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Thursday, September 24, 1998

The NORML Foundation Weekly Press Release (House Okays Legislation To Test Driver's License Applicants, Others For Drugs; Senate To Take Up Resolution Rejecting Medical Marijuana; Voters In Nation's Capitol Will Decide On Medical Marijuana; Government Website Uses Anti-Drug Trafficking Funds To Launch State Propaganda Campaign Against Medical Marijuana; Reminder - Year's Largest Marijuana Reform Rally To Take Place Next Week)
The People Vs William Conde ('Eugene Weekly' Makes It Pretty Clear That Officials In Linn County, Oregon, Who Raided The Lumberyard Of The Longtime Marijuana Law Reform Activist Were Motivated By Politics)
Detectives - Even The Security Guards Sold Drugs At Three-Day Festival ('The Associated Press' Version, A Rewrite From Yesterday, Doesn't Say Whether The Police Will Now Confiscate Everything Belonging To Portland Trail Blazers Owner Paul Allen If They Catch Someone Using Or Selling Illegal Drugs During A Concert Or Other Event At The Rose Garden Arena In Portland)
Kitzhaber Expands His Prevention Plans ('The Oregonian' Notes Oregon Governor John 'Prisons' Kitzhaber Is Running For Re-Election And Was Flanked By Supporters In Law Enforcement Wednesday During A Campaign Appearance At The Portland Police Memorial, Where He Said He Would Ask The Corrections Department To Come Up With $50 Million Out Of Its Current Budget, Including $30 Million To Combat Juvenile Crime And $20 Million For Drug Treatment Programs)
Governor Seeks $50 Million For Youth Programs ('The Associated Press' Version)
Jail Inmate Died Of Cyanide Poisoning ('The Associated Press' Indicates It's Not Known Who Or How Someone Smuggled In The Drug That Killed A Man Convicted Of Attempted Rape In Eugene, Oregon)
Marvin Chavez Trial Monday (A List Subscriber Invites Medical Marijuana Reformers To The Santa Ana County Courthouse Beginning September 28 To Witness The Absurd Trial Of The Director Of The Now-Defunct Orange County Patient, Doctor, Nurse Support Group)
Joan Baez Fundraiser (A List Subscriber Says The Folksinger's October 1 Benefit Concert For Her Cousin, Peter Baez Of The Santa Clara County Medical Cannibas Center, Has Sold Out, But 100 New Seats Have Opened Up At $100 A Pop)
Study Finds Medical Benefits In Marijuana ('The Sacramento Bee' Version Of Yesterday's News About Research By Ian Meng And Scientists From The University Of California In San Francisco Showing How Cannabinoids Affect Brain Cells That Control Pain)
Marijuana-Like Drug Eases Pain, Study Says ('The Orange County Register' Version)
Scientists High On Medical Benefits Of Marijuana ('The Toronto Globe And Mail' Version)
Cannabis Can Kill Pain, Say Experts (The Version In The Aberdeen, Scotland, 'Press And Journal' Says That Last Night, The Home Office Signalled That The Government Would Amend Drug Laws If The Results Were Confirmed And The Medicines Control Agency Issues Marketing Authorisation)
Action Alert - 'The Los Angeles Times' And The Hemp Oil Defense (A List Subscriber Says The West Coast's Largest Newspaper Has Prohibited Its Employees From Consuming Health-Food Products Made With Legal Hemp Seed Oil, Which The Body Converts Into Cannabis Metabolites, Leading To Falsely Positive Urine Tests - The Cat's Out Of The Bag - Please Write A Letter To The 'Times' Expressing Your Disgust)
Fourth-Graders Suffer Illness After Possibly Ingesting LSD ('The San Jose Mercury News' Says Fourteen Youngsters Aged 9 And 10 In The Los Angeles Suburb Of Pacoima Got Sick Or Dizzy Or Began Hallucinating Wednesday After A Girl Found A Box Containing A Powder And A Vial Of Liquid Near Her Home And Shared It With Classmates)
Guard Smuggles 'Cocaine' Into Prison ('The Associated Press' Says Michael Falco, A Guard At Sing Sing Prison In Ossining, New York, Has Resigned And Faces Four Years In Prison Himself After Getting Caught In A Sting)
ACLU Wants To Outlaw Officials Having To Take Drug Tests (The Louisiana 'Advocate' Says The Louisiana Chapter Of The American Civil Liberties Union Filed A Federal Lawsuit Wednesday Challenging The Constitutionality Of A 1997 State Law That Requires Random Drug Testing Of Elected Officials)
Louisiana Justice Of The Peace Challenges Drug-Test Law ('The Associated Press' Version)
DARE And "Banned Books Week" (An insightful list subscriber notes the American Booksellers Association, the American Library Association and other groups have been promoting literature for 17 years using the "forbidden fruit" syndrome. He suggests drug policy reformers should take advantage of the annual weeklong event to point out how the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program works the same way to promote drug use among children.)
Immediate Action Required - Oppose Juvenile Crime Package (A Bulletin From The Media Awareness Project/DrugSense Urges You To Call, Write Or Fax Your US Senators, Asking Them To Reject A Draconian Bill That Would Force Expulsion Of Children Possessing Small Amounts Of Drugs From Schools, Incarcerate Children As Young As 13 With Adult Inmates, Remove Judicial Discretion, And Allocate $450 Million To Prisons But Only $50 Million To $100 Million For Prevention, Mentoring And Educational Programs)
Where's The Drug Crime? (A List Subscriber Forwards A Piece Of Propaganda From The National Center For Policy Analysis, 'Punishment Helping Reduce Crime,' Which Claims It's Necessary For The United States To Have A Correctional Population Of More Than 5 Million In Order To Have A Favorable Impact On Violence And Property Crime - But The NCPA Fails To Apply The Same Statistical Methods To The Largest Single Category Of Crime, Involving Drug Offenses)
Medical Cannabis May Be OK, Says Hellawell (Britain's 'Daily Mail' Says Keith Hellawell, The Labour Government's Drugs Czar, Backed The Legalisation Of Cannabis For Medical Uses Yesterday, Saying There 'May Be Justification In Certain Circumstances' For The Drug To Be Used To Help Those Suffering From Some Serious Illnesses - His Remarks Were Taken As A Powerful Hint That Ministers Are Prepared To Back Legalisation If Trials Now Under Way Support Doctors' Claims)
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Friday, September 25, 1998:
Medical Marijuana (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Bulletin' In Bend, Oregon, Says That Whatever You Believe About The Medical Properties Of Marijuana, Jailing Sick People For Using It Does More Damage Than The Drug Itself, And We Should Not Be Inflicting Greater Harm Than The Problem We Are Trying To Solve)
Lawn Signs For Measures 57 And 67 (A Portland NORML Activist Says Voter Power Is Distributing Lawn Signs And Other Materials Urging Oregonians To Vote 'No' On Recriminalization And 'Yes' For Medical Marijuana)
Sheriff Sees Marijuana Measure As Ploy To Legalize Other Drugs (An 'Associated Press' Story In 'The Oregonian' Quotes Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Noelle Of Portland Telling The State Criminal Justice Commission On Thursday That 'We Don't Believe Measure 67 Has Anything To Do With Medicine' And That Marijuana 'Contributes To Violent And Assaultive Behavior')
Re - Sheriff Sees Marijuana Measure As Ploy To Legalize Other Drugs (A List Subscriber In Salem, Oregon, Says He Checked With The State Board Of Psychological Examiners, The Board Of Counselors, And The Board Of Licensed Social Workers And It Turns Out The 'Portland Psychologist And Addiction Counselor Roger Burt' Quoted By 'The Associated Press' Making Ludicrous Assertions About Cannabis Is Not Licensed Or Registered In Oregon - Plus Commentary From Other List Subscribers)
Senate Panel OKs Suicide Ban ('The Oregonian' Says A Bill That Would Block Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law Cleared The Senate Judiciary Committee On Thursday)
Study - Marijuana, Morphine Work On Same Area Of Brain (The Knight Ridder Newspapers Version In 'The Seattle Times' Of Wednesday's News About Cannabinoid Research By Ian Meng And Associates At The Medical School Of The University Of California At San Francisco)
Six Clubs' Federal Court Date Changed (A List Subscriber Notes The Hearing Scheduled September 28 On The Legality Of The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative And Other Northern California Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Has Been Postponed A Week, Until Monday, October 5)
'Los Angeles Times' Cartoon (Commentary On Wednesday's News That In The Last Seven Years, Appropriations For Higher Education In California Dropped 3 Percent While Prison Spending Rose 60 Percent)
Pilot Dies In DEA Chopper Crash (According To An 'Associated Press' Story Broadcast By WFAA-TV In Texas, A Training Pilot Who Worked For Raytheon Aerospace Died Near Fort Worth, While DEA Pilot Matt Fairbanks Is Expected To Live)
Wasteful Drug War (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Rockford Register Star' In Illinois Notes The Government Estimates Its $17 Billion Federal Budget For A Small Part Of The War On Some Drug Users Reduces The Amount Of Drugs On The Maket By Only 3 Percent To 10 Percent)
Pesky Citizen-Made Law (A letter to the editor of The Tampa Tribune in Florida about the attempt in Congress to nullify Oregon's unique physician assisted suicide law notes the Republican Congress was elected in 1994 on a platform which included 'devolution' - returning power to the states. Instead, they are 'devolving' power to the DEA to thwart citizens' initiatives that the leaders of the House Judiciary Committee don't happen to like.)
Medicine Not Subject To 'Opinion,' But It Is At Mercy Of Politics (An Op-Ed In 'The St. Paul Pioneer Press' By Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor Of 'Reason' Magazine, About House Joint Resolution 117, The Anti-Medical Marijuana Vow Of Ignorance Recently Passed By The US House Of Representatives)
US Senate To Vote On Anti-Medicinal Marijuana Resolution (The Marijuana Policy Project In Washington, DC, Urges You To Write Letters To Your Two US Senators Asking Them To Oppose Senate Joint Resolution 56, The Anti-Medical Marijuana Legalism)
'Drug Crazy' Goes Into Second Printing (The Media Awareness Project Forwards A 'Thank You' Note From Mike Gray, The Author Of The Seminal New History Of The War On Some Drug Users, Published By Random House)
Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report - Recommendations And Reports (A List Subscriber Forwards A Notice From The US Government About New Online Information)
Overdose Death Target Of Third Investigation ('The Vancouver Sun' Says The Canadian Justice Department Is Reviewing The Overdose Death Of A Government Chemist Who Analysed Drugs Seized By Police To Determine What Impact The Death Will Have On Drug Prosecutions And Whether The Circumstances Of The 1997 Death Should Have Been Disclosed To Defence Lawyers)
Safe Site For Addicts 'Saved Lives' ('The Vancouver Sun' Says A Proposal To Set Up Four Safe-Injections Sites For Heroin Addicts In Vancouver, British Columbia, Was Debated For The First Time At A Meeting Thursday Night Of The Vancouver/Richmond Health Board - Ann Livingstone, One Of Five Committee Members Who Prepared The Proposal, Recounted An Unauthorized Site She Used To Oversee That Provided A Place To Escape The 'Death Camp' Which Is The Downtown Eastside, But It Was Shut Down By Police, Who Say It Had The Impact Of 'A Grenade' On The Safety And Security Of The Neighbourhood)
Arrests Of Two Drug Agents In Mexico Criticized (A 'New York Times' Article In 'The Chicago Tribune' Says Two Mexican Prohibition Agents Who Were Part Of An Anti-Drug Unit That Works Closely With The United States Were Preparing To Buy A Ton Of Marijuana From Tijuana Traffickers As Part Of A Buy-And-Bust Operation When They Were Arrested By Baja California State Police Summoned By One Of The Traffickers, And Charged With Kidnapping)
US To Leave Unexploded Bombs Behind In Panama ('Reuters' Says The Admission Friday By US Military Officials That They Would Leave Behind Unexploded Ordnance In The Jungles Of The Panama Canal Zone When The United States Concludes Its 90-Year Military Presence In Panama Next Year Became An Issue After The United States And Panama Failed To Reach An Agreement On A Drug Interdiction Base That Would Have Extended The US Presence)
Senior Detective Risked Officers For Bribe From Britain's Top Drug Baron (Britain's 'Independent' Says The Former Deputy Head Of The Merseyside Drugs Squad, Elmore Davies, Was Convicted Yesterday Of Disclosing Information To Pervert The Course Of Justice - A Detective Chief Inspector With 30 Years' Service And A Son In The Force, Davies Is The Most Senior British Police Officer Jailed For Corruption In Modern Times)
Police In Seven Forces Investigated For Drugs, Bribery And Robberies (Britain's 'Independent' Says More Than 110 Police Officers In At Least Seven Forces In England And Wales Are Being Investigated, Or Face Charges, In An Unprecedented Series Of Anti-Corruption Inquiries)
Weed Takes The Bloom Off Prizewinning Floral Display (Britain's 'Guardian' Says That After Civic Leaders In Glastonbury Gave The First Prize For The 'Glastonbury In Bloom' Competition To The Shop, In Harmony With Nature, The Police Busted The Owner, Free Rob Cannabis, For Including 13 Tiny Plants With Distinctive Leaves Among His Award-Winning Arrangement Of Chrysanthemums, Roses And Heathers - Glastonbury's Deputy Mayor, Alan Gloak, Said Cannabis Plants In The Town's Displays Were 'Endemic' - 'People Scatter These Seeds All Over The Place')
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 60 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original Summary Of Drug Policy News And Calls For Action, Including - DRCNet Nearing The 7,000 Mark - Your Voice Needed; Alert - Congress Considers Jailing Children With Adults; Alert - From The Andean Information Network; Canadian Hemp Shop Bust Aided By US Agents; Media Note - CBS Drama To Highlight Medical Marijuana; Volunteers Needed For Washington, DC Medical Marijuana Initiative; New Study Indicates That Cannabis Relieves Pain; Drug War Militarization Bill Passes House Over Objections Of Colombia; Background On Juvenile Justice Bill; Massacre In Ensenada, Mexico Hits Close To US; Minnesota Marijuana Law Faces Constitutional Challenge In Court Case; Human Rights Activists Accuse Russian Police Of Planting Drugs; National Conference On Prisons This Weekend; Editorial - Repentance For The Drug War)
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Saturday, September 26, 1998:
Allow Medical Marijuana - Measure 67 (A Staff Editorial In The Eugene, Oregon, 'Register-Guard' Endorses The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, Saying Oregonians Should Understand That They Can Support Humane Medical Practices Without Undermining Efforts To Control Dangerous Drugs)
Marijuana IS Medicine (A List Subscriber Publicizes A Public Rally October 5 Beginning At Harborview Hospital In Seattle - And Prints The URL Where Flyers Can Be Downloaded And Printed Out)
Medical Marijuana On Television! (A List Subscriber Says Monday Night's Episode Of 'LA Doctors' On CBS Will Involve A Doctor And His Patient Using Medical Marijuana)
Lone Marijuana Plant Fires Up Debate Over Downtown Visalia ('The Fresno Bee' Says The Discovery Of A Weed Sprouting From A Planter On Main Street Has Led Downtown Merchants To Pitch In To Hire Security Guards)
Wilson Signs Youth-Informant Safeguard ('The Orange County Register' Says California Governor Pete Wilson, Spurred By The Killing Of Chad MacDonald, A 17-Year-Old Brea Police Informant, Signed A Bill Friday That Requires Police To Obtain A Judge's Approval Before Using Minors As Undercover Agents)
Down Mexico Way ('The Tulsa World' Says Mexican Ambassador Jesus Reyes Heroles Was In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Recently, Making A Compelling Case That America's War On Some Drugs Imperils 'Free Government' In Mexico)
State Law Lacks Herb Clause ('The Tulsa World' Describes The Trial To Begin Thursday Of George Singleton Of Vermont, A Rastafarian With Dreadlocks Who Was Busted By An Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper, Who Thought Singleton's Mullein And Rosemary Were Marijuana, Which Led To His Now Being Charged With Being Under The Influence Of An Intoxicating Substance)
Man Chokes To Death On Bag Of Marijuana ('The Sun Herald' In Biloxi, Mississippi, Shows How Fear Of Marijuana Laws Can Be More Dangerous Than Marijuana Itself)
ACLU Of Louisiana Sues Over 'Clean Urine Loyalty Oath' (The 'ACLU News' Account Of Wednesday's Lawsuit Filed By The Louisiana Chapter Of The American Civil Liberties Union Challenging The Constitutionality Of A 1997 State Law That Requires Random Drug Testing Of Elected Officials)
NAIHC Annual Meeting In DC (A Press Release From The North American Industrial Hemp Council Publicizes Its Annual Membership Conference And Program Schedule November 5-7 In Washington, DC)
Justice Department Seeks FDA Regulatory Control Of Tobacco ('The Associated Press' Says The Department Has Asked A Federal Appeals Court In Richmond, Virginia, To Reverse The Decision Last Month By A Three-Judge Panel Of The Fourth US Circuit Court Of Appeals That The Food And Drug Administration Has No Authority To Regulate Tobacco)
A Citizen's Guide To Influencing The Administration (Excellent Tips On Making Letters And Phone Calls Effective, From 20/20 Vision Education Fund, A Resource For Grassroots Activists Across The Country)
Police Pose As Drug Dealers In Cocaine Sting ('The Vancouver Sun' Says Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officers Took Advantage Of Controversial New Regulations Allowing Them To Break Drug Laws If They Are Investigating A Crime In Order To Carry Out A 'Reverse Sting' In Richmond, British Columbia, Where They Charged Three Men With Conspiracy To Traffic In Cocaine And Seized $1.2 Million In Cash)
The Last Days Of The War On Drugs (Occasional Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Columnist Gwynne Dyer Comments On The Recent London Symposium, 'Regulating Cannabis - Options For Control In The 21st Century,' And Other Reform Developments Around The World, Saying That As Far As The Technical And Philosophical Debate Is Concerned, The War Is Over; We Just Haven't Declared A Ceasefire On The Actual Battlefronts Yet - But That Is Coming Too)
Hemp Production Goes Into Rehabilitation ('The Ottawa Sun' Notes Recalcitrant Agriculture Officials Have Made It Difficult For Canadian Hemp Farmers To Expand Their Production This Year As Much As Hoped)
Mexican Drug Agents Held For 'Kidnapping' (A 'New York Times' Article In 'The International Herald-Tribune' Says Two Mexican Prohibition Agents Who Were Part Of An Anti-Drug Unit That Works Closely With US Officials Were Preparing To Buy A Ton Of Marijuana From Tijuana Traffickers As Part Of A Buy-And-Bust Operation When They Were Arrested By Baja California State Policemen Summoned By One Of The Traffickers)
Massacre Survivor Gets Injunction (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Orange County Register' Says The Unconscious Fermin Castro, An Alleged Drug Trafficker Who Survived A Massacre Of His Extended Family In Ensenada, Has Received A Court Injunction To Keep Him From Being Taken Out Of The Hospital Where He Is Under Heavy Military Guard - The Order Also Protects Castro From Arrest By Federal, State Or City Police)
Drug Gangs Devastate Indian Villages In Baja ('The New York Times' Says Illegal Drug Traffickers Are Taking Advantage Of The Traditional Conflicts That Have Plagued Native Indian Communities In Baja Mexico, Leading To The Killings Last Week Of Two Entire Families From The Pai-Pai Ethnic Group, Along With A Household Of Neighbors, Who Were Dragged From Their Homes And Shot To Death In A Driveway In Ensenada)
Easing The Agony (The Version In Britain's 'New Scientist' Of Wednesday's News About Ian Meng And Colleagues At The University Of California At San Francisco Medical Center Finding A Way To Demonstrate The Analgesic Qualities Of Cannabinoids)
39 Officers Accused As CID Inuiry Continues (Britain's 'Telegraph' Says 286 Individual Allegations Are Being Investigated Against 39 Detectives In A Middlesbrough Squad Credited With Cutting Crime Through 'Zero Tolerance' Policing - But Then Says Crime In Middlesbrough Has Gone Up Since The 'Zero Tolerance' Policing Began, With Burglaries Having Increased 36 Per Cent From Last Year)
Drug Courts Pilot Scheme Needs Proper Funding (The Irish 'Examiner' Says The Labour Party, Democratic Left, And Drug Treatment Professionals Have Welcomed The Irish Government's Decision To Set Up US-Style Drug Courts, But Stress The Need To Commit Sufficient Funds - To Deal With Non-Violent Convicts And Those Guilty Of Non-Serious Offences By Way Of Drug Treatment Rather Than Jail Terms, Supporters Asked For Funding For Participants' Counselling, Career Guidance And Medical Care, Promising The Funding Would Would 'Pay For Itself Because Of The High Costs Of Drug Addiction To Society')
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Sunday, September 27, 1998:
Marijuana Vote Brings Out Big Societal Issues (An 'Oregonian' Article On Ballot Measure 67, The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, Briefly Recounts The History Of Medical Marijuana Reform Efforts In The State)
Prohibition Addicts (A Letter To The Editor Of The Bend, Oregon, 'Bulletin' Says The Unholy Trinity Of Police, Press And Politicians Are In Denial Over Policies That Exacerbate The Original Problem)
Legalize Drugs (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Bulletin' In Bend, Oregon, Responds To The Newspaper's Staff Editorial Opposing The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act)
Cannabinoid Analgesia Explained (The Version In Britain's 'Lancet' Of Wednesday's News About The Letter To 'Nature' From Ian Meng And Researchers At The University Of California In San Francisco Explaining How They Were Able To Demonstrate That Cannabinoids Affect Brain Cells Which Control Pain)
FBI Probes Death, Beatings (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Santa Barbara New-Press' Says Another Alleged Inmate Beating Has Surfaced At Twin Towers In Los Angeles, This Time At The Hands Of A 'Posse' Of Renegade Deputies)
Moonlighting? Two Books Revisit Charges That The CIA Condoned The Sale Of Crack (An Annoying Review In The Mendacious 'New York Times' Of Gary Webb's New Book, 'Dark Alliance,' Expanding On His Series For 'The San Jose Jose Mercury News,' And 'Whiteout,' By Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair)
Councilor Expects Potshots For Stance ('The Cape Cod Times' Publicizes The Annual MassCann Rally On Boston Common Next Saturday With A Feature Article About Richard Elrick, Scheduled To Speak At The Rally, A Town Councilor In Barnstable, Massachusetts, As Well As Vice President Of The Cape And Islands Democratic Council, Vice Chairman Of The Town Democratic Committee, Ferry Boat Captain, Lawyer - And Also A Member Of The Board Of Directors Of MASS CANN, The State Affiliate Of The National Organization For The Reform Of Marijuana Laws)
Congress Shows Little Sense On Marijuana (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Gazette' In Schenectady, New York, Says The US House Of Representatives' Recent Approval Of House Joint Resolution 117, Opposing Medical Marijuana, Is An Example Of Ignorance In Action)
New York's Drug Sentencing Policies Are Too Severe (Another Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Gazette,' From The New York Green Party Nominee For Lieutenant Governor, Expresses Deep Concern About The Lack Of Debate Over The Future Of New York's Criminal Justice System, Noting Among Other Criticisms That Nearly Half Of All Prisoners Have Been Sentenced For Drug Offenses)
Just Say Maybe - Second Thoughts On Cops In The Class ('New York Times' Columnist Dirk Johnson Says Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Or DARE, Which Is Used In About 70 Percent Of The Nation's Public Schools, Is Only One Of About 50 Antidrug And Safety Programs Taught In Public Schools - And They Generally Don't Work)
Kids On Front Line As Addicts Die Like Flies (A Sensational 'Vancouver Province' Article Says British Columbia's Chief Coroner, Larry Campbell, Has Recorded 272 Deaths From Overdoses Of Heroin Or Cocaine In The Province So Far This Year, A 30 Per Cent Increase, And Says Campbell And Top Police Officers Fear That Suburban Kids Are Prime Targets In The Deadly Drug Trade, Although The Newspaper Doesn't Cite Even A Single Juvenile Death)
Mandy's Story - From A Loving Home To Death On The Skids (Another Sensational 'Vancouver Province' Article About The Death Of A 23-Year-Old Vancouver Crack Addict Fails To Ask If The Young Woman - And Society - Might Have Fared Better If She Had Been Obliged To Obtain The Drug Through A Physician)
Protecting Children Is Above The Law (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Calgary Herald' Suggests That Providing Clean Needles And 'Shooting Galleries' To Drug Addicts May Seem To Condone Breaking The Law, But That Should Mean Little To Parents Of Addicts)
Wrong-Headed Laws Give Drug Lords Power (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Toronto Star' Says The Results Of Canada's Recent Prohibition Of Khat Were Predictable)
Khat Ban Racist, Ignorant (Another Letter To The Editor Of 'The Toronto Star' Says The Khat Law Was Passed Specifically To Target Somalis And East Africans In Canada For Criminal Punishment For Continuing A Harmless Cultural Tradition, And Careful Analysis Of The World Health Organization Report, 'Chewing Khat,' Indicates That Khat Is Far Less Dangerous Than Coffee)
Drug Trade Hurts Northern Mexican Indians (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Los Angeles Times' Portrays The Recent Massacre Of 18 People In Ensenada, Mexico, As Related To The Plight Of Impoverished Indians In Northern Mexico, Who Are Increasingly Being Snared Into Drug Trafficking And Falling Victim To Its Violence)
Indians Said To Be Hurt By Expanding Drug Trade In Northern Mexico (A Different 'Associated Press' Version In 'The Santa Maria Times')
Drug Cartels Ravage Indian Villages ('The New York Times' Version In 'The Chicago Tribune')
The Drug Crisis Isn't Just In Mexico (An Op-Ed In 'The Los Angeles Times' By Jesus Blancornelas, Editor Of The Weekly Mexican Newspaper, 'Zeta,' Says Those Who Sell Illegal Drugs In Mexico Are Named And Covered In The Mexican Mass Media, While The American Mass Media Lets Those Who Sell Illegal Drugs In The United States Remain Anonymous)
Coca Is Among Drink's 'Real Thing' Ingredients ('The Houston Chronicle' Notes The Coca-Cola Company Still Uses Coca Leaf Mulch To Flavor The World's Number One Soft Drink, And Purchases About 200 Metric Tons Of Coca Leaves Annually In Bolivia For Its Secret Formula)
Products From Coca Leaf Are Tough Sell ('The Houston Chronicle' Says That At A Time When US-Backed Eradication Teams Are Bent On Wiping Out Coca Crops In South America, A Handful Of Activists Is Trying To Promote The Healthful Properties Of Coca And Convince The World That Coca Is Not Cocaine)
Attacking Roots Of Cocaine Yields A Bitter Bolivia ('The Houston Chronicle' Says That Since The Bolivian Military Began A Program Of Forced Eradication Of Coca In April, Such Scorched-Earth Tactics Have Provoked Violent Protests In Normally Peaceful Bolivia, And More Than A Dozen People Have Been Killed In Clashes With Police And Soldiers, According To Human Rights Groups)
Cannabis Campaign - A Year That Changed Minds (Britain's 'Independent On Sunday' Marks The First Anniversary Of Its Campaign To Decriminalise Cannabis With An Update On Medical Cannabis Research By The American Firm HortaPharm Carried Out For Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals, Observing That It Is The Case For Legalising The Medical Use Of The Drug Which Has Gained The Most Ground In The Past 12 Months)
Cannabis Campaign Goes Worldwide (A British List Subscriber Says A Coalition Of Cannabis Campaigners Meeting In Brixton, London, Has Picked Saturday May 1, 1999, As The Date For Next Spring's Cannabis Campaign March In London)
Police Corruption In UK 'At Third World Levels' (Britain's 'Telegraph' Says It Has Obtained The Confidential Minutes Of A Meeting Organised By The National Criminal Intelligence Service, Which Says A Key Cause Of Rampant Police Corruption Is The Growth Of The International Drugs Trade And The Massive Amounts Of Money Available To Criminals To Offer As Bribes)
The Shameful Truth About Police Corruption (Britain's 'Telegraph' Says That, Contrary To Police Claims That Corruption Is Minimal Outside London, The Minutes Of A Highly Confidential Meeting Organised By The National Criminal Intelligence Service On June 23 Indicate The Most Senior Police Officers And Policy-Makers In The Country Agreed That 'Corrupt Officers Existed Throughout The UK' And That Police Corruption Had Become 'Pervasive')
Opium Crop Hurt By Iran Tensions, Weather (According To 'The Chicago Tribune,' Pino Arlacchi, Executive Director Of The United Nations Drug Control Program, Says Heavy Rains, Hailstorms And Earthquakes This Year Have Wiped Out One-Quarter Of The Expected Opium Crop In Afghanistan - The UN Agency Estimated Last Year That Afghanistan Had Become The World's Largest Producer Of Opium, Surpassing Myanmar)
Opium Production Falls In Afghanistan ('The New York Times' Version In 'The Orange County Register')
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Monday, September 28, 1998:
Medical Effectiveness Outside Law's Purview (A Staff Editorial In Oregon's 'Albany Democrat-Herald' Criticizes Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Noelle For Practicing Medicine Without A License When He Said Last Week That Marijuana Would Be 'The Least Effective And Most Risky' Medication To Give To Someone - And Says Marijuana 'Should Be Legal To Use If And When It Can Help Somebody Who Is Sick')
University Of Oregon Fraternity Goes Dry ('The Associated Press' Says New Members Of Delta Sigma Phi In Eugene, Oregon, Will Supposedly Be Forced To Go On The Wagon - Three Other UO Fraternities Have Agreed To Ban The Use Of Alcohol Within Five Years, Another Plans To Launch A Dry Chapter In A Couple Of Weeks, While Some Sororities - Which Already Prohibit Alcohol - Are Doing Their Part By Pledging To Party Only With Dry Fraternities - The University Has Also Decided To Implement New Dorm Policies)
Veteran Claims Work Around Hazardous Chemicals Led To Terminal Illness ('The Associated Press' Says Dennis Marshall, A 43-Year-Old Former Army Mortician In White City, Oregon, Is Dying From Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease And Suffers From Congestive Heart Failure Connected To Exposure To Formaldehyde, But The US Department Of Veterans Affairs Is Denying His Request For Benefits, Maintaining His Smoking Likely Caused His Health Problems)
Customs Official Files Suit Against '60 Minutes' (A 'New York Times' Story In 'The Orange County Register' Says Rudy Camacho, A US Customs Official, Is Suing CBS, '60 Minutes' Correspondents Mike Wallace And Lesley Stahl, And A Show Producer For Libel, Contending A Scathing Report On The Customs Service In San Diego Was Based On A Falsified Internal Memo)
Give Terminally Ill Pot (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Arizona Daily Star' Protests House Joint Resolution 117, The Anti-Medical Marijuana Vow Of Ignorance, Noting Current Policy Exists Because It Produces The Two Things Politicians Crave The Most - Power And Money)
Choice Of Evils - Michael Domangue (Colorado Attorney Warren C. Edson Says District Attorney Paul McLimans Is Challenging His Ability To Mount A 'Choice Of Evils' Defense For His Client Based On Edson's Affiliation With NORML)
Fort Worth Officer Shoots, Kills Suspect Fleeing In Van (According To 'The Dallas Morning News,' Prohibition Agents Said The Man Appeared To Have Crack Cocaine In His Hand When He Was Stopped, But A Police Spokesman Would Not Say Whether Officers Had Confirmed The Presence Of Illegal Drugs In The Suspect's Van Or What Else Was Found Inside)
Prison Growth May Deplete Surplus (According to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a Wisconsin legislator said Sunday that if the state's prison population increases nearly 50 percent in three years as projected, it could deplete much of an expected budget surplus.)
Former State Trooper Of The Year Takes Own Life ('The Associated Press' Says William Johnson, Once Named Massachusetts' Trooper Of The Year, Shot Himself After Being Demoted From The Narcotics Squad At The Boston Airport To A Job Patrolling A Parking Garage - The Former Green Beret From Revere Never Recovered From The Direction His Career Took After An Encounter With One Of Boston's Most Infamous Mobsters More Than A Decade Earlier)
Police Flyovers Spoil Pot Harvest (An 'Associated Press' Update On Efforts To Eradicate New York State's Number One Crop)
Information On Saliva Drug And Alcohol Test (A List Subscriber Forwards An Advertisement And URL Regarding A New Hand-Held Device That Will Allow Cops To Take A Saliva Sample Which Will Produce Results In Five Minutes Acceptable To Courts)
Reefer Madness (A List Subscriber Forwards A Quote From Senator Jesse Helms, Who Thinks 'Social Signs Of Regular Users' Of Marijuana Include 'Excessive Preoccupation With Social Causes, Race Relations, Environmental Issues, Etc. . . .')
Science Notebook - Taking A Leaf From Marijuana's Effect ('The Washington Post' Version Of Wednesday's News About Ian Meng and Colleagues At The University Of California At San Francisco Demonstrating The Analgesic Qualities Of Cannabinoids)
US Senate To Vote On Anti-Medical Use Resolution This Week (Keith Stroup, Director Of NORML In Washington, DC, Urges You To Write To Your Two US Senators, Asking Them To Oppose Senate Joint Resolution 56, Denying The Medical Utility Of Marijuana - Send A Fax Free From NORML's Web Site)
Juvenile Injustice (Syndicated 'Washington Post' Columnist William Raspberry Says It's Hard To Know Which Is More Cynical - The Content Of The Juvenile Crime Bill Republicans Have Crafted Or The Way They Are Trying To Railroad It To Enactment)
DRCNet Launches Weekly Radio Show (A List Subscriber Says The Weekly Drug Reform Coordination Network News Is Available In Broadcast Quality To Interested Stations, Producers And Announcers Via The Web, And New Editions Will Be Uploaded Each Friday)
Caine Court Case (Randy Caine Says An Appeal In His Constitutional Challenge To Canadian Pot Prohibition Begins Tuesday In Vancouver, British Columbia)
A legal triumph for pot (An Alberta Report account of the constitutional challenge of multiple sclerosis patient Grant Krieger says the medical use of marijuana is winning converts in Canadian courts.)
It's A Girl - Have A Joint (An Op-Ed In 'The Toronto Sun' By Marianne Meed Ward, Managing Editor Of 'Faith Today,' Who Just Gave Birth To Her First Child, Says It's Time To Decriminalize Doobies For Medical Use, Noting The Recent News About Ian Meng Demonstrating The Analgesic Utility Of Cannabis)
Re - The Last Days Of The War On Drugs (A Dutch Citizen's Letter To The Editor Of The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Praises The Newspaper For Accurately Describing The Effectiveness Of Dutch Drug Policies)
Indian Criminals Face Holy Deadline ('The South China Morning Post' Says Resentment At Widespread Lawlessness, Kidnapping And Drug Abuse In The Indian Port City Of Chittagong Has Spawned A 'Citizens' Committee To Resist The Anti-Socials' - If The Criminals Repent Their Sins By Friday, They Will Be Saved From The Wrath Of The Angry Vigilantes)
Cannabis Law Protest Group Hold 'Smoke-In' ('The Sheffield Star' In Britain Says The Group Smokey Bears' Picnic Met On Devonshire Green In Sheffield To Campaign For The Legalisation Of Cannabis, Smoking Joints In Public To Celebrate The 70th Anniversary Of The Misuse Of Drugs Act And To Show How Banning The Drug Has Failed)
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Tuesday, September 29, 1998:
More Money To Hire Portland's Finest (KOIN, Portland's CBS Affiliate, Says The Portland Police Bureau Just Launched A Big Enlistment Drive To Add 80 New Officers To The Force By Next February)
Prison Mental Health Workers On Alert After Third Inmate Hanging In A Month ('The Associated Press' Says The Average Suicide Rate In Oregon State Prisons Is Three Per Year - By Official Estimates, One Of Every 10 Prisoners Is Afflicted With A Severe Mental Illness And One Of Every Four Penitentiary Inmates Takes Psychiatric Medication)
A Constitutional Challenge To Confiscatory Regulation ('Seattle Times' Columnist Michelle Malkin Gives An Update On Oscar And Barbara McCoy's Battle To Save Oscar's II, Their 22-Year-Old Family Business, From Being Closed Under A 1988 Washington State Drug-Abatement Law - The Couple Was Stunned At How Seattle Police Set Up 18 Undercover Drug Buys Inside Oscar's II, Failed To Notify Them Of The Purchases Or Identify Any Of The Dealers, And Then Worked To Shut Them Down Instead Of Making Arrests)
Deputy District Attorney Is 'Amazed' (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' Listing Groups Who Oppose Medical Marijuana, From Carl Armbrust, The Man Prosecuting Marvin Chavez - Plus A List Of Similar Groups Who Support Medical Marijuana)
Re - Deputy District Attorney Is 'Amazed' (Two Letters Sent To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' Illuminate Orange County Prosecutor Carl Armbrust's Errors In Reasoning About Medical Marijuana)
Prison Budget Points To Need For Alternatives (A Staff Editorial In 'The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Comments On The Fact That The Number Of Wisconsin Prison Inmates Is Expected To Rise By Half In Three Years, But The Corrections Agency Proposes To Boost Its Next Two-Year Budget By Only A Fourth - With 3,000 Prisoners Already Housed Out Of State, The Plan To Send As Many As An Additional 4,500 Inmates Out Of State Is Alarming)
Medical Marijuana Class Action Lawsuit (A Press Release About The Federal Lawsuit Challenging The Constitutionality Of The Prohibition On Therapeutic Cannabis, Filed By Philadelphia Public Interest Attorney Lawrence Elliott Hirsch, Includes A URL To The Complete Text Of The 128-Page Brief)
McCaffrey Wants Methadone Handed Out In Doctor's Offices (A List Subscriber Relays A Radio Newscast From An Unspecified Station Indicating The White House Drug Czar Is Embracing A Harm Reduction Proposal)
Federal Proposal Would Provide Methadone to More Drug Addicts ('The New York Times' Says General Barry R. McCaffrey Is Expected To Outline A Major Overhaul Of The Federal Strategy For Treating Heroin Addiction In A Speech Tuesday To A National Conference Of The American Methadone Treatment Association In Manhattan - Methadone Would Be Made Available To All Who Need It, And Private Physicians Would Be Allowed To Dispense It)
US Expands Methadone Treatment ('The Associated Press' Version)
Government To Make Methadone More Available To Addicts (A Different 'Associated Press' Version)
Seizing Money (A Press Release From The Libertarian Party Headquarters In Washington, DC, Alerting You To A New Bill Before The Senate Judiciary Committee That Would Allow Police To Assume Anyone Traveling With More Than $10,000 In Cash In So-Called 'Drug Transit Areas' Is A Drug Dealer - And Confiscate All Their Money)
High Court To Draw Line In Car Searches By Police (According To 'The Associated Press,' The US Supreme Court, Responding To A Case From Wyoming Involving Illegal Drugs, Said Today It Would Decide How Far Police Officers Can Go In Searching The Personal Belongings Of Motor Vehicle Passengers)
Caine Trial Delayed (A Brief Note From Randy Caine Indicates His Consitutional Challenge To Canadian Cannabis Prohibition Has Been Put Off Again, This Time Until November 10)
City Offers $58,000 For Foundry If Pot-Smoking Pair Are Evicted ('The Kitchener Waterloo Record' In Ontario Says The City Of Cambridge Decided Monday Not Only To Forgo $900,000 In Back Taxes And Hydro Costs, But To Pay Owner John Long $58,000 On Top Of That In An Effort To Evict Reverends Michael Baldasaro And Walter Tucker, Those Bearded Maestros Of Marijuana And Founders Of The Self-Proclaimed Church Of The Universe)
Just Say No (A Brief Item In 'The Orange County Register' Says Mexico Has Once Again Rejected A Proposal To Let US Prohibition Agents Carry Firearms Within Its Borders)
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Wednesday, September 30, 1998:
Planting Evidence ('Willamette Week,' Portland's Leading Spokesman For The Law Enforcement Community, Ignores The Sick And Dying Who Would Benefit From Measure 67, The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, In Order To Emphasize The Unfounded Fears Of Cops That 'Virtually Every' Small-Time Pot Grower Will Be Able To Find A Physician Willing To Endorse His Or Her Use Of Cannabis, Begging The Question, 'So Why Are We Busting So Many Sick People,' And Ignoring The Experience In California, Where Non-Medical Prosecutions For Cannabis Increased After Proposition 215)
Scientific Proof Linking Pot, Violence Nonexistent (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Oregonian' From Portland NORML Director TD Miller Rebuts An Assertion By Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Noelle That Cannabis 'Contributes To Violent And Assaultive Behavior' And Therefore Shouldn't Be Used As Medicine For People With Serious Illnesses)
Marijuana Activist Goes To Court To Seek Return Of Computers ('The Associated Press' Says Reform Activist Bill Conde Of Harrisburg, Oregon, Has Gone To Court To Try To Get Back Computers Police Took During A Drug Raid Two Weeks Ago, Seizures His Lawyer Said Violate Privacy Rights And Constitutional Freedoms Of Speech And Association)
Pot Activist Wants PC's Back (The Version In The Bend, Oregon, 'Bulletin')
Gambling Addict's Survivors May Ask Voters To Overturn Game ('The Associated Press' Says Video Poker Opponents Are Planning An Oregon Initiative Campaign In 2000 Aimed At Ending Or At Least Curtailing State-Sponsored Gambling - Even Though Apparently The Percentage Of Dependent Players Has Plummeted From 7 Percent To 3 Percent In Two Years)
Audit Finds 54 People With Criminal Backgrounds Caring For Kids ('The Associated Press' Says A Recent Audit Of Oregon's Adult And Family Services Division Showed That 54 People Receiving State Money To Provide Child Care Had Outstanding Warrants And Criminal Histories, Including Endangering A Minor, Drug And Drunken Driving Charges, Child Neglect, Credit Card Fraud And Assault - No Word On How Many Children Were Put In Foster Care Because A Parent Had Been Charged With Marijuana Possession)
Women Will Occupy Part Of The Eastern Oregon Prison ('The Associated Press' Says By Next Summer, 160 Women Will Join More Than 1,500 Male Inmates At The Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution In Pendleton As Part Of What Prison Officials Call A Temporary Overcrowding Fix That Could Last Four Years)
Sims Says Crime Drives Plan To Raise Property-Tax Rate ('The Seattle Times' Says King County Executive Ron Sims Is Calling For A 5.5 Percent Tax-Rate Increase To Hire 367 More Jailers, Police And Prosecutors, Using The Specter Of Criminals Roaming The Streets To Justify What Could Be One Of The State's Largest Property-Tax-Rate Increases In 1999)
Judge tosses out medical usage defense; pot grower (The Union, published in Grass Valley, California, describes a Proposition 215 case in which a Lake Wildwood man was convicted Tuesday of growing marijuana for sale after a judge ripped the heart out of his medical-marijuana defense. However, J. Tony Serra, the lead defense attorney for Ronald Enos, 54, said "This submission allows us to appeal every issue and, in the meantime, Mr. Enos is free.")
Sonoma Judge Sets Full Hearing for Return of Medical Marijuana (A news bulletin from the web site of Californians for Compassionate Use, associated with Dennis Peron, says Sonoma County Judge Raima Ballinger accepted on Tuesday the county's first petition ever filed for the return of medical marijuana plants. The judge issued a stern order to the sheriff and county counsel that they appear for a full hearing on October 30, where the patients whose plants were forfeited will present their side of the story.)
Prison Guard Union Breaks With Tradition, Backs Davis ('The Contra Costa Times' Says That In A Surprise Move, California's Powerful Prison Guards Union, Which Has Been Republican Governor Pete Wilson's Biggest Financial Supporter And A Backer Of GOP Gubernatorial Contenders For 16 Years, Voted Tuesday To Support Democratic Contender Gray Davis Over Dan Lungren, The Republican Candidate And Nemesis Of Proposition 215 - Rank And File Members Cited Davis's Military Service)
The Drug War's No Failure (John Jonik, a columnist for The Anderson Valley Advertiser in Boonville, California, says the war on some drug users has succeeded in massively enriching the Prison Growth Industry, in creating a "holy" distraction from real crimes against people and their environment perpetrated by corporate and government entities, and has generated a lot of other little-discussed benefits that go unrecognized by "the left.")
San Francisco Likes Federal Methadone Plan (According To 'The San Francisco Examiner,' Local Health Officials Say A White House Initiative To Expand Methadone Treatment And Allow Physicians To Dispense It Is Precisely In Line With Their Goals)
Police Chief's Daughter Fails To Show In Court ('The Orange County Register' Says Michelle Lynette Parks, 37, The Daughter Of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks, Has Been Free On Her Own Recognizance, But Failed To Enter Pleas On Cocaine Sales And Trafficking Charges In Las Vegas Tuesday, So The Judge Set A New Hearing For October 13 And Said She Would Issue A Bench Warrant For Parks If She Did Not Show Up)
Cannabis Camouflage ('The Arizona Republic' Notes There Are A Lot Of Jerks Out There Who Are Stealing From Gilbert Area Farmer Malcolm Scott And His 40-Acre Crop Of Kenaf, A Plant Grown For Fiber That Looks Like Marijuana And Is Included In The US Department Of Agriculture's List Of Preferred Alternative Crops)
Man Carrying Only Herbs Charged With Driving Under The Influence (A 'Houston Chronicle' Update On The Case Of George Singleton Of Vermont - Originally Busted While Driving Through Oklahoma, The African-American With Dreadlocks Spent 25 Days In Jail Charged With Possessing 'An Imitation Controlled Substance' - Medicinal Rosemary And Mullein - And Faces A Court Date Thursday On Charges That He Was Intoxicated While Driving Under Their Influence)
Urban Farmer Uses State Constitution In Court ('Minneapolis Star-Tribune' Columnist Doug Grow Describes The Appearance Tuesday Of Thomas Wright Before The Minnesota Supreme Court, Where The Marijuana Cultivator Argued That His Conviction For Possession Of Marijuana With Intent To Sell Violated Article 13, Section 7 Of The State Constitution, Which Says, 'Any Person May Sell Or Peddle The Products Of A Farm Or Garden Occupied And Cultivated By Him Without Obtaining A License')
No Justification For Continuing War On Marijuana (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Gazette' In Schenectady, New York, Says It's Time To Bury The Fiction That Smoking Pot Is Bad)
Decriminalize Marijuana (A List Subscriber Publicizes An Online Petition To Reform Marijuana Laws, Sponsored By E-ThePeople.Com, A Nonpartisan Web Service Promoting Communication Between Citizens And Government)
War Going On In Internet Poll (List Subscribers Invite You To Make Your Opinion Known At An Online Survey On 'Whether The US Military Should Help Combat The Influx Of Illegal Drugs And Immigrants Along The US-Mexico Border')
Congress Votes To Let Colleges Tell On Students ('The Washington Post' Says Congress Has Approved And President Clinton Will Likely Sign Legislation That Will Allow Colleges To Notify Parents When Students Younger Than 21 Commit A Violation Involving Alcohol Or Other Drugs)
Senate Resolution Calls For Colleges To Wage War On Binge Drinking (Related News In 'The Chronicle Of Higher Education')
Methadone program planned to counter heroin (An Associated Press article in The Seattle Times covers General Barry McCaffrey's speech yesterday before the American Methadone Treatment Association in New York, where he outlined plans to allow physicians to prescribe and dispense methadone.)
A Clean And Sober NBA (An op-ed in The Washington Post by General Barry McCaffrey, the White House drug czar, says professional basketball players should be drug tested for marijuana.)
Senator Jesse Helms Agrees, Legalize It - Signs on to SJR 56 to Reschedule Nationally (A news bulletin from the web site of Californians for Compassionate Use has an original spin on the intent of Senate Joint Resolution 56, the supposed anti-medical marijuana resolution. In this interpretation, SJR 56 is seen as a first step toward the federal rescheduling of marijuana because it supports the existing legal process for determining the safety and efficacy of drugs, and calls for a report from the FDA in 90 days.)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 66 (An Original Summary Of Drug Policy News, Including The Feature Article, A Review Of The Book 'Shattered Lives' By Mikki Norris And Chris Conrad; With The Recent Week's News In Review, Including The Legal Battle Over Constiutional Rights Occasioned By The War On Drugs, Prisons, The Annals Of Interdiction, Medical Marijuana, And Mexico, Plus International News - Other Features Include Hot Off The 'Net - Drug War Graphical Charts Site; Medical Marijuana Petition; E-Thepeople Site; DrugSense Tip Of The Week - The MapNews Service; Quote Of The Week - Thomas Jefferson; Fact Of The Week - The 'Gateway Theory')
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