web Site By Dr. Lester Grinspoon Of Harvard Medical School, An Expert On The Healing Herb, Provides A Learned Introduction To The Topic, And Explains Why Medical Marijuana Patients Might Benefit Most From The Complete Decriminalization Of Cannabis)
Michelle Was Bright And Loving Before Drugs (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Toronto Sun' From The Mother Of A Viciously Murdered Prostitute Addicted To Heroin Blames 'The Law Of The Land,' Which Will Not Allow Addicts To Be Placed In Rehabilitation Against Their Will)
Top Cop Says Lying OK ('The Edmonton Sun' Says The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Don't Like To Advertise Their Right To Lie To Suspects)
Illegal Crops Smoked Out ('The Ottawa Sun' Says A Three-Month Investigation By Local Prohibition Agents Led To Two Separate Raids Yesterday Against The Booming Ottawa Valley Marijuana Cultivation Business - Police Seized Plants They Valued At More Than $1.7 Million)
Tribe May Shape Course Of Drug War - Colombia Offers Opium, Coca Farmers Alternative ('The Dallas Morning News' Talks To A Small-Time Indian Farmer Who, Together With Others Like Him, Helps To Grow Half The Raw Opium And Coca Produced In Colombia, Which Supposedly Supplies 60 Percent Of The Heroin And Most Of The Cocaine Sold In The United States - Such Farmers Are At The Center Of An Expanding Debate Between The US And Colombian Governments About How Best To Stanch The Flow Of Drugs)
Locking Out The Deadly Habit ('The Courier Mail' In Australia Describes The Problematical Campaign To Keep Illegal Drugs Out Of Queensland Prisons - A Crackdown After Six Inmates At Sir David Longland Prison Overdosed On Heroin During One Weekend In July Has Seen Positive Drug Tests Decline From From About 27 Percent To 2 Percent, But A Critic Charges That Overcrowding, Lack Of Drug Treatment Programmes, And A Lack Of Support For Former Inmates Once They Are Out In The Community Means Prisons Can't Realistically Help Inmates With Their Drug Problems)
MAP Focus Alert Number 80 - 'Reader's Digest' - A Rare Opportunity (The Media Awareness Project Asks You To Write A Quick E-Mail Letter Responding To The Egregious Propaganda About Marijuana Published In The September Issue Of The British 'Reader's Digest')
Re - Cannabis - The Truth (A Letter Sent To The Editor Of The British 'Reader's Digest' By An Australian Physician Who Specializes In Drug Rehab Criticizes The Anti-Marijuana Propaganda In The Magazine's September Issue)
A Controversial Drug Which Can Heal ('The Associated Press,' Noting A 'Cannabis Congress' Is Being Held In London Today To Look Into How The Legalisation Of Soft Drugs Could Be Effected, Provides Some Background Information About The Hardy Plant)
Marijuana - Experts Mull Over Basics Of Cannabis Law (Another Account Of The London Cannabis Congress In Australia's 'Sydney Morning Herald')
Drugs Czar Calls For Testing Of Emergency Staff (Britain's 'Herald' Says Keith Hellawell, Apparently Responding To Yesterday's News That More Than 35 Percent Of The Men Physicians And 19 Percent Of The Women Physicians Who Had Graduated Recently From The University Of Newcastle Used Cannabis, Has Called On Scotland's Emergency Services To Lead The Way In The Anti-Abuse War By Introducing Screening Programmes In The Workplace)
Highland's Magic Potion Revealed ('The Scotsman' Says Dr Brian Moffat, An Ethnobotanist, Believes The Heath Pea, Or Lathyras Macrorhizas, A Plant Indigenous To Scotland With Properties Allegedly Similar To Coca, Once Put The Fire In Scottish Bellies, And May Explain The Origins Of Such Highland Contests As The Caber Toss)
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Sunday, September 6, 1998:
Police Intimidate Oregon State Fairgoers Away From Portland NORML Booth (An E-Mail From Portland NORML Director TD Miller At The State Fair In Salem Indicates The Cops Are Trying To Quash Portland NORML's First Amendment Rights While Campaigning For Measure 57 And Against Measure 67)
Re - Dr. No Strikes Again (A List Subscriber Confirms An Article In Wednesday's 'Willamette Week,' Which Shows Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber Has Flip-Flopped Again And Now Says He Will Vote Against Measure 57, The Referendum To Recriminalize Possession Of Less Than One Ounce Of Marijuana - Kitzhaber Could Have Killed The Bill Last Year But Signed It After First Pledging Not To Do So)
Should Mark McGwire's Use Of Performance-Enhancing Drugs Disqualify Him As A Role Model? (Pro And Con Staff Editorials In The Vancouver, Washington, 'Columbian')
Physicians Beware (An Op-Ed In 'The Oakland Tribune' By John Jabobs, Political Editor For McClatchy Newspapers, Recounts The Disturbing Revocation Of The Medical License Of Dr. Robert Sinaiko, A San Francisco Internist And Allergist)
Los Angeles Cops Accuse A Colleague (A 'San Jose Mercury News' Story About The Bust Of Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rafael Antonio Perez For Stealing Three Kilograms Of Cocaine From An Evidence Locker Claims The LAPD Has Long Held Itself All But Immune To Graft)
Controversial Marijuana Question On November Ballot (KRNV, A Nevada MSNBC Affiliate, Notes A Medical Marijuana Initiative Will Face State Voters In November)
Medical Marijuana Is Ballot Question 9 (A November Election Preview In 'The Las Vegas Sun')
Iowa's Forfeiture Law Takes The Profit Out Of Crime ('The Des Moines Register' Examines Forfeiture As Practiced In Iowa, Where The Police Take About $1 Million A Year Just In Cash, And Get To Keep 90 Percent Of It)
Two Drug-Enforcement Standards ('Des Moines Register' Columnist Rekha Basu Suggests Two Recent Cases - Along Interstate 80 And In The Tony Suburb Of Clive, Iowa - Illustrate How The Same Drug Laws Apply Differently To The General Public And Public Officials)
Marijuana Arrests Drop In City, Up In Suburbs (An Article In 'The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Of Interest To Oregon Voters Who Will Cast Ballots In November On Measure 57, A Proposal To Recriminalize Possession Of Marijuana, Says A Year After Officials In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Decriminalized Possession Of Small Amounts Of Marijuana, Newly Released State Figures Show Marijuana-Related Arrests Declined In The City While Similar Arrests In The Suburbs Continued To Increase)
Delaware Resident Faces Jail Time For Medicinal Marijuana ('The Delaware State News' In Dover Describes The Heartbreaking Story Of William R. Powell Of Townsend, An AIDS Patient Facing Prison After His Third Arrest In Less Than A Decade For Growing And Possessing Marijuana)
Pot Legalization Tough Issue For Delaware ('The Delaware State News' Interviews A Variety Of Officials From A Number Of Different Groups On The Prospects For Statewide Medical Marijuana Reform)
General Assembly Examines Marijuana Use (Contrary To Its Headline, 'Newszap! The Delaware State News,' In Dover, Quotes Several Legislators Who Suggest The Delaware General Assembly Is Not Likely To Legalize Marijuana In The Near Future, Or Even To Discuss The Issue)
Quarterly Potency Reports (One List Subscriber Seeks The URL For Marijuana Potency Statistics Regularly Reported By NIDA, The National Institute On Drug Abuse - Another List Subscriber Provides It, And A Third List Subscriber Provides A Summary For The Years 1975 Through 1996 Showing The Average Potency Of Marijuana Seized In The United States Ranged From 1.38 Percent To 3.5 Percent, With The Most Recent Figures Hovering Around 2.9 Percent)
Failing Grade For Safe Schools Plan ('The Los Angeles Times,' While Noting The Number Of Homicides At Public Schools Has Declined Over The Last Five Years From 55 Annually To 45, Says The US Department Of Education Has Poured Nearly $6 Billion During The Last 12 Years Into The Ambitious But Flawed Safe And Drug-Free Schools And Communities Act, Billed As The Federal Government's Largest Program To Deter Student Drug Use And Aggression - Records And Interviews Show That With Virtually No Strings Attached, Much Of The Money Has Been Spent On Initiatives That Are Either Ineffective Or Appear To Have Little To Do With Reducing Youth Violence And Substance Use)
Notion Of Prozac-Dependent Nation Relies On Heavy Dose Of Myth ('The Chicago Tribune' Suggests Several Reasons Why Many Americans Who Need Anti-Depressants Aren't Getting Them, While Many Others Get Prescriptions They Don't Need)
It's OK To Elevate Our Pleasure With Viagra - But Not Marijuana ('The Province' In Vancouver, British Columbia, Says A Recent Survey By The Fraser Institute Of The Canadian Media's Drug Policy Coverage Uncovered A Surprise - The Bulk Of Editorials And Columns - 82 Percent - Called For An End To The So-Called War On Drugs)
Unholy Trinity (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Edmonton Sun' Says Police, Press And Politicians Co-Operate To Bamboozle The Public Into Supporting Drug Prohibition)
Re - Ailing Prison Drug-Smuggler Gets Jail Time (A Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The Winnipeg Free Press' Wonders Why A Sick Old Garbageman Who Smuggled Marijuana And Cocaine Into A Prison Was Sentenced To 26 Months In Jail, But The Prohibition Agent Who Supplied Contraband For The Sting Earned $150,000)
Feeble Law Hasn't Stopped Trade In Khat (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Toronto Star' Says That Since Last Fall, When Khat Was Added To The Canadian Controlled Substance Act, Making It Illegal, The Price Has Increased By A Factor Of 10 And The Khat Business Is Flourishing, Openly Traded In The Markets Of Major Canadian Cities, Especially Toronto)
Thai Monks Might Take Urine Tests ('The Associated Press' Says Thailand's Ministry Of Education Wants Men Applying To Become Buddhist Monks To Submit To Urine Tests For Drug Use And HIV)
Cannabis Congress Explores How To Legalise (Britain's 'Independent On Sunday' Describes The Conference Yesterday In London, 'Regulating Cannabis - Options For Control In The 21st Century,' Attended By Delegates From Europe, Australia And The United States)
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Monday, September 7, 1998:
Cannabis Carnival Unity Fair Critique (A Eugene List Subscriber Says The Labor Day Weekend Festival Near Harrisburg, Oregon, Was A Good Time But Useless Politically)
A Mother's Advice About Drugs (An Op-Ed In 'The San Francisco Chronicle' By Marsha Rosenbaum, Director Of The Lindesmith Center-West, A Drug Policy Institute In San Francisco, Shows What A Drug Policy Reform Activist Might Reasonably Say To Her Son As He Enters High School)
'Dateline' Special On Will Foster Online! (A List Subscriber Posts The URL For A RealVideo Version Of Saturday Night's 'NBC Dateline' Newscast About The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Patient Sentenced To 93 Years In Prison For Growing His Own Medicine)
Dare To Rethink Drug War (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Houston Chronicle' Compares The Failed DARE Program To The War On Some Drugs Itself - Counterproductive But Politically Popular)
DEA Searches Of Clinic Ruled Unreasonable - News Crews Violated Doctor's Rights, Judge Says ('The Associated Press' Says US District Judge Lynn Hughes Ruled August 28 In A Partial Judgment For Dr. Tommy E. Swate Of Houston, Texas, That The Presence Of Television News Crews During Drug Enforcement Administration Searches Of The Doctor's Clinics Was Unreasonable And Violated His Rights)
Police Hold On To Seized Drug Money (United Press International Says An Analysis By 'The Cincinnati Enquirer' Of Illegal Drug Money Forfeited To Ohio Law Enforcement Agencies Shows Millions Of Dollars Are Not Being Used Lawfully)
Police Holding Drug-Raid Loot ('The Cincinnati Enquirer' Version)
Winning The Drug War Isn't So Hard After All ('The New York Times Magazine' Responds To Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Campaign Against Methadone Maintenance Programs With A Lengthy Background Piece That Explains How Americans' Penchant For Punishment Has Blinded The Country To The Most Effective Strategy For Combating Drug Use - Offering Comprehensive Treatment To Every Addict Who Requests It)
Drug Users Take Risks Coming Into City ('The Washington Times' Rails Against Washington, DC's Laissez-Faire Market For Illegal Drugs Created By Prohibition)
Backpacks Becoming Casualty Of School Violence ('The Associated Press' Says 90 Percent Of Youngsters Ages 12 To 17 Have A Backpack And Use It Almost Every Day, But School Officials In Isolated Districts Around The United States Are Beginning To Ban Them As Potential Hiding Places For Guns, Knives And Other Contraband - The News Service Doesn't Mention The Number Of Homicides At Public Schools Has Declined Over The Last Five Years From 55 Annually To 45)
HempFest Scheduled For Same Weekend As UF Homecoming (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Tampa Tribune' Says City Officials In Gainesville, Florida, Tried To Get The Cannabis Action Network Not To Hold This Year's HempFest During The University Of Florida's Annual Homecoming Weekend November 14-15)
Action Alert - The Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act (A List Subscriber Forwards An Alert From The Colombia Support Network Opposing The Bill Making Its Way Through Both Houses Of The US Congress - Section 201 Provides $200 Million In Military Aid To Colombia, But Only $15 Million For Alternative Crop Development, Compared To $150 Million For Alternative Crop Development In Peru)
Mexican Congress Takes Aim At Illegal Guns From US ('The Los Angeles Times' Says Mexican Lawmakers Who Are Angry About The Flow Of Arms Coming South, Many Linked To Drug Trafficking Cartels, Are Expected To Approve Harsher Penalties For Smugglers)
Cannabis Wins Greater Support (According To 'The Hobart Mercury,' Professor David McDonald Of The Australian National University Told An International Conference On Cannabis Law In London That The Government-Regulated Sale Of Marijuana Appears Closer To Being Placed On The Agenda Of State And Federal Governments In Australia)
Marijuana - Regulated Sale Urged (The Version In 'The Canberra Times')
Games Athletes Who Smoke Dope Risk Jail ('The Australian' Issues A Travel Advisory To Swimmers And Gymnasts Who Will Be Taking Part In The Commonwealth Games In Malaysia - The Malaysian Dangerous Drugs Act Mandates Jail Without Bail For Those Charged With Using Marijuana, And A Mandatory Death Penalty For Possession Of More Than 200 Grams Of Cannabis)
Drug Dealing 'Worse Than Ever' ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Says Senior Prohibition Agents In New South Wales Are Claiming That Poor Management By The Police Service Has Been Partly Responsible For Drug Dealing In Kings Cross Flourishing To A Level That Business Leaders Say Is Worse Than Before The NSW Police Royal Commission - 'Our Biggest Problem Is That There Is A Huge Demand For Drugs And Nothing We Do Reduces That Demand,' Said Superintendent Ray Adams Of The Kings Cross Patrol)
Face It - Booze Killed Diana (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Toronto Star' Wonders Why The Press Is Still Looking For Answers In The Death Of Princess Diana Of England, When The Driver Of The Car She Was Riding In Had Three Times The Legal Alcohol Limit In His System)
I Know My Father Died Of Drink - I Watched Him (An Op-Ed In Britain's 'Independent' Says British Physicians And Statisticians Cover Up The Number Of Deaths Caused By Alcohol, As Well As The Horrible Effects Of Alcoholism)
HIV, Tobacco Are Biggest Killers Worldwide ('Reuters' Says Richard Peto, A Professor Of Medical Statistics And Epidemiology At Oxford University, Told A Science Conference Monday In Cardiff, Wales, That The Only Two Causes Of Death That Are Increasing Rapidly Worldwide Are AIDS And Tobacco - 'You Can Save Far More Lives By A Moderate Reduction In The Big Causes Of Death Than By A Large Reduction In Smaller Causes,' He Said)
90 Percent Of Cot Death Babies Have Nicotine In Their Bloodstream (The Irish 'Examiner' Says Research Conducted By The Karolinska Institute In Stockholm, Sweden, And Published In The US Journal, 'Pediatrics,' Also Found A Quarter Of All Victims Had As Much Nicotine In Their Bodies As Regular Smokers, For The First Time Substantiating A Direct Link Between Tobacco And Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
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Tuesday, September 8, 1998:
Phone Bank Needs You (Floyd Ferris Landrath Of Portland NORML And The American Antiprohibition League Seeks Volunteers To Make Phone Calls Urging Voters To Oppose Measure 57, The Recrim Bill, Measure 61, Setting Minimum Sentences For Some Crimes And Increasing Sentences For Repeat Offenders, And To Support Measure 57, The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act)
Vote For A Supreme Court That Puts Your Rights First ('Seattle Times' Columnist Michelle Malkin Notes Voters In Washington State Get To Elect Their Supreme Court Justices, Unlike In Oregon, But Ratings By Traditional Groups Such As The Seattle-King County Bar Association Provide Little Information About Where The Dozen Candidates Vying For Three Open Seats Next Week Stand On The Proper Relationship Between The Government And The Governed - So Malkin Reviews An Alternative Set Of Ratings Provided By The Libertarian-Oriented Northwest Legal Foundation, Which Includes A Strong Endorsement Of Incumbent Richard Sanders, The Lone Supporter Of Ralph Seeley's Constitutional Challenge To Washington's Ban On Medical Marijuana)
Seven Is A Crowd In Supreme Court Race (A Different Account In The Tacoma 'News Tribune' Of The Candidates Competing For One Of Three Open Seats On The Washington Supreme Court)
March To End The Drug War In Berkeley On September 26 (A List Subscriber Forwards A Notice About A Saturday Afternoon Rally - Don't Miss The Planning Session September 21)
Colorado Schizophrenia Patient To Invoke 'Choice Of Evils' Defense In Marijuana Cultivation Case (Warren C. Edson, The Denver Attorney For Michael Domangue, Says Domangue Has A Prescription For Marinol, But His Doctor Indicates Marijuana Is More Effective - The Trial Will Begin October 14)
Free Will Foster (The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Patient Sentenced To 93 Years In Prison For Growing His Own Medicine Has Been Recommended For Parole - But Governor Keating Must Sign The Papers Soon Or Foster Will Rot In Prison For Decades - Will's Wife, Meg, Has Given The Green Light For Concerned Citizens To Write To The Governor Before The Deadline, So Here's Everything You Need To Help Save A Good Man's Life)
Heroin Blamed In Anti-Drug Activist's Death ('The Dallas Morning News' Says 24-Year-Old Elliot Lizauckas, Who Had Finished The Dallas-Based Homeward Bound Drug-Treatment Program Last Spring And Had Begun To Impart A 'Don't Start' Message To Youngsters In His Home Town Of Allen, Texas, Was Found Dead Saturday In North Dallas)
Drug Seizure Laws Ripe For Abuse ('The Cincinnati Enquirer' Surveys How Prohibition Agents And Illegal Drug Sellers Use The Forfeiture Laws In Different Ways - Small-Time Possession Offenders And Innocent People Never Charged With Any Crime Get Taken Most Often)
Drugs Taint An Annual Round Of Gay Revels ('The New York Times' Notes A Man Attending The 'Morning Party' Dance Benefit On Fire Island For An Organization Called The Gay Men's Health Crisis 'Overdosed And Died' August 16 After Apparently Taking Gamma Hydroxybutyrate, Or GHB, And Says 'Many' Gay Men Are Questioning The Propriety Of Such Benefits, Which 'Seem To' Inspire The Kind Of Drug Consumption 'Widely Thought' To Increase The Likelihood Of Unsafe Sexual Behavior And The Spread Of AIDS)
Marijuana Question May Hit Ballot ('The Washington Post' Says Initiative 59 May Be On The Washington, DC, Ballot In November, Depending On A New Review By The City's Board Of Elections And Ethics Prompted By A Court Decision Last Week That Said The Board Was Wrong To Set Aside More Than 4,600 Signatures Gathered By A Resident Of A Shelter For The Homeless)
Chemical In Fluoridated Water May Cause Violent Behavior (According To 'The Chronicle Of Higher Education,' Roger D. Masters, An Emeritus Professor Of Government At Dartmouth College, Explained His Evidence Friday At The Annual Meeting Of The Association For Politics And The Life Sciences, That Silicofluoride, A Chemical Used To Fluoridate The Drinking Water Of 150 Million Americans, May Unwittingly Foster Violent Behavior And Cocaine Use By Causing People To Absorb More Lead, Which Blocks The Action Of Calcium Atoms In Fostering The Production Of Neurotransmitters In The Brain)
Party's Over For US Teens Trying To Drink In Tijuana (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Seattle Times' Says A Year After Operation Safe Crossing Supposedly Began A Crackdown On 'Border Binge Drinking,' About 20 Percent Fewer Americans Are Entering Mexico To Drink This Year Than Last Year From San Diego)
Dangerous Times For Mexico's Writers (A 'Washington Post' Article In 'The International Herald-Tribune' Says In The Last 16 Months, Four Mexican Journalists Have Been Killed At The Behest Of Illegal Drug Sellers, Corrupt Police, And Old-Style Political Bosses, And Scores More Have Been Attacked, Threatened Or Intimidated, Making The Period One Of The Most Violent In A Decade)
Judge Okays Ill Man's Marijuana Use ('The Vancouver Sun' Says Stanley Czolowski Of Vancouver, British Columbia, Who Was Charged With Growing And Trafficking In Three Kilograms Of Marijuana, Argued Successfully That Marijuana Is The Only Substance That Allows Him To Combat The Crushing Pain And Nausea Caused By Glaucoma And The Prescription Drugs He Takes For It - In A Decision That Appears To Be The First Of Its Kind In Canada, Provincial Court Judge Jane Godfrey Granted A Discharge Both For Possession And Trafficking To Czolowski, Who Was Selling His Home-Grown Pot To The Compassion Club, An Illicit Medical Marijuana Dispensary)
No Token Presence ('The Edmonton Sun' Says Edmonton Cops Were 'Disgusted' By The Sight And Smell Of Stoned Teens At Yesterday's Annual Hempstalk On The Lawn Of Alberta's Seat Of Power, And Will Recommend The Festival Lose Its Right To Use The Grounds Around The Legislature's Band Shell)
Drink Still The Bane Of Youth ('The Age' Says The First National Survey Of Mental Health And Wellbeing In Australia, Carried Out In Mid-1997 By The Australian Bureau Of Statistics, Found More Than 10 Per Cent Of Younger Australians Had A Drinking Problem, And Substance Abuse Disorders Were Relatively Common Among The Australian Population As A Whole)
Let's Learn From The Swiss On Drugs (An Op-Ed In 'The Sydney Morning Herald' By Dr Alex Wodak Of The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Provides Some Compelling Arguments Against Recently Announced Plans To Institute US-Inspired 'Drug Courts' In New South Wales - Dr Steven Belenko Of Columbia University In New York Concluded In A Recent Review That 'None Of The Drug Court Evaluations To Date Have Been Comprehensive Enough And Of Long Enough Duration To Enable A Full Calculation Of The Long-Term Costs And Benefits' - We Should Keep An Open Mind On Their Pros And Cons Until More Independent Research Becomes Available - In The Meantime, There Are Many Warnings That Drug Courts May Not Turn Out To Be The Long-Desired Leap Forward - If Drug Courts Are To Be Introduced In NSW, Substantial New Funding Will Be Needed For Treatment Programs)
Futile 'Drugs War' (Three Letters To The Editor Of Britain's 'Independent' Criticize Statements Made By David Macauley In A Recent Op-Ed Explaining Why He Quit As The Director Of Scotland Against Drugs)
Unrealistic (A Similar Letter To The Editor Of 'The Scotsman')
Drug Sting Rocks UK Parliament (Britain's 'Times' Says Joseph Phillip Sebastian Yorke, The 10th Lord Hardwicke, Age 27, Who Runs A Motor Scooter Shop And Admits He Only Shows Up At The House Of Lords Twice A Week To Collect His $330 In Attendance Fees, Was Suspended Yesterday After Allegedly Trying To Sell Cocaine To An Undercover 'News Of The World' Reporter In The Corridors Of Parliament)
Drug Sting Rocks UK Parliament (The Version In Britain's 'Times')
Global Alert For Undetectable Black Cocaine (Britain's 'Independent' Notes The War On Some Drugs Just Got A Lot More Complicated And Expensive)
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Wednesday, September 9, 1998:
Measure 67 Bad / Measure 67 Good ('Willamette Week' In Portland Once Again Shows Its Utter Lack Of Journalistic Ethics By Printing A Letter To The Editor Opposing The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act That Is So Factually Challenged Even The Newspaper Flinches - Plus A More Reasonable Letter In Support Of Medical Marijuana)
State Considers Moving Inmate Visitations To Video ('The Associated Press' Says The Oregon Department Of Corrections Is Considering Forcing Families To Visit With Prison Inmates On A Television Screen Instead Of Through Glass Partitions)
Buckley's Summer Of Errors (A Staff Editorial In Denver's 'Rocky Mountain News' Recounts The Seeming Incompetence Of Colorado Secretary Of State Vikki Buckley, Whose Responsibilities Include Certifying Signatures For State Ballot Measures)
Urgent - Will Foster Parole Order Going To Governor! (The Drug Reform Coordination Network Asks You To Write A Letter To Oklahoma Governor Keating Supporting The Parole Of The Medical Marijuana Patient Sentenced To 93 Years For Growing His Own Medicine)
DrugSense Focus Alert Number 81 - Will Foster - Time To Act! (The International Network Of Drug Policy Reform Advocates Asks You To Take A Few Minutes To Write A Letter To Oklahoma Governor Keating To Sign The Parole Papers For Medical Marijuana Patient Will Foster, Sentenced To 93 Years In Prison For Growing His Own Medicine)
DEA Agent To Stand Trial ('The Edmond Sun' In Oklahoma Says Kevin Dewayne Waters, A Drug Enforcement Administration Agent In Oklahoma City, Was Ordered Thursday To Stand Trial On Charges Of Making A Lewd Or Indecent Proposal To A 15-Year-Old Girl Over The Internet)
Hernandez Shooting - Marine Mistakes Led To Death ('The Associated Press' Says An Internal Military Report Obtained Through The Freedom Of Information Act By 'The San Antonio Current' Indicates US Marines On An Anti-Drug 'Surveillance' Patrol Who Fatally Shot Esequiel Hernandez, Jr., A West Texas Teen-Ager, Were Not Adequately Trained For An Anti-Drug Operation That Placed The Combat-Ready Troops Among Civilians)
Marijuana Ralliers Need To Find New Date ('The Wisconsin State Journal' Says The City Of Madison, Wisconsin, Wants To Limit The Constitutional Rights Of Marijuana Law Reform Advocates For The Convenience Of Officials)
Couple Ask For Bail During Appeals (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The New Haven Register' Says Lawyers For James V. Monaco, 79, Of Branford, Connecticut, And His Wife Of 50 Years, Mary, 72, Both Imprisoned At Medical Facilities In Texas, Asked An Appeals Court In New York Tuesday To Release Them On Bail Pending Their Appeal Of Federal Convictions For Laundering Illegal Drug Profits For Their 'Evil Son')
Drug Treatment Works, Should Be Funded - US Study ('Reuters' Says A Report Released Wednesday By SAMHSA, The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration, Shows Treatment For Adult 'Drug Abusers' Works, Is Cheaper And More Effective Than Jail, And Should Receive More Funding - But Drug Treatment Programs Do Not Seem To Help Adolescents, Who Increased Alcohol Use By 14 Percent And Crack Cocaine Use By More Than 200 Percent After Treatment - No Mention Is Made Of Who Was Coerced Into Treatment, Who Sought It, And How Their Outcomes May Have Differed)
'My Kid Doesn't Smoke Pot . . .' (Text Of A Television Advertisement From The White House Office Of National Drug Control Policy That The Federal Government Thought Was More Important Than Funding Untold Drug Treatment Slots)
Sick Smokers Cost U.S. $73 Billion Per Year - Study (Reuters publicizes a new accounting by Dorothy Rice of the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California-San Francisco)
'Compassion Club' Applauds Court Pot Ruling ('The Vancouver Sun' Says An Illicit Medical Marijuana Dispensary In Vancouver, British Columbia, Has Applauded The Decision Of A Vancouver Provincial Court Judge To Give A Man With Glaucoma A Conditional Discharge For Selling Cannabis To The Club)
Pot Decision No Joy For Accused ('The Province' In Vancouver, British Columbia, Notes Stanley Czolowski, The Impoverished Vancouver Medical Marijuana Patient And Cultivator Behind A Precedent-Setting Court Decision Over Trafficking, Has Been Traumatized By His Brush With The Law)
Marijuana Case Dismissed ('The Toronto Star' Says An Ontario Judge Dismissed AIDS Patient James Wakeford's Lawsuit Tuesday Demanding That The Federal Government Supply Him With Medical Marijuana)
Colombia Calls Drug Crop Eradication A Failure (According To 'Reuters,' Ruben Olarte, The Newly-Appointed Chief Of The Federal Government's Anti-Narcotics Office, Branded The Country's US-Backed Coca Eradication Program A Failure On Wednesday, Saying It Had Done Nothing To Halt A Steady Increase In Illicit Drug Plantations)
Teens Ready To Run Risks Of Drug Use (Britain's 'Guardian' Says A New Book Published Today, 'Illegal Leisure,' By Fiona Measham And Judith Aldridge, Which Took Five Years To Research, Shows British Teenagers Are Not Deterred From Using Either Legal Or Illegal Drugs By The Risk Of Arrest, And That Most Teenagers Make Rational Decisions On Drug Use On A 'Cost Benefit' Assessment, And Are Aware Of The Medical Risks)
Maybe The Drugs Czar Needs Tested (A Letter To The Editor Of Britain's 'Herald' Wonders Why Keith Hellawell Proposed Drug Test For Scottish Medical Personnel When The Vast Majority Of Tests Detect Only Cannabis, And The Government's Own Studies Show Cannabis Doesn't Cause Impairment)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 63 (A Summary Of Drug Policy News From The Media Awareness Project)
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