1997
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Wednesday, December 31, 1997:
Portland NORML Weekly News Releases
May 15, 1997 NORML: Regular Marijuana Users Have No Higher Rates Of Mortality, Long-Term Study Concludes; (Meanwhile) New "Study" Rejecting Medical Marijuana...Not Really A Study At All; Arizona Tax Stamp Repealed By Legislators, May Be Challenged By Referendum. Text file.
May 8, 1997 NORML: Medical Marijuana Supporters Challenge Arizona Measure Restricting Physicians' Ability To Prescribe Marijuana; NORML, Others Testify Against DC Effort To Re-Impose Mandatory Marijuana Penalties; Activists Charge Oregon's Largest Newspaper Sides With The DEA In Promoting Marijuana Recriminalization Bill. Portland NORML: Body Count; Kitzhaber Spills The Beans At Open-Air Drug Market; Minnis Calls Kitzhaber 'Cowardly'; Vote No On Prisons For Profit; Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Signature Count; OCTA Web Site Adds Hemp News And Videos; Marijuana Is Legal, The Courts Are Illegal; "Jailbirds Smoking A Joint In The Joint?"; 'Smoke Screen' In Playboy; Canadian Constitutional Challenge Continues; An Observer Reports On The Constitutional Challenge. Text file.
May 1, 1997 NORML: Government Report From The Netherlands Criticizes Marijuana's Label As A "Gateway" Drug; Federal Government Must Keep Hands Off California Doctors Who Recommend Medical Marijuana. Portland NORML: Body Count; Multnomah County Judge Rules Drug-Free Zones Unconstitutional; Oregon House Votes To Recriminalize Marijuana; Portland NORML Director Busted; Pharmaceutical Companies Investigating Cannabinoids?; Prohibition's Failures Reach New Low; 'Deaths Caused By Alcohol In The US' (Scientific American); Panel To Recommend NIH Study Of Medical Marijuana; "Judge - Doctors Can Urge Pot" (San Francisco Examiner); Key Rulings By Judge Smith; Time Magazine Calls Marijuana Addictive; Washington Jury In Religious Defense Case Waits On Appeals Court; San Marcos, Texas, To Vote On Medical Marijuana; California Gubernatorial Candidate Attacks Military Subversion Of Voter Initiatives; Hatch Act Goes Online; Arizona Voters To Have The Last Say On Proposition 200; 'Hemp Rooted In Missouri History'; 77 Percent Of Kentuckians Support Industrial Hemp; Canadian Mounts Constitutional Challenge To Pot Prohibition; Chris Clay Of Hemp Nation Gives Constitutional Challenge Timeline; Constitutional Challenge Features Hemp Expert's Testimony; Herbal Joints The Key To Bust Free Rallies; Court Limits No-Knock Searches, But Not Abusive Police; Former Pot Smoker Molinari Proposes Cradle-To-Grave Drug Tests; How Drug Prohibition Kills The Unborn; 'Doubt Cast On DARE Program'; 'FDA considers Prozac for children'; Rastafarian Lawyer Challenges Jamaican Ganja Laws; 'Mexico Overhauls Drug Agency'; 'Mexico Replaces Inept, Corrupt Anti-Drug Force'; 'Mexico Overturns Drug Lord Sentence'; Prohibitionists' Fantasies Alter Caribbean Islands. Text file.
April 24, 1997 NORML: Federal Government Raids California Medical Marijuana Club - NORML Calls DEA Action "Federal Piracy"; (Meanwhile) San Jose City Council Opts To Regulate Medical Marijuana Clubs; American Incarceration Rates Still Highest In World... And Rising. Portland NORML: Body Count; Judge Disallows 'Choice Of Evils' Defense For Portland Medical-Marijuana User; More On The Flower Therapy Raid In San Francisco; NIH Calls For Controlled Studies, But Will 'Peronistas' Upset The Process?; Proposition 215 Works For LA Sickle-Cell Patient; "LSU Law School Head Quits Over Marijuana Bust"; Public Wants Open And Honest Drug-Policy Discussion; "Arizona Voters Said Yes To Pot For Medical Use - Lawmakers Said No"; "Arizona Looks Into Building Private Prison In Mexico"; National Conference On Raza Prisoners And Colonialism; CADCA Muddies The Water In Drug Policy Debate; Prohibition Can't Keep Crack From Spreading In Small Indiana Towns; American Fantasies Result In Peruvian Nightmare; Prohibitionist Fantasies Feed Albanian Families; High Cigarette Taxes Feed Drop-Outs' High Incomes; Connecticut Commission Re-Examines Drug Policy Realistically; UC/Berkeley Teaches Myths And Realities Of Crack Cocaine; US Sentencing Commission Survey - Americans Gluttons For Punishment; Counterculture Spawned By Prohibition Sends A KINDer Message; Houston Cop Deals From Patrol Car; Mass Media Create North Korean Drug Scare; New Chicago Historical Society Exhibit; McCaffrey And Mexico - Faith Triumphs Over Experience; Mexican Drug Traffickers Show Family Values; US Non-Certification Of Colombia Has Stench Of Hypocrisy; "Phantom Numbers Haunt The War On Drugs"; Vermont Eradication Figures Questioned; Tennessee Farmers Investigate Industrial Hemp; "Detention Of Pregnant Woman For Drug Use Struck Down"; Appeal Filed In Colorado Juror Rights Case; "Cambodia Asks US Help In War On Drugs." Text file.
April 17, 1997 NORML: Doctors Free To Recommend Medical Use Of Marijuana, Federal Judge Rules; High Court Strikes Down Law Mandating Drug Testing Of Political Candidates; State Legislature Puts The Brakes On Voter-Approved Medical Marijuana Provision. Portland NORML: Body Count; Oregon Drugs Control Amendment Circulates; Blame It On Prohibition - Morris, NJ Teens Run Drug Rings; Drug Policy Foundation Web Site Goes Online; Consumer Reports Supports Medical Marijuana; Three Wire Stories On Federal Judge Smith's Medical-Marijuana Decision; California's Rural Pot Growers Feel The Heat; Study Finds No Evidence DARE Cuts Drug Use; "DARE's Troubles Can Be Linked To Left-Wing Slant"; Val Kilmer Helps Send $210,00 To DARE; "Jury Decides Religious Belief Not Enough To Clear Pot Smoker"; "Military Will Allow Religious Peyote Use"; "Crack Cocaine Sentencing Survives High Court Test"; Washington Times Columnist Changes Mind On Drug War; Democratic National Committee Said To Have Gotten Drug Money; "Most In Bronx Police Scandal Acquitted"; The Drug War Is Dead (International Herald Tribune); "Racine Replaces Minister's Door That Was Destroyed In Search"; Zealous Developer Narcs On Pot Photographer; "Judge - Traffic Searches Biased" (Baltimore); Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Opens Exhibit On 'Psychedelic Era'; "Most Efforts To Stop Crime Fall Far Short, Study Finds"; Two Columbian Articles On Cascade Hemp Opening In Vancouver, Washington; Washington State Public Housing Law Permits Drug-Free Zones; Ottawa Citizen Endorses Decriminalization Of Drugs; "Colombia's Samper Blames Unemployment On Drug War"; "2 Mexican Officials Quit In Prison Scandal"; Mexican Jurists Want Special Prosecutor Instead Of Anti-Drug Agency; Mexican Military Takes Over War On Some Drugs; Doctors Respond To New England Journal Of Medicine Endorsement; Maine Legislature To Vote On Medical-Marijuana Bill; Two Articles On Arizona Legislature's Betrayal Of Voters; "Toward A Smarter Policy." Text file.
April 10, 1997 NORML: Virginia Legislature Likely To Study Industrial Hemp - Other Bills Still Alive, Gaining Momentum In States; Status Of Industrial Hemp Legislation In Other States (Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon); Medical Marijuana Research Efforts Moving Forward In California, Massachusetts. Portland NORML: Body Count; Oregon Legislative Committee Recommends Recriminalization; Don't Forget; At Least The Wall Street Journal Admits It Willfully Promoted Ignorance...; Death Penalty For Drug Smuggling In Kuwait Gets Results; Pot Prohibition Is Genocide; Barney Frank Introduces 'Safety Valve' Retroactivity Bill; Enduring The Tortures Of Prison; "Beat Poet Laureate Ginsberg Dies"; Drug News Digest Now Available By E-mail; Fear Of God Blocks Washington Judiciary; "A Heartless Drug Law Can Be Nullified"; Church Of Scotland Appeals For Decrim; Minnesota Judges Retake Courts From Prosecutors; Florida AIDS Patient Challenges Prohibition Law; Seeley Case Nears Decision In Washington; "Progress On Marijuana"; California Supply Question Continues To Crop Up; Former Czar Bennett Says "Screw Democracy"; British Physician, London Ad Firm To Promote Medical-Marijuana Reform; US Mayors Want More Funds For Treatment, Less For Police; Final Salvo In The March Against ABC; The Ethics Of Drug Testing; "'No Knock' Formula Guarantees High-Octane Leadfests"; Georgia Senator Proposes Five-Nation New World Order For Drug War; How Interdiction Increases Supply; US Pours Resources Into Puerto Rican Interdiction; "Swiss Link Jailed Salinas To Drugs"; "Former Mexican President Implicated In Brother's Scandals"; Samper Seeks US Extradition For Colombian Kingpins. Text file.
April 3, 1997 NORML: Heavy Long-Term Marijuana Use Does Not Impair Lung Function, Says New Study; American Medical Association Demands Clinical Trials To Determine Marijuana's Medical Effectiveness; North Dakota To Conduct Year-Long Study On Industrial Hemp; Maryland Brewing Company Gets OK To Distribute Hemp Beer In 23 States. Portland NORML: Body Count; Pretrial Urine Tests Voided In Oregon; Cascade Hemp Supply Opens Large Retail Store In Vancouver, Washington; Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Benefit April 20; AAPL Activist Calls For Blockbuster Video Boycott; Scope Of Intolerance In Oregon Raises Eyebrows In New Jersey; Interpol Admits Drug War Being Lost; "When Newt Gingrich Spoke Out For Medical Pot"; ABC's 'March Against Drugs' Post-Mortem; Partnership For A Drug-Free America Goes For The Cheap Shot; Sickle-Cell Medical Marijuana Patient-Activist Arrested; 'How Marijuana Causes Insanity,' in the Atlantic Monthly; He Works For You; Man Bites Dogs; Second-Hand Smoke Kills 40,000, Cannabis 0; Cannabinoids Protect Brain; ACLU Targets War On Some Drugs; San Francisco Considers Legal Defense For Doctors Recommending Cannabis; Bill To Modify Proposition 215 Passes California Senate Committee; Cannabis Club Signs Contracts With Growers; California Drug War Continues For Non-Medical Users; Second Initiative To Circulate In Washington State; San Marcos, Texas, Chamber Of Commerce Lobbies Against May 3 Referendum; Lawsuit Targeting Prohibition Cites Alaskan Precedent; On Hempseed Products And Urine Tests; Government Covers Tracks With Public-Records Fees; GAO Report - Drug War Fails To Slow Imports; "Colombia Heroin Reaching US"; "US Asks Mexico To Extradite Alleged Drug Lord"; How Prosecutors Stack Juries And Deny Justice; "Casualties Of The Marijuana War," in Salon magazine; Families And Friends For Drug Law Reform Model New Approach. Text file.
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March 27, 1997 NORML: Oklahoma Legislature Ready To Approve Aerial Spraying Of Controversial Anti-Marijuana Herbicide; Hearing Held In Case Of Arkansas Couple Extradited To America To Face Marijuana Cultivation Charges; Hawaii Court Case To Argue For Religious Use Of Marijuana. Portland NORML: Body Count; Industrial Hemp Bill Introduced To Oregon Legislature; Call To Action - Drug Warriors March On Salem; Eugene Hemp Company Raided - Owner Says He's Innocent; 'Cannabis Culture Rally' April 4 In Eugene; That Incredible American Mass Media; "The Drug Index" (September 1995 Playboy); Interesting Oregonian Quote From 1886; Percentage Of States' Drug Arrests For Marijuana, 1988; "A Devastating Illness Made Food Her Foe"; Anguished Advocate Crusades For Legal Pot In Maine; Maine Medical-Marijuana Initiative Under Way, More To Come?; Iowa House Reviews Medical-Marijuana Bill; "Court Eyes No-Knock Cop Entries"; "New York Drug War Results Questioned"; "School Suspends Students For Tasting Alka Seltzer"; Teen Smoking Up 30 Percent; "Drug Agent Faces Charges"; "FBI Takes On New Job - Leading The Drug War"; "Tainted Testimony Leads To Release Of Three Convicted Drug Dealers"; "Marijuana May Win OK For Use In Religion"; New York Restaurant Uses Hemp Oil And Seeds In Exotic Dishes; "Los Angeles Sues Street Gang"; "Prison Economics - The Cold War Comes Home To Roost"; Drug-War Peace Breaks Out In Vancouver, BC Pot Speakeasies; McCaffrey - Drug Lords Kill 'Hundreds' Of Mexican Cops, Spend $6 Billion To Bribe Others; Clinton Gets Mexican Certification; Mexico's Web Of Corruption; "Mexico's New Top Drug Fighter Vows To Bust The Gangs"; "US Finds That Drug Trade Is Fueled By Payoffs At Mexican Border"; Noriega Says Feds Made Castro Bid; "China Top Cop Says Drug Problem Getting Worse"; "Southern Indian State Partially Lifts Liquor Ban." Text file.
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March 20, 1997 NORML: Long-Term Marijuana Users Suffer Few Health Problems, Australian Study Indicates; AMA Revises Medical Marijuana Guidelines For Doctors; Connecticut Lawmakers Discuss Medical Marijuana Legislation; Colorado Hemp Bill Struck Down By Appropriations Committee. Portland NORML: Body Count; Medical Journal Reports 50 Percent Of Portlanders Use Alternative Therapies; Your Tax Dollars At Work - Medical-Marijuana Defendants Line Up In Portland; Drug Policy Reform Event Calendar; "Human Rights Group Faults New York On Drug Laws"; "Mexico Blasts US Drug Use As Corrupting Influence"; "Urine Test Finds 424 Mexican Officials On Drugs"; "Mexican Cartels Taking Charge In World Drug Trade"; "Mexico Is Often AWOL In Drug War - US Can't Count On Neighbors To Help Stem Flow, Officials Say"; "Jury Ties Mexican To Drug Funds - Former Official Found To Have Taken Millions"; "Justices Blast Minimum Sentences"; ABC's 'March Against Drugs' - The Second Week; "Just Say No...To Reality"; "Study Questions Drug Programs"; Hearsay But Interesting; Proposition 215 Comes To Los Angeles; "AMA Steps Into Legal Marijuana Dispute - Says US Should Settle With Bay Area Doctors"; Ohio Initiative Gathers 30,000 Signatures; "Spann - The Bad Peanut"; Deadliest Drug Yields No Profit To Lebanese Farmers. Text file.
March 14, 1997 NORML: Republican Crime Bill Targets Doctors Who Recommend Medical Use Of Marijuana; Nebraska Decriminalization Bill Under Attack; Ohio Legislature Repeals Medical Marijuana Defense. Portland NORML: Body Count; Campaign For Multnomah County Medical-Marijuana Initiative Under Way; Irish Folk Concert Benefits Portland Medical-Marijuana Defendants; OCTA Petitioners Return To Portland Saturday Market; A Physician Writes To The Olympian; Tacoma Doctor Files Washington State Medical-Marijuana Initiative; ABC's 'March Against Drugs' - The First Week; Public Service Ads We'd Like To See During ABC's 'March Against Drugs'; Drug Arrests Up 18 Percent On Major College Campuses; "Teens Find A Chilly, Zero-Tolerance World - Baby Boom Parents Going 'Draconian'"; Prison Looms For One In 20 Born Today; Survey - New Zealand Prohibition Yields High Cannabis Use Rates; Give Needles Or Give Death; Australian Survey Debunks 'Junkie' Myth; "Head Of Drug Panel Charged In Drunken Driving"; "DC Cops Arrested On Drug Charge"; Boston Detectives Busted For Rip-Offs; "San Jose Proposes Zones For Medical Pot Clubs"; San Jose Cannabis Club Now In Service; California Just Says No To 'Smoke-A-Joint, Lose Your License'; Drug Reform Coordination Network Launches Book Review Site; "Colombia Drug Lords Offered US Info On Samper"; "After Drug Vote, Mexico Tells US Not To Meddle"; "US Probes Mexican Corruption"; "Two Mexican Drug Lords Get Reprieves"; "Exiled Haiti Police Chief Held In Drug Smuggling"; "Spanish Marijuana Advocacy Groups Launch Campaign To Grow For Personal Use"; Appeal Planned In Kriho Juror Rights Decision (Case Summary). Text file.
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March 6, 1997 NORML: Second Federal Lawsuit Challenging Administration's Prohibition Of Medical Marijuana Filed In US District Court; Medical Marijuana Bills Heard Before Maine, Missouri Legislatures. Portland NORML: Body Count; Multnomah County Medical-Marijuana Initiative Meeting; Drug Policy Reform Takes A Hit; New Survey On Kids And Pot; UN Confirms Drug Use Up Among US Youths; Why Is Drug Education Failing?; Eugene Teachers Oppose Drug Testing Proposal; Medical Marijuana Group Charges PDFA With Railroading Amtrak-Conrail 'Hoax'; America's International Drug Strategy Online; 69 Percent Of US Thinks Marijuana Should Remain Illegal (The 69 Percent Allowed To Sit On Juries); Solving The Riddle Of Medical Marijuana; Doctors And Medical Marijuana; Public Health Director Debunks Califano's 'Laetrile' Analogy; Increase Of Prescriptions For Marijuana In The Netherlands; Corruption In The United States Resembles Mexico's; A Crusade That Spreads Corruption; Rebuffing US, Colombia Halts Drug Eradication Program; Colorado Juror Laura Kriho Fined $1,200; Drug Policy Foundation Questions Harvard On Award For Drug Czar; The Great Zinberg/McCaffrey Debate; Police Return Marijuana, Supplies To AIDS Patient; After The Bailout, A Flood - Mexico Is Drowning, But The US Won't Admit It; The Other Mexican Drug Trade; Colombian Jail To Crack Down On Courier Pigeons; What Mexico Gave Up; Worker Fights Dismissal For Medical Marijuana Use; The Lancet - Needle Exchange Neglect Infects 10,000 With HIV; Mounties Bust Harm Reduction Club. Text file.
February 27, 1997 NORML: Latest National Poll Shows Strong Support For Medical Marijuana; Health Organizations Support Medical Marijuana Lawsuit; California Congressional Delegation Urged To Support Prop. 215 And Stave Off Federal Assault On Physicians And Their Medical Patients. Portland NORML: Body Count; "Newspaper - Portland Clinic Reportedly Selling Marijuana As Medicine"; Multnomah County District Attorney's Hypocrisy Exposed; Oregon's 'Choice Of Evils' Defense; "Psychoses, Adverse Reactions, And Personality Deterioration"; "US Panel Urges Study Of Medical Marijuana"; Clinton Unveils $16 Billion Anti-Drugs Plan; Prohibition Increases Kids' Access; Marijuana Can't Be Deducted - Try A Swimming Pool; "More Is Spent On New Prisons Than Colleges"; Drug Czar Says, "Screw Controlled Research!"; Maine Man Starts Drive For Medical Marijuana; "Spain May Allow Growing Marijuana"; California NORML Endorses Sen. Vasconcellos' Medical Marijuana Research Bill - SB 535; NIH Panel Wants Study Of Marijuana Use; "Pot Debate Stimulates Appetite For Data"; "Prop. 215 Leads To Boom In Indoor Cultivation Of Pot"; "US Drug-Policy Pendulum Swings To Youth Education"; California Man Loses Job For Using Medical Marijuana; "Reefer Madness - Why The Clinton Administration Is Terrified By Medical Marijuana"; Washington Prison-Guard Cartel Sacrifices One Of Its Own; "Troops Sent To Replace Northern Baja's Police"; "Fallout From Mexican Drug Scandal Hits US"; Sonoran Chief Is Accused In Drug Trafficking"; "Federal Funds For Clean Needles"; Mexican National Allowed To Sue US For Torture; "Indictments - Coke Smugglers Used Submerged Boats"; Pot Clubs Go Mainstream; McCaffrey's Slip Puts Narcs In Jeopardy; "Mexican Drug Czar And Ex-President Tied To Drug Trade"; "Colombians Up Quality, Lower Price Of Heroin"; Lesson From The High Seas; "Dutch City Searches For Entrepreneurs To Open Marijuana Shops"; "Wider US Intervention Seen In Colombia Drug War"; "Polling Congress About Medical Marijuana"; Juror To Be Sentenced For Contempt. Text file.
February 20, 1997 NORML: Doctors, Researchers Call For Clinical Trials On Medical Marijuana At National Conference - NORML Voices Concern Over Methodology Of Future Studies; Charges Dismissed Against Key West Cannabis Buyers' Club; Virginia Votes To Maintain Marijuana Prescription Law. Portland NORML: Body Count; Drug Free Zone Medicinal Marijuana Exemption May Backfire; NIH Panel Calls For Medical Marijuana Research - CBS Poll Finds Americans Favor Medical Marijuana By 62 Percent To 33 Percent; Lake Research Poll Finds Overwhelming Support For Medical Marijuana; Small-Town Bringdown - Federal Narcs Launch First Strike On Pollack Pines General Practitioner; Hypocrisy Alert - "Clinton Warns Against 'Gagging' Medicaid Doctors"; Shalala Endorses Needle Exchange; Tobacco Is The Real Gateway?; Health Of Australian Marijuana Consumers On Par With General Population; Australians Report Cannabis Doesn't Cause Schizophrenia; Smoke Is Too A Medicine; Robert Maginnis Chickens Out; Drug Warrior Victory - Another Teen Saved From Pot; US Children Suffer Highest Murder Rate; Hawaii Hemp Bill Passes House; "Singer Hoyt Axton Faces Drug Charges"; Paradise Lost - Patient Robbed by Oakland Police; Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Iowa Man's Lawsuit Against DEA; "Putting Cannabis In Cars" (Popular Mechanics); "Passengers Can Be Told To Exit Cars"; "Drug-Smuggling Ring Used Suburban Housewives As Couriers"; Vancouver Expo Builds Lobby For Hemp In Canada. Text file.
February 13, 1997 NORML: NORML, Others Respond To Upcoming NIDA Conference On Medical Marijuana; (Meanwhile) Senators Introduce Anti-Medical Marijuana Bill In Congress; Drug Czar Rejects Offer To Settle Medical Marijuana Lawsuit. Portland NORML: Body Count; Portland NORML Monthly Meeting February 26; Clinton Likely To Concede No Light At End Of Drug War Tunnel; Clinton Plans Ad Blitz In Domestic Drug War; Justice Department Budget Also Grows For Drug War; Meanwhile, Back At Ground Zero, Portland Expands Drug-Free Zones; The Planners' Dream Goes Wrong; Government Releases 134,000 Convicted Sex Criminals To Lock Up Pot-Smokers Instead, Libertarians Charge; Juror Laura Kriho Found Guilty Of Contempt; Statement From Kriho's Attorney; 'Work In American Prisons - Joint Ventures With The Private Sector'; 'Reefer Madness' In 'Rolling Stone'; Medical Marijuana On 'Chicago Hope'; Marijuana As A Medicine Finding New Support Among Older Californians; Prosecutors Withdraw Charges Against Diabetic Medical-Marijuana Patient; California's Cannabis Market Not Yet Legitimized; Suburban Chicago Police Chief Guilty In Drug Scandal; Joycelyn Elders Backs Medical Marijuana Efforts; Florida Finds The Gateway Drug; 'Drug Czar Won't Budge - McCaffrey Rejects Doctors Settlement On Medical Pot'; Where There's Smokin' Joe Califano, There's Fire; Boston Police Officer Arrested On Drug Charges; 'Farm Scene - North Dakota House OKs Hemp Study'; Canadian Officials Ease Hemp Restrictions; New Jersey's Senator Bassano Endorses Medical Marijuana. Text file.
February 6, 1997 NORML: Record Number Of State Legislatures To Decide On Industrial Hemp In 1997; State Senator Proposes Cultivating Marijuana For Medical Research; NORML Testifies In Support Of Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In New Hampshire. Portland NORML: Body Count; Portland NORML Activists Continue Lobbying At Public Meetings; Help To Fully Inform Jurors; San Marcos, Texas, Faces Medical Marijuana Vote In May; Son Of US Representative From California Charged With Smuggling; French, Dutch Reach Drugs Policy Accord; Arizona Pollsters, Legislators Take Aim At Proposition 200; Cannabis Offenders Otherwise Law-Abiding; Prison And Jail Inmates At Midyear 1996; Former Kentucky Governor Endorses Industrial Hemp; University Of Arizona Dean Recommended Marijuana As Medicine In 1970s; "Justice Waits - Judge In Kriho Case Takes His Time"; Medical Marijuana In Newsweek; "The Return Of Pot" In The New Republic; Comments By Oasis Guitarist Spark Outrage; Former British Judge Backs 'Legalisation'; Oasis Star 'Pleased' At Uproar; Colombian Police Bust Biggest-Ever Cocaine Lab; Soros Promises More Reform Funding In The Washington Post; Elderly Getting Hooked On Drugs; Marijuana Should Be Classified As A Dietary Supplement, Not A Drug?; Richard Brookhiser In The Washington Post - "Reefer Madness Redefined"; Drug Education Experiment To Stress Responsibility, Not Prohibition; Dutch Priest Seeks Fair Price For Recreational Drug Producers. Text file.
January 30, 1997 NORML: New England Journal Of Medicine Argues For Medical Marijuana - Proposed NORML Bill Echoes Medical Journal's Sentiments; Federal Study Concludes That Marijuana's Main Active Ingredient Does Not Cause Cancer; Medical Marijuana Legislation Hot Topic For State Legislators. Portland NORML: Body Count; Portland NORML Activists Lobby Against New Jails; "Federal Foolishness And Marijuana" (New England Journal Of Medicine Editorial); "Marijuana Study Called Unnecessary - Doctors Say Value Of Drug Has Been Proved Many Times"; "Harvard Psychiatrist Quits To Protest Anti-Marijuana Lecturer"; "Crime Bars 1 In 7 US Black Men From Voting"; "Marijuana Gets OK As Medicine In Canada"; An Interdiction Math Story Problem; Compulsory Belief In 'Higher Power' Voided In New York; US News And World Report Gets Keen On Hemp; "Harrelson, Hemp Win Round In Court - Law's Definition Called Too Broad"; "Pro-Hemp Forces Win Early Round As Judge Throws Out State Law"; Bank Of Montreal Sponsors Vancouver Hemp Show Feb. 17-18; Colorado Alternative Fiber Crop Development Act Of 1997 (HB 1274). Bytes: 72,800 Last updated: 1/27/98 Text file. Bytes: 63,500 Last updated: 1/22/98
January 23, 1997 NORML: Massachusetts Introduces Regulations To Legalize Medical Marijuana; Oklahoma Man Sentenced To 93 Years For Cultivating Marijuana; Vermont Study Demonstrates Strong Support For Domestic Hemp Production. Portland NORML: Body Count; Multnomah County - Ground Zero In The Drug War; "Interview - Lynn Zimmer - Drug War Truths, Drug War Lies"; "US Government - No Link Between Marijuana Decrim And Increased Pot Use"; Massachusetts May Grow Its Own Medical Marijuana; McCaffrey's "Softening" Line; Woody Harrelson Wins Kentucky Hemp Challenge; Two Who Receive Federal Pot Lobby Minnesota Legislature; Trial Date Set For Licensed Arizona Cannabis Seller; US Prison Population Grew 4.4 Percent Last Year, To 1,630,940; "China War On Drugs Nets 110,000 Criminals In 1996"; "Salem-Keizer School Board Allows Canine Drug Searches"; "Corruption In US Counter Narcotics"; "Why AIDS Doctors May Face Prison - Just Say Reno"; "Lies Prevail In Case Against Marijuana"; San Francisco Mayor Promises Treatment On Demand; "Potential Saint For Drug Sellers"; Pennsylvania Jail Guards Face Firing Over Drugs. Bytes: 104,000 Last updated: 1/20/98 Text file. Bytes: 95,400 Last updated: 1/20/98
January 16, 1997 NORML: Class Action Suit Blocking Federal Sanctions Against Physicians Who Recommend Medical Marijuana Filed In Federal Court; New Hampshire Legislator Introduces Marijuana Decriminalization Bill; California Doctor Threatens Drug Czar With Lawsuit; Court Ruling Allows San Francisco Cannabis Buyers' Club To Reopen. Portland NORML: Body Count; Drug War Fails To Deliver - Oregon Deaths Reach Another Record; Gambling In Oregon - As Addictive As Cocaine; Note To Oregon Activists; 90 Percent Of Oregon High School Juniors Used Dangerous Illegal Drug; Of Course, You Don't Have To Pay The State Cigarette Tax; "Books And Crooks" Not The Apt Slogan It Seemed; Portland Public Hearings Let You Speak Against Busting Pot Offenders; Federation Of American Scientists Endorses Prima Facie Standard For Medical Marijuana Research; Drug Convictions 33 Percent Of State Court Cases; Clinton Hypocrisy, Latest Edition; Drug Warriors Lie Again - How 400 Chemicals Became "400 Carcinogens"; "Drug Czar - Marijuana OK If Proved Effective"; Canada's First Marijuana Store Opens; Text Of The European Union's New Drugs Treaty; Weird Science - 'Curse Of The Cocaine Mummies'; DEA Agent Shoots Man Trying To Protect His Own Property, Family; US-Mexico - The 'Drug War' Against The Zapatistas; "Junk Science - What You Know That May Not Be So"; Prohibitionist Taxes On Cigarettes Spur Crime, Violence; "Let Concern For The Suffering Rule On Marijuana" (DEA Judge Young's Daughter In 'The New York Times'). Bytes: 108,000 Last updated: 1/20/98
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January 9, 1997 NORML: ONDCP To Fund Review Of Scientific Evidence On Medical Marijuana - NORML Expects Institute Of Medicine To Reaffirm Marijuana's Therapeutic Value. Portland NORML: Body Count; Activist Alert - ABC To Launch 'Anti-Drug' Campaign; Stanley Fields - Showman Extraordinaire; Democracy Still Works - San Francisco Cannabis Club Restraining Order Lifted; Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey Caught Lying Again; Supreme Court - Sentences Can Be Lengthened For Charges Defendants Were Acquitted Of; 'The Nation' Turns Its Eyes To The Drug War; American Farm Bureau Federation Passes Hemp Resolution; 'Washington Post' Expounds On Hemp; Mysterious Liquid Makes Media Irrational; The Drug Czar's 'Monitoring The Future' Press Release; Louisiana Cops Mug For Dateline Cameras; The Pot Perplex - Mr. Soros's Agenda And The Voters' ('The New Yorker'); 'Police Lied, And New York Pays The Price.'
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January 2, 1997 NORML: Clinton Plan Attacks Medical Marijuana Initiatives, Targets Doctors. Portland NORML: Body Count; Brain-Damaged Teen Faces Six Years For Prosecutorial Ignorance; Inmates Convicted Of Illegal-Drug Offenses Systematically Undercounted; Washington, DC May Vote On Medical Marijuana; The Oregonian Suppresses Ann Landers' Call For Discussion; Medical Use Of Marijuana May Become An Issue In New York; Drug Warriors Caught Lying Again; Your Money Or Your Life; Publicize Your Reform Activities At Hemp Fest Dot Com; California Medical Board Won't Monitor Pot For DEA, Officials Say; McCaffrey Versus Dr. Grinspoon On PBS; British Media Expose CIA-Cocaine Links; "Medical Marijuana Wrong Issue For War On Drugs"; Botched Raid Suspension Overturned; Hemp Bill Takes Root Once Again In Colorado Statehouse; Text Of Clinton Administration's Response To Propositions 200 And 215; "Federal Response To Medical Marijuana Violates Constitution"; Drug Policy Reform More Popular Than Clinton In California, Arizona.
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