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Issue #291 6/13/03

    Editorial: The Rule of Law
  1. Global Social Forum Meeting in Cartagena to Draw Broad Spectrum of Global Activists for Colombia Focus -- DRCNet Will Be There
  2. Anatomy of a Victory: How Reformers Rolled Back Souder and the Drug Czar
  3. Ontario Marijuana Laws in the Twilight Zone
  4. Jacksonville Hemp Fest Marred by Police Violence, Warrant Issued for Organizer for Obstructing (In)Justice
  5. Drug Reform and the Democratic Presidential Nominating Process
  6. Sad Day in the Medical Marijuana Movement: Medical Marijuana Patient and Activist Cheryl Miller Passes Away at 57
  7. DRCNet Urgently Needs Your Donations -- Sullum Book Offer Still Going
  8. This Week in History
  9. Newsbrief: European Union Presidency Calls for Frank Discussion of Drug Laws
  10. Newsbrief: Demonstrations Mark Thailand Drug War Killings
  11. Newsbrief: Oregon Medical Marijuana Provider Gets Prison Time
  12. Newsbrief: Drug Czar Declares War on Summer
  13. Newsbrief: Supreme Courts Again Says No to Cincinnati Drug Zone Ban Law
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #290 6/6/03

    Editorial: Courage and Perseverance
  1. Thousands Rally in NYC to Demand Repeal of Rockefeller Drug Laws
  2. Medical Marijuana Cultivator Rosenthal Sentenced to One Day, Plus Probation
  3. DEA Uses RAVE Act Threats to Block Montana NORML/SSDP Benefit
  4. Dems on Drugs: The Presidential Contenders and Their Drug Policies
  5. In a Strong Reversal, Congress Prohibits Drug Czar from Running Ads Against Ballot Measures and Candidates
  6. Newsbrief: Texas Governor Signs Bill Freeing Tulia 14
  7. Newsbrief: Sentencing Reform -- No in Oklahoma
  8. Newsbrief: Sentencing Reform -- Yes in Missouri
  9. Newsbrief: Feds Reject MPP Complaint Against Drug Czar
  10. Newsbrief: The Next Prohibition? Surgeon General Supports Banning Tobacco
  11. Newsbrief: Belgian Marijuana Decriminalization Now in Effect
  12. Newsbrief: DEA Can't Kidnap People in Other Countries, Federal Court Rules
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #289 5/30/03

    Editorial: For Decency's Sake, No More "No-Knock" Drug Raids
  1. Canadian Government Introduces Cannabis Decriminalization Bill
  2. Ed Rosenthal to be Sentenced Wednesday -- Could Escape Mandatory Minimum as Pleas for Leniency Roll In, Supporters Prepare to Rally
  3. DRCNet Book Review: "Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use," by Jacob Sullum (Tarcher & Putnam, 24.95 HB)
  4. Democratic Presidential Contender Endorses Medical Marijuana -- Ohio's Kucinich First Out of the Gate
  5. Saying Yes: New Book Offer from DRCNet
  6. Action Alerts: Medical Marijuana, HEA Drug Provision, Global Legalization and Drug Treaty Reform Petition
  7. Newsbrief: NYPD Under Fire in Death of Woman in Botched Drug Raid
  8. Newsbrief: Federal Hepatitis C Control and Prevention Bill Filed
  9. Newsbrief: Mississippi Drug Czar Not One to Let the Law Get in His Way
  10. Newsbrief: The Hash Fields of Morocco
  11. Newsbrief: Dutch Coffee Shops Take Hit in Anti-Tobacco Campaign
  12. Newsbrief: New Zealand to War on "Evil" Meth
  13. Newsbrief: Garcia Marquez Takes Back His Legalization Comments, Sort Of
  14. Newsbrief: Gambian Narcs Mar Marley Remembrance with Raids
  15. Newsbrief: Japanese Author, Legalization Advocate Gets Suspended Sentence for Marijuana Possession
  16. Reflections Seeking Submissions for Special Issue on Prison
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #288 5/23/03

    Editorial: Outrage at Outrages
  1. No Marijuana Possession Law in Ontario, Court Rules -- Cops Vow to Keep Arresting Users Anyway
  2. Hip Hop Nation Set to Rock the Rockefeller Laws -- Mass Protest Set for June 4 if Laws Not Repealed
  3. GOP Effort to Let Drug Czar Propagandize Against Reform Stalled in House Committee
  4. Drug Testing Has No Impact on Student Drug Use, Study Finds
  5. Stop the Murder of Thai Drug Users -- International Day of Action, June 12
  6. CNN Special Report on "Killing Pablo"
  7. Newsbrief: Rosenthal Loses Motion for New Trial, Sentencing Date Looms
  8. Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana -- Yes in Maryland, No in Connecticut
  9. Newsbrief: "States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act" Reintroduced
  10. Newsbrief: "Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Student Loan" Bill Introduced in Wisconsin
  11. Newsbrief: House Committee Takes Slap at Needle Exchange
  12. Newsbrief: Garcia Marquez Says Legalize Drugs to End Colombian Violence
  13. Newsbrief: Scotland Yard Chief Says Legalize It
  14. Newsbrief: British Government to Issue Guidelines for Heroin Prescriptions, Pilot Programs Coming Soon
  15. Newsbrief: Australian State to Do Medical Marijuana Trials
  16. Newsbrief: "Indian Hemp" Farmers Shoot It Out With Nigerian Narcs
  17. Media Scan: Cockburn on Rosenthal, Forbes on Buying Initiatives, CNN on Bad Drug Raid
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #287 5/16/03

    Editorial: Coddling Kidnappers
  1. Illinois Over-the-Counter Syringe Bill Passes House, Awaits Governor's Signature
  2. Moves Continue to Win Freedom for Tulia 13 -- Congress to Take a Look
  3. Canada Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation Delayed -- Fears of United States, Discord in Government Cited
  4. Alert and Clarification: Truth in Trials Act
  5. Vote Now in Two Online Marijuana Decriminalization/Legalization Polls
  6. World Social Thematic Forum to Address Drug Policy, Cartagena, Colombia, Next Month
  7. Countdown to Fairness: Celebrity-Led Rockefeller Drug Law Protest Coming June 4th
  8. Six-Year Anniversary of Esequiel Hernandez Shooting This Week
  9. Newsbrief: Indonesia Quietly Supports Needle Exchanges
  10. Newsbrief: US Functionaries Bluster at Bolivia
  11. Newsbrief: US Invasion Liberates Iraqi Heroin, Cocaine Sales
  12. Newsbrief: You Better Watch Yer Ass in Texas, Boy
  13. Newsbrief: Utah Supreme Court Restricts Random Roadblocks, Again
  14. Newsbrief: Supreme Court to Revisit Roadblock Ruling
  15. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  16. Newsbrief: New Jersey Drug Warrior Prescribes More Aggression
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #286 5/9/03

    Editorial: Time for Bill Bennett to Sit Down
  1. DRCNet Interview: Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, Chairman, Canadian Senate Select Committee on Illegal Drugs
  2. Canada Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Cases that Could End Marijuana Laws
  3. Colombia: Pro-Legalization Governor among FARC Hostages Killed in Failed Monday Rescue Attempt
  4. Bolivia Coca Conflict Heating Up Again
  5. Oregon SWAT Raid Victims to File Suit
  6. Tens of Thousands March Worldwide in Annual Million Marijuana March
  7. Newsbrief: Bill "Mr. Virtue" Bennett Outed as Heavy Gambler
  8. Newsbrief: Bush Twins Outed as Tokers by "That '70s Show" Star
  9. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  10. Newsbrief: Baltimore Grand Jury Calls for Regulated Drug Distribution to Addicts
  11. Newsbrief: Sentencing Reform Measures Moving in Colorado
  12. Newsbrief: Rhode Island Bill Allowing Eviction for Drug Possession on the Move
  13. Newsbrief: Minnesota High Court Bars Suspicionless Consent Searches, Questioning of Motorists
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #285 5/2/03

    Editorial: Much to Emulate from Abroad
  1. Senator Nolin Comes to Washington
  2. Cannabis Canada: Decrim on the Way, Says Prime Minister -- The People are Ready, Says Poll
  3. Vancouver: Unsanctioned Safe Injection Site Opens in Midst of Police Crackdown on Downtown Eastside Hard Drug Scene
  4. Peruvian Coca Growers Move from Joy to Anger as Meeting with President Yields False Accord
  5. Sentencing Reform through Budget Crisis: Washington State Passes Early Release Bill
  6. Drug Czar Escapes Prosecution for Election Law Violations in Nevada
  7. Newsbrief: Scottish Police Call for Drug Law Reform
  8. Newsbrief: Oregon House Passes Bill to Restrict Medical Marijuana, Action Pending in Senate
  9. Newsbrief: Friend of Drug Reform Upsets Veteran in Detroit City Council Race
  10. Newsbrief: Utah Marijuana Case against Dennis Peron Crumbles
  11. Newsbrief: Missouri Court Challenges Meth Arrest for Cold Pills
  12. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  13. Web Scan: CSDP, Policy Review, High Point Enterprise
  14. Job Opportunity: Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, DC
  15. Fellowship Opportunity: Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellowship Program, American Civil Liberties Union
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #284 4/25/03

    Editorial: International Singularity
  1. Vienna: UN Reaffirms Prohibitionist Path, Cracks Appear in the Consensus as Clamor for Change Grows
  2. Peru: Coca Farmers Claim Partial Victory After Meeting With President
  3. If It's 4/20 and We're in San Francisco, This Must Be NORML
  4. California County, Patients Sue Federal Drug Warriors Over Medical Marijuana Raids
  5. Newsbrief: Lying Tulia Undercover Cop Indicted for Perjury
  6. Newsbrief: Canadian Government to Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization Bill in June, Newspaper Says
  7. Newsbrief: Brazilian Health Ministry Proposes Legalization of Drug Possession
  8. Newsbrief: Russia Declares War on Drug "Barons"
  9. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  10. New WOLA Report on Mexico's Military in the War on Drugs
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #283 4/18/03

  1. DRCNet Interview: David Bronner
  2. Ninth Circuit Court Blocks DEA Hemp Rule
  3. The Week Online Still Needs Your Help!
  4. Newsbrief: California Appeals Court Just Says No to "Hippie Profiling"
  5. Newsbrief: House GOP Leadership Gives Cold Shoulder to "Truth in Trials" Medical Marijuana Bill
  6. Newsbrief: Indiana Ponders Early Prisoner Release, Drug Possessors Included
  7. Newsbrief: Legal Swiss Marijuana to Be Heavily Taxed, Black Market Profits Will Instead Be Windfall for Government
  8. Newsbrief: CIA Propaganda Radio Rap Song Links Saddam to Demon Weed
  9. Media Scan: Cato, Sojourners, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Criminal Justice Journalists
  10. Harm Reduction Jobs in Pittsburgh and New York
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #282 4/11/03

  1. HEA Reform: Day of Action on Campuses Nationwide, Press Conference in Washington, ABA and Join Together Join the Fight
  2. Save the Children, Screw the Rest of Us: RAVE Act, Measure to Limit Judicial Sentencing Discretion Pass House and Senate
  3. Coca Battles Heat Up in Peru: Strikes, Street Battles, March to Lima Underway
  4. US Prisoner Number Hits Two Million
  5. Columbia, Missouri, Marijuana Reform Initiative Prompts Progress in Defeat
  6. Action Alerts: Hemp Food, Global Legalization, Maryland Medical Marijuana
  7. The Week Online Still Needs Your Help!
  8. Newsbrief: Brazilian Cabinet Member Calls for Drug Decriminalization
  9. Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana "Truth in Trials Act" Introduced
  10. Newsbrief: New Jersey Doubles "Club Drug" Penalties
  11. Newsbrief: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Michigan Welfare Drug-Test Requirement
  12. Newsbrief: Ohio Appeals Court Rules Mom's Marijuana Use Not Adequate Reason for State to Seize Kids
  13. Newsbrief: Wayne State Passes HEA Reform Resolution in Advance of SSDP National Day of Action
  14. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story
  15. Web Scan: IAL report, Southern Prison Expansion, Huffington on Tulia, Journal of Neuroscience on MedMj, Reason on Stepnoski
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #281 4/4/03

  1. Week Online Fundraising Update
  2. Editorial: Reasonable Doubt Routinely
  3. Victory in Tulia!
  4. Rosenthal Asks for New Trial, Cites Juror Violations
  5. Drug Czar Gives Up on Drugs and Terror Ad Campaign, Also Cancels Studies to Track Ads' Effectiveness
  6. Drug Czar Sends Flunkies to Try to Stop Columbia, Missouri, Marijuana Initiative
  7. DRCNet Interview: Marco Cappato, Member of European Parliament
  8. Newsbrief: Reform Rumblings Begin in Brazil, While "Commands" Create Chaos
  9. Newsbrief: Post-Assassination Serbian Crackdown Creates Drug Panic
  10. Newsbrief: Jamaican Official Promises Ganja Decrim Bill "Soon"
  11. Newsbrief: Belgian Marijuana Decriminalization Passes Final Hurdle
  12. Newsbrief: Midwest Meth Madness -- Indiana
  13. Newsbrief: Midwest Meth Madness -- Iowa and Illinois
  14. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  15. Web Scan: New HR95, JAPHA on Syringe Sales, Reason, Mama Coca, OAS
  16. Clinical Cannabis Conference CDs Available
  17. Job Listings: Drug Policy Forum of Massachusetts and Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #280 3/28/03

  1. The Week Online Needs Your Help
  2. Editorial: I Smuggled Coca Soap into the United States
  3. Road to Vienna: British Government Chides International Narcotics Control Board on Cannabis Rescheduling Critique
  4. Will Canada Marijuana Decriminalization Be Collateral Damage in Iraq War?
  5. Maryland Legislature Rebuffs Drug Czar, Passes Medical Marijuana Bill, Awaits Governor's Signature
  6. DRCNet Interview: Ed Forchion, the New Jersey Weedman
  7. Newsbrief: DEA Issues Final Hemp Rule, Would Ban Hemp Food Products in Weeks, Hempsters Fight Back
  8. Newsbrief: Bill to Allow Syringe Purchases Moving in Illinois Legislature
  9. Newsbrief: Bill to Restrict Needle Exchanges Gets Push in Rhode Island
  10. Newsbrief: Colombia to Get $100 Million Bounty for Supporting Iraq War
  11. Newsbrief: More Americans Dead in Colombia
  12. Newsbrief: Lawsuit Charges Chicago Cops with Pattern of Illegal Stops, Searches of Minorities
  13. Newsbrief: Bush to Nominate Woman Prosecutor to Head DEA
  14. Newsbrief: Silence on Pusherstrasse -- Christiania Drug Sellers Strike for Future of "Free City"
  15. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  16. Jobs at WOLA
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #279 3/21/03

  1. New York City Mayor Bloomberg Backs Needle Exchange, But Where's the Money?
  2. Medical Marijuana Update: Bills Killed in Arkansas, Wyoming But Moving Forward in Maryland, Vermont, Bad Bill Introduced in Oregon
  3. UN Says Colombian Coca Cultivation Down 30 Percent, Overall Production Down, Too -- Experts Say Not Really
  4. Newsbrief: Marco Cappato in Jail for British Marijuana Civil Disobedience
  5. Newsbrief: Mexican Governor Candidate Says Legalize Drugs
  6. Newsbrief: Guardian Newspaper Calls on Britons to "Promote" Home Grows, Not Prosecute Them
  7. Newsbrief: Vancouver Ponders "Safe Smoking Materials" for Crack Users
  8. Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana Hits the Shelves in Dutch Pharmacies
  9. Newsbrief: New Jersey Bans Racial Profiling
  10. Newsbrief: NJ Weedman Sues Comcast, Asks $420,000
  11. Newsbrief: House Republicans Hold Off on Subpoena of Federal Judge
  12. Newsbrief: Informant Nailed for Fake Ecstasy Scam
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #278 3/14/03

  1. Federal Judge Refuses to Block Potential Federal Arrests of California Medical Marijuana Patients
  2. No Comment: Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General of UN Office on Drugs and Crime Addresses Swedes on Marijuana
  3. Funding Crunch Hits Drug Reform Movement
  4. DRCNet Interview: Adam Jones, Teachers Against Prohibition
  5. DRCNet Book Review: "Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family," Charles Bowden (2002, Simon & Schuster, $27.00 HB)
  6. Alert: HEA Reform Legislation Re-filed, Needs Your Support
  7. Newsbrief: Mexican Anti-Drug Choppers Shot Down, Five Dead
  8. Newsbrief: Colorado Kiddie Meth Bill Passes, Awaits Governor's Signature
  9. Newsbrief: Colorado Legislators Ponder Plan to Cut Nonviolent Offender, Drug Sentences
  10. Newsbrief: Illinois DA Makes Woman Meth Poster Child
  11. Newsbrief: House Panel Goes After Federal Judge for Being Too Lenient on Drug Offenders
  12. Newsbrief: Who Wants Drug Testing? Not Pennsylvania Cops, Not Colorado Teachers
  13. Newsbrief: New Zealand Moves to Heighten Methamphetamine Penalties -- Life Sentences for Some Offenses
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #277 3/7/03

  1. 50 Years for Stealing Videotapes? No Problem, Say Justices -- Supreme Court Upholds California Three-Strikes Law
  2. Medical Marijuana Update: Bill Killed in New Mexico, New Ones Introduced in New York and Rhode Island
  3. Australia: NSW Green Party Drug Platform in Tabloid "Exposé" Furor as Election Looms
  4. "Seeds of Peace" Released in Brussels as Prelude to Vienna UN Conference
  5. Medical Marijuana Supporters Demonstrate at Fundraiser for Presidential Candidate Howard Dean
  6. Alert: HEA Reform Legislation Re-filed, Needs Your Support
  7. Newsbrief: Swiss Lawmakers Give Okay to Continued Prescription Heroin
  8. Newsbrief: Sweden's Drug Head Calls for Needle Exchange Programs Across Country
  9. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story
  10. Newsbrief: Oxycontin Not So Deadly, Researchers Find
  11. Newsbrief: California Highway Patrol Settles Racial Profiling Lawsuit
  12. Kansas Legislators Consider "Treatment Not Jail" Bill
  13. Newsbrief: In Surprise Move, Judge Changes Mind, Declines to Jail Oakland Cannabis Co-op Head
  14. Newsbrief: Two Suicides Enough for One Pot Bust, Says Wisconsin Judge, Orders Probation for Son of Dead Couple
  15. Media Scan: New York Times, The Economist, The Independent, Washington Times, Change the Climate Ads, HRC Newsletter
  16. Drug War Vigil Film Festival Seeking Submissions
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #276 2/28/03

  1. Peruvian Government Attacks Cocalero Movement -- Leaders Arrested, Others in Hiding as Protests Spread
  2. The Road to Vienna: International Narcotics Control Board Annual Report Attacks Reformers, Reformers Scratch Back
  3. Ashcroft's Pipe Dream, Bongmaker's Nightmare: Feds Arrest 55 in Paraphernalia Crackdown
  4. Parallel Power Flexes Muscle in Brazil: Rio's Drug Commands in Pre-Carnival Show of Force
  5. In Thailand, Clamor for Investigation Grows as Killings of Drug Suspects Continue
  6. Marijuana at the State House 2003: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  7. Alert: HEA Reform Legislation Re-filed, Needs Your Support
  8. Mérida Footage, Photos Now Online
  9. Newsbrief: Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Coop Head Gets Three Months in Jail for Trying to Inform Jurors
  10. Newsbrief: Belgium to Legalize Marijuana Possession, Use
  11. Newsbrief: Switzerland Marijuana Legalization Moving, Opposition Mobilizes
  12. Newsbrief: "Kiddie Meth" Legislation Spreads to Illinois, Missouri
  13. Newsbrief: MPP Releases TV Ads on Harms of Marijuana Prohibition in Third Phase of Group's "War on Drug Czar" Campaign
  14. Newsbrief: Utah Drugged Driving Bill is DOA in House
  15. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #275 2/21/03

  1. Out from the Shadows: First Latin American Anti-Prohibition Summit Convenes in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  2. Mérida Interview: María Mercedes Moreno of Mama Coca
  3. Mérida Interview: Luiz Paulo Guanabara, Brazil, Executive Director of Psico-Tropicus
  4. Rosenthal Verdict Fallout: Angry Jurors, Media Attention, a New Bill in Congress
  5. Victory for Bolivian Coca-Growers Imminent, Reports Say Government Will Allow Coca in the Chapare
  6. Thailand War on Drugs Turns Murderous, 600 Killed This Month -- Human Rights Groups Denounce Death Squads, Executions
  7. Peoria Needle Lady Busted in Pekin, But Charges Later Dropped
  8. Drug Czar's Office Masks True Costs of War on Drugs in Federal Budget
  9. Newsbrief: DEA Kills 14-Year-Old Girl in San Antonio, Claims Self Defense
  10. Newsbrief: US Spooks Killed, Captured in Colombia
  11. Newsbrief: French Cannabis Activist Faces Jail for "Encouraging Drug Use"
  12. Newsbrief: Corrupt Cop of the Week I
  13. Newsbrief: Corrupt Cop of the Week II
  14. Newsbrief: Oklahoma Report Urges Sanity in Sentencing
  15. DC Job Opportunity at DRCNet -- Campus Coordinator
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #274 1/31/03

  1. The Road to Mérida: Interviews with Participants in the "Out from the Shadows" Campaign
  2. Road to Mérida: Dr. Silvia Inchaurraga, Argentine Harm Reductionist
  3. Road to Mérida: Sala Errata
  4. Ed Rosenthal Convicted, Faces 10-Year Mandatory Minimum for Oakland Medical Marijuana Grow
  5. Bush Treatment Initiative Draws Mixed Reviews from Reformers
  6. Into the Morass: Green Berets in Colombia as "War on Drugs" Morphs into "War on Terror"
  7. Drug Czar Says Nevada Election Laws Don't Apply to His Politicking
  8. Latin American Anti-Prohibition Conference, Feb. 12-15, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  9. Cumbre Internacional Sobre Legalización, 12-15 Febrero, Mérida, México
  10. Cúpula Internacional sobre Legalização, 12-15 de Fevereiro, Mérida, México
  11. Newsbrief: Violence Continues as Talks Begin in Bolivia -- Coca Growers, Workers, Indians Present Demands
  12. Newsbrief: DEA Moving to Schedule Two More "Hallucinogens"
  13. Newsbrief: Utah Drugged Driving Bill on the Move
  14. Newsbrief: Colorado Bill Equating Meth Manufacture and Child Abuse Moves Forward
  15. Newsbrief: Asian Drug Abolition Mania Spreading -- Malaysia Calls for "Total War," Drug Free Southeast Asia by 2015
  16. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  17. Newsbrief: Judge Kane Speaks Out Again, Lambasts Federal Drug War
  18. DC Job Opportunity at DRCNet -- Campus Coordinator
  19. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #273 1/24/03

  1. The Road to Mérida: Interviews with Participants in the "Out from the Shadows" Campaign
  2. DRCNet Interview: Gustavo de Greiff, Former Attorney General of Colombia
  3. DRCNet Interview: Luis Gómez, Andean Bureau Chief for Narco News
  4. DRCNet Interview: Ricardo Sala, ViveConDrogas.com (Live With Drugs), Mexico
  5. Mérida Addendum: Missing Paragraphs from Last Week's Giordano Interview
  6. Rosenthal Medical Marijuana Trial Underway -- Medical Marijuana Supporters Stage Demos, Start Billboard Campaign
  7. Bolivia: As Strife Continues, Armed Rebels Emerge -- Or Do They?
  8. Latin American Anti-Prohibition Conference, February 12-15, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  9. Cumbre Internacional sobre Legalización, 12-15 Febrero, Mérida, México
  10. Cúpula Internacional sobre Legalização, 12-15 de Fevereiro, Mérida, México
  11. Newsbrief: Maryland Governor to Support Medical Marijuana
  12. Newsbrief: Southeast Asians to End Drugs
  13. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story
  14. Newsbrief: Canadian Heroin Bust Study Finds Drug War Futile
  15. Newsbrief: Peruvian Coca Growers Begin to Organize
  16. Newsbrief: Mexico Disbands Anti-Drug Agency, Cites Corruption
  17. DC Job Opportunity at DRCNet -- Campus Coordinator
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #272 1/17/03

  1. The Road to Mérida: Interviews with Participants in the "Out from the Shadows" Campaign
  2. The Road to Mérida: Interview with Dr. Francisco Fernandez, Anthropologist and Former Rector of Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
  3. The Road to Mérida: Interview with Al Giordano, publisher of Narco News
  4. Bolivian Government Represses Coca Protests, Four Dead... So Far
  5. Ed Rosenthal Medical Marijuana Trial Underway -- Judge Blocks Mention of Prop. 215, Has Trouble Seating Jury
  6. Canadian Prime Minister Promises Motion on Decriminalization as Courts Continue to Chip Away at Marijuana Laws
  7. Latin American Anti-Prohibition Conference, Feb. 12-15, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  8. Cumbre Internacional Sobre Legalización, 12-15 Febrero, Mérida, México
  9. Newsbrief: Souder Pushes Partial HEA Reform, Frank to Reintroduce Drug Provision Repeal Bill
  10. Newsbrief: Racine Caves Before the Ravers
  11. Newsbrief: MPP "War on Drug Czar" Continues -- State Reacts to Allegations
  12. Newsbrief: 12 Dead in Brazil as Drug Police Raid Shantytowns
  13. Newsbrief: Mexican Soldiers Bust Narcs
  14. Newsbrief: Colombian President Seeks Iraq-Like Mobilization Against Traffickers
  15. Newsbrief: Some Colombian Terrorists May Be More Equal Than Others
  16. Newsbrief: Alaska Lieutenant Governor Disqualifies Marijuana Legalization Petition Signatures, Proponents Vow Fight
  17. Newsbrief: Return of the RAVE Act
  18. Newsbrief: Ecstasy Rarely Kills, British Study Finds
  19. Alan Shoemaker Ayahuasca Legal Defense Fund Needs Support
  20. Media Scan: Washington on Forchion, Cockburn on Rosenthal, Forbes on Walters, Szasz on Drug Medicalization, Bruce McKinney, GAO on DARE
  21. DC Job Opportunity at DRCNet -- Campus Coordinator
  22. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #271 1/10/03

  1. The Road to Mérida: Interviews with Participants in the "Out from the Shadows" Campaign
  2. The Road to Mérida: Interview with Mario Menéndez, Publisher of !Por Esto!, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  3. The Road to Mérida: Dr. Jaime Malamud-Goti, former Argentine Solicitor General
  4. Latin American Anti-Prohibition Conference, Feb. 12-15, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  5. Cumbre Internacional Sobre Legalización, 12-15 Febrero, Mérida, México
  6. Canada Cannabis Conundrum Continued: Government Will Appeal Ontario Ruling, Prosecutors to Put Possession Cases on Hold
  7. Newsbrief: Eyeing Stiffer Meth Penalties in West Virginia
  8. Newsbrief: First Local Salvia Divinorum Ordinance Proposed
  9. Newsbrief: Huffington SUV-Terrorism Ad Parodies Drug Czar's Drug-Terrorism Campaign
  10. Newsbrief: Corrupt Cops of the Week
  11. Newsbrief: Ontario Court Clears Tokin' Motorist of DWI Charge
  12. Newsbrief: Massachusetts Cops Slow to Act on Racial Profiling Law
  13. Newsbrief: New Jersey Seeks to Delay Ban on Asset Forfeiture, Will Appeal Ruling
  14. Newsbrief: Federal Court Ruling on No-Knock Search Raises Questions About Standard Procedure in Kansas City
  15. Web Scan: Maia Szalavitz in Slate, GAO on Colombia Coca, Globe and Mail on Ontario Marijuana Ruling
  16. DC Job Opportunity at DRCNet -- Campus Coordinator
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #270 1/3/03

  1. Editorial: Constitutional Inconveniences
  2. Pressure for Change Mounts as Ontario Judge Rules Canadian Marijuana Possession Law Invalid
  3. Budget Crisis Forces California Governor to Consider Early Releases, Other Prison Measures
  4. Prosecutors Enlist in Drug Czar's Anti-Marijuana Campaign -- Will Prioritize Marijuana Cases, Lobby Against Reform
  5. Latin American Anti-Prohibition Conference, Feb. 12-15, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  6. Cumbre Internacional Sobre Legalización, 12-15 Febrero, Mérida, México
  7. Newsbrief: Connecticut Legislator to Reintroduce Medical Marijuana Bill
  8. Newsbrief: Prosecutors Seize Bail Money, Claim Pot Smell -- A New Tactic?
  9. Newsbrief: Louisiana Drug Raid Draws Protests
  10. Newsbrief: France Looking to Heighten Marijuana Penalties
  11. Newsbrief: NJ Weedman to Get Day in Federal Court After Months in Jail for Thought Crime
  12. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  13. Newsbrief: Afghan Opium Farmers Drive Out Eradicators
  14. Newsbrief: Ethiopian Farmers Turn to Khat in Face of Drought, Low Coffee Prices
  15. DC Job Opportunities at DRCNet
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #269 12/27/02

  1. Latin American Anti-Prohibition Conference, Feb. 12-15, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  2. Cumbre Internacional Sobre Legalización, 12-15 Febrero, Mérida, México
  3. Newsbrief: New Zealand MP Tanczos Cleared in Marijuana Probe
  4. Newsbrief: Nevada High Court Voids Meth Drug Ingredient Law
  5. Newsbrief: "What About the Children?" -- Colorado Bills Target Home Meth Labs
  6. Newsbrief: Ohio Supreme Court Backs Workers in Workers' Comp Drug Test Ruling
  7. Newsbrief: Brit MP Calls for Drug Testing 10-Year-Olds, Comments Came in Debate Over Criminal Justice Bill
  8. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  9. Newsbrief: US-Trained Thai Drug Unit Pulls Back From Burmese Border
  10. Newsbrief: Columbia, Missouri, Marijuana Petition Has Enough Signatures
  11. Newsbrief: Tampa Ordinance Would Criminalize "Drug Dealer Behavior"
  12. Newsbrief: Drug Checkpoints at West Virginia NORML Rally Draw Lawsuit
  13. Online Petition Launched Supporting MEPs' Call for Ending Prohibition
  14. Media Scan: Montreal Compassion Club, Impact Press on Marijuana Legalization
  15. DC Job Opportunities at DRCNet
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #268 12/20/02

  1. Special Offer Continues -- DRCNet Needs Your Help!
  2. Editorial: Expanding the Chorus
  3. 108 Euro-Parliamentarians Call for Legal, Regulated Drug Trade, Reform of UN Conventions
  4. Congressional Drug Warrior Having Doubts: Dan Burton's Near Epiphany
  5. Michigan Legislature Repeals Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws
  6. Canadian Marijuana Activists Skeptical on Decrim
  7. Canadian Supreme Court Postpones Marijuana Cases, Cites Parliament Report, Justice Minister Statement on Decrim
  8. DRCNet Book Review: "Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords, and Washington's War on Drugs"
  9. And the Winners Are...
  10. Federal Judge Shows Keen Interest in Raich/Monson Medical Marijuana Case
  11. Bolivia Coca Growers Announce Blockades for January 6 -- Will Continue Dialogue
  12. DC Measure 62 Clears Hurdle, Goes to Congress
  13. Newsbrief: Oakland Cannabis Co-op Director Founded Guilty on Federal Jury Tampering Charges, Handed Out Flyer at Epis Trial
  14. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  15. Newsbrief: Stop the Presses! Poor, Blacks Face Brunt of Houston Drug War
  16. Newsbrief: Texas ACLU Report Slams Task Forces, Calls for End to $200 Million Annual Boondoogle
  17. Newsbrief: MPP Continues "War on Drug Czar" -- More Complaints to be Filed, O'Reilly Appearance Tonight
  18. Newsbrief: Budget Cuts Free Kentucky Drug Prisoners -- Oklahoma Next?
  19. Newsbrief: Nickelodeon Censors Beverly Hillbillies Marijuana References
  20. Newsbrief: Asset Forfeiture Unconstitutional in New Jersey
  21. Media Scan: Joycelyn Elders in Globe and Mail, George McMahon in Fort Worth Weekly, Jeff and Tracy, Santa Fe New Mexican, Medscape
  22. DC Job Opportunities at DRCNet
  23. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  24. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #267 12/13/02

  1. DRCNet Needs Your Help!
  2. Editorial: O, Canada! (Oh, the Embarrassment!)
  3. Canadian House Drugs Committee Calls for Cannabis Decrim, Safe Injection Sites, Heroin Maintenance
  4. Canadian Justice Minister Calls for Cannabis Decrim "Early Next Year" -- US Opposition Could Pose Obstacle
  5. Britain Drops Old Drug Strategy Targets, Goals Were "Not Credible" -- New Strategy a Mixed Bag
  6. Michigan Legislature Repeals Draconian Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences
  7. New Jersey Court Declares State's Civil Forfeiture Funding Scheme Unconstitutional
  8. Newsbrief: Santa Cruz Deputizes Medical Marijuana Providers
  9. Newsbrief: Massachusetts High Court Blocks Arrest of Needle Exchange Participants
  10. Newsbrief: Colombia -- It's Drug War -- No, Oil War -- No, Terror War
  11. Newsbrief: British Ex-Minister Calls Ecstasy Law "An Ass"
  12. Newsbrief: Israeli Green Leaf Party Eyes Knesset Seats
  13. Newsbrief: Illinois Supreme Court Limits Use of Drug Dogs in Traffic Stops
  14. Newsbrief: Paramilitary Drug Raid Tactics Anger Eugene Residents
  15. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  16. Newsbrief: SAMHSA Says Treat Drug Abusers' Mental Illness
  17. Media and Resources: Medical Cannabis Conference Tapes, WOLA Report, Jacob Sullum in Reason, Deborah Saunders in SF Chronicle
  18. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  19. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #266 12/6/02

  1. DRCNet Needs Your Help!
  2. Editorial: Crimes and Minor Accidents
  3. MPP Files Complaints Charging Drug Czar Violated Election Laws
  4. Wisconsin Rave Rebellion: Racine in the Hot Seat as Hundreds Demand Trial on Bogus Bust at Electronic Music Benefit Concert
  5. Bye, Bye, Asa: DEA Chief to Leave for Homeland Security Gig, Will Be Replaced by Career Narcocrat
  6. The Lone Horseman: Texas Ex-Cop Hits the Trail for Marijuana Legalization
  7. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  8. Newsbrief: Radical Party Anti-Prohibitionist Wins European of the Year in European Voice Magazine Online Vote
  9. Newsbrief: Study Says Terminal Patients Don't Get Adequate Pain Treatment
  10. Newsbrief: New Jersey Weedman Still Jailed for Thought Crime
  11. Newsbrief: Study Says Few Medical Marijuana Users, Little Impact on Law Enforcement -- Feds, Some Cops Disagree
  12. Newsbrief: Study Says "Gateway Theory" is Bunk
  13. Newsbrief: US Accuses North Korea of Drug Trafficking
  14. Newsbrief: Illinois Prosecutors Use Ecstasy Law to Charge Partiers With Murder
  15. Newsbrief: Canadian House Panel Will Call for Cannabis Decriminalization, Newspaper Says
  16. Newsbrief: Swiss Marijuana Potency Becomes an Issue
  17. Newsbrief: Pennsylvania Set to Increase Ecstasy Dealing Penalties
  18. Anniversary of Alcohol Prohibition
  19. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  20. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #265 11/29/02

  1. DRCNet Needs Your Help!
  2. Editorial: Going Out of Business
  3. Pressure on Prisons: State Budget Crises Begin to Hit Home, Moves Afoot in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia to Set Some Free
  4. Weitzel Acquitted in Utah Pain Treatment Manslaughter Case Retrial
  5. The Horrors of War: Forgetting the Occupation Through Obliteration
  6. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story
  7. Newsbrief: Plan Colombia Foe Wins Ecuador Presidency -- Legalization Talk Among Gutierrez Supporters
  8. Newsbrief: Brazil Set to Become World's Biggest Cocaine Consumer
  9. Newsbrief: Colombian Leader Wants Drug Tests for Americans, Europeans, and Revival of Drug Plane Shootdown Program
  10. Newsbrief: A Sweet Decision -- Federal Judge Tells New York Cops to Quit Hassling Needle Exchange Participants
  11. Newsbrief: DEA to Double Ecstasy Investigations
  12. Newsbrief: ACLU to Hire Bob Barr as Privacy Issues Consultant
  13. Correction/Retraction: NORML Did Help the Marijuana Reform Party
  14. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #264 11/22/02

  1. DRCNet Needs Your Help!
  2. Editorial: It's Not About Public Safety
  3. Drug Czar, Prohibition Establishment Seek "Zero Tolerance" for "Drugged Driving" -- Sober Marijuana Users in the Crosshairs
  4. DC Treatment Initiative Clears Legal, Bureaucratic Hurdles, More Funding and Implementation Battles Loom
  5. Medical Marijuana in New York: As the Marijuana Reform Party Licks Its Wounds, MPP Funds New Legislative Effort
  6. Newsbrief: This Week's Cop Corruption Story
  7. Newsbrief: HEA Resolution on the Move on Campuses
  8. Newsbrief: With Milwaukee Drug War Running on Overdrive, Drug Court Judge Begins to Wonder...
  9. Newsbrief: Oklahoma Prisons Gobble Up More Cash
  10. Newsbrief: Ambitious US Attorney in Boston Orders Increased Drug Penalties
  11. Newsbrief: Arkansas Drug Czar Resigns After DWI Bust
  12. Newsbrief: Could It Possibly Be True Department -- New African High?
  13. Newsbrief: California Town Won't Report Medical Marijuana Cases to DEA
  14. Newsbrief: NORML Gives Heads Up on Anti-Marijuana Research Results to Be Published Next Week
  15. Green Aid Establishes Legal Defense Fund for Ed Rosenthal
  16. Media Scan: Doonesbury, Forbes in Slate, OC Register, Ed Forchion in DrugWar.com, Youth Today, Nando Times, CCLE Salvia, Heroin Times, Pot TV on John Walters, ONDCP
  17. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #263 11/15/02

  1. The Week Online Needs Your Help!
  2. Massachusetts: Marijuana on the Move?
  3. Anaheim Conference Reinvigorates Battered Reformers -- Hundreds Gather to Examine Defeats, Plot New Strategies
  4. Narco News Interview with Gustavo de Greiff
  5. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  6. Newsbrief: FCC Says Anti-Drug Ads Must Identify White House Sponsorship
  7. Newsbrief: San Diego Medical Marijuana Rally to Go Transnational
  8. Newsbrief: Hungry Utah Cops Nibbling at Edges of Asset Forfeiture Reform Law, Lying Through Their Teeth as They Campaign
  9. Newsbrief: Free Speech Battle in Tampa after Leafleting Arrest
  10. Newsbrief: Canada Gives Go-Ahead to Safe Injection Sites, First to Open Early Next Year
  11. Newsbrief: Pain Doctor Hurwitz Raided in Virginia
  12. Newsbrief: Pain Doctor Weitzel Retrial Underway in Utah
  13. Newsbrief: Arkansas Prisons Say Methamphetamine Penalties Should Be Lowered
  14. Newsbrief: Border Patrol Begins Random Stops in Michigan
  15. Web Scan: Washington Office on Latin America, Andean Information Network, Latin America Working Group, Miami Herald, Harry Levine
  16. Harm Reduction Coalition Seeking Articles and Artwork for "The Anonymous Issue"
  17. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #262 11/8/02

  1. Editorial: More to This Vote Than Meets the Eye
  2. Black Tuesday for Drug Reform
  3. Arizona Steps Back as Decrim Initiative Loses, Anti-Reform Sentencing Initiative Wins
  4. Legal Pot in Nevada? Not This Year
  5. New York: Pataki Victory Swamps Dems, Golisano, Marijuana Reform Party, Libertarians
  6. Ohio "Treatment Not Jail" Initiative Runs Into Drug War Buzzsaw
  7. No Hemp, No New Rights for Defendants in South Dakota
  8. Wisconsin: Libertarian Thompson Gets Ten Percent
  9. DC Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Treatment Not Jail Initiative
  10. Massachusetts Voters Tell Reps to Support Marijuana Decrim
  11. San Francisco Voters Ask City to Look at Growing Its Own
  12. FAMM Victory: Amendment to Cap Federal Guideline Sentences for Low-Level Drug Offenders is Now Law
  13. Colombian Campaign for Drug Legalization
  14. Anti-Prohibitionists Meet Human Rights Advocates and Political Leaders at Albania Congress of Transnational Radical Party
  15. Newsbrief: Nordic Prohibitionists Beginning Counter-Campaign Supporting UN Drug Conventions
  16. Web Scan: Forbes on Hope Taft, Newsday on Tony Papa, New Scientist on Cannabis, Raich v. Ashcroft Lawsuit Docs
  17. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #261 11/1/02

  1. Editorial: The Space Between the Lines
  2. Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Says Feds Can't Punish Doctors for Recommending Medical Marijuana
  3. Learning the Hard Way in Ohio: The Trials and Tribulations of Issue One
  4. DRCNet Book Review: "Addict in the Family," by Dr. Andrew Byrne
  5. DRCNet Interview: Dr. Harry G. Levine
  6. More Than 700,000 Marijuana Arrests Last Year -- Meanwhile, Violent Crime on Increase
  7. November Coalition Roadshow Hits East Coast
  8. DRCNet Survey/Book Giveaway Contest
  9. Newsbrief: Rockefeller Kin Arrested in Rockefeller Law Protest
  10. Newsbrief: Euro Parliamentarians Found Guilty, Scolded by Judge in Manchester Marijuana Civil Disobedience
  11. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
  12. Newsbrief: UN Says Afghan Opium Crop Up Almost Twenty-Fold Over 2001, Trade Employs a Half-Million People
  13. Newsbrief: Liberia Prepares to Join the Drug War
  14. Newsbrief: Chattanooga Jail Full, Faith-Based Alternative Sentencing Offered to Drug Offenders
  15. Newsbrief: Mississippi Supreme Court Bars Telephonic Warrants, but Says It Was Okay Just This Once
  16. Newsbrief: Seattle Initiative to De-prioritize Marijuana Enforcement Makes 2003 Ballot
  17. Media Scan: William F. Buckley in National Review, 2002 Voter Guides and Election Resources
  18. Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision
  19. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  20. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #260 10/25/02

  1. Antiprohibitionists Meet at European Parliament in Brussels
  2. Vigilante Drug Bust in Arizona Opens Window into World of Hurt on Mexican Border
  3. Election 2002: Governor's Races of Interest
  4. Smoke Dope to Fight Chemical Warfare Attacks? Israeli Activists Say Check It Out
  5. This Week's Cop Corruption Story: Two Texas Villarreals
  6. Newsbrief: Federal Court Upholds Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients
  7. Newsbrief: Bill to Ban Salvia Divinorum Introduced
  8. Newsbrief: In Ecuador, Plan Colombia Foe Appears Headed for Presidency
  9. Newsbrief: Feds to Prosecute Ayahuasca Case
  10. Newsbrief: Baltimore Killings Bring More of the Same Old Policies
  11. Newsbrief: Richmond, Virginia Drug Sweep Underway
  12. Newsbrief: Massachusetts Reform Advocates Release Decrim Study as Elections Near
  13. Newsbrief: Oklahoma Uses Civil Suits in War on Meth
  14. Newsbrief: U Missouri SSDP, NORML in Marijuana Petition Drive
  15. Newsbrief: Ontario Court Authorizes Crackdown on Marijuana Growers
  16. Quote of the Week: William Raspberry
  17. Web Scan: DRCNet in the Media, Dan Forbes on Alternet, VoteHemp, Change the Climate, Journey for Justice, Sydney Morning Herald
  18. Job Opportunity: PreventionWorks, Washington, DC
  19. Errata: Polling on San Francisco Proposition S
  20. Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision
  21. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  22. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #259 10/18/02

  1. Election 2002: The Initiatives
  2. Election 2002: Arizona
  3. Election 2002: District of Columbia
  4. Election 2002: Nevada
  5. Election 2002: Ohio
  6. Election 2002: South Dakota
  7. Election 2002: Local Ballot Issues in San Francisco and Massachusetts
  8. November Coalition Journey for Justice Roars through Michigan
  9. Drug War Corruption in Colombia and Mexico
  10. Newsbrief: New Compilation of California Medical Marijuana Guideline Info on MarijuanaInfo.org
  11. Newsbrief: San Diego Medical Marijuana Activist Arrested on Federal Charges
  12. Newsbrief: Damned Sad -- MADD Sues DAMMADD
  13. Newsbrief: This Week's Cop Corruption Story
  14. Newsbrief: DARE Attrition Continues in Kansas City, Kansas
  15. Newsbrief: Canada Study Looks at Marijuana for HIV/AIDS Woes
  16. Newsbrief: In First, British Marijuana User Wins with Medical Necessity Defense
  17. Newsbrief: Virginia Man Lucks Out with Only Two Years in Prison for Sharing Joint with Teenager
  18. Newsbrief: BC City Governments Ask for Tougher Grow Penalties
  19. Newsbrief: Florida School District Wants Positive Drug Test Kids to Pay for Own Counseling
  20. Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision
  21. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  22. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #258 10/11/02

  1. Editorial: Just Claims
  2. Ordeal of the Pain Doctors: California Physician Still Struggling to Clear His Name, Trial Date Set for December
  3. DRCNet Interview: Nandor Tanczos, Member of Parliament, New Zealand
  4. California Medical Marijuana Chronicles: A Widening Conflict
  5. MedMj Chronicles I: The Feds Are Deadly Serious: Bryan Epis Sentenced to Federal Prison
  6. MedMj Chronicles II: San Jose Police Department Cuts Ties with DEA Task Force
  7. MedMj Chronicles III: Marijuana Patients and Caregivers Sue the Feds, Seek Order to Stop Raids
  8. MedMj Chronicles IV: Marijuana Rescheduling Petition Revived
  9. FDA Approves Buphrenorphine for Home Addiction Treatment
  10. Whose Brain on Drugs? Stanford Symposium Focuses on Addiction and Chemistry
  11. Newsbrief: Colombian Ombudsman Petitions Government for Suspension of Herbicide Spraying
  12. Newsbrief: RAVE Act Stalled in House, Could Be Dead for the Year
  13. Newsbrief: Wisconsin Couple Commit Suicide After Pot and 'Shroom Bust, Forfeiture Notice
  14. Newsbrief: Ban on Narcocorridos Spreads in Mexico
  15. Newsbrief: School Districts Drug Testing for Tobacco, Too
  16. Newsbrief: Leaders of Former Soviet Republics Meet to Fight Drugs and Terror, Drink Wine
  17. Newsbrief: Canadian Researchers Seek Approval for Heroin Maintenance Study
  18. Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision
  19. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  20. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #257 10/4/02

  1. DEA to California Medical Marijuana Patients: Drop Dead
  2. Federal Parole Bill Orphaned with Death of Sole Sponsor -- Activists, Prisoners Look to Other Bills, Other Sponsors
  3. Canadian Government Announces Parliament to Consider Marijuana Decriminalization -- US Worries, Blusters
  4. Widely Hyped Ecstasy Study Full of Holes, Critics Say
  5. In Brazil, "Parallel Power" of the Narcos Flexes Muscle on Eve of Elections
  6. Montana Drug Policy Task Force Calls for More Treatment and Prevention, War on Meth
  7. The November Coalition Hits the Road: Journey for Justice Aims to Mobilize Support for Freeing Drug War Prisoners
  8. Newsbrief: Peruvian Coca on Rise as Country Revamps Coca Eradication Effort
  9. Uribe Wants to Recriminalize Drug Possession in Colombia
  10. Newsbrief: California Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Syringe Sales, Vetoed Industrial Hemp Study Earlier
  11. Newsbrief: California Town to Pay $3 Million, Apologize for Drug Raid Death
  12. Newsbrief: And the Killing Continues
  13. Newsbrief: Nevada -- The Survey Says... Legalize It!
  14. Newsbrief: University of Missouri SSDP, NORML in Marijuana Decriminalization Petition Drive
  15. Newsbrief: US Explores Drugging Rioters
  16. Newsbrief: Drug Warrior Maginnis Leaves Family Research Council
  17. Newsbrief: DPA Campaign Provides Tools to Fight School Drug Testing
  18. Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision
  19. Do You Read The Week Online?
  20. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  21. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #256 9/27/02

  1. Editorial: The Tulia Lynchings
  2. Medical Marijuana Supporters Rally in Sacramento
  3. WAMM Files Federal Motion for Return of Marijuana Seized in Dispensary Raid
  4. Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision
  5. Former British Drug Czar Mo Mowlam Calls for Total Global Legalization, Cites Need to Quit Funding Political Violence
  6. UC San Diego Orders Student Group to Drop Hyperlink to FARC Web Site, Cites Patriot Act
  7. Colombian Leader Meets with Bush, Paramilitary Leader to Surrender Following US Indictment
  8. Newsbrief: Putin to Create Russian DEA
  9. Newsbrief: RAVE Act Sheds Another Cosponsor
  10. Newsbrief: "Buzzkill" -- Venerable DC Weekly Rave Party Dies from Overdose of Ecstasy Enforcement
  11. Newsbrief: UN Drug Control Chief Warns Canada Not to Legalize Marijuana
  12. Newsbrief: French Cannabis Growers Create Facts on Ground
  13. Newsbrief: German Health Ministry Says Safe Drug Centers Save Lives
  14. Do You Read The Week Online?
  15. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #255 9/20/02

  1. Editorial: Striking at the Heart of Democracy
  2. Do You Read The Week Online?
  3. California Medical Marijuana: Another Bust, Giveaways in Santa Cruz and San Diego, Mass Demo Set for Sacramento Monday
  4. Ordeal of the Pain Doctors: Weitzel Facing Prison for Minor Records Violation, Still Anticipates Vindication in Manslaughter Case
  5. Drug Czar on Anti-Marijuana Crusade -- Threatens Canada, Unleashes New Propaganda Offensive
  6. Rep. Mink Introduces Bill to Reinstate Federal Parole -- Could Free Tens of Thousands If Passed
  7. Swedish Drug War Hardliners Attempt to Block Anti-Prohibition Conference at European Parliament
  8. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  9. Newsbrief: DC Medical Marijuana Initiative Yanked from Ballot
  10. Newsbrief: Leahy Drops Support for RAVE Act
  11. Newsbrief: Mexican Senate Panel to Look at Approving Medical Marijuana
  12. MarijuanaInfo.org Votes/Polls Section Updated
  13. Newsbrief: Sentencing Project Finds Most Drug Offenders Are Nonviolent, Minorities
  14. Newsbrief: Illinois Governor Candidate Says He Smoked Pot -- Sort Of
  15. Newsbrief: Waco Police Department Goes Easier on Applicants with Past Marijuana Use History
  16. Web Scan: Arianna Huffington, Action America, Cultural Baggage, Bob Herbert, Mark Fiore
  17. Errata: New York Marijuana Reform Party
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #254 9/13/02

  1. Conflict Heightening in California Medical Marijuana Battle
  2. Michigan "Treatment Not Jail" Initiative Knocked Off Ballot
  3. Dance Culture Holds Raves Against RAVE Act -- Techno at the Capitol Last Friday
  4. Montana Activists Hold First Drug Policy Summit
  5. Marijuana Reform Party Makes New York Ballot
  6. Pictures of DRCNet StopTheDrugWar.org Merchandise Now Online
  7. John Perry Featured on NY1 News Channel
  8. Urgent: Demand Freedom for the Tulia Victims
  9. Other Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  10. Newsbrief: Seattle Marijuana Initiative in Trouble
  11. Newsbrief: Canadian Justice Minister Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization Next Year, Rejects Legalization
  12. Newsbrief: Noelle Bush in Trouble Again
  13. Newsbrief: Afghan Marijuana Trade Back in Business
  14. Newsbrief: Missouri Man Takes Pot Shots at Dope Chopper
  15. Newsbrief: Oregon Drug Task Force Wants Tax Hike to Fund Operations
  16. Newsbrief: Tennessee Drug Task Force Director Fired for Sampling Evidence Stash
  17. Web Scan: WAMM, State on Eradication, Deborah Small, DEA Museum, Canada, California Student Survey, The Onion
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #253 9/6/02

  1. Editorial: Federal Evildoers
  2. DEA Turning Its Sights on Patients, Small Growers in Escalating California Medical Marijuana Conflict
  3. Canadian Senate Panel Calls for Marijuana Legalization -- Urges Regulation and Control, Rejects US Pressure
  4. You Are Now Leaving the EU: Christiania Gets Raided
  5. Ducheneaux Guilty in Medical Marijuana Case as South Dakota Attorney General Candidates Unite Against Jury Rights Amendment
  6. Massachusetts Local Ballots to Include Marijuana Decriminalization, Medical Marijuana, Hemp Questions
  7. Medical Marijuana Polling: Yet More Info on MarijuanaInfo.org
  8. 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse Results Published
  9. Stossel Tapes Still Available -- Support DRCNet and Reserve Your Copy of This Important ABC News Report Today!
  10. Newsbrief: Board of Canvassers Rejects Michigan Initiative, Appeals Court Next
  11. Newsbrief: California Legislature Passes Bill to Make Prop. 36 Clients Eligible for Food Stamps, Awaits Governor's Signature
  12. Newsbrief: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Loses Support in Latest Poll
  13. Newsbrief: Rainbow Farm to Be Auctioned
  14. Newsbrief: Chills Owner Gets 14 Months on Federal Paraphernalia Rap
  15. Newsbrief: DEA Busting Pipe-Sellers Again, This Time They Hit Illinois
  16. Newsbrief: Tennessee Towns Fire Police Forces, Cite Too Much Attention to Meth Labs
  17. Newsbrief: World of Competitive Bridge Fends Off Drug Menace, US Player Loses Medal for Refusing Drug Test
  18. Newsbrief: DEA Brokers Thai-Lao Border Drug Cooperation Deal
  19. Media Scan: Shawn Heller, Dan Forbes, Dan Gardner, Nando Times, Canadian Editorial Cartoons, DrugSense Drug Policy Links
  20. Third Annual Fortune Society Prisoner Art Contest
  21. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  22. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #252 8/30/02

  1. Editorial: War Crimes Against Patients
  2. Incarceration Nation: US Population Under Correctional Control Hits New Record
  3. Not All Students Will Start School This Week -- Tens of Thousands Lose Aid Due to Drug Convictions
  4. Initiative Foes Play Hardball in Michigan -- Effort Threatened by Certification Board, Conyers Calls for Investigation of Federal Lobbying
  5. RAVE Act Opponents Gear Up
  6. More Black Men in Prison Than College, Study Finds
  7. Dr. Hurwitz Calls It Quits: Leading National Pain Management Physician to Close Practice, Cites Fear of Feds
  8. The (F)Utility of DAWN: Experts Look at the Drug Abuse Warning Network
  9. Criminal Justice Policy Foundation Publishes Comprehensive, Nationwide Guide to Clemency
  10. Medical Marijuana Through the Ages: New Info on MarijuanaInfo.org
  11. Offer: Tapes of Stossel Legalization Special Now Available
  12. Newsbrief: Texas Opens Belated Investigation into Tulia Bust
  13. Newsbrief: New Hampshire Cop Wants to Seize College Dorm After Drug Raid
  14. Newsbrief: Western Washington US Attorney Solicits Marijuana Cases, No Bust Too Small
  15. Newsbrief: Canadian Cops Call for National Drug Strategy, Oppose Legalization
  16. Newsbrief: Canada Medical Marijuana Battles Continue -- Protests in Toronto, Minister Changes Tune
  17. Newsbrief: Drug Raid Leads to Mini-Riot in Minneapolis
  18. Newsbrief: Oklahoma Governor Overrules Parole Board, Orders Man Held for Life for Cocaine Possession
  19. Newsbrief: Vietnam Beefs Up Customs Drug Budget
  20. Newsbrief: Asian Speed Shows Up, Feds Feed USA Today "New Drug" Story
  21. Demos Fellowships in Criminal Justice and Democracy Reform
  22. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  23. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #251 8/23/02

  1. Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead: Bob Barr Defeated in Georgia Primary
  2. Canadian Government Backs Away From Medical Marijuana, But Advocates See No Big Defeat
  3. NJ Weedman Jailed for Exercising Free Speech Rights -- Advocating Marijuana Legalization Violates Parole Conditions, Says State
  4. Seattle Hempfest Draws 150,000 for Smoking, Shopping and Rabble Rousing
  5. Newsbrief: State Dept. Official Forced to Eat Crow on FARC-Al Qaeda Link
  6. Newsbrief: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Campaign Gains Ally
  7. Newsbrief: French Government Moving Against Raves
  8. Newsbrief: Baltimore's "Federal Day" is No Holiday for Some
  9. Newsbrief: Afghan Opium Boom Continues, Second Crop Coming
  10. Newsbrief: SAMHSA DAWN Study Out, Drug Czar Quick to Spin
  11. Newsbrief: DEA Wants to Schedule 2C-T-7
  12. Newsbrief: Can We Make That a Line Item? Alabama County Gets Blatant on Asset Forfeiture as Revenue Enhancer
  13. Newsbrief: Wichita Judge Scolds Drug Squad for Misconduct
  14. Media Scan: New Scientist, JAMA, Forbes, ReconsiDer, MTF, BJS, CASA
  15. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #250 8/16/02

  1. A Message to Our Readers: 250 Issues of The Week Online
  2. US Seeks Civil Injunction Against Lakota Hemp Grower, Supporters Celebrate Successful Harvest
  3. DRCNet Interview: Jack Cole, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
  4. Initiatives Heat Up I: Tumultuous Week in Nevada, Cops Flip-Flop on Endorsement, Resort to Bald-Faced Lies
  5. Initiatives Heat Up II: Storm Clouds over Ohio
  6. Initiatives Heat Up III: Michigan Governor Flails and Fails in Anti-Initiative Move
  7. Initiatives Heat Up IV: DC "Treatment Not Jail" Initiative Makes November Ballot, Excludes Marijuana, Heroin, Psychedelics
  8. Initiatives Heat Up V: Arizona to Vote on Marijuana Decrim, Much More
  9. Initiatives Heat Up VI: DC Board of Elections Rejected Thousands of Valid Signatures, MPP Challenging
  10. Newsbrief: Afghan Heroin Labs Reappear
  11. Newsbrief: Grateful Dead Reunion Just Like Old Days -- Many Arrested
  12. Newsbrief: NJ Bans Devices That Defeat Drug Tests
  13. Newsbrief: East Europe Teens Catching Up to West in Drug Use
  14. Newsbrief: DARE Axed in Cincy -- Dayton Next?
  15. Newsbrief: Canada Judge Rips DEA Law Violations
  16. Newsbrief: NORML Not Allowed at Indiana State Fair
  17. Newsbrief: Infected Needles, Alcoholism Lead to Increased Liver Damage, Deaths in England, Study Finds
  18. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  19. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #249 8/9/02

  1. Nevada Marijuana Initiative Endorsed by State's Largest Police Group
  2. DC Board of Elections Rejects Medical Marijuana Petitions -- Admits One of Seven Valid Signatures Ignored but Refuses to Correct Error
  3. Democratic Governor Candidate Calls for Repeal of NY Rockefeller Laws
  4. Switzerland Defends Cannabis Decrim, Tells UN Narcocrats to Buzz Off
  5. Which War Am I In? DEA Meth Offensive Continues as US Pilots in Afghanistan Gobble Speed
  6. Libertarian Party Launches TV Ad Campaign Targeting Rep. Bob Barr on Medical Marijuana Issue
  7. Drug Czar Picks Beer-Promoting NASCAR Hot Rodder to Carry Anti-Drug Message
  8. School Anti-Drug Programs Get Failing Grade, Study Says
  9. Drug Dog Terrorizes Native American Kindergartners in South Dakota, Lawsuit Filed
  10. Newsbrief: South Dakota Lakota Successfully Harvest Hemp Crop
  11. Newsbrief: Peru Backs Off on Coca Eradication, Again
  12. Newsbrief: Radical Party Moscow Activists Go to Trial for Marijuana Legalization Rally -- Free Speech at Heart of Case
  13. Newsbrief: Federal Judge Deems Utah Asset Forfeiture Initiative Constitutional
  14. Newsbrief: Canadian NAFTA Suit Over Hemp Restrictions Enters Arbitration
  15. Newsbrief: More than One Million in Drug Treatment in US, SAMHSA Says
  16. Newsbrief: Budget Woes Close Detox, Treatment Facilities in NC, Iowa
  17. Newsbrief: Stiffer Ecstasy Penalties Would Hit Penn State University
  18. Newsbrief: Study Finds THC-like Chemicals Useful for Certain Disorders
  19. Newsbrief: Archeological Evidence of Bronze Age Drug Trade
  20. Web Scan: Narco News, Nature, Cato
  21. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  22. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #248 8/2/02

  1. Editorial: Getting from Here to There
  2. Despite Supreme Court Ruling, No Wave of High School Drug Testing Foreseen
  3. US Prison Population Leveling Off, Feds Drive Small Increase
  4. Needle Exchange 2002: A Long Way Traveled, A Long Way to Go
  5. Baltimore Killings Continue as Politicians Continue to Ignore Role of Prohibition
  6. Stossel Special Spurs War of Letters to ABC
  7. Newsbrief: Cooking Speed Equals Child Abuse Under New Tennessee Law
  8. Massachusetts Governor Vetoes Decriminalization Provisions
  9. Newsbrief: Afghan Crop Report Says Opium Eradication a Joke
  10. Newsbrief: Leading British Comedian Says Legalize It All
  11. Newsbrief: Alabama Rape Victim Ordered to Provide Urine Sample for Drug Test
  12. Newsbrief: Tennessee School Board Ordered to Back Off on Zero Tolerance -- Right to Public Education at Issue
  13. Newsbrief: Seattle Marijuana Enforcement Initiative Signatures Submitted
  14. Web Scan: CriminalDefense.com, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Harry Levine, Ethan Nadelmann, Medical Marijuana Research, School Daily
  15. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #247 7/26/02

  1. Editorial: Silliness on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
  2. State Supreme Court Upholds California's Proposition 215, San Francisco Prepares to Grow Own Medical Marijuana Supply
  3. British Decrim Move Inspires US Editorialists
  4. Transnational Radical Party Takes Aim at Russian Drug Laws
  5. Capitol Hill Press Conference Calls for States' Rights to Medical Marijuana
  6. Libertarian Party Plans Offensive Against Drug Warriors
  7. Newsbrief: Dutch Cannabis Café Chains Vow to Invade Britain
  8. Newsbrief: Cancer Pain Inadequately Treated, Says NIH
  9. Newsbrief: Democratic Presidential Candidate Plays Crime Card -- Calls for Parole End, More Drug Testing for Probationers
  10. Newsbrief: Narcocorridos Banned in Baja California
  11. Newsbrief: Kenyan Students Riot Over Deadly Marijuana Bust
  12. Newsbrief: Portland, Maine, Moving to Provide Anti-Overdose Drug to Addicts, EMTs
  13. Newsbrief: Coked-Out Judge Busted
  14. Newsbrief: Budget Crisis Kills Connecticut Drug Courts
  15. Newsbrief: Bad Week for Marijuana Police -- Two Dead, One Injured in Accidents
  16. Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  17. Addictions Discrimination Panel Seeking Testimony
  18. Addendum: Jeff and Tracy
  19. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #246 7/19/02

  1. Editorial: Times Change
  2. Dutch Government Plans to Restrict Coffeeshops, End Ecstasy Harm Reduction
  3. Nevada Marijuana Amendment Draws Flack, Praise
  4. Canadian Justice Minister Floats Decrim Trial Balloon, Takes Flack from All Sides
  5. Barcelona Conference Hears Link Between AIDS and Injection Drug Use -- Clinton Regrets Not Lifting Ban, Bush to Keep It
  6. New York Marijuana Reform Party in Petition Drive to Win Ballot Status
  7. "We're Your Good Neighbors. We Smoke Pot" -- Jeff and Tracy One Year Later
  8. Alert: DEA Moves to Schedule 2C-T-7
  9. Newsbrief: Cow Dung Sniffers Have Malaysian Authorities Confounded
  10. Newsbrief: Baltimore Homicides Continue, More Juveniles Dying Than Before
  11. Newsbrief: Noelle Bush Imprisoned
  12. Media Scan: Time Magazine on The Philippines, Drug Testing Protest Video Highlights
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #245 7/12/02

  1. Editorial: What People Are Thinking
  2. British Cannabis Decrim: One Step Forward, One Step Sideways, One Step Back
  3. US Drug War: Trouble Down South America Way
  4. Motorist Flexing Rights Doesn't Sit Well With NC Cops -- Man Arrested, Lawsuit Pending
  5. DC Medical Marijuana Initiative Will Be on November Ballot -- Unless Congress Quashes It Again
  6. Newsbrief: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot
  7. Newsbrief: Federal Jury Convicts in California Medical Marijuana Case
  8. Newsbrief: New Jersey Weedman Strikes Again
  9. Newsbrief: Kid Turned in Dad's Pot Grow, Did "Right Thing" -- or Did He?
  10. Newsbrief: Canada Just Says No to Workplace Drug Testing
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #244 7/5/02

  1. Bolivian Voters Tell US to Butt Out: Coca Grower Leader Morales Emerges as Presidential Kingmaker
  2. Unitarian Drug Stand Draws Favorable Response from West Virginia Paper
  3. British Columbia Marijuana Activists Celebrate 4th of July by Burning US Flag in Protest of Local DEA office
  4. Newsbrief: Kids Are Consuming More Alcohol, Cigarettes, Cocaine, but Are Less Reckless, Says CDC
  5. Newsbrief: Eighty Marines and Sailors Convicted of Using, Selling Drugs
  6. Newsbrief: No Honor Among Thieves -- Informant Sues FBI for His Cut of Forfeitures
  7. Newsbrief: More Complications in Epis Case
  8. Newsbrief: Drug Czar Declares War on Kingpins, Casual Users
  9. Newsbrief: US to Resume Airplane Shootdown Program
  10. Newsbrief: Report Says Post September 11 Security Not Stopping Drugs
  11. Will Foster Free Again
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #243 6/28/02

  1. Editorial: The Specter of Coming Violence
  2. DRCNet Interview: Roger Goodman, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
  3. DRCNet Book Review: Drug War Heresies
  4. Supreme Court Allows Drug Testing All Students in Extracurriculars
  5. Slim Supreme Court Majority Upholds But Also Criticizes Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
  6. New York Rockefeller Law Reform Dies This Year as Pataki, Democrats Deadlock
  7. Vermont Governor Quietly Signs Compromise Medical Marijuana Bill
  8. Newsbrief: Unitarians Approve Anti-Drug War Platform
  9. Newsbrief: Fatal Drug Overdoses on the Rise in Florida
  10. Newsbrief: New York Pharmacies Fail to Distribute Sterile Syringes
  11. Newsbrief: Arizona Supreme Court Rules Police Knock and Talk Violates Privacy Rights
  12. Newsbrief: Kansas Sentencing Commission Wants to Focus on Prevention
  13. Newsbrief: Illinois Juvenile Drug Courts Given a Green Light
  14. Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana Distributor Angers Judge in California
  15. Newsbrief: UN Reports Drug Use on the Rise Worldwide
  16. Newsbrief: Scottish Police to Ignore Marijuana Use
  17. Web Scan: Uniform Crime Report, World Prison Population List, Transnational Institute, Imani Woods, CDC, WorldNet Daily
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #242 6/21/02

  1. Editorial: Perspectives from Europe
  2. Indiana Man Challenges Constitutionality of Analogue Laws
  3. DRCNet Interview: Steven Silverman, Flex Your Rights
  4. New DRCNet/StopTheDrugWar.org Merchandise Out -- Discounted Purchase Available
  5. Newsbrief: Court Okays Police Pressure for Searches on Mass Transit
  6. Human Rights Watch Report Says 124,000 Children Have Lost Parents to New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws
  7. Newsbrief: Baltimore Anti-Drug Campaign Grant Shot Down
  8. Newsbrief: Unitarians to Consider "Statement of Conscience" on Drug Policy Next Week
  9. Newsbrief: New Zealand Greens Want to Talk About Legalization
  10. Newsbrief: Britain Tests Heroin Dispensers
  11. Newsbrief: Industrial Hemp to be on Ballot in South Dakota
  12. Newsbrief: Nevada Voters to Weigh Benefits of Decriminalization
  13. Newsbrief: Congress Questions Colombia's Drug War Performance
  14. Newsbrief: Actor Larry Hagman of "JR" Fame Speaks Out Against Prohibition in Autobiography
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #241 6/14/02

  1. Federal Judge Issues Injunction Against California Cannabis Clubs
  2. The June 6th Medical Marijuana Actions: One Week Later
  3. With Competing Drug Reform Bills Passed, NY Governor and Assembly Have One Week to Reach Compromise
  4. Border Governors to Discuss Chihuahua Marijuana Legalization
  5. Dan Forbes Goes After Ad Age for "McCarthyite" Smear
  6. London Borough Proposes De Facto Hard Drug Decrim
  7. Philippines Enacts Death Penalty for Drug Dealing, Possession of a Pound of Marijuana or Tens Grams of Ecstasy
  8. Colombian Paramilitary Leader Again Admits Links with Cocaine Traffic, Calls for Tactical Retreat from the Trade
  9. Newsbrief: Mexico Drug Trade Helps Prevent Social Explosion, Says Researcher
  10. Newsbrief: DARE Dropped in Toledo
  11. Newsbrief: Maryland GOP Governor Candidate Talks Treatment Not Jail
  12. Newsbrief: Supreme Court Ruling Leads to Public Housing Eviction for Son's Marijuana Pipe
  13. Newsbrief: Addicts Vote with Their Feet on Vietnam's New, Lengthy Mandatory Drug Rehab
  14. Newsbrief: Louisiana Judge Busted in Dope-Planting Scheme
  15. Newsbrief: Life for Brownies? California Man Faces Three-Strikes Penalty
  16. Grant Program: Tides Foundation RFPs for Latin America, Prop. 36 Implementation and Overdose Prevention
  17. New DRCNet/StopTheDrugWar.org Merchandise Out -- Discounted Purchase Available
  18. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #240 6/7/02

  1. Editorial: Time for Action
  2. Feds Move to Seize LA Cannabis Resource Center, Hunger Strike Underway
  3. Medical Marijuana Supporters Turn to Civil Disobedience, Direct Action
  4. Rave Regulation Bill Passes California Assembly on Unanimous Vote, Heads for Senate
  5. Cops Jockey for More Drug War Funds in Wake of FBI Revamp
  6. Hot Topic: Adolescent Drug Treatment Abuse Conference Begins in St. Petersburg Tomorrow
  7. Newsbrief: Wiretaps Up, Drug Investigations Behind Most, Feds Report
  8. Newsbrief: New Mexico Governor Commutes Sentence of Raped Prisoner
  9. Newsbrief: Fort Worth Police Chief Dares to Cut DARE
  10. Newsbrief: Afghan Opium Harvest Estimated at 3,000 Tons
  11. Newsbrief: Buds in Bhutan
  12. Media Scan: Arianna Huffington
  13. Grant Program: Tides Foundation RFPs for Latin America, Prop. 36 Implementation and Overdose Prevention
  14. New DRCNet/StopTheDrugWar.org Merchandise Out -- Discounted Purchase Available
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #239 5/31/02

  1. Editorial: Skating on the Edge of Propriety
  2. New DRCNet/StopTheDrugWar.org Merchandise Out -- Discounted Purchase Available
  3. DEA Forges Alliance With Women Legislators Group to Wage War on Club Drugs, Terror
  4. DEA Raids Another California Medical Marijuana Dispensary Even as Advocates Gear Up for Day of Action Next Friday
  5. FBI Ends Drug War Role to Concentrate on Terror War
  6. Western Australia to Cite, Not Arrest, Marijuana Users Under State Government Plan
  7. National Drug Intelligence Center Gives Partial Response to DRCNet FOIA Request on "Drug Menace" Web Sites
  8. Report Charges Taft Administration Subverts Election in Ohio, Allies with PDFA and CADCA in Effort to Defeat Initiative
  9. Newsbrief: Seven Up Pulls "Prison Rape" Commercial Under Threat of Boycott
  10. Newsbrief: Feds Use RICO Against Virginia Oxycontin Doctor
  11. Newsbrief: US 9th Circuit Rules Religious Marijuana Use on Federal Lands Okay
  12. Newsbrief: Cannabis Cafe Vows to Open in England, Another in Scotland
  13. Newsbrief: Tennessee Town Pays for Drug Raid Killing
  14. Newsbrief: Oakland Rogue Cops Go on Trial
  15. Newsbrief: Will Foster Arrested on Minor Parole Violation in California, May Face Return to Oklahoma Prison
  16. Newsbrief: Swaziland Row Over Rasta Royals
  17. Newsbrief: Marijuana Advocate Sues Over Hawaii Aerial Eradication Program
  18. Newsbrief: Ed Thompson Does Weedstock, Says Legalize It
  19. Newsbrief: British Magazine "The New Statesman" Calls for Drug Legalization
  20. Newsbrief: Weird Scenes Inside the Pretoria Ford Plant
  21. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #238 5/24/02

  1. Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform Joins with Members of Congress at US Capitol to Call for Repeal of HEA Drug Provision
  2. British MPs Call for Massive Drug Policy Reform, But Reject Legalization -- for Now
  3. Incoming Dutch Government Threatens Coffee Shops
  4. Budget Crunch: Drug War Fuels Mississippi Prison Binge, No Money Left for Education
  5. High School Drug Courts Spreading in West Virginia
  6. Newsbrief: Marijuana Exile Steve Kubby Claims Refugee Status in Canada
  7. Newsbrief: British Cannabis Cafe Owner Freed
  8. Newsbrief: North Carolina Drug Courts Face Ax Because of Budget Woes
  9. Newsbrief: New York City Cops in Paraphernalia Sweep, Big Hoopla, Misdemeanor Arrests
  10. Newsbrief: Seattle Marijuana Initiative Signature-Gathering Now Underway
  11. Newsbrief: Santa Cruz to Place Needle Disposal Boxes in Public Restrooms
  12. Errata: Different Kinds of Mushrooms
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #237 5/17/02

  1. Medical Marijuana Wars Heat Up: Activists Announce Day of Direct Action Against DEA, Plan Emergency Response to Expected Raids
  2. Anti-Drug Ads a Flop, Says Drug Czar, Please Give Us Money for More
  3. MarijuanaInfo.org: New Medical Marijuana Web Site Provides Forum for Warring Views, In-Depth Exploration of Issue
  4. Budget Crunch I: As Oklahoma Goes Broke, Drug War Fuels Ever-Increasing Prison Budgets
  5. Budget Crunch II: Massachusetts Vote Imperils All of State's Methadone Clinics, Supporters Mobilizing
  6. Prison Reform Advocates Blast 7 UP Commercial for Trivializing Prison Rape, Call for Boycott of Cadbury Schweppes Product
  7. Newsbrief: Nevada Petition Drive to Legalize Marijuana Possession Underway
  8. Newsbrief: Madison "Suspends" Raves at County Venue
  9. Newsbrief: Barr Booed for Anti-Pot Remarks in Home District Event
  10. Newsbrief: Canadian Mounties Follow US Lead, Discover "Drug-Terror" Connection
  11. Newsbrief: Canada Prisons Propose Ignoring Inmate Cannabis Use
  12. Newsbrief: Afghan Warlords Allied to US Growing Rich Off Opium Trade, Says Expert
  13. Newsbrief: Dionne Warwick Busted for Marijuana at Airport Amidst Heightened Airline Security
  14. Newsbrief: Pipe Bong Found in Rural Illinois Mailbox
  15. Clarification from Dana Beal
  16. Articles and Resources
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #236 5/10/02

  1. Editorial: Unsafe Streets
  2. Leading Education, Civil Rights, and Drug Policy Organizations Urge Congress to Repeal HEA Drug Provision in Full
  3. Congressional Drug and Terrorism Expert Says Legalization Could Cut Crime
  4. Needle Exchange Not Playing Well in Peoria
  5. Philadelphia Trying to Quash Open-Air Drug Markets With Massive Police Presence
  6. In Hartford, Neighborhood Drug Fighters and Drug Reformers Inhabit Parallel Universes
  7. Million Marijuana March Hits 200 Cities Worldwide, Major Arrests Only in NYC
  8. Patient's Hunger Strike for Medical Cannabis Enters Fourth Week
  9. Newsbrief: FDA Okays Marijuana Hair Test, Would Detect Up to Three Months
  10. Newsbrief: German Heroin Deaths Decline After Safe Injection Sites Introduced
  11. Newsbrief: South Dakota Hemp Petition Signatures Submitted, Seeds Planted
  12. Newsbrief: Philippine Official Asks End to Vigilante Killings of Drug Dealers, Users
  13. Newsbrief: Canadian Senate Panel Hints at Marijuana Legalization
  14. NPR and Reuters on HEA and SSDP
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #235 5/3/02

  1. Editorial: Return of the Drug Czars
  2. Former British Drug Policy Head Says Legalize it All
  3. Thai Police Death Squads Accused of Killing Drug Dealers
  4. South Dakota Amendment Would Give Criminal Defendants Right to Argue Merits, Applicability and Validity of Laws
  5. Summer Concert Bust Season Gets Early Start in Alabama -- Rockers Can Take Steps to Protect Themselves, Say Advocates
  6. It's National Drug Court Month -- Do You Know What You're Getting for Your Money? The Government Doesn't, Says GAO
  7. Newsbrief: Washington Says Colombian Military Meets Human Rights Conditions, Frees More Money
  8. Newsbrief: Japan to Outlaw Magic Mushrooms, Loophole Slams Shut
  9. Newsbrief: China Faces Plague of Yuppie Dopers as Disposable Income in Cities Rises
  10. Newsbrief: Prospects Dimming For Vermont Medical Marijuana Bill
  11. Newsbrief: Italian Legislative Body Asks for Medical Marijuana
  12. Newsbrief: BC Marijuana Party Head to Run for Vancouver Mayor
  13. Newsbrief: Eleven House Pages Fired for Marijuana Use -- NORML Offers Them Jobs
  14. Newsbrief: Connecticut Carpenters Strike Over Wages, Drug Testing
  15. Web Scan: De Greiff, Blumenson, Weitzel, GAO, Canada
  16. Errata: Drug War Race
  17. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #234 4/26/02

  1. Editorial: Cocaine Legalization
  2. California Medical Marijuana Movement Awaits Federal Offensive, Plots Strategy
  3. Member of British Parliament Calls for Legalization of Cocaine
  4. Amnesty International USA Approves Resolution to Examine Link Between Drug War and Human Rights Abuses
  5. NORML Conference Report: Ready to Take It to a Higher Level
  6. Three US Medical Marijuana Refugees Detained in British Colombia
  7. Newsbrief: Colombian Rebels Seize Pro-Legalization Governor
  8. Newsbrief: Man Without Guns or Drugs Killed By Long Island Cops on Marijuana Raid
  9. Newsbrief: Bicycle Courier Race Shows NYC Day in the Life in the Drug War
  10. Newsbrief: Oregon Medical Marijuana Doctor Suspended, Fined, Put on Probation
  11. Newsbrief: No Room at the Jail for Indianapolis Marijuana Possessors
  12. Newsbrief: Britain's New Scientist Slams Ecstasy Alarmists
  13. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #233 4/19/02

  1. Federal Meth Bill Provision Would Send Promoters to Prison for Drug Use at Events
  2. Budget Woes Imperil Virginia Substance Abuse Funding, Governor Asks Legislature to Undo Drug Court Cuts
  3. DRCNet Interview: Jeremy Bigwood on Colombia's Borders
  4. Drug War! Race & Party, NYC Saturday Night
  5. Save New York State Prison Art!
  6. Northeast Summit for New Drug Policies
  7. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  8. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #232 4/12/02

  1. Yale University Joins End Run Around HEA Anti-Drug Provision, Will Replace Federal Aid Lost by Students From Drug Convictions
  2. Latest Prisoner Numbers: States Continue to Level Off, But Federal Incarceration Grows at Record Pace
  3. Meek Sentencing Commission Recommends Minor Reforms in Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentences
  4. Afghan Eradication Program Sparks Armed Resistance, Protests -- Farmers Blame America
  5. More Trouble Down South: Peru Rejects US "Zero Coca" Goal
  6. Major Demonstrations Against US Colombia Policy Set for April 20-22
  7. Denver Bookstore Cannot Be Forced to Name Buyer of Drug Manufacturing Books, Court Says
  8. NORML NYC Marijuana Ad Campaign Taps Mayor's Comments, Gets Attention
  9. Errata: Three Strikes
  10. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #231 4/5/02

  1. Editorial: Contrasts
  2. Supreme Court to Review California's Three-Strikes Sentencing Law
  3. US Alternative Development Plan in Colombia a Failure, Say Officials, Will Be Abandoned in Favor of Spraying and Bullets
  4. Uncovered Documents Reveal State Department Cover-Up of Bolivian Police Murder of Coca Growers Union Leader
  5. US Abandoning Afghan Opium Eradication Effort
  6. National Prescription Heroin Trials Urged in Australia, Prime Minister Remains an Obstacle
  7. Something New Under the Sun: Scots Offer "Retox" to Prisoners
  8. Upper Class Marijuana Busts Could Lead to Cracks in South Korean Drug War Consensus
  9. DEA Head Calls Mexican Cartels "Terrorists" in Effort to Link Vastly Different Phenomenon
  10. Media and Resources Online
  11. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #230 3/29/02

  1. Editorial: Supreme Disappointment
  2. John W. Perry Scholarship Fund for Students Losing Financial Aid Because of Drug Convictions Holds Initial Fundraiser in NYC
  3. Supreme Court Upholds Zero Tolerance in Public Housing -- Officials Can Evict Families Over a Member's Drug Use
  4. Justice Department Fights to Maintain Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparities
  5. The November Coalition Critiques Sessions-Hatch Sentencing Bill
  6. State Medical Marijuana Update: Maryland, Vermont and Connecticut
  7. DC Federal Court Declares Ban on Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure Unconstitutional, Opens Way for New Initiative Effort
  8. Vancouver Mayor Calls for Marijuana Legalization
  9. Marijuana Politics Hits French Presidential Race -- Jospin Plays It Both Ways
  10. DRCNet Files FOIA Request for Justice Department List of 52 Internet Drug Menace Web Sites
  11. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #229 3/22/02

  1. Editorial: Congress's Bad Joke
  2. DRCNet Launching John W. Perry Scholarship Fund for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions at NYC Event on March 26
  3. Alert: Tell Congress to Repeal the HEA Drug Provision in Full
  4. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in High School Drug Testing Case -- Comments by Justices Ominous
  5. 3th Anniversary of Shafer Commission Report -- New Nixon Tapes Reveal Twisted Thinking at Root of Modern Marijuana War
  6. Bush Administration Asks Congress to Lift All Restrictions on Aid to Colombia
  7. Colorado State University Opens Nation's First College Drug Court
  8. Canadian Firm That Sued US Over Hemp Foods Ban Set to Meet With Array of Feds -- NAFTA Rules Force US to Talk to Kenex
  9. Medical Marijuana Bills Still Moving in Maryland, Vermont
  10. Sentencing Project Study Finds 135,000 Children Affected by Welfare Ban for Drug Offenders
  11. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #228 3/15/02

  1. Editorial: What Is It About Opium?
  2. DRCNet Launching John W. Perry Scholarship Fund for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions at NYC Event on March 26
  3. Alert: Tell Congress to Repeal the HEA Drug Provision in Full
  4. DOJ Study Takes Ominous Look at Drug and Drug Policy Web Sites
  5. Britain Continues Brisk March to Drug Reform
  6. Drug War Drives Federal Criminal Court Cases, No Let-Up Last Year
  7. Sentencing Reform Passes in Washington State, Governor Will Sign Bill
  8. Danish Politicians Seek Cannabis Crackdown in Christiania
  9. Canadian Doctors Call for Marijuana Decriminalization, Treating Addiction as Medical Problem
  10. US Drug Warriors Lose Again at UN
  11. Government-Commissioned Study of White House Anti-Drug Ad Campaign Says $1.5 Billion Program Fails to Reduce Teen Use
  12. Resources: New York Magazine, UN on Afghani Opium, US on Colombian Coca
  13. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #227 3/8/02

  1. Editorial: History's Dustbin
  2. Swarthmore to Replace Student Aid Lost to HEA Anti-Drug Provision
  3. Alert: Tell Congress to Repeal the HEA Drug Provision in Full
  4. Breaking: Ninth Circuit Court Blocks DEA Hemp Rule
  5. US Drug Warriors Waging Backroom Campaign to Put Their Man Serrano in UN Drug Czar Post
  6. Drug Reform Groups and Paid Advertising: What Are They Getting for Their Money?
  7. Marijuana Foes Fall in California Elections
  8. Hawaii "Treatment Not Jail" Bill Stalled as Key Legislator Unveils Plan for Popular Referendum on Issue
  9. Scotland Ends Drug War, Sort Of
  10. ENCOD Letter to UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Annual Meeting
  11. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #226 3/1/02

  1. Editorial: Losing Patience
  2. SSDP "Souder Squad" Bushwhacks Congressman in Home District
  3. DRCNet Launching John W. Perry Scholarship Fund for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions at NYC Event on March 26
  4. Oregon State Goes After Leading Medical Marijuana Doctor
  5. DRCNet Interview: Sasha Abramsky, author of "Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation"
  6. Bush Administration Peers Into Abyss and Blinks: Colombia Military Aid to Stay Restricted to Drug War -- For Now
  7. Monitoring The Future 2001 Study Released: Mixed Results, Say Authors
  8. Israeli Drug Use Up, Drug Authority Says: Maybe More Than You Think, Says Green Leaf Party
  9. Prominent Anti-Drug Organization Criticized by Federal Agency for Bogus Underage Alcohol Findings
  10. Weitzel Pain Case on Sixty Minutes, LP Ads Run in USA Today and Washington Times
  11. Resources: Sentencing Project on the Drug War and Welfare Reform, GAO on Alternative Development, NIDA Marijuana Farm, International Narcotics Control Board
  12. Errata: Vermont
  13. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #225 2/22/02

  1. Editorial: Costs and Consequences
  2. Lies, Damn Lies, and "The Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in the United States, 1992-1998"
  3. New Mexico Post-Mortem: Reformers Differ on What Went Right, What Went Wrong
  4. Britain: Parliamentary Committee Will Recommend Cannabis Decrim, Ecstasy Down-Scheduling, More Heroin Prescriptions
  5. Dutch to Consider Prescription Heroin for Hard Cases, Study Results Lay Groundwork for Move
  6. New Study Provides First Comprehensive Report on Drug Laws in All 50 States and DC, Variations Abound
  7. At the Statehouse: Medical Marijuana Moving in Maryland and Vermont
  8. Libertarian Party Ad Campaign Takes on Drug Terror Link
  9. Federal Drug Office Accused of "Enron-Style Accounting" in New National Drug Budget Reporting
  10. News Links: Bolivia and Colombia, California Medical Marijuana, Drug-Terror Ad Parody
  11. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #224 2/15/02

  1. Feds Raid San Francisco Medical Marijuana Operations, City Officials Join Angry Protests as DEA Head Speaks Same Day
  2. Genesis of the 6th Street Raid: Business as Usual for the DEA, Plus Help from Within
  3. Philippines Proposes Death Sentence for Ecstasy, LSD Possession
  4. Jamaica: Ganja Decrim Goes to Parliament
  5. Half of Governor Johnson's Drug Reform Package Passes as Brief New Mexico Legislative Session Ends
  6. Bolivian Government Signs Agreement With Coca Growers
  7. Flood of Caribbean Drug Mules Overwhelming European Authorities
  8. Marco Pannella Acquitted on Hashish Civil Disobedience Charge
  9. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
  10. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #223 2/8/02

  1. Editorial: Hate Mongering
  2. DEA Backs Off a Bit on Hemp Foods, Extends "Grace Period" Before Ban for 40 Days
  3. The Bush 2003 Drug Budget: More of the Same, More for Colombia, More for the DEA
  4. DRCNet Interview: Noam Chomsky
  5. Bush Administration Seeks to Widen Colombian Intervention as Human Rights Groups Denounce Abuses
  6. Federal Judge Throws Out Glow Stick, Pacifier Ban in New Orleans Rave Case
  7. Cincinnati Again Asks Federal Courts to Revive Drug Exclusion Zone
  8. Backlash Emerges as Texas Drug Task Forces Run Amok
  9. Seismic Shift in Sentencing Policies Underway: Declining Crime Rates, Budget Woes Cited
  10. Media Scan: Alan Bock, Arianna Huffington, Foreign Policy in Focus, ABC News on Hemp Foods
  11. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #222 2/1/02

  1. Editorial: On Freedom, Rights and Duties
  2. At the Statehouse I: Former Delaware Governor Heads Effort to End Mandatory Minimums, Stop Prison Expansion
  3. At the Statehouse II: Kentucky Legislator Offers Bill Allowing Police Access to Oxycontin Prescription Records
  4. At the Statehouse III: Marijuana Decrim Bill Dead in New Mexico, Other Drug Reform Measures Still Breathing
  5. At the Statehouse IV: Washington State Legislation Would Reduce Drug Penalties, Recognize Social Dealing
  6. Radical Party Putting Manchester Police in a Pickle over Pot Cafe, Cops Unappreciative
  7. Violent Dope Fiends a Myth: Another Study Finds Alcohol Most Linked to Violence
  8. Bolivia Crisis Sharpens as Parliament Expels Cocalero Leader Evo Morales and US Funded Anti-Drug Forces Kill Again
  9. Norwegian Commission Set to Call for Decriminalization of Drug Use, Possession
  10. Swiss Hemp Activist Freed After International Outcry
  11. White House Drug Office Pays $3.2 Million for Super Bowl Anti-Drug Ads Linking Drugs and Terrorism
  12. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  13. Baltimore Job Opportunity with Injection Drug Use Study
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #221 1/25/02

  1. Editorial: Different Ways to Lie
  2. New Afghan Government Reinstates Ban on Poppy Cultivation, Opium Dealers Cheer
  3. Budget Woes Possible Wedge for Drug Reform, Some States Already Cutting Sentences, Prisons
  4. Chills, Inc. Paraphernalia Bust Puts Big Chill on Industry, Pipe Makers Caught in Legal Netherworld
  5. From Bad to Worse in Bolivia: Peasants Kill Soldiers, Government Sets Sights on Cocalero Leader Evo Morales
  6. Two More European Voices Call for Reconsideration of Marijuana Laws
  7. Electronic Music Organization Creating Anti-Rave Law Database
  8. Commentary: State Department Offers More of the Same on Latin America Drug Policy
  9. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  10. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #220 1/18/02

  1. Editorial: Poisonous Fruits
  2. Canadian Hemp Company Files NAFTA Action Against US DEA
  3. HEA Drug Provision Repeal Moves Forward on Second Front
  4. Souder Zinged in Roll Call Piece, Accused of Ducking Debate With HEA Drug Provision Foes
  5. DRCNet Interview: Colorado Sheriff Bill Masters
  6. Andean Update: On Again Off Again Peace Talks in Colombia on Again, Bolivian Army Kills Two in Coca Market Raid
  7. California Senate Kills Ecstasy Bill, Assembly Bill Loses Mandatory Minimum Provision
  8. New Jersey Racial Profiling Case Reaches Conclusion, Police Officials, Politicians Left Untouched
  9. Jailed Swiss Cannabis Activist in Ninth Week of Hunger Strike
  10. Not So Fast on Reform Legislation in Brazil
  11. National Guard Drug War Budgets Cut This Year, Congressional Hawks Plead for More
  12. Job Listings: Bay Area Needle Exchange Research, DC Libertarian Party
  13. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #219 1/11/02

  1. Editorial: A Line in the Sand
  2. New California Bill Would Mandate 90-Day Minimum Jail Term for Being Under Ecstasy's Influence
  3. Agenda for 2002, and DRCNet Monthly Donor Program Update
  4. New Jersey Governor-Elect Calls for Needle Exchange, Cites Battle Against AIDS
  5. Colombia Peace Process Collapses While Second Presidential Candidate Decries Failed Drug Policies
  6. Supreme Court to Hear Public Transit Search Case, Bush Administration Invokes Terror War to Support Drug War Measure
  7. Brazil Joins Ranks of Drug Reform Nations, Users to Avoid Jail Under New Law
  8. Hemp Industry Takes DEA to Court Over Hemp Food Ban, Urges 9th Circuit to Throw Out DEA Interpretative Rule
  9. Gettman-High Times Marijuana Rescheduling Action Heads for Federal Court, Latest Turn in Glacially-Paced Legal Battle
  10. What Drug-Terror Link? Drug Money Not Mentioned as Feds End Investigation of September 11 Finances
  11. Montana Sets Drug Policy Task Force -- No Dopers Need Apply
  12. Internships at DRCNet
  13. Alerts: Ecstasy Bills, HEA Drug Provision, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #218 1/4/02

  1. Editorial: Worse Than Nothing
  2. Mississippi Policeman Killed in Late December Drug Raid, Law Enforcement Dissidents Call for Better Way
  3. Draconian New Ecstasy Law Now in Effect in Illinois
  4. Interview: Kenneth Curtis, the South Carolina Urine Felon
  5. Afghan Opium Production Set to Boom Again with Taliban Gone
  6. Shining Path Reemerges in Peru, Maoist Guerrillas Profit from Prohibition in the Andes
  7. London Police Extend Cannabis Decriminalization Experiment
  8. New Hampshire Supreme Court: If Schools Want to Act as Police, They Must Follow Constitutional Standards
  9. Media and Resources: New CSDP Drug Warrior Distortions Guide, Jefferson Fish in Newsday, Reason Magazine
  10. Job Opening: Santa Monica
  11. Internships at DRCNet
  12. Alerts: Bolivia, HEA Drug Provision, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #217 12/28/01

  1. Editorial: Doing Our Part for a Safer World
  2. DRCNet Plans for 2002/Year-End Donations Needed
  3. Health Canada Announces Legal Medical Marijuana Available January 1, But Actual Delivery Probably Months Away
  4. British Government Asks Parliament for Shift in Drug Policy
  5. Austin, Texas Drug Raid Tragedy Leads to Another
  6. New Mexico's Governor Johnson to Press Drug Reform Package During Special Session
  7. Treatment Not Jail Initiative Gets Underway in Michigan, Joins Efforts in Florida and Ohio
  8. Alerts: Bolivia, HEA Drug Provision, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  9. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #216 12/21/01

  1. Editorial: Taking Freedom in Vain
  2. Washington State Lawyers, Doctors, Pharmacists Issue Call to End Drug War
  3. Education Department Will Not Ease Student Aid Ban, Author Strongly Critical of Decision
  4. Supreme Court to Hear Sentencing Case, Mandatory Minimums Could Be At Risk
  5. Patients, Advocates Sue Feds for Right to Democratically Change District of Columbia Marijuana Laws
  6. Bush Uses Terror War to Push Drug War
  7. Italian Member of European Parliament Arrested in British Cannabis Cafe Case
  8. Ohio "Treatment Not Jail" Initiative Organizers Accuse Governor, Other State Officials of Improper Lobbying
  9. Texas Fights Ditchweed Menace Again
  10. Oregon Activist Couple Plot "POTaid" Benefit Concert for Drug Reform
  11. DRCNet Plans for 2002/Year-End Donations Needed
  12. Media Scan: Mother Jones, Witness for Peace
  13. Errata and Addendum
  14. Alerts: Bolivia, HEA Drug Provision, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #215 12/14/01

  1. Do You Read the Week Online?
  2. Top British Cops Call for Legal Heroin for Addicts, Liberal Democrats Join Growing Ecstasy Rescheduling Chorus
  3. Marijuana Arrests Fuel Increase in Teen Drug Treatment Numbers
  4. DEA Dog and Pony Show on Narcoterror Rallies Drug Warriors, Initiates New Propaganda Campaign
  5. Narco News Lawsuit Thrown Out: Precedent Extends Press Protections to the Internet
  6. Bolivian Cocaleros Call for Pause in Blockades
  7. Catholic Progressives Differ with Pope on Drug Prohibition
  8. Utah Town Makes Marijuana Possession Ten Dollar Fine, Draws Heat, Will Retreat
  9. DEA Okays First Medical Marijuana Trials in Nearly Two Decades
  10. Book Review: "Narcocorridos: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas"
  11. Media/Web Scan: Mother Jones, BigTenU.org, Essence, Reason, ColorLines, FPIF Report, FEAR Manual, Hutchinson-Johnson Debate
  12. Bay Area: Job Opportunity at Harm Reduction Coalition
  13. Alerts: Bolivia, HEA Drug Provision, Sembler Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #214 12/7/01

  1. Editorial: Sometimes People Learn, Sometimes They Don't
  2. Walters Confirmed as Drug Czar, Coalition Challenged But Couldn't Block Crusty Nominee
  3. Bolivia Coca Crisis Explodes, Government Forces Reportedly Assassinate Union Leader
  4. Hemp Taste-Test Demonstrations Target DEA Offices Across the Country, Protests Held in 76 Cities
  5. South Dakota Farmers Union Unanimously Endorses Industrial Hemp Initiative
  6. Drug War Peace Remains Elusive, Say Panelists at San Francisco Forum
  7. Who's the Medieval Barbarian? Taliban Marijuana Policy vs. US Marijuana Policy
  8. Catholic Church Calls on World Governments to Reject Drug Legalization, But Says Repression Cannot Be Sole Response
  9. Michigan Marijuana Petition Drive Falls Short Again as Organizers Vow Third Effort, Detroit Init Will Head to Polls
  10. Zogby Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose US Marijuana Policies
  11. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Sembler Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #213 11/30/01

  1. Editorial: Economic Realities
  2. Proposed New Medical Marijuana Initiative Would Create State-Controlled Medical Marijuana Distribution System
  3. Feds Lose "Crack House" Case Against Florida Rave Club Owners
  4. Rave Wars Come to Austin: Cops Threaten Club Owners, Promoters, Negotiations Under Way
  5. Western Australia Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession, Approves Heroin Trials, Rejects Safe Injecting Rooms
  6. The Good, the Bad and the Well-Deserved: Needle Exchange Updates on San Diego, Albuquerque and Chicago
  7. European Drug Monitoring Center Releases Annual Report: Concerns About Cocaine, Ecstasy, HIV/AIDS
  8. Lebanese Government Looks the Other Way as Farmers Harvest Hash Crop, Poppies Now Being Planted
  9. The Souder Files: This Week's Words of Wisdom
  10. Higher Education Act Reform Campaign Gains New Endorsements
  11. Media Scan: National Review on Medical Marijuana
  12. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, Sembler Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #212 11/23/01

  1. Washington, DC: Any Drug-Exposed Newborn Would Be Seized Under Proposed Local Legislation
  2. Tulia: 1999 Bust's Legacy Lingers in Legal Battles
  3. SSDP Plans National Day of Action on Hemp Food Ban
  4. Britain's First Cannabis Cafe Raided By Police, But Reopens to Business as Usual Amidst Calls for More Cafes
  5. Ohio University Students Win Delay of Vote on Marijuana Penalties
  6. Rep. Souder Explains Dutch Drug Policy: "They Don't Have a Moral Base"
  7. Mexican Official Denounces Legalization, Acting US Drug Czar Cheers
  8. Is Taliban Heroin Worse than Northern Alliance Heroin?
  9. Errata: Medical Marijuana Bill Cosponsors
  10. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #211 11/16/01

  1. Editorial: Federal Fanatics
  2. Medical Marijuana Proponents Prepare to Fight Back After Ashcroft Raids
  3. Talkin' About the New Generation: SSDP Goes to Washington
  4. Britain's Drug War Continues to Crumble
  5. Oregon Update: Federal Judge Blocks Ashcroft/DEA Effort to Overturn Assisted Suicide Law, At Least for Now
  6. Treatment Complex Aims to Use "Social Marketing" to Create Demand
  7. Bolivia: Security Forces Beat Human Rights Worker and Fire at Permanent Human Rights Assembly Building in Coca-Growing Region
  8. Abstracts Available From International Medical Marijuana Conference
  9. NYC Election Correction
  10. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #210 11/9/01

  1. Proposed Marijuana Penalty Increase at Ohio University Meets Stiff Student Opposition
  2. FDA Approves Study of Ecstasy as Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  3. School Drug Testing Headed for Supreme Court Again
  4. Walters Drug Czar Nomination Approved in Senate Committee Vote
  5. Ashcroft Sics DEA on Oregon Suicide Doctors
  6. Drug Reformers, Colombia, and the Anti-Terrorism Act
  7. Indonesia Marches Backward on Drug Policy
  8. Election Report: New York City Drug Reformers, Virginia Reams Reeferendum Buried by Anthrax and Terrorist Attacks
  9. Amnesty International Drug War Resolution Passes Northeast Regional Conference, Goes on to National Meeting
  10. Methadone and Cipro: Patients Needing Both Should Consult Physicians About Possible Drug Interaction
  11. Massive Military Presence and Abuses Continue in Bolivia's Chapare Region
  12. Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics Online
  13. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #209 11/2/01

  1. Editorial: Lessons Not Learned
  2. Medical Marijuana Armageddon: Feds Declare War on California Buyers Clubs
  3. Drug War Prisoner Given Solitary Confinement for Terror War Thought Crime
  4. British Police Ask for Ecstasy Penalties to be Reduced as Drug War Collapse Continues
  5. Colombia: Ambassador Patterson and Senator Graham Play the Terrorism Card
  6. Border Smuggling Resumes After Temporary Post-September 11th Lull
  7. New Jersey Amnesty International Chapter Puts US Drug Policy on International Human Rights Group's Agenda
  8. Arkansas Drug Reformers on the Move -- Poll Shows Support for Medical Marijuana
  9. Chapare, Bolivia: Increased Militarization Heightens Tensions in Coca-Growing Region
  10. Stop the Presses: Casual Drug Users Have, Keep Jobs, Study Finds
  11. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #208 10/26/01

  1. Students for Sensible Drug Policy Conference Drawing Hundreds to Washington, DC
  2. Tide Shifting: Senate Votes to Reduce Foreign Drug War Budget, Suspends Certification
  3. Interview: Charles Thomas, Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform
  4. Interview: Kendra Wright of Family Watch
  5. Reams "Reeferendum" Heads Into Home Stretch in Virginia
  6. Newsbrief: FBI Report Finds 1.6 Million Drug Arrests Made in 2000
  7. Newsbrief: Netherlands May Add Medical Marijuana to National Health Plan
  8. Walters Drug Czar Nomination Under Contention in Senate
  9. Britain Announces Plan to Abolish Marijuana Possession Arrests
  10. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #207 10/19/01

  1. HEA Campaign Update and SSDP Conference
  2. Drug Warriors Eye Colombia's FARC as Possible Target in War on Terror
  3. Colorado Poll Finds War on Drugs Ineffective, Voters See Drugs as Health, Not Police Problem
  4. San Diego Needle Exchange Program Inches Closer to Reality -- Close City Council Vote Looming
  5. Bolivia: Violence Continues, Mediation Commission Formed
  6. Another Court Rejects Cincinnati "Drug Zones" as Unconstitutional
  7. Newsbrief: Senate Committee Votes to Lift DC Needle Exchange Funding Ban
  8. Newsbrief: British Researchers Discover Kids Like to Party
  9. Drug Testing Should Focus on Chronic, Not Casual Drug Users, Study Says
  10. Newsbrief: Sales of Anti-Depressants Surge in New York and Washington
  11. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #206 10/12/01

  1. Editorial: I Feel Safer Already
  2. DEA Bans Consumption of Hemp Foods Effective Immediately
  3. In First, DEA Raids California Medical Marijuana Doctor, Feds Want to See Patient Records
  4. No Indictments in Missouri Jack-in-the-Box Killings -- Prosecutor Calls Victims "Bums"
  5. Tales of Bin Laden: New York Times Bites on Ill-Sourced Super Heroin Story Peddled by Unnamed Officials
  6. Dealing with Ecstasy: As Europe Embraces Harm Reduction, Acting Drug Czar Fumes Against It
  7. Jamaica: Prime Minister, Ruling Party Call for National Debate on Ganja Decrim
  8. Bolivia Negotiations Stall as Coca Growers Reject Government Proposal
  9. Activists Propose Take-Out Cannabis Cafe in Brixton, Authorities Mum
  10. Marijuana Legalization Initiative Filed in Alaska, Again
  11. Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, Drug Czar Nomination, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. Job Openings at MPP
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #205 10/5/01

  1. Editorial: What Is It About Opium?
  2. Politicians Exploiting Drug-Terror Link
  3. Interview: John C. Thompson, Mackenzie Institute, Toronto
  4. Drug War Budgets Unaffected by September Attacks
  5. Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek Tougher Ecstasy Penalties, Would Make Possession a Felony
  6. Supersnitch Scandal: Mistakes Were Made, Says DEA Chief Hutchinson -- But No One Made Them
  7. Violence in the Chapare, Bolivia -- Two Sustain Bullet Wounds
  8. Alert: Senate Judiciary Committee Voting on John Walters Nomination Wednesday
  9. Other Alerts: HEA, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  10. Salvia Divinorum Defense Fund Established
  11. Errata: Who's a Drug-Runnin' Terrorist?
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #204 9/28/01

  1. Battle Over Civil Liberties Heats Up as Congress Ponders Anti-Terrorism Act
  2. Help Save Politically Incorrect!
  3. 9th Circuit Under Scrutiny: Supreme Court to Review Public Housing Ruling, Prosecutors Force Circuit to Reconsider Sentencing Ruling
  4. Terror Crackdown on Border Puts Kibosh on Smuggling -- For Now
  5. Student Activism Spurs Appalachian State University Chancellor to Join HEA Drug Provision Repeal Cause
  6. Nevada Medical Marijuana Law Goes Into Effect Next Week, But Program Lacks Funds, Simple Possession Reduced to Misdemeanor
  7. While Reformers Brood, Politicos Make Drug-Terror Connection
  8. Bolivia Forced Eradication Provoking Civil Instability, Indiscriminate Violence by Government Security Forces
  9. Philly Anti-Poverty Group Does "Drug War Reality Tour," More Planned
  10. Hemp Industry Advocates Launch "TestPledge" Program
  11. Marijuana Prohibition Not Strong Deterrent, Study Says -- Personal Preference and Health Concerns Primary Reasons for Abstention
  12. From the Archives: Better Uses for Law Enforcement Personnel
  13. Action Alerts: John Walters, HEA, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. Job Opportunity: Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, DC
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #203 9/21/01

  1. Editorial: Fateful Decisions
  2. After the Attacks: Drug Reformers Confront a Brave New World
  3. Drug Prohibition and Political Violence: Making the Connections
  4. Broad Coalition Forms to Defend Rights, Liberties in Wake of Attacks
  5. Gov. Johnson Takes On DEA's Hutchinson in New Mexico Debate, Hutchinson Calls Student Loan Ban "Unfair"
  6. Michigan: Rainbow Farm Marijuana Activists Laid to Rest, Friends Not Resting
  7. British "Cannabis Cafe" Opens in Challenge to Marijuana Laws, is Raided Within Minutes
  8. Action Alerts: Ecstasy Bill, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  9. Job Opportunity: Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, DC
  10. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #202 9/7/01

  1. Editorial: How Soon We Forget
  2. Michigan Drug Warriors Drive Marijuana Activists to the Brink, Then Gun Them Down: Standoff Ends With Two Dead at Rainbow Farm
  3. Federal Prosecutors Running Scared in 9th Circuit, Ask Court to Reverse Buckland Finding on Mandatory Minimums and Post-Conviction Sentence Enhancements
  4. Annals of Prop 36: Orange County Court Extends Provisions to Paraphernalia Offenses, Alameda DAs Fight to Keep Drug Offenders in Jail Pending Conviction
  5. Veterans Group Passes Anti-Drug War Resolution
  6. Cannabis Cafes in London? Brixton Discusses Amsterdam-Style Coffee Houses
  7. Narco News Gains Congressional Ally in "Drug War on Trial" Lawsuit
  8. Colombian President Calls for Global Summit to Evaluate Anti-Drug Policies
  9. Newsbrief: Needle Exchange in Springfield and Atlanta
  10. Witness for Peace Delegation to Take on Drug War
  11. Net Scan: Alan Bock, Jamaica Commission
  12. T-shirts for Victory! Special Offer and Appeal from DRCNet This Month
  13. Action Alerts: Ecstasy Bill, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  14. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #201 8/31/01

  1. Editorial: The Big Bully
  2. Plan Colombia Sparks Legalization Groundswell as US Weighs Formal Intervention in Guerrilla War
  3. Justice Department Reports One in 32 Americans Under Correctional Supervision
  4. DRCNet Interview: Kenny "The Real" Kramer of Seinfeld Fame, Libertarian Candidate for Mayor of New York City
  5. Fight For Your Right to Wave Glow Sticks: ACLU Wins Victory in New Orleans Rave Case
  6. Germany Takes Next Step: Heroin Maintenance Trial to Start in February
  7. Poll Finds Support for Marijuana Legalization at Record Level, Though Still a Minority View
  8. US Drug Reformers Head to UN Racism Conference, Letter Asks Secretary General Annan to Put Drug War on Agenda
  9. UN Conventions Need Not Pose Obstacle to Drug Law Reform, European Study Says
  10. Canada's Conservative Fraser Institute Declares Drug War Lost
  11. T-shirts for Victory! Special Offer and Appeal from DRCNet This Month
  12. Action Alerts: Ecstasy Bill, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  13. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #200 8/24/01

  1. Editorial: Random Marijuana
  2. More Drug Prisoners Doing More Time in Federal Prison System, According to New Justice Department Report
  3. Colombian Legislators Introduce Legalization, Cultivation Bills, Ask UN to Evaluate Global Anti-Drug Strategies
  4. Jamaican Ganja Commission Calls for Decrim, Battle With US Brewing
  5. Pressure Builds for Safe Injection Rooms in Vancouver as Canadian Medical Association Journal Studies Add Fuel to Fire
  6. NIDA Ecstasy Conference Hears Harm Reduction Call
  7. Aging Behind Bars: New Report from The Sentencing Project Blasts California's Three-Strikes Law
  8. Hutchinson Takes DEA Mantle, Comments Elicit Confusion and Criticism
  9. Hempfest Draws 100,000 in Seattle, Hempstock Draws the Cops in Maine
  10. T-shirts for Victory! Special Offer and Appeal from DRCNet This Month
  11. Action Alerts: Ecstasy Bill, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  12. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #199 8/17/01

  1. Editorial: Let Justice Be Done
  2. US Global Lead in Imprisonment Still Safe: State Prison Populations Begin to Decline but Feds Make Up Difference
  3. Prison Industry Confab Gets Heated Reception in Philadelphia
  4. Mandatory Minimums Under Threat, Supreme Court Showdown Looming After 9th Circuit Rules Against Certain Drug Sentencing Laws
  5. Oregon Bar Ethics Brouhaha Continues: Feds Still Refusing to Authorize Undercover Operations, State Narcs Could Be Out There
  6. Department of Education Cites Pressure to Modify Restrictions on Financial Aid
  7. Australia: Top Cops Propose "Heroin Bank," Political Firestorm Ensues as Prime Minister Nixes Idea
  8. Chess Players Become Drug Tested Pawns in Game's Bid for Olympic Status, Players Not Amused
  9. Vermont Governor Leads Way in Restricting Oxycontin for the Poor
  10. Weitzel Prosecution Condemned by Leading Pain Specialist
  11. Marijuana Extracts for Pain Study to Begin in Canada
  12. DRCNet Book Review: Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
  13. T-shirts for Victory! Special Offer and Appeal from DRCNet This Month
  14. Action Alerts: Ecstasy Bill, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  15. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #198 8/10/01

  1. Editorial: Nostalgia for the '80s
  2. With National Drug Treatment Binge Looming, Survivors Conference in Suburban DC Targets Abusive Programs
  3. Court Ruling Brings New York City Needle Exchange Suit a Step Closer to Class Action Status
  4. Two Steps Backward, No Steps Forward in Illinois: No to Hemp, Yes to Draconian Ecstasy Penalties
  5. Canadian Health Minister Has "Open Mind" on Marijuana Legalization
  6. Reams "Reeferendum" Underway in Virginia, Libertarian Candidate Enters Lt. Governor Race to Push Marijuana Reform
  7. Hawaii Pays Hemp Advocates $75,000 in Persecution Settlement
  8. Reformer Profile: Ethan Nadelmann
  9. T-shirts for Victory! Special New Offer and Appeal from DRCNet This Month
  10. Media Scan: Major Dan Forbes/Salon.com Scoop, National Review, OC Register, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Economist
  11. Resources: Andean Regional Initiative, Salvia Divinorum, Australian National Crime Authority
  12. Action Alerts: Ecstasy Bill, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  13. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #197 8/3/01

  1. Editorial: A Week in the Drug War
  2. Pain Wars I: Utah Pain Doctor Gets Conviction Overturned, Still Facing Legal Hurdles and Career Ruin
  3. Pain Wars II: More Docs in the Dock
  4. Feds Raid Lakota Hemp Fields Again, Oglala Challenge US Right to Enforce Controlled Substances Act on Reservation
  5. Plan Colombia: Bogotá Court Bars Fumigation of Coca, but to No Avail, Colombian Governors and Legislators Call for Alternatives in Washington
  6. Plan Pataki: New York Governor Session Offers New Rockefeller Reform Bill in Bid to Salvage Session, Reformers Still Not Impressed
  7. Feds Regain Right to Use Narcs in Oregon Following Reversal of Little-Known Ethics Law, Constitutional Questions Remain
  8. Reverse Racial Profiling? New Orleans White Woman Says So on Appeal
  9. Alert: Anti-Ecstasy Bill Introduced in Senate
  10. Nixon in China or Wolf in McCaffrey's Clothing? Asa Hutchinson Confirmed as DEA Chief, Calls for "Compassion," Repeal of HEA Drug Provision
  11. Web Links: Peru Shootdown, Colombia, Charles Garrett, Medical Marijuana
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #196 7/27/01

  1. Plan Colombia I: Congress Approves Another $676 Million as Opposition Mounts on the Ground
  2. Plan Colombia II: Latin American Hard Left Targets Plan Colombia, El Salvador Conference Draws Hundreds from Throughout the Hemisphere
  3. Plan Colombia III: DRCNet Interviews Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Armed Forces of Ecuador, Retired
  4. Tulia "Never Again" Rally Draws Hundreds, Faith-Based Activists and Drug Reformers Mix and Match
  5. DanceSafe Benefit in St. Louis Raided By Police, Class Action Suit Pending
  6. Voices: Rolling Stone Magazine Interviews 35 Thinkers on US Drug Policy
  7. The Economist Makes "The Case for Legalising Drugs"
  8. Narco News "Drug War on Trial" Case Has First Hearing in New York City
  9. New Crime and Punishment Poll Shows Most Americans Don't Want to Throw Away the Key
  10. Urgent Action Alerts: Colombia, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  11. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  12. For Sale: Merchandise and Services to Benefit the Cause
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #195 7/20/01

  1. Editorial: Robert Downey's Business
  2. Prescription for Prosecution: Feds Go After Oxy Docs in Southwestern Virginia
  3. BC Marijuana Industry Approaching Critical Mass, DEA Not Happy
  4. Ditchweed Update: DEA Numbers
  5. Narco News First Amendment Trial Begins, Electronic Frontier Foundation Files Amicus Brief
  6. Media Scan: Columbia Journalism Review on Cincinnati, Arianna Huffington on Colombia
  7. For Sale: Merchandise and Services to Benefit the Cause
  8. HEA Campaign Gets Media: Student Victim Cases Still Needed
  9. Urgent Action Alerts: Colombia, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  10. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #194 7/13/01

  1. Editorial: The Tulia Lynchings
  2. Hard Feelings: Fatal Shootout in Marijuana Raid Reverberates in an Idaho County
  3. Tulia: Two Years On, a Town Would Like to Forget, but Reformers Refuse to Go Away
  4. HEA Campaign Still Seeking Student Victim Cases -- New York Metropolitan Area Especially Urgent
  5. British Cannabis Decrim Momentum Continues to Build at Frantic Pace
  6. Prospective DEA Head Tells Skeptical Students He Sees "Great Crusade," Claims Legalization Was Tried and Failed -- Mena Questions Refuse to Die
  7. Sentencing Follies: Iowa Man Gets 27 Years for Smoking Joint With 6-Year-Old Son, Eighth Circuit Says Life for $20 Worth of Cocaine is Too Much
  8. Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again -- Feds Spend $13 Million on Summer Jobs Program for Midwest Students, Bored Cops
  9. New Woody Harrelson Activism Site Focusing This Week on DEA's Attempt to Prohibit Hemp Products -- Live Chat Sunday
  10. Urgent Action Alerts: Colombia, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters
  11. Drug War on Trial Going to Trial Next Week
  12. Media Scan: MotherJones.com Prison Growth Report, Twisted Badge Racial Profiling Series, Chicago Tribune on Prohibition and the Drug War
  13. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #193 7/6/01

  1. Former British Ambassador to Colombia Defects From Drug War, Calls for Full Legalization
  2. Iran's War on Drugs Turns Increasingly Brutal, Europe Helps
  3. HEA Campaign Seeking Student Victim Cases
  4. Drug Possession No Longer a Crime in Portugal
  5. Health Canada Announces New Medical Marijuana Regulations in Effect as of July 30, Grumbling All Around
  6. British Marijuana Maelstrom Continues: Support for Decriminalization and Legalization Building at Rapid Pace
  7. Urgent Colombia Action Alert
  8. Columbus, Ohio Petitioners Turn in Signatures, De Facto Marijuana Decriminalization Likely to Appear on November Municipal Ballot
  9. DC Rally: 10,000 Gather to Demand Marijuana Legalization in the Nation's Capital, Police Crackdown Thwarted
  10. Government Funded Study Finds Marijuana Use Up Among Young Arrestees, Author Dares to Suggest This Might Be a Good Thing
  11. Other Action Alerts: HEA Drug Provision, John Walters Nomination, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. Resources: European Drug Policy Web Site, Journal of Cognitive Liberties
  13. Salon Scoop: ONDCP TV Script Financial Credit Program Terminated
  14. Minneapolis Job Opportunity: Harm Reduction/Syringe Exchange Program Seeking Executive Director
  15. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #192 6/29/01

  1. China Celebrates UN Anti-Drug Day With 59 Executions
  2. Editorial: The UN's Anti-Drug Day Must Stop
  3. Drug Trade is Giant of Mexican Economy, New Book Claims -- Meanwhile, as Pursuit of Cartels Intensifies, Authorities Nervously Wait for Other Shoe to Drop
  4. California: Drug War Enters New Phase With "Treatment Not Jail" to Begin July 1
  5. London Police "No Arrest" Plan for Marijuana Arouses the Political Class -- Medical Marijuana Dispensary Busted This Week After Being Publicly Announced Last Week
  6. New York Rockefeller Reform Effort in Doubt as Legislature Goes Into Overtime, Some Reformers Say Just as Well
  7. Oregon Pro-Pot Smoker Ad Starts Media Frenzy
  8. Feeding off the Public Trough: Drug Czar's Anti-Drug PR Campaign Snookered by Advertising Firm, GAO Says
  9. The Great Debate: Narco News Readers Respond to Ambassador's Anti-Legalization Speech
  10. Media Scan: Village Voice, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
  11. Baltimore and Washington, DC Job Opportunities in Syringe Exchange Field
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #191 6/22/01

  1. Editorial: Stop the Violence
  2. Oxycontin Panic Spreads: Pain Patients, Doctors See Legitimate Use Threatened
  3. As Plan Colombia Stalls, US War Hawks Call for Mo' Better War: Aerial Eradication at Virtual Halt, but Neo-Cold Warriors Want to Wage War on Guerrillas
  4. Louisiana Sentencing Reforms Await Governor's Signature: Many Mandatory Minimums Abolished, Drug Sentences Halved
  5. Newsbrief: With Garza Gone, Fed Prosecutors Prepare to Seek More Death Penalties in Texas Drug Case
  6. HEA Update: Congressional Cosponsors, Your Help Needed
  7. Return of the Repressed: Hash Production Revives in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Farmers Vow to Fight Eradication
  8. Creeping Cannabis Normalization in London: Scotland Yard to Stop Arrests in Lambeth, Medical Distributor Open in King's Cross, 30,000 Attend Cannabis Freedom Festival
  9. AMA Scientific Affairs Council Recommends Pro-Medical Marijuana Platform, Organization Declines for Now, Takes Smaller Steps Instead
  10. Newsbrief: Wisconsin Judges Push to Make Marijuana Possession a Citation, Not a Crime
  11. San Mateo County, California, Receives Legal Government Marijuana for Medical Research
  12. New Kunstler Fund Video Documents Tulia Atrocity
  13. Job Opportunity: Toronto, Canada
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #190 6/15/01

  1. Dedication: Peter McWilliams, One-Year Later
  2. Editorial: Death Penalties
  3. Supreme Court Nixes Warrantless Heat-Sensor Searches, Oregon Grow-Op Case Updates Fourth Amendment to Deal With New Technologies
  4. Interview: Arnold Trebach on Drug Treatment Abuse, Legalization and the Reform Movement
  5. US-Mexican Border Governors Agree to Look at Drugs as Health, Not Crime, Problem -- Legalization Talk Making US Embassy Nervous
  6. Follow That Story: Tennessee Cop Walks in Botched Drug Raid Killing
  7. New Zealand Parliamentary Cannabis Decrim Inquiry Underway: Medical Association Says Okay, Green MP Leads the Way
  8. The White Dog Goes to Amsterdam -- and You Can, Too
  9. BC Marijuana Party Fissure: Taylor Resigns, Cites Emery's Leadership Style, Plans for Compassion Club Offensive
  10. Connecticut Passes Sentencing Reforms, Taking Effect July 1st
  11. The HEA Campaign and You
  12. Clarence Aaron Clemency Petition
  13. Action Alerts: Drug Czar Nomination, HEA Drug Provision, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  14. Call for Submissions: Fortune News to Examine Crack Cocaine Issues
  15. Job Listings in Harm Reduction Practice and Research: Indiana, New York, California, Missouri, Washington State
  16. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #189 6/8/01

  1. Editorial: Our Role in the War Against the Drug War
  2. Colorado Medical Marijuana Law Now in Effect: Governor and Attorney General Urge Feds to Bust Patients, Feds Say No Thanks
  3. Nevada Lawmakers Pass Marijuana Defelonization Bill and Medical Marijuana Bill, Governor Expected to Sign
  4. In Memoriam: Robert Randall, Father of the Medical Marijuana Movement
  5. Conference Report: As Drug Reform Edges Closer to Mainstream (or Vice Versa), Fractures Emerge Over Politics of Treatment
  6. Drug Reform Initiatives Keep Moving: "Treatment Not Jail" Campaign Planned for Florida, Michigan, Ohio
  7. Gov. Johnson to Raise Legalization Issue in Mexico Meeting
  8. Jamaica Ganja Commission Heading for Home Stretch: Decrim Has Wide Support, Chairman Says
  9. Hemp Embargo Stalled, Advocates Continue Legal Battle
  10. Action Alerts: Drug Czar Nomination, HEA Drug Provision, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #188 6/1/01

  1. Editorial: Close Encounters
  2. Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools Under Attack -- New Report Finds No Evidence It Works, Plenty Showing Ill Effects and Racial Bias
  3. Czech Experiment With Repressive Drug Laws Under Fire, Reformers Aim Parliamentary Challenge at "Severa's Amendment"
  4. New York Marijuana Reform Party Gears Up for City, State Races, Attacks NYC Police Tactics
  5. French Ravers March Against Proposed Law, Street Fighting Breaks Out in Toulouse
  6. Mexican Congressman Calls for Legalization, Latin America to Unite Against "US-Imposed Drug Policy"
  7. Action Alerts: Waters Bill, Drug Czar Nomination, HEA, Medical Marijuana
  8. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #187 5/25/01

  1. Editorial: Reform Isn't Good Enough This Time
  2. Higher Education Organizations Ask Incoming DEA Chief Hutchinson to Review, Reject Higher Education Act Anti-Drug Provision
  3. Bill Introduced by Congresswoman Maxine Waters Would Eliminate Mandatory Minimums in Federal Drug Sentencing, Vaporize Crack-Cocaine Disparity
  4. Missouri Governor Signs Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill, Legislature Urges Heightened Ecstasy Penalties
  5. Oxycontin the New Drug Plague? Don't Believe the Hype
  6. Study Finds Drug Education Programs Ineffective, Plagued By Politics, Author Suggests Involving Educators
  7. Syringe Exchange Programs Grow in Scope, Effectiveness, Centers for Disease Control Find
  8. UN Drug Agency Casts Evil Eye on Australian Safe Injection Room Again
  9. British Columbia Marijuana Party Polls 3.5% in Provincial Elections, May Morph Into Multi-Issue "Freedom Party"
  10. Drug Policies for the New Millenium: TLC-DPF Conference to Convene in Albuquerque Next Week
  11. Action Alerts: Drug Czar Nomination, HEA Drug Provision, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
  12. Do You Read the Week Online?
  13. Media Scan: TomPaine.com, New Republic, World Net Daily
  14. The Reformer's Calendar
  15. Job Opportunity: NYC Harm Reduction

Issue #186 5/18/01

  1. Editorial: Supreme Fictions
  2. Supreme Court to Medical Marijuana Movement: Drop Dead -- Movement to Feds: Get Real
  3. Study Finds Seattle Drug Arrests Target Blacks, Suggests Decrim Dialogue, Police Chief Suggests Arresting More Whites
  4. In US First, South Carolina Court Finds Drug-Using Woman Guilty of Murder in Death of Fetus
  5. Colombian Coca and Poppy Production Up Last Year Despite Heightened Drug War, Market Crash Ahead?
  6. Thugs Kill New York City Marijuana Retailer, Two Others, Police Blame Marijuana
  7. DEA's Caribbean Office Lied About Arrests, GAO to Investigate
  8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back in Indiana Sentencing
  9. Canadian Medical Association Journal Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization
  10. Media and Resources: Arianna Huffington, Village Voice, Salon.com, MotherJones.com, U. Miami Law Review, CDC
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #185 5/11/01

  1. Editorial: People of All Shapes and Sizes
  2. With DEA Administrator Nomination, Bush Puts a Hardline Drug Policy Troika in Place
  3. DEA Internal Report on Supersnitch: Agency Finds Itself Not Guilty
  4. US Slapped Down at UN, Removed from Human Rights, Drug Panels, Congress Threatens to Take Ball and Go Home
  5. Louisiana Legislators Act to Reduce Drug Sentences as Prisons Bulge, Alabama Prison Crisis Going Un-addressed This Year
  6. Australia: First Injection Room Opens in Sydney as West Australia Eyes Similar Plan
  7. Canada's Top Drug Cop Calls for Look at Injection Rooms
  8. SSDP Making Waves: Madison, Hampshire, Amherst SSDPer Stages Mock Coffee Prohibition, Other Events
  9. Smoke-Ins, Hempfests and Mass Protests: Movement Makers or Risky Distractions?
  10. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #184 5/4/01

  1. Editorial: The President's Daughter
  2. HEA Coverage
  3. Meet the New Czar, Worse Than the Old Czar
  4. Consent Searches to Become Extinct? New Jersey and California Move to End Highway Searches Without Probable Cause
  5. Bolivia Update: Coca Growers, Civil Society Bring Government to Table, Agreement Provides Breathing Room but Vast Differences Remain
  6. Dutch to Introduce Drive-Through Coffee Shops, Take on UN Drug Control Program and Live With Ecstasy
  7. Doctors Split on Prescribing Medical Marijuana, Survey Says
  8. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #183 4/27/01

  1. Editorial: Drug War Fanaticism
  2. Against John Walters: DRCNet Opposes Bush Drug Czar Nomination
  3. Coca Wars I: Over the Peruvian Amazon, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  4. Coca Wars II: Coca Growers Fight Through Tear Gas, Beatings, Detentions to Reach Capital City, Bolivian Government Shudders Anew as Blockades Set to Go Up Again
  5. Coca Wars III: At Summit of Americas, US Aid Buys Support for Plan Colombia, Paramilitaries Rampage Back Home
  6. HEA in the Press
  7. Racial Disparities in Drug Law Enforcement in Chicago: 99% of Teenage Drug Offenders Prosecuted as Adults Are Non-White
  8. Will Foster Freed From Jail, Had 93 Years for Medical Marijuana
  9. No Time to Rest: Drug Reform Conferences Advancing the Cause Nationwide
  10. ACLU: Supreme Court Ruling Expands Police Powers
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #182 4/20/01

  1. Editorial: Going Out of Business Day
  2. Bush Budgets $4.66 Billion for Federal Prisons as Federal Prisoner Count Passes 150,000
  3. Prisoner-on-Prisoner Rape: Human Rights Watch Report Accuses Authorities of "Deliberate Indifference" to Prison Rape Epidemic
  4. DRCNet Interview: Tom Cahill, President of Stop Prisoner Rape
  5. Thailand: Public Executions of Drug Traffickers Begin, US Troops to Train Thais, Regional Tensions Mount
  6. Boxer to Introduce Bill to Double Federal Drug Treatment Funding
  7. Oregon Police Pull Out the Stops to Save Asset Forfeiture Gravy Train
  8. New "Change the Climate" Ad Campaigns Launched
  9. Media Scan: Dan Forbes and Salon.com on the New Drug Czar, MotherJones.com on HEA, Seventeen Magazine, Larry King
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Job Listing: The Chai Project, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Issue #181 4/13/01

  1. Editorial: Connecting the Dots, Filling in the Background
  2. DEA Settles Case to Keep "Supersnitch" Cover-Up Alive, DRCNet Files Freedom of Information Act Request for Suppressed DEA Report
  3. Cancer Professionals Release New Pain Treatment Guidelines as NIDA Warns of Prescription Drug Addiction Danger, Patients Caught in Crossfire
  4. Canada: Government Eases Medical Marijuana Rules
  5. Bush's First Drug Budget: More of the Same
  6. Higher Education Act Campaign Continues to Pick Up New Schools, Student Movement Grows
  7. DRCNet Reaches 20,000 Subscriber Mark, Advice Sought on Possible Week Online Name Change
  8. Movie Review: Does "Blow" Blow? The Banality of Dealing
  9. Involuntary Commitment Bill Targeting Drunks and Junkies Clears Washington Legislature, Awaits Governor's Signature, "Gravely Disabled" Could Be Committed
  10. Utah: Prison Crunch Has Sentencing Commission Considering Alternative Sentences for Drug Offenders
  11. Australia: Kings Cross Injecting Room Passes Legal Hurdle, Opening Soon, Cannabis Cafes to Follow?
  12. Norway: Proposed New Regulations Will Restrict Access to Methadone and Other Opiate Maintenance Programs
  13. Media Scan: Rolling Stone, MotherJones.com, Boston Phoenix, FeedMag.com
  14. The Reformer's Calendar

Issue #180 4/6/01

  1. Editorial: Racial Profiling Scandals First of Many to Come
  2. HEA Drug Provision Begins to Bite: Over 30,000 Potentially Losing Aid Already, Many More to Follow, Students Fighting Back
  3. Attorney General Admits Racial Profiling Still Occurring as Predecessor Twists in the Wind
  4. Northern Arizona Racial Profiling Case Heats Up, State Destroys Evidence
  5. Newsbrief: Annual Incarceration Numbers Released, Total Starting to Level Off, Feds Continue Blistering Pace
  6. British Columbia Marijuana Party in Bid for Electoral Respectability, Aims for Second Place Finishes in Selected Districts
  7. Rep. Frank Reintroduces Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana
  8. Annals of Prop. 215: Humboldt Sheriff Faces Contempt of Court for Refusing to Return Patient's Marijuana, Vows to Stand Firm
  9. Colombian Canada Ambassador Launches Preemptive Anti-Legalization Strike as Summit of the Americas Looms
  10. Drug War on Trial: Narco News Court Date and One-Year Anniversary on Successive Days This Month
  11. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #179 3/30/01

  1. Editorial: Medical Marijuana Patients Shouldn't Have to Go to the Supreme Court
  2. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Oakland Cannabis Buyers Co-op Case, State Medical Marijuana Laws Will Stand Regardless
  3. Interview: Alan Bock on Medical Marijuana in California
  4. Eyes on the Prize: European Drug Reformers Call for Legalization, Target Global Prohibition Regime -- Brussels Confab Focuses on UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
  5. Mexico: Chihuahua Governor Adds Voice to Legalization Chorus, Extends Rhetorical Hand Across Border to Gov. Johnson
  6. In California, the Medical Marijuana Struggle Grinds On
  7. DEA Denies Marijuana Rescheduling Petition -- Petitioners Promise Appeal, Question Timing
  8. Kampia vs. the Inquisition: House Republicans Rake Reformer Over the Coals
  9. High School Drug Tests Barred Again, This Time in Oklahoma -- Divided US Circuit Court Decisions Herald Eventual Supreme Court Resolution
  10. OpenTheCan.org: November Coalition Label Campaign
  11. Kentucky Governor Signs Industrial Hemp Bill
  12. Hemp and Medical Marijuana Initiatives Gear-Up in South Dakota, State Legislature is "Hopeless"
  13. Calling All Spanish Speakers: Volunteers Needed to Proof "DRCNet en Español"
  14. Harm Reduction Coalition's Latest "Communication" Now Available, Newsletter Provides Insights, Questions
  15. The Reformer's Calendar
  16. Errata

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Issue #178 3/23/01

  1. Mexico's President Fox Talks Legalization, Becomes Second Western Hemisphere Head of State to Break With Drug War Consensus
  2. Sentencing Commission Sets Harsh New Ecstasy Penalties, Panel Ignores Scientific, Medical Testimony, Heeds Only Drug Warriors
  3. Supreme Court Bars Drug-Testing of Expectant Mothers in South Carolina Case
  4. See No Evil: New Jersey State Officials Sat on Racial Profiling Data for Years, Testimony at Hearings Contradicts Earlier Accounts, Points Finger at Verniero
  5. New Mexico Post Mortem: Modest Reforms Enacted as Legislative Session Closes, Major Components of Johnson Package Await Another Time
  6. DRCNet Interview: Dave Miller, Legislative Liaison for New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson
  7. Puerto Rico Update: Drug Czar Office Created, Collazo Bows Out, McCaffrey Signs on as Advisor
  8. Australian Prime Ministers Ousts Reformers From Drug Panel, Shows "Zero Tolerance" for Contrary Opinions
  9. Alert: Drop the Rock (New York State)
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Errata: Switzerland
  12. Editorial: The Next Wave of the Drug Debate

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Issue #177 3/16/01

  1. Dedication: Patrick Dorismond
  2. Students Helping Students, HEA Update
  3. Colombian Governors Come to Washington to Denounce Plan Colombia, DRCNet Interviews Tolima Governor Jaramillo
  4. US District Court Overturns Mandatory Drug Tests in Texas School, Lockney Policy Was Nation's Broadest
  5. Drug Reform Battle Heats Up in New York: Pataki Package Would Increase Marijuana Penalties, Democrats Offer Alternative Bills, Activists Don't Like Either Version
  6. New Mexico Update: Ups and Downs for Johnson's Reform Package, State GOP in an Uproar
  7. In Another Step on Path to Cannabis Decrim, Swiss Government Submits Proposed Law to Parliament
  8. Hemispheric Parliamentarians Reject Debate on Drug Legalization
  9. Uruguayan Leader Takes Legalization Views Online, Recommends "Traffic"
  10. Narco News: Mexican Federal Police Chief Calls for Legalization, Bush Adds Another Half Billion to Colombia Fire
  11. San Francisco Conference Looks at Women and the Drug War
  12. Job Listing: Access Works! in Minneapolis
  13. The Reformer's Calendar
  14. Editorial: The Rule of Law

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Issue #176 3/9/01

  1. Interview with Steve Kubby
  2. Puerto Rico: Battle Over Island Drug Czar Exposes Fault Lines on Drug Policy
  3. Follow That Story: Harried Thai Government Plans National Summit on Meth Use, Policy Prescriptions Go In All Directions
  4. Conference on the Drug War and People with Disabilities Convenes in Arkansas
  5. European Study of Teen Drug Use Suggests Impact of Drug Policy is: (A) Paradoxical (B) Irrelevant
  6. Marijuana in the Statehouse: Good News and Bad News for Medical Marijuana and Decrim as Legislatures Go To Work
  7. Marijuana Legalization Initiative Rises Again in Michigan, Personal Responsibility Amendment Petition Drive to Kick-Off at Ann Arbor Hash Bash
  8. Job Listings: New York, DC, Michigan
  9. The Reformer's Calendar
  10. Editorial: Thinking About Drug Policy

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Issue #175 3/2/01

  1. Financial Aid Administrators Join Students to Support Higher Education Act Reform Efforts as Rep. Frank Introduces Repeal Measure
  2. Drug Czar Demoted? Post Still Vacant Amid Hints It Will Lose Cabinet Rank
  3. Thailand: As US Military Moves to Assist in Campaign Against Burmese Drug Exports, Signs of Fatigue Appear
  4. "Monitoring the Future" Head Researcher Speaks Out on Drug Trends, Drug War, Drug Policy
  5. High in the NBA
  6. DRCNet en Español
  7. Reformers On TV
  8. Reformers on the Radio
  9. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #174 2/23/01

  1. New Report Rakes Clinton on Imprisonment
  2. The Coca-Go-Round: Peruvian Production Starts to Increase as Spraying Destroys Colombian Fields
  3. Washington State Hardliners Pitch Kindler, Gentler Drug War in Bid to Preempt Deeper Reforms
  4. New Mexico: Update on Gov. Johnson's Drug Reform Package
  5. Feds vs. Bongs: Heads Up for Head Shops
  6. Newsbrief: American Pilots in Firefight With Colombian Rebels
  7. Marijuana Has Less Adverse Effect on Driving Than Alcohol, Tiredness, UK Study Says
  8. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative Legal Briefs Online
  9. An Invitation to Help Repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws
  10. Erratum: Three Strikes Clarification
  11. The Reformer's Calendar
  12. Editorial: The Peace Process

Issue #173 2/16/01

  1. Incarceration Fever About to Break? Prison Populations Leveling Off in Some Big States
  2. California's "Three Strikes" Law Continues to Snare Mainly Drug and Nonviolent Offenders
  3. John Ashcroft's Drug War
  4. Oklahoma Meth Mess
  5. One Third of Indigenous Prisoners in Mexico Imprisoned on Drug Charges
  6. New StopTheWar.com Site Uses "Traffic" Movie to Raise Awareness, Free Daily DVD or Video Give-Away for Participants
  7. Book Review: The Politics of Medical Marijuana
  8. Errata: Ecstasy Conference, Calendar
  9. The Reformer's Calendar
  10. Editorial: A Postcard from Mexico

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Issue #172 2/9/01

  1. New York: District Attorneys Mount Opposition to Rockefeller Reforms
  2. New Jersey to Pay Out $12.9 Million to Victims in Racial Profiling Shooting, Attorney General Dismisses More Drug Cases
  3. San Francisco Ecstasy Conference Generates Heat but Also Light
  4. DEA Posts Funny Numbers in its "Operation Libertador" Bust
  5. NarcoNews on Key Moves in Venezuela, Legal Fundraising Appeal
  6. Britain: Medical Marijuana Research Gets Underway, Legislation Stalled in Parliament
  7. Study Deals New Blow to Gateway Theory
  8. Miscellania
  9. The Reformer's Calendar
  10. Editorial: Go Back to Law School

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Issue #171 2/2/01

  1. Drug Arrests on New Jersey Highways in Freefall in Wake of Racial Profiling Scandal
  2. Sen. Dodd Introduces Bill to Suspend Certification Process, Supports Move Toward Multilateral Drug War Evaluation Mechanism
  3. Interview: Sanho Tree on Colombia
  4. And the Meaning of "Traffic" Is...?
  5. Drug Testing Declines Among Private Employers, but Testing Industry is Ready to Fight
  6. Drug Bills in the Virginia Legislature: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  7. Decriminalization and Medical Marijuana Bills Introduced in New Mexico Legislature
  8. Newsbrief: US 9th Circuit Court Tosses Out HUD "One Strike and You're Out" Eviction Policy
  9. Newsbrief: MS Sufferer Guilty in DC Medical Marijuana Case
  10. The Reformer's Calendar: Portland, Philadelphia, New York, DC, SF, Minneapolis, St. Petersburg, Fort Bragg, Miami, Amsterdam, New Delhi
  11. Editorial: Moving Forward with Open Eyes

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Issue #170 1/26/01

  1. Strange Days in the Land of Enchantment: Drug Reform Groups Play Key Role as Battle Over Gov. Johnson's Package Heats Up
  2. Pataki Fleshes Out Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Package
  3. Clinton Commutes a Few More Drug Sentences at Last Minute
  4. Columbia: New Administration in Washington, Same Old Game?
  5. Chapare, Bolivia Community Charges Torture and Human Rights Violations by US-funded Anti-Drug Force
  6. New RAND Study Finds Federal Agencies Overstate Drug Treatment and Prevention Spending
  7. Belgium Decriminalizes Marijuana for Personal Use, Users Must Grow Their Own or Buy it in the Netherlands, Says Government
  8. New Zealand Parliament Again Reviewing Cannabis Laws
  9. Bush on Drugs: The New President Speaks Up to CNN
  10. Calling All Activists: Ashcroft, Hemp
  11. The Reformer's Calendar: LA, Philly, Portland, New York, DC, SF, Minneapolis, St. Petersburg, Fort Bragg, Miami, Amsterdam, New Delhi

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Issue #169 1/19/01

  1. Cops and Robbers: Exposés Find Ashcroft Encouraged Constitutional Violations in Missouri Asset Forfeiture Cases, Police Agencies Kept Funds Intended for Schools
  2. AIDS Activists Storm Ashcroft Hearing, Denounce Needle Exchange Record
  3. And the New Drug Czar is...?
  4. Implementing the Initiatives: Nevada Medical Marijuana Fight Moves to Legislature as AMR Eyes Bigger Targets
  5. As Anti-Ecstasy Offensive Intensifies, US Attorney in New Orleans Indicts Rave Promoters
  6. Follow That Story: Modesto Police Fail to Find Reason for Shooting 11-Year-Old in Drug Raid, More Investigations Pending
  7. Massachusetts: Local Victories on Marijuana "Questions" in November Start to Have an Impact on Beacon Hill
  8. Calling All Activists: Ashcroft, Hemp
  9. The Reformer's Calendar: LA, Philly, Portland, New York, DC, SF, Minneapolis, St. Petersburg, Fort Bragg, Miami, Amsterdam, New Delhi
  10. Editorial: A Message to the Incoming President

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Issue #168 1/12/01

  1. New Mexico Governor Proposes Sweeping Drug Reform Package, Tough Battle Awaits in Legislature
  2. 2001 National Drug Control Strategy: It Isn't Working, Can I Have Some More, Please?
  3. Pain Wars: New Pain Management Standards Go Into Effect, But Will They Protect Doctors from the Drug Warriors?
  4. Needle Exchange Program Rebuilding from Arson Attack, No Suspects Yet, Help Needed
  5. Farm States Signal Renewed Interest in Industrial Hemp
  6. Canadian Medical Marijuana in Cameroon? Strange Report from the British Broadcasting Corporation
  7. Media Scan: Arianna Huffington, Judy Mann, USA Today and Another Dan Forbes Scoop
  8. Calling All Activists I: Leaflet Outside Traffic Showings
  9. Calling All Activists II: Gullible Meth Lab Article in Sierra Magazine
  10. Calling All Activists III: Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp
  11. Washington, DC Job Opportunity
  12. The Reformer's Calendar: LA, Philly, Portland, New York, DC, SF, Minneapolis, St. Petersburg, Fort Bragg, Miami, Amsterdam, New Delhi
  13. Editorial: Flawed Love

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Issue #167 1/5/01

  1. New York Governor Pledges to "Dramatically Reform" Rockefeller Drug Laws, Skeptical Activists Await Specific Proposals
  2. Still Giuliani Time: NYC Marijuana Arrests Go Through Roof While Coke-Snorting Yuppies Catch a Break
  3. Hawaii Medical Marijuana: Open for Business
  4. McCaffrey's Swan Song: ONDCP Releases 2001 National Drug Control Strategy Report
  5. Banned in Boston, DC Says Okay: Marijuana Reform Ads Ride the Metro
  6. Bluegrass Festival Threatens Suit Over Drug Checkpoint
  7. Federal Court Drug-Testing Device Under Fire, PharmChem Sweat Patch May Be "Too Good"
  8. Blue Ribbon New Mexico Advisory Group Issues Recommendations for Drug Policy Reform
  9. Urgent Action: Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Editorial: Talk is Cheap

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Issue #166 12/29/00

  1. Clinton Frees Kemba Smith and Dorothy Gaines, More Pardons Possible as 450,000 Non-Violent Drug Offenders Remain Behind Bars
  2. Interview with Dorothy Gaines
  3. Ashcroft Nomination for Attorney General Bodes Ill for Drug Policy Reform
  4. Uruguayan President Becomes First Head of State to Call for Legalization of Drugs, Story Ignored by US Press
  5. FCC Chastises Networks for Drug Czar's Media Campaign, NORML Complaint Brings Victory
  6. Kubby Trial Ends in Mistrial, Eleven Jurors Accept Prop. 215 Defense
  7. Which State Has More People -- Your State or the Prison State?
  8. Urgent Action: Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp
  9. NYC and Budapest Job Opportunities
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Editorial: Awakening from Kemba's Nightmare

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Issue #165 12/22/00

  1. When is Salad Dressing a Drug? DEA Proposes Restrictive Interim Rule Barring Hemp Foods, Industry & Proponents Gear Up
  2. Mexican Banker Tied to Drug Dealing (and Presidents) Sues Narco News, Mexican Paper
  3. The Needle I: In New York State, Over-the-Counter Syringe Sales Begin January 1st
  4. The Needle II: Federal Lawsuits in New York City and Connecticut Challenge Police Harassment of Needle Exchange Programs
  5. The Needle III: In California, Ventura County Wants Needle Exchange, San Diego Throws Up a Roadblock
  6. DOT Issues New Drug Testing Rules, 8.5 Million Workers Get a Little More Protection
  7. At the Movies: The Buzz on "Traffic"
  8. Newsbriefs: Florida Grand Jury Recommends More of the Same Drug War Policies, Polk County Commissioners Race to be Tested
  9. The Insider: Grant Info, Call for Articles, Job Listings
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Editorial: Is This News?

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Issue #164 12/15/00

  1. New Jersey Racial Profiling Documents Go Online: Historic Opportunity for Activists, Researchers, Public
  2. On Campuses, Student Drug Reform Movement Gathers Steam, Federal Financial Aid Anti-Drug Law a Rallying Point
  3. Latin America Experts Urge Next President to "Reassess" Drug Policy
  4. OAS Body Meets to Evaluate Hemispheric Nations' Drug Policies, Could Provide Model to Replace US "Certification"
  5. Rocky vs. Barry: Salt Lake City Mayor Takes on the Drug Czar
  6. Follow That Story: British Columbia Premier Backs Vancouver Agreement, Heroin Maintenance
  7. Follow That Story: Oregon Asset Forfeitures on Hold for Now, Cops, Prosecutors Worried About New Law's Impact
  8. Newsbrief: Under Budget Pressure, Washington State Officials Consider Shorter Sentences For Drug Offenders
  9. Alberta Judge Rules Parliament Must Create Medical Marijuana Source or Cultivation Will Be Legal in the Province
  10. Media Scan: Daily News on Amnesty for Drug Offenders
  11. Job Opportunity: US Drug Czar
  12. The Reformer's Calendar
  13. Editorial: Unattainable Standards

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Issue #163 12/8/00

  1. Now He Has Something To Say? Clinton Supports Marijuana Decrim, Sentencing Reform in Rolling Stone Interview
  2. More New Jersey Racial Profiling Fallout, Appeals Court Says Convicted Drug Offenders Can Appeal Based on Practice
  3. In the Wake of the Initiatives: Asset Forfeiture Reform Comes to Oregon and Utah
  4. Doors Manager/Best-Selling Author Danny Sugerman Comments on Addiction, Hollywood and Drug Policy
  5. Missouri Sheriff Overrules Supreme Court on Roadblocks
  6. Canadian Marijuana Party Gets Some Votes, More Attention
  7. Newsbrief: Nevada Panel Recommends Marijuana Misdemeanors -- Again
  8. Governor Johnson Makes Drug Policy Reform Pitch in Playboy Interview
  9. Colombia: Mr. Wellstone Goes to Barrancabermeja
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Editorial: Should We Laugh, or Cry?

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Issue #162 12/1/00

  1. Supreme Court to Rule on Oakland Medical Marijuana Case, Medical Necessity Defense Against Federal Prosecution at Issue
  2. New Jersey Releases Huge Cache of Racial Profiling Documents: Lots of Finger-Pointing, But Plenty of Blame to Go Around
  3. Supreme Court Bans Random Drug Roadblocks
  4. Implementing Proposition 36, California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act
  5. Vancouver Mayor Unveils "Four Pillar" Drug Strategy: Impatient Activists Announce Safe Injection Project
  6. Mexico: New Regime, New Attitude Toward Drug War?
  7. Pharmaceutical Firms Fund Drug Court Lobbying Group
  8. Newsbrief: Let's Get On the Hemp-Go-Round
  9. Media Scan
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Editorial: On the Nation's Highways

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Issue #161 11/24/00

  1. Business As Usual on the Border: More Cops, More Drugs Seized, No Impact on the Street
  2. Follow That Story: Discredited "Supersnitch" Rises From the Ashes to Testify Again
  3. Follow That Story: Asset Forfeiture Reform a Big Hit at Southern Legislative Conference
  4. Andean Update: Peru's Fujimori and Coca Eradication Gone, Colombia's Peace Talks on Hold as Country Braces for Drug War
  5. US Anti-Drug Aid Endangering Indigenous Communities and Amazon Biodiversity, Experts Charge
  6. Newsbrief: New Polish Drug Bill Ends Experiment, Outlaws Possession for Personal Use
  7. Newsbrief: Sweden Survives MTV Festival
  8. Newsbrief: Clinton Allies Call for Commutation of Drug Kingpin Death Penalty, Moratorium on Federal Executions
  9. Coalition for Jubilee Clemency
  10. Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: Sentencing Project Releases Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers
  11. The Reformer's Calendar
  12. A Thanksgiving Note to Our Readers

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Issue #160 11/17/00

  1. Interview: Federal Judge Denounces Drug War
  2. New Jersey: Racial Profiling Documents to Be Released
  3. Catholic Bishops Call for Broad Criminal Justice Reforms
  4. Southern Legislators to Look at Asset Forfeiture Reform
  5. Britain: Labour on Drugs, Wobbly and Confused
  6. Sweden: Small Cracks Emerge in Drug War Consensus in Europe's Bastion of Reaction
  7. Newsbrief: California Governor Finally Appoints Drug Czar in Wake of Proposition 36
  8. Needle Exchange and AIDS: Health Emergency 2001 Report, Infectious Disease Society Endorsement, Global Epidemic
  9. Criminal Defense Lawyers Demand End to Drug War
  10. The Reformer's Calendar
  11. Editorial: A Message to the President-Elect

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Issue #159 11/10/00

  1. No Bark, Strong Bite: The Drug War and Elections 2000
  2. Follow That Story: "Riders" Take a Fall in Oakland Police Scandal
  3. Follow That Story: Police Shooter Indicted in Tennessee "Wrong Address" Killing
  4. US Commission on Civil Rights Report to Urge Crackdown on Police Abuses
  5. Drug Czar's Public Affairs Director Thrown Off Microphone At Campus Politically Correct Appearance
  6. Follow That Story: Tattered Cover Bookstore Will Appeal Court Order to Open Records in Drug Investigation
  7. Newsbriefs: Federal Judges in San Diego Swamped by Drug War, Immigrant Arrests
  8. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #158 11/3/00

  1. Initiative Endorsements: YES on 3, 5, 8, 9, 20, 36, B, G
  2. Drug Policy in the 2000 Elections: The Dog That Didn't Bark and Races of Note
  3. Reformers' Dilemma: Frick, Frack, or a Prophet from the Wilderness?
  4. Cannabis, Free Speech Issues Converge in Florida, Massachusetts
  5. Follow That Story: Justice Department to Investigate Tulia, Civil Rights Complaint Filed
  6. Hawaii Inches Forward on Medical Marijuana, Rejects DEA Eradication Funds
  7. Municipal Drug Testing On the Way Out in Washington State
  8. Maryland/DC Reports Illustrate Failure and Harm of Drug Prohibition
  9. The Reformer's Calendar
  10. Editorial: Different Ideals, Same Conclusions

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Issue #157 10/27/00

  1. War on Drugs: Coming to a Bookstore Near You
  2. One Down, Who's Next? AP Bolivia Correspondent Resigns Following NarcoNews.com Exposé
  3. In Britain, Seismic Shift Toward Cannabis Decrim Shakes Blair's Anti-Reform Policies
  4. Drug War Oakland-Style: Rogue Cops Nailed, Car Seizures Okayed
  5. Richmond, Virginia Police Chief Calls for New Drug Policies
  6. Student HEA Reform Campaign Garners First Endorsements of Semester
  7. New Proposition 36 Television Ad Now Viewable Online
  8. Report Deems Oregon Medical Marijuana Patient Directory Successful
  9. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #156 10/20/00

  1. Drug Czar Resigns, McCaffrey to Step Down January 6th
  2. Slouching Toward Putumayo: Plan Colombia Gears Up, Battle Front Heats Up, Europeans Throw Their Hands Up, Rights Group Issues Heads Up
  3. Drug War Toll From Police Shootings Continues to Rise -- How Many Dead? Nobody Knows Because Congress Doesn't Care
  4. West Coast Forward, East Cost Back: San Diego Needle Exchange One Step Closer, Defeat in Prince George's County, Maryland
  5. Follow That Story: Tulia Relief Fund Issues Appeal
  6. Barney Frank Makes Drug War an Issue, Again
  7. Europeans Release 2000 Drug Report
  8. The Reformer's Calendar
  9. Editorial: Saying Goodbye (and Good Riddance) to a Drug Czar

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Issue #155 10/13/00

  1. Interview with Governor Gary Johnson
  2. US Demands Bolivian Government Be "Inflexible" in Coca Negotiations
  3. November Coalition Comes to Washington to Accept Human Rights Award
  4. Follow That Story -- "There Are Other Tulias in Texas" -- WOL Speaks with the Amarillo NAACP
  5. Silence of the Wolves: Drug Policy in the Bush and Gore Campaigns
  6. New Study Shows California Leads Nation in Drug Offender Imprisonment
  7. Department of Transportation Calls for Drug Testing Lab Investigation
  8. Media Scan: Salon.com, PBS Frontline
  9. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #154 10/7/00

  1. Tulia: Drug Warriors Decimate Texas Town's Black Community, But Fight is Just Beginning
  2. Crisis Bolivia Continues: Government Yields on Military Bases After US Signals Assent, Farmers Still Demanding Personal Coca Plots
  3. Vancouver 2.0: Politicians Unveil New Agreement to Deal With Hard Drug Scene, but Tensions Continue to Rise
  4. Legal Marijuana Use in Switzerland: Cabinet Gives Okay, Next Step is Parliamentary Approval
  5. Canadian Government Will Legalize Medical Marijuana Use
  6. Rolling Stone Magazine Features Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Higher Education Act Reform Campaign
  7. Internships at DRCNet
  8. Texas Journey for Jubilee Justice Ends in Austin
  9. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Nixes Random Drug Searches on Interstate Buses
  10. Hemp Voter Guide and Registration Tools Online at VoteHemp.com
  11. The Reformer's Calendar
  12. Editorial: "Cocaine Has Never Been an Added Ingredient in Coca-Cola"

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Issue #153 10/2/00

  1. Bolivia: Coca Growers Battle Government Troops as Banzer Regime Totters
  2. Drug-Related Cases On Supreme Court Fall Docket, Tattered Fourth Amendment Again At Issue
  3. More than 100 Leading Medical Professionals Urge US Surgeon General to Protect Doctor-Patient Relationship at Risk in Upcoming Supreme Court Case
  4. Follow That Story: Texas Border DAs Again Tell Feds to Pay Up or They Won't Prosecute
  5. Elections 2000: Voter Initiatives Address Medical Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Sentencing Reform and Asset Forfeiture
  6. Lies, Damn Lies, and Congressman Mica: Funny Numbers on Drug Deaths and Murder
  7. Newsbrief: Colombian Rebels Issue Threat to US Troops
  8. Newsbrief: San Francisco Rejects Seizing Drug Buyers' Cars
  9. Coalition for Jubilee Clemency
  10. Media Scan -- Salon.com Scoop Charges LA Police Chief Had Evidence of Rampart Corruption a Year Before Expose, Arianna Huffington on Drug War in "Jim Crow, the Sequel" Column
  11. Job Opportunities with Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program
  12. The Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #152 9/22/00

  1. A Tale of Two Drug Cultures: British Columbia Marijuana Industry Thrives While Hard Drug Harm Reduction Faces Crisis
  2. HEA Update: RaiseYourVoice.com Updated, Campus Press Outreach Begins, Your Help Needed
  3. Follow That Story: Bush Accedes to Police Chiefs' Call for National Commission on Criminal Justice, Gore Waffles
  4. New Hemispheric Parliamentary Group Urged to Put Drug Legalization on Its Agenda
  5. Islands in the Sun: Jamaica and New Zealand to Study Cannabis Reforms, Guam Court Okays Sacramental Smoking
  6. Texas Journey for Justice Beginning Today (9/22)
  7. Congress Again Bars Needle Exchange Funding for DC, Restricts Existing Program
  8. Critique of Combined Meth and Club Drug Bill, by the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics
  9. Event Calendar
  10. Editorial: Schism of Silence

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Issue #151 9/15/00

  1. California Medical Marijuana: One Step Forward, One Step Back in Federal Courts
  2. Supreme Court's Apprendi Ruling Results in More Sentence Reductions, Ramifications Still Uncertain, Could Affect Thousands
  3. Colombia: For Clinton, Drug War Trumps Human Rights, Light at End of Tunnel Recedes Even as War Effort Gets Underway
  4. South Dakota: Drug War Cowboys Raid Reservation Hemp Fields, Medical Marijuana Bill Emerges
  5. San Diego City Council Moves Toward City-Sanctioned Needle Exchange Program
  6. Nader Calls for Marijuana Legalization, "Harm Reduction" for Other Drugs
  7. McCaffrey and His Mendacious Minions: At It Again
  8. Drug Czar Wants to 'Check' Chess Players For Drug Use
  9. Drug Policy Grant Program
  10. Event Calendar
  11. Editorial: Hemp Lunacy

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Issue #150 8/22/00

  1. Los Angeles Shadow Convention Energizes Reformers for November and Beyond
  2. Chronic Pain Doctor and Pharmacy Under Assault in California Case
  3. Interview with Chris Conrad
  4. Apprendi Sentencing Ruling Begins to Bite
  5. Heroin Injection Center Wins Approval in Sydney
  6. Appeals Court Denies Government's Request for Emergency Order Halting Oakland CBC from Distributing Marijuana
  7. RESOURCES: Drug War Facts Updated, TomPaine.com Drug War Feature This Week, Alternet, Spanish Language Documents, More
  8. Benefit Screening for Jack Herer
  9. Errata
  10. AlertS: Colombia, Mandatory Minimums, California, New York
  11. HEA Campaign
  12. Event Calendar
  13. Job Listings (NYC): Streetwork Project
  14. Editorial: No Fringe Group

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Issue #149 8/11/00

  1. Marijuana Spraying Kills One, Sickens Hundreds, Mexican Villagers Report
  2. Ecstasy Panic Spreads, Draconian New Laws Claim First Victims
  3. Interview with DanceSafe's Emanuel Sferios
  4. New Mexico Courts Face Consequences of Asset Forfeiture Double Jeopardy Ruling
  5. California Medical Marijuana Fight Continues
  6. Trial for Former Gubernatorial Candidate to Resume Next Week
  7. How Many Drug Offenders Behind Bars: New York Times Distorts the Numbers
  8. Drug Testing on the Job Loses Popularity, Tight Labor Market Cited
  9. Job Listing: Pennsylvania Coalition to Save Lives Now
  10. AlertS: Colombia, Mandatory Minimums, California, New York
  11. HEA Campaign
  12. Event Calendar
  13. Editorial: America Needs Its Drug Users

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Issue #148 8/4/00

  1. The Shadow Convention: Drug Reformers Flex Muscles in Philadelphia
  2. Canadian Appeals Court Calls Marijuana Laws Unconstitutional, Ottawa Must Act or Marijuana Could Be Legal in Ontario Next Year
  3. Police Chiefs Call for National Commission on Criminal Justice Issues: Cite Lack of Trust, Corruption, Police Violence, Racial Profiling
  4. A Barrel Full of Bad Apples: Police Corruption and the War on Drugs
  5. Salt Lake City Mayor "Just Says No" to DARE
  6. Follow That Story: Clinton Sets Juan Raul Garza Execution Date
  7. From Real Life: Lawrence and Lamont Garrison
  8. US Justice Department Petitions Supreme Court to Overturn OCBC Ruling
  9. 9th Circuit Says Immigrants Cannot Be Deported For Expunged Drug Offenses
  10. AlertS: Colombia, Mandatory Minimums, California, New York, Washington
  11. HEA Campaign
  12. Event Calendar
  13. Washington, DC Job Opportunity for Public Interest Attorney, Other Positions
  14. Editorial: Whitman's Victim

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Issue #147 7/28/00

  1. Corrections System Continues to Bloat With 458,000 Drug War Prisoners: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Justice Policy Institute Crunch the Numbers in Separate Reports
  2. Supreme Court Rules, Federal Sentencing Structures Tremble
  3. See You in Philly: Shadow Convention Set to Convene Sunday
  4. Forbes Exposes McCaffrey's Crusade Against "Cheech and Chong Medicine"
  5. Drug Policy Letter Issue Focuses on Drug War Prisoners, DRCNet Launches New Prison/Incarceration Info List
  6. Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other: Important Amendments to Anti-Methamphetamine Act
  7. Newsbrief: Recalcitrant Feds to Appeal Oakland Marijuana Club Decision
  8. Liar of the Week
  9. Media Scan: salon.com, Washington Post
  10. AlertS: Colombia, Mandatory Minimums, California, New York, Washington
  11. HEA Campaign
  12. Event Calendar
  13. Editorial: Shocking Incrementalism

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Issue #146 7/21/00

  1. Hemispheric Rights Group Intervenes in "Drug Kingpin" Death Penalty Case, Cites US Violation of International Agreements
  2. Interview with Mike Farrell: Movie Payola, Death Penalty
  3. California Medical Marijuana Moves Ahead on Two Fronts
  4. Study Says Marijuana Doesn't Interfere with AIDS Drugs, Scientific First Comes After Years-Long Battle With Government Health Honchos
  5. Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush Puts Decriminalization "On The Table"
  6. Columbian Fusarium Conundrum: Colombia Accepts/Rejects (choose one) US Biowar Plan
  7. All the News That Fits: The New York Times and Colombia
  8. Peru Blows Suspected Smugglers Out of the Sky, Again
  9. Boston Study Finds Racial Disparities in Drug Cases
  10. Buprenorphine Bill Passes House
  11. AlertS -- Federal and State: Colombia, Meth Bill/Free Speech, Mandatory Minimums, California, New York, Washington
  12. Alert -- International: Russian Federation Calling for Expulsion of Radical Party from United Nations
  13. Job Opportunity in Minneapolis: Women With A Point
  14. Event Calendar
  15. Do You Read the Week Online?

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Issue #145 7/14/00

  1. Clinton Grants Commutations to Five Federal Drug War Prisoners, Four Women, One Man Go Free, 90,000 Remain Behind Bars on Federal Drug Charges
  2. SET THEM FREE: What You Can Do to Help the Jubilee and Related Campaigns
  3. "Mad Mark" or "Sour Souder"? Indiana Congressman Introduces Bill to Preempt State Level Drug Law Reforms
  4. Asset Forfeiture: Florida Task Force So Out of Control Even the Feds are Embarrassed
  5. District of Columbia: City Council Leaps Backward, Heightens Marijuana Penalties
  6. Jamaica Church Leaders Say "Legalize It"
  7. Portugal Decriminalizes Drug Use and Possession, Prescription Heroin and Injection Rooms Coming Next?
  8. Michigan Initiative Effort Fails to Obtain Necessary Signatures
  9. Drug Czar Seeks Deal With Hollywood to Include Anti-Drug Messages in Films
  10. FBI's New Toy Spies on E-Mail, Has Bob Barr "Frightened"
  11. AlertS: Mandatory Minimums, Free Speech, California, New York, Washington State
  12. HEA Campaign
  13. Event Calendar
  14. Attorney Position Opening at ACLU National Drug Policy Litigation Project
  15. Editorial: Set Our People Free

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Issue #144 7/7/00

  1. Follow That Story: Feds' Drug War Gets 90-Day Reprieve from Texas Border DAs, Dueling For Dollars to Continue
  2. New Mexico's Governor Johnson Speaks Out on Drug Policy in Houston, Sets Up Drug Policy Review Commission at Home, Addressing Shadow Conventions Next Month
  3. St. Paul Cops Pose as Census Takers
  4. Interview with Libertarian Presidential Nominee Harry Browne
  5. Errata: Ralph Nader and Industrial Hemp
  6. Scottish Parliament Members Call for Dutch-Style Coffeehouses as Legalization Debate Heats Up
  7. Nevada Legislature to Consider Marijuana Reform Bill in 2001, Judicial Commission to Call for Similar Changes
  8. Media Scan: 20/20, Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com
  9. AlertS: Free Speech, California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington State
  10. HEA Campaign
  11. Event Calendar
  12. Job Opportunity in Britain
  13. Editorial: Over the Limit

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Issue #143 6/30/00

  1. ACTIVIST Alert: Shadow Conventions to Challenge Democratic and Republican Conventions
  2. New York: Chief Judge Orders Statewide Drug Diversion Plan, Reformers Applaud Softly, Raise Caution Flags
  3. California Sentencing Reform Initiative Draws Powerful Opponents, Reformers Dramatically Ahead in New Poll
  4. Oregon Okays Medical Marijuana For Alzheimer's Agitation, New Initiative Moves Forward
  5. High UN Official Calls for Global Attack on Internet Drug Information
  6. China Marks UN Anti-Drug Day, Executes Dozens, Killings Come in Wake of McCaffrey Visit and US China Agreement
  7. French Education Minister Broaches Cannabis Decriminalization, Ecstasy Quality Controls
  8. Greens Nominate Nader, Questions Remain on His Support of Drug Reform Planks
  9. Dutch Parliament Approves Resolution to Allow Regulated Marijuana Cultivation
  10. REPORT: Risk of Marijuana Arrest Varies Greatly from State to State, County to County
  11. AlertS: Free Speech, California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington State
  12. Link of the Week: Arianna Huffington on Campaign Finance and Colombia
  13. HEA Campaign
  14. Event Calendar
  15. Editorial: Summary Executions

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Issue #142 6/23/00

  1. Senate Passes Colombia Military Assistance, Marginal Differences With House Version Head to Conference Committee, What Next?
  2. Cops and Drugs: Police Departments Tolerating Past Drug Use by Job Applicants
  3. Canadian Marijuana Party Forms: "Look Out Ottawa, Here We Come!"
  4. Australia: In Victoria, Drug Reform Comes Painfully Slow, Injection Room Bill Faces Tough Battle
  5. Delaware Mandatory Minimum Sunset Bill
  6. Lies, Damn Lies and the Drug Abuse Warning Network Statistics
  7. US Surgeon General's Latest Research Review Supports Needle Exchange Programs
  8. AlertS: Free Speech, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington State
  9. HEA Campaign
  10. Event Calendar
  11. Editorial: Cops, Drug Use, Symbolism

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Issue #141 6/16/00

  1. On Campus: Drug and Alcohol Arrests Increase, Hampshire College Students Establish Fund to Assist Drug Offenders Losing Aid, Campaign Spreads
  2. USA Today Editorial Supports HEA Campaign, Other Press, What You Can Do
  3. Goodbye to Peter McWilliams
  4. Colombia Answers: Civil Society Asks US Congress to Reject "Plan Colombia"
  5. Alert: Colombia Vote in US Senate MONDAY
  6. Two Strains of Cannabis Politics: Hemp and Marijuana in Kentucky
  7. Holland to Hooligans: Mellow Out, Dudes -- Dutch Authorities Use Cannabis to Tranquilize Potential Soccer Rowdies
  8. Washington State Democratic Party Adopts Sweeping Drug Reform Planks
  9. Follow That Story, Part I: McCarthyism in Syracuse
  10. Follow That Story, Part II: Faint Glimmers of Hope in Texas
  11. Hawaii: Nation's First Medical Marijuana Legislation Signed Into Law, Visiting Governors Suffer Symptoms of Contact High
  12. Kansas City Star Strikes Again: Asset Forfeiture Series Exposes Police End-Runs Around State Laws
  13. NEW JERSEY Alert: Whitman Joins Ecstasy Panic, Calls for New Penalties
  14. Ecstasy Panic: Salon.com Coverage and Other Info
  15. Alert: Help Save Freedom of Speech from the Drug War
  16. Alert: Minnesota Medical Marijuana
  17. Media Scan
  18. Hepatitis Outreach Resources
  19. Event Calendar

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Issue #140 6/9/00

  1. Welcome to Phil Smith
  2. Drug War McCarthyism in Syracuse
  3. Faint Glimmers of Hope in Texas
  4. Arizona Initiative Hits Bumpy Ground
  5. Political Earthquake Alert: California Drug Reform Initiative Passes First Big Hurdle
  6. UC San Diego Pulls Plug on Controversial Server: BURN! Group's Hosting of Colombian Rebel Group Site Blamed
  7. Human Rights Watch Releases Major Study of Race and Imprisonment in the Drug War
  8. Opposition to Meth Bill Mounting
  9. DRCNet Potentially Threatened by Meth Bill
  10. Anti-Ecstasy Bill Filed in Senate
  11. Canadian Court Upholds Marijuana Law, Dissenting Justice Finds Jail Sentences Violate Canadian Charter of Rights
  12. Event Calendar
  13. Job Openings, Temporary and Permanent
  14. Editorial: Oaths and Allegiances

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Issue #139 6/2/00

  1. DEA Supersnitch Goes Down in Flames, DEA Supervisors Next? Or, Who Will Investigate the Investigators?
  2. Ecstasy Panic Looms: 1985 All Over Again?
  3. Grow Canada: Health Canada Medical Marijuana Contract Has Bidders Abuzz
  4. Two Drug Policy and Sentencing Reform Newsletters Come Out...
  5. ... While Another Newsletter Concludes Its Distinguished History
  6. Pressure Builds to Reform Rockefeller Drug Laws
  7. U.S. Customs Urges Congress to Allow Searches of Out-of-Country Mail
  8. Massachusetts State Senate Approves Needle Exchange Bill
  9. Action AlertS
  10. Media Scan
  11. Event Calendar
  12. Hartford, Connecticut Job Opportunity
  13. Editorial: My First Controlled Substance

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Issue #138 5/26/00

  1. Students and Supporters Claim Partial Victory in Higher Education Act Drug Provision Vote
  2. Coalition for HEA Reform -- Letter to Congress
  3. DPF Conference Video Footage Online
  4. Meddling in Michigan: Taxpayer Money Expended in Ballot Initiative Fight
  5. Ambitious Ballot Initiative Moves Ahead in California
  6. Florida Officials Seriously Overcount "Club Drug" Deaths
  7. Missouri Becomes Fourth State in Nation to Pass Racial Profiling Legislation
  8. Michigan Lawmaker Proposes a Public Drug Offender Directory
  9. San Francisco to Implement Medical Marijuana ID Cards to Protect Patients
  10. EVENTS: San Francisco, Hamburg
  11. Legislative and Media Alerts: California, New York, Washington State, Colombia, Meth Bill/Free Speech, Higher Education Act
  12. Comedy Against the Drug War: Shaved Head with Chris Arcudi Playing West Hollywood Next Month
  13. Job Opportunity in San Francisco
  14. Adam J. Smith Says So Long to Week Online Readers

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Issue #137 5/12/00

  1. New York Assembly Legalizes Over the Counter Sale of Syringes
  2. Woman Whose Daughter Turned Her In Gets One Year
  3. Justice Department Reports Seventy Percent of Jail Inmates Drug-Involved
  4. Mexico City Police Commissioner Calls for Dutch Approach to Drug Policy
  5. Q and A on Dutch Drug Policy
  6. Report Calls on the UN Biodiversity Convention to Stop Dangerous US Fungus Experiments
  7. Student Senate Overturns Presidential Veto of HEA Reform Resolution
  8. Green Harvest Eradication Program Denied Funding in Hawaii
  9. No Helicopters to Colombia: Act Now Before May 16th Vote
  10. Stop "Smoke a Joint, Lose Your License" -- Action Update
  11. RAISE YOUR VOICE: Action Needed Against Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  12. MORE AlertS: New York and Washington State
  13. EVENTS: District of Columbia, Toronto, New York, San Francisco
  14. Editorial: Family Devalued

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Issue #136 5/5/00

  1. Gore Outlines Broad Crime Proposal
  2. When Will They Ever Learn? DRCNet Speaks With Jeremy Bigwood
  3. Reno Orders End to Hemp Seed Embargo, McCaffrey Hopes to Amend Controlled Substances Act to Outlaw Hemp
  4. George Washington University Students Approve Higher Education Act Resolution, but Student President Vetoes
  5. RAISE YOUR VOICE: Action Needed Against Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  6. Say No to Drug War Funding for Colombia's Abusive Military: Senate Committee Vote May 9th
  7. NEW YORK: Rockefeller Drug Law Protest Monday, and Letters Needed
  8. CALIFORNIA: Assembly Appropriations Committee Voting on Smoke a Joint, Lose Your License May 10th
  9. WASHINGTON: Legislators' Medical Marijuana Sign-on Letter
  10. NYC Forum: The People and the Police
  11. Spitfire Concert in Los Angeles to Raise Money for Imprisoned Medical Marijuana Patient

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Issue #135 4/28/00

  1. Do Taxpayers Get a Discount at the Door? DEA, State Agencies Cosponsor Michigan Anti-Drug Reform Conference
  2. Hawaii Legislature Passes Medical Marijuana Bill: Governor to Sign First Bill of its Kind in the United States
  3. Veterans to McCaffrey: Stay Out of Colombia
  4. Hiding in Plain Sight: Panel Maps Drug War's Hidden Costs
  5. New Latin America Drug War Site Pulls No Punches
  6. Patients and Activists Rally in Washington, DC for Millennium Medical Marijuana March
  7. This is Only a Test
  8. URGENT Action Items
  9. New Study Shows Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice System
  10. Events
  11. Media Scan
  12. Editorial: Image of an Invasion

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Issue #134 4/21/00

  1. Raise Your Voice! Students with Drug Convictions Losing Financial Aid July 1st
  2. Hawaii: Senate Voting on Medical Marijuana Bill Next Week
  3. New York: Letters Needed, Protests Mobilizing, Hearings Scheduled
  4. Washington State: Medical Marijuana Sign-on Letter in Legislature
  5. Stop the Helicopters
  6. Upcoming Events
  7. Job Opportunities

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Issue #133 4/14/00

  1. Canadian Senate Calls for Study of Drug Policy
  2. Report Says Customs Targeted Black Women for Drug Searches, Customs Says Recent Reforms Are Working
  3. House Approves Compromise Forfeiture Reform Bill
  4. Dorothy Gaines Clemency Petition
  5. The Corner to Premiere on HBO this Sunday
  6. Pain Update
  7. Job Opportunities in Harm Reduction

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Issue #132 4/7/00

  1. AlertS: Colombia, New York State, HEA Reform
  2. Penn State Student Government Endorses HEA Reform, Campaign Grows
  3. CALIFORNIA: Santa Cruz Passes Ordinance Protecting Medical Marijuana Users
  4. Another Zero-Tolerance Message Issued and Received
  5. UK: Police Foundation Report Stirs Debate
  6. Britain's Drug Authority Okays Full-Scale Patient Cannabis Trials
  7. More "Propaganda for Dollars" Exposed by Dan Forbes and Salon.com, Salon Offering Drug War "Theme Park" on Web
  8. LEGALIZACION: The "L-Word" Enters Post-Certification Debate in Mexico
  9. NEWSBRIEF: US Anti-Drug Colonel Pleads Guilty
  10. Follow-up to Sylvester Salcedo Interview
  11. No Editorial This Week...

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Issue #131 3/31/00

  1. ON CAMPUS: HEA Reform Campaign Gains Support
  2. Colombia Package Passes House Through Opposition, Moves to Senate
  3. Interview with Sylvester Salcedo
  4. Senate Passes Civil Forfeiture Reform Bill Unanimously
  5. New York City Update
  6. Amherst Voters Approve Referendum to "Deprioritize" Marijuana Enforcement
  7. UK: Police Foundation Report Calls for Marijuana Decrim, Lower Penalties for Other Drugs
  8. Newsbriefs
  9. Salon.com on Maine Medical Marijuana, Netherlands Drug Policy
  10. Editorial: War On Us All

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Issue #130 3/24/00

  1. Innocent, Unarmed Man Shot by New York City Drug Unit
  2. National Drug Strategy Released, and Testimony by Eric Sterling
  3. Dump Judge Judy Campaign Growing, Needs Volunteer Monitors, Pain Patients Speak Out
  4. Another Medical Marijuana Bill Goes Before Maryland House Committee
  5. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Forfeiture Reform Bill, Colombia Aid Package Stalled
  6. Medical Marijuana Patients Begin Northern Florida "Journey For Justice"
  7. Breaking News: UK to Legalize Medical Marijuana
  8. No Hemp for the Masses
  9. High School Anti-Drug Lesson Daringly Different
  10. Link of the Week: "Lost Political Causes" by William F. Buckley
  11. OP-ED: No End in Sight in Los Angeles Police Scandal

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Issue #129 3/17/00

  1. House Panel Okays Colombia Aid, Nixes Drug Treatment Funds, Floor Vote Postponed
  2. "Dump Judge Judy" Campaign Heats Up, Chronic Pain Patients Join Coalition
  3. AlertS: Colombia, Forfeiture, Hawaii Medical Marijuana
  4. Marijuana Heart Risk Unlikely to be Significant, Says Expert
  5. Maryland Medical Marijuana Bill Defeated -- This Time
  6. New Racial Justice Coalition in California, Angered by Governor's Veto, Seeks Passage of Racial Profiling Bill
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. NO MORE PRISONS Hip Hop CD Available at Record Stores
  9. Peter McWilliams Update -- Some Supporting Letters Lost in Computer Crash, Requests Resend
  10. "Just Say Know" Conference Tapes Online
  11. EVENTS: New York, Washington, Toronto
  12. Editorial: Positioning the Nation for Progress -- Not

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Issue #128 3/10/00

  1. DRCNet and TV's "Judge Judy" in War of Words Over Needle Exchange Remarks Following Launch of "DumpJudgeJudy.com" Web Site
  2. Prop. 21 Passage Sparks Lively Protest
  3. Forfeiture Vote Postponed Again
  4. New Hampshire, Vermont to Close the Gap with Methadone Legislation
  5. Two Hawaii Medical Marijuana Bills Pass, Letters to Legislators Still Needed
  6. STUDIES: Marijuana Eases Multiple Sclerosis, Might Help Brain Cancer, Could Pose Heart Risk
  7. Feinstein-Campbell
  8. Link of the Week
  9. Events
  10. Editorial: California's Shame

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Issue #127 3/03/00

  1. Alert: Forfeiture Vote Postponed One Week, Action Still Needed!
  2. Errata: Louisiana Incarceration, Helicopter Manufacturer
  3. Youth Is No Excuse: California Set to Vote on Prop. 21
  4. Drug Czar Warns Legislators on Illinois Hemp Plan
  5. Michigan's Personal Responsibility Amendment Surges Ahead
  6. News Release: Lindesmith Center Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Supreme Court Case Challenging Drug Testing of Pregnant Women
  7. Germany Legalizes Safe Injecting Rooms
  8. UK Police Report on Drug Prohibition Now Online
  9. Free Charles Garrett Campaign at Critical Juncture
  10. DARE Program and Zero Tolerance School Drug Policies Discussed in Media
  11. EVENTS: New York, Washington

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Issue #126 2/25/00
  1. LA Cops Union Suspects High-Level Corruption, Calls for Outside Investigator
  2. Higher Education Act Reform Campaign Update
  3. Two Million Prisoner Mark Sparks Discussion in Nation's Most Incarcerated State, as DOJ Condemns Juvenile Prison Conditions
  4. UN Drug Report Warns Against Injecting Rooms
  5. Canadian Civil Liberties Association Seeks Investigation of Mass Strip Search at Rave
  6. News in Brief
  7. Jim Miller Trial Begins March 1, Protests March and April in DC and New Jersey
  8. EVENTS: Latinos in the US, DPF Conference, Lindesmith Center Seminars
  9. Editorial: Not a War

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Issue #125 2/18/00

  1. Police Corruption Scandals Spread Nationwide
  2. Colombia Update
  3. Court Says Public Housing Authorities Can Evict Tenants Who Knew Nothing of Drug Use
  4. Woman Loses Custody of Children After Hospital Botches Drug Test
  5. GHB Bill Goes to White House
  6. Hemp Bills In South Dakota and New Hampshire Fall Short
  7. Nationwide Vigils Send the Message, "Two Million is Too Many"
  8. Sodexho Marriott Stops "No More Prisons" Show at American University -- Event Was Planned to Highlight Company's Ties to Private Prison Industry
  9. TomPaine.com Raises Awareness of 2 Million Prisoners
  10. Forums, Protests (Connecticut, North Carolina, Florida, California)
  11. Editorial: Corrupting the Morals of a Nation

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Issue #124 2/11/00

  1. Vigils/Protests to Greet America's Two Millionth Prisoner on February 15
  2. Senate Subcommittee Chair Vows to End Anti-Drug TV Credits
  3. Newsweek Runs Gore-Warnecke Excerpt, New Yorker Column Good on Policy but Unfair to Sources
  4. Father Appeals Son's Suspension for Refusing Drug Test
  5. British Columbia Supreme Court Orders Renee Boje Surrendered For Extradition -- Appeals Hearing With Justice Minister Set for March 10
  6. UK: Drug Czar Suggests Relaxing Marijuana Enforcement, Then Backpedals
  7. There's A Riot Goin' On: Tales of Police Misconduct Pile Up in Unfolding Los Angeles Scandal
  8. Enforcement Scandals Lead to Death and False Convictions
  9. National Call-In day on Colombia, February 15, 2000
  10. State Action: Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia
  11. Two Million is Too Many in Prison

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Issue #123 1/28/00
  1. Gore Drug Use Question Leads to More Questions
  2. San Francisco Approves Plan to Issue ID Cards to Medical Cannabis Users -- Buyer's Club Seeks Business License
  3. Britain: Shelter Workers Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Inform on Clients
  4. UK Police Report: Legalizing Drugs is Obvious Choice
  5. Michigan Initiative Effort to Rely on Volunteers, Enthusiasm
  6. Court Strikes Down Cincinnati Ban
  7. Regaining the Vote: Sentencing Project Report Details State and Federal Activities
  8. AlertS: Legislative Action in Maryland and Virginia
  9. Anderson and Boje Cases Seeking Support
  10. Editorial: A Not So Nutty Professor

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Issue #122 1/21/00

  1. New Bio Alleges Gore Used Marijuana Regularly for Years -- Newsweek Kills Story Set to Run This Week
  2. INTERVIEW with John C. Warnecke
  3. Prison Moratorium in Tough-on-Crime Colorado?
  4. U.S. Government Reviewing Scripts of Network Shows as Part of Anti-Drug Campaign
  5. Emergency Coalition Against Propaganda and Censorship
  6. U.S. Drug Czar Commands Customs to Seize All Hemp Seed Imports That Contain Any THC
  7. Teach Your Children Well: Clergy, Religious Academics Discuss Reform
  8. College Convention Report
  9. Sentencing Project Report Finds Massive Increases in Number of Women Imprisoned for Drug Offenses
  10. Editorial: Dishonest Policy

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Issue #121 1/15/00

  1. U.S. Government Reviewing Scripts of Network Shows as Part of Anti-Drug Campaign
  2. Drug Reform 2000: A Ballot Measure Overview
  3. Clinton Administration Will Propose $1.2 Billion Aid Package to Colombia
  4. Some California Needle Exchange Programs Emerge from Shadows as New Law Takes Effect
  5. Columbia, Missouri Initiative Would Lessen Impact of Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  6. Scotland Unveils Drug Enforcement Agency
  7. U.S. Drug Czar Commands Customs to Seize All Hemp Seed Imports That Contain Any THC
  8. News in Brief
  9. Editorial: The Highest Office in the Land

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Issue #120 1/9/00
  1. Message to our Readers
  2. U.S. Accused of Mistreating Jailed Colombians
  3. Infrared Thermal Imaging Deemed Unconstitutional Search by Pennsylvania State Supreme Court
  4. House to Take Up Anti-Meth Bill -- Penalties Increased, Internet Freedoms Restricted
  5. Appeals Court Agrees: Drug Tests for Louisiana Officials Unconstitutional
  6. Jesse Ventura Applauds Gov. Johnson's Legalization Stance
  7. Alert: New Hampshire Drug Policy Election Activism Opportunities

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Issue #119 12/17/99
  1. Gore Briefly Supports Access to Medical Marijuana, Then Backpedals
  2. Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy Receives Major Support
  3. Interview with Dr. David Lewis
  4. DEA Approves Hemp Cultivation Permit in Hawaii
  5. Alaska Marijuana Initiative
  6. Poll Finds Most Blacks, Majority of Whites Believe Law Enforcement Targets Minorities
  7. ACLU Condemns Shooting of Denver Man in No-Knock Raid
  8. UN Narcotics Board, Prime Minister Pressure Australian States on Safe-Injecting Rooms
  9. Grams' Son to Face Misdemeanor Charges
  10. Record Number of Drug Prisoners in California
  11. Mendocino Decriminalization Initiative Needs Volunteers
  12. California Counties Using New Law to Decriminalize Needle Exchange
  13. Job Listing in San Francisco
  14. Editorial: At the End of the American Century

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Issue #118 12/10/99
  1. INTERVIEW: Lynn Curtis, President, Eisenhower Foundation
  2. Republican Congressman, Senate Candidate Calls for Drug Maintenance Programs
  3. Protesters Take Over Office of NYC Secretary of Human Resources
  4. FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research Blocked Under New Federal Guidelines
  5. Study Finds Poverty More Harmful to Children than Pre-Natal Exposure to Cocaine
  6. Newsbriefs
  7. Rebroadcast of Snitch Next Week
  8. New Issue of Harm Reduction Communication Available Online
  9. Deadline Extended for Year 2000 Drug Policy Foundation Achievement Awards
  10. Editorial: A Typical Week in the Drug War

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Issue #117 12/6/99
  1. Graves at Border Illustrate Consequences of Prohibition
  2. Eisenhower Foundation Finds Drug War, Hard Line Criminal Justice Policies Not Working, Violence Remains High
  3. Politicians, Scientists, Celebrities Criticize Medical Marijuana Research Guidelines
  4. McCormick, McWilliams Denied Medical Marijuana Defense, Enter Pleas
  5. Other Medical Marijuana News
  6. Judge Judy Slammed in Australia and U.S. for Needle Exchange Remarks
  7. AIDS Action Grades Clinton Administration, Congress an "F" in Prevention
  8. University Will Not Operate Safe-Injecting Room; Uniting Church Steps In
  9. Calendar Update
  10. Job and Internship Opportunities
  11. On the Web: Corporate Watch Feature on the Prison Industry
  12. COMMENTARY: Judge Judy Biased and Illogical on Needle Exchange Issue
  13. Editorial: Mass Graves in Mexico

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Issue #116 11/19/99
  1. Hypocrisy II: More Special Treatment for Politicians' Families
  2. Youth Violence Subcommittee Holds Field Hearing on Heroin Upsurge
  3. Reformers Express Concern to Bolivian Government Over Illegal Arrest of Leonilda Zurita
  4. In Memoriam: Gil Puder
  5. New Mexico: Governor Holds Forum on Legalization, Top Cop Resigns, Republican Chairman Acknowledges Authoring Private Pro-Decriminalization Paper in 1997
  6. "Judge Judy" on Drug Users and Their Families: "Let 'Em Die"
  7. Student Conference Report
  8. DEA Lifts Hemp Seed Embargo
  9. McWilliams and McCormick to Plead Guilty
  10. Drug Education: New Publication From The Lindesmith Center
  11. Needle Exchange Forum: Newark, New Jersey, 11/20
  12. New Report on Injection-Related AIDS Finds Prevention Neglected in Large States and Major Cities
  13. Guest Editorial: U.S. Senate Should Pass Forfeiture Reform Bill

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Issue #115 11/5/99
  1. Medical Marijuana Wins Again! Maine Becomes 7th State to Shield Patients from Arrest
  2. Justice Department Asks Appeals Court for Rehearing on Medical Marijuana Defense
  3. Latin Leaders Call Drug War a Failure
  4. Citizens Protest Drug Czars' Conference
  5. Observations on ONDCP's Response to the Open Letter
  6. District of Columbia Syringe Exchange Language Holds Up Appropriations Bill
  7. Australia: Vatican KO's Nuns' Safe-Injecting Room Plan, but University Saves the Day
  8. McWilliams and McCormick Trials Beginning This Month
  9. Temporary Job Opportunity in Washington
  10. Guest Editorial: Why Is There a War in Colombia? Look to the Streets of Washington, DC

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Issue #114 10/29/99
  1. Protest Mars McCaffrey's London Visit
  2. Ten Million March for Peace in Colombia, Activists Decry U.S. Counternarcotics Aid to Military
  3. PROTEST IN WASHINGTON: Oppose Drug War Militarization in Colombia, Rally Outside Drug Czars of the Americas Conference Next Week
  4. Judge Accused of Heroin Use, Corruption
  5. Corruption Investigation Widens at LAPD
  6. More California Corruption
  7. Governor Johnson to Participate in New Mexico Drug Policy Forums, November 2nd and 16th
  8. San Francisco Beats New York at Crime Reduction
  9. Newsbriefs
  10. Dutch Drug Policy Discussions Online
  11. Editorial: No Mas!

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Issue #113 10/22/99
  1. California Reports Record Percentage of Drug Prisoners: One in Eight Imprisoned for Simple Possession of Drugs
  2. Marijuana Arrests Stay at Record-High Level: FBI Reports 682,885 Marijuana Arrests in 1998, 88% for Possession
  3. NORML Foundation Releases Report Detailing European Marijuana Policies
  4. Maine Sheriff Endorses Medical Marijuana
  5. JUST SAY KNOW: New Directions in Drug Education -- Conference in S.F. Next Week
  6. Safety First: Reality-Based Drug Education Booklet Published by The Lindesmith Center
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. San Francisco Beats New York at Crime Reduction
  9. Newsbriefs
  10. Publication Suspended of New Book Claiming George W. Bush Arrested for Cocaine in '72
  11. Elizabeth Dole Drops Out of Race
  12. Editorial: Whose life is it anyway?

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Issue #112 10/15/99
  1. California Attorney General Urges Reno Not to Call for Rehearing of Medical Marijuana Case
  2. GHB Closer to Schedule I Status
  3. DPF Alert: Senator Session's Version of Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill Worse than Nothing; Public Action Needed
  4. House Holds Hearing on Youth-Targeted Anti-Drug Ads
  5. California Governor Misses the Point, Signs Watered Down Syringe Exchange Bill
  6. Addicted AIDS Patient Kicked to Death by Vigilantes Following Community Anti-Drug Meeting
  7. Harm Reduction in the Australian Capitol Territory: A Brief Conversation with Michael Moore
  8. Jamaican Parliament Approves Commission to Look at Decriminalization of Marijuana
  9. Hemp Embargo Continues
  10. Public Comment Still Needed on Proposed Methadone Changes in U.S.
  11. Cato Conference Proceedings Online
  12. Job Opportunity
  13. Editorial: Just Another Front Page Drug Bust

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Issue #111 10/8/99
  1. Governor Johnson Comes to Washington -- Meets with Students, Drug Policy Reformers -- Gets Blasted by McCaffrey
  2. BREAKING!! McCaffrey In New Mexico: Claims Johnson Told College Students "Heroin Use is Great," Students Refute
  3. Canada: Drug War Refugee Faces New Challenges
  4. Minnesota Governor to President Clinton: Let Us Grow Hemp!
  5. UK: Tabloid Press Gets Tough on Political Correctness
  6. FDA Approves Marijuana Study on Migraines, Final Approval Awaits NIDA Review
  7. Australian Capitol Territory Drug Strategy Stresses Harm Reduction, Calls for Safe-Injection Rooms
  8. News in Brief
  9. Editorial: The Crusaders

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Issue #110 10/1/99
  1. Alert: DEA Sabotaging Legal Hemp Industry
  2. Kemba Smith Case Featured on Nightline
  3. DC Appropriations Subcommittee Holds Hearings in Response to Veto
  4. Calendar Update

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Issue #109 9/24/99
  1. Student Conference Update
  2. Student HEA Campaign
  3. Medical Marijuana Initiatives
  4. DPF Conference
  5. Reformer's Calendar

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Issue #108 9/17/99
  1. Court Reverses Self: No Warrant Needed for Thermal Imaging
  2. U.S. Appeals Court Rules for Cannabis Clubs, Clears Way for Distribution to Patients With Medical Necessity
  3. Amnesty International Report Shows Collusion Between Colombian Army and Murderous Paramilitary Forces
  4. Once Covert, Practice of U.S. Coast Guard Firing on Suspected Drug Boats Revealed
  5. House Committee: Feds Fabricated Drug Charge to Bring in Army at Waco
  6. CONFERENCE: Preventing Heroin Overdose: Pragmatic Approaches, Seattle, Year 2000
  7. Editorial: Those Helicopters

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Issue #107 9/10/99
  1. First National Student Conference on Drug Policy and Justice, November 5-6, Washington, DC
  2. New Mexico Poll: 60% Agree Drug War is Failing, Disagree on Solutions
  3. Australia: UN Drug Official Slams Safe Injecting Room
  4. Canada: Starbucks Needle Disposal Prompts Investigation
  5. Insurance Company Reimburses Patient for Seized Marijuana
  6. SAMHSA Study Calls for More Workplace Drug Treatment, but Also Supports More Drug Testing
  7. Quote of the Week
  8. Cato Institute Briefing Paper Warns of "Culture of Paramilitarism" in Law Enforcement, Provides Policy Explanation for SWAT Killings
  9. Editorial: Standing Up 101

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Issue #106 9/3/99
  1. California Governor Offers to Sign Revised Needle Exchange Bill
  2. CASA Study Finds Marijuana Easier for Teens to Get Than Beer
  3. Doctor Sanctioned for Undertreating Patients' Pain
  4. Los Angeles Police Forcibly Enter Home, Kill Grandfather in Raid
  5. News in Brief
  6. Swiss Government Promises Marijuana Decriminalization
  7. ACLU Report Urges Businesses to Rethink Employee Drug Testing
  8. Media Alert: Print and Screen

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Issue #105 8/27/99
  1. Record 5.9 Million Americans Under Correctional Supervision
  2. Poll Finds Overwhelming Majority of Californians Support Needle Exchange -- Support Spans Ethnic, Geographic and Political Lines
  3. Montana NORML Receives Documents on Anti-Drug Fungus Research
  4. Marijuana Legalization Effort Grows in Pacific Northwest
  5. Update on Guam Rastafarian Freedom of Religion Case
  6. News in Brief
  7. Special Free Newsletter Offer for DRCNet Members
  8. Editorial: War on The Web

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Issue #104 8/20/99
  1. Household Survey Reports Decrease in Teen Use, While Overall Use Remains Flat
  2. Superior Court of Guam Upholds Freedom of Religion for Rastafarian
  3. San Francisco Plans Methadone Expansion
  4. Members of California Congressional Delegation Urge Governor to Sign Needle Exchange Bill
  5. ACLU Sues Oklahoma School District Over Student Drug Testing
  6. United Kingdom: Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy Calls for Royal Commission on Drug Policy
  7. NORML Foundation Launches Marijuana Ad Campaign in San Francisco
  8. Lindesmith Center Seminar Series, Autumn 1999
  9. Errata: Methamphetamine Bill Alert, Kubby Plant Count
  10. Editorial: Governor Bush's Cocaine Problem

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Issue #103 8/13/99
  1. Medical Marijuana Under Siege, Making Slow Progress
  2. Baltimore Study Finds Needle Exchange Effective
  3. Interview: Dr. Joel Brown on the Status of Drug Education in the United States
  4. Members of California Congressional Delegation Urge Governor to Sign Needle Exchange Bill
  5. Beyond Prohibition: Cato Institute Conference to Feature New Mexico Governor
  6. Methamphetamine Bill Contains Anti-Free-Speech Legislation
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. Job Opportunities
  9. Editorial: Killing the Bad Guys

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Issue #102 8/6/99
  1. Portland Judge Rules "Trap and Trace" of Gardening Supply Store Phone Illegal
  2. Date-Rape Prevention Drug Act Heads to House Floor
  3. AUSTRALIA: New South Wales to Heed Experts, Open Safe Injecting Room
  4. Newsbriefs
  5. Decrim Initiatives Filed in Massachusetts for 2000 Ballot
  6. Kubby Case Begins in California, Interpretation of Prop. 215 at Issue
  7. Wife of US Military Commander in Colombia Charged With Drug Trafficking
  8. Editorial: Methamphetamine Bill Moves Out of Committee

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Issue #101 7/30/99
  1. House Reinstates "Social Riders" in District of Colombia Appropriations Bill
  2. New Mexico Republicans Stop Short of Repudiating Governor
  3. Jamaica: Lawmakers Consider Decriminalization of Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Research Facility
  4. Clinton Administration Proposes Changes to Methadone Regulations
  5. Army Spy Plane Disappears Over Colombia, Speculation of Coming US Intervention Abounds
  6. Australian State to Open Legal Heroin Injecting Room
  7. DEA Chief Acknowledges Agency's Ineffectiveness
  8. Newsbriefs
  9. Senate Considering Raising Methamphetamine Penalties
  10. Editorial: Body Bags

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Issue #100 7/23/99
  1. 100 Issues Later...
  2. DC Appropriations Bill Moves Forward -- Medical Marijuana Vote May Be Counted, Syringe Exchange May Be Re-funded
  3. Senate Holds First Hearing on Civil Forfeiture Reform
  4. Fuel to the Fire: Drug Czar Proposes Billion More for Andean Drug War, Mostly Colombia
  5. Florida Drug Czar Killer Fungus Plan Worries Experts
  6. Speaker Lashes Out at Drug War at Mormon Symposium
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. Editorial: And The Winner Is...
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Issue #99 7/16/99
  1. House Subcommittee Holds Second Hearing Attacking Drug Policy Reform
  2. U.K. National Health Service May Expand Heroin Prescription
  3. Kids On Texas Border Using More Cocaine
  4. Governor Balks as Medical Marijuana Task Force Recommendations Move Forward in California Senate
  5. News in Brief
  6. Media Alert: New York Premiere of "You Know What I'm Saying?"
  7. Editorial: A Drug War Suppressant
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Issue #98 7/9/99
  1. 100th Issue of Week Online Coming Up, Note to Our Readers
  2. Study: Hepatitis C Has Reached Epidemic Proportions Among Intravenous Drug Users
  3. New Mexico Alliance Formed in Response to Governor's Call for Decriminalization Debate
  4. Berkeley City Council Wants Marijuana Decriminalized Further
  5. DEA Reschedules Marinol
  6. Summer Brown Bag Lunch Video and Lecture Series, Washington, DC
  7. Editorial: The Heat Is On
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Issue #97 7/2/99
  1. Highway Profiling: Washington State Court Finds Pretextual Traffic Stops Illegal, Connecticut Governor Signs Anti-Profiling Bill Into Law
  2. Coverdell to Introduce Amendment to Ban Needle Exchange in District of Columbia
  3. New Mexico Update
  4. The New Cold War: A Guide for Citizen Action on U.S. International Drug Control Policy
  5. News in Brief
  6. Minnesota to Apply for Federal Permits to Grow Hemp
  7. Job Opening at DPF
  8. Editorial: We Hold These Truths...
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Issue #96 6/25/99
  1. Governor of New Mexico Calls Drug War "Failed" -- Calls for Discussion of Alternatives
  2. Hyde's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Passes House Easily
  3. Vancouver's Cannabis Cafe, Hemp BC Closed
  4. Activist Banned From Talking About Marijuana
  5. NEW YORK: Staten Island Assemblyman Wants Needle Exchange Banned
  6. IDAHO: "Drug Bust: The Longest War" TV Special Preempted by Drug Testing Speech in Boise
  7. News in Brief
  8. Supreme Court Roundup
  9. WASHINGTON: Free Video and Lunch-Talk Series
  10. Editorial: Can't Keep a Good Idea Down
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Issue #95, 6/18/99
  1. Reformers Slandered, Harassed and Threatened at House Subcommittee Hearings on "Legalization"
  2. Juvenile Justice Bill Expected to Pass with Worst Provisions Intact
  3. Swiss Vote Again to Continue Heroin Experiment
  4. Palliative or Repressive? Conservative-Sponsored Legislation Impacts on Pain, Suicide and Drug Policy Debates
  5. Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill Moves to House Floor
  6. Geraldo Rivera Drug War Report This Weekend (6/20)
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. RESOURCES: Kids and Drug Education, Drug Control Strategies, Medical Marijuana Report, Hemp Video
  9. New Research Finds Marijuana Offenders Crowding Nation's Prisons and Jails
  10. Canadian Senator Urges Drug Policy Review, Endorses Legalization of Marijuana, "Soft" Drugs
  11. Errata on Breyer Appointment
  12. Editorial: U.S. House of Repression
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Issue #94, 6/11/99
  1. Teens Say Drug War a Failure
  2. Clinton Issues Executive Order on Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement
  3. Waters Bill Would End Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing
  4. Legalization Hearings in House Subcommittee, June 16
  5. Hawaii Hemp Advocate Wins Right to Sue Prosecutors for Constitutional Rights Violation
  6. Health Canada Authorizes Patients to Use Medical Marijuana, Announces Plan to Grow Pot for Medical Research
  7. Editorial: Failing our Teens
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Issue #93, 6/4/99
  1. Arrest the Racism: ACLU Report on Racial Profiling in America
  2. Australian Medical Association Endorses Heroin Prescription Trial
  3. Adding Alcohol to Partnership Ads?
  4. Supreme Court Establishes Due Process Protections for Defendants Accused of Operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise
  5. Canada's House Declares Support for Medical Marijuana
  6. Children and the Drug War Postcard Campaign
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. Editorial: Sells Like Teen Spirits
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Issue #92, 5/28/99
  1. Thanks, and Another Special Offer Through June 30
  2. Medical Marijuana Activist Convicted in Federal Court: Jury Not Allowed to Hear Evidence of Medicinal Use
  3. Four Guards Charged in Beating Death of Nassau County Inmate
  4. Senate Juvenile Justice Bill Passes in Wake of Colorado School Shooting, Would Dramatically Increase Surveillance and Drug Testing
  5. New York Assembly Speaker Says No to Rockefeller Drug Law Reform...Or Does He?
  6. Policy Change May Allow for Non-Government Funded Medical Marijuana Research
  7. Conviction of Juror in Nullification Case Overturned
  8. New York: No Rockefeller Reform This Year, Presentations in Westchester Area by Reconsider
  9. Editorial: Growing Pains
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Issue #91, 5/21/99
  1. Two-Year Anniversary of Hernandez Shooting
  2. Legislation in Alaska Will Restrict State's Medical Marijuana Law
  3. Australia: Police Force Closure of Safe Injection Room
  4. Somali-Canadian Community Under Attack by Khat Enforcers
  5. Canadian Medical Group Wants Doctors to Prescribe More Pain Meds
  6. Higher Education Act Reform Campaign Update
  7. Conviction of Juror in Nullification Case Overturned
  8. New York: No Rockefeller Reform This Year, Presentations in Westchester Area by Reconsider
  9. Editorial: Growing Pains
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Issue #90, 5/7/99
  1. DRCNet Passes 10,000 Subscriber Mark, 90th Issue of Week Online
  2. Congressional Black Caucus Chair Calls for End of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, Felony Disenfranchisement
  3. Medical Marijuana Petitioners File Federal Suit, Allege Threats, Harassment at Polling Locations
  4. Hyde, Conyers, Barr and Frank Introduce Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill
  5. Mounties Back Canadian Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
  6. SPECIAL REPORT: Safe Injection Room Opens in Sydney
  7. Australian Perspective
  8. Los Angeles: Citizens' Fact Finding Commission on US Drug Policy, 5/22-23San Francisco: Medical Marijuana Researcher to Speak at Forum, 5/25
  9. Editorial: A Monument to Failure
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Issue #89, 4/30/99
  1. Arizona Supreme Court Study: Proposition 200 Has Saved the State Millions
  2. Renting While Non-White
  3. Canada: Heroin Prescription Experiment Debated in Parliament
  4. Canadian Police Chiefs Call for Decriminalization of Marijuana Possession
  5. Swiss Panel Calls for Decriminalization of Cannabis Possession, Sales
  6. Heroin in Australia, Part Two: A Conversation with Michael Moore, ACT Health Minister
  7. Government's Drug Test Ruled Inadequate, Todd McCormick Remains Free Pending Trial
  8. Media Alert: May Issue of Harper's Magazine Cover Story: Good Drugs, Bad Drugs
  9. Patti Smith to Play NYC's Bowery Ballroom to Benefit the Drug Policy Foundation
  10. Forfeiture Reform Conference in DC, Justice Reform Protest in NYC and Nationwide
  11. Editorial: Arizonans Ignore Rhetoric, Reap Benefits
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Issue #88, 4/24/99
  1. HEA Reform Campaign Gets Boost
  2. REPORT: District of Columbia Drug Policy a Disaster
  3. Heroin in Australia: A Conversation with Brian McConnell of Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
  4. North Dakota Becomes First State to Legalize Hemp Cultivation
  5. Oregon Supreme Court to Review Forfeiture as Double Jeopardy
  6. BOOK: NO Equal Justice, Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
  7. REPORT: In Search of a New Ethic for Treating Patients with Chronic Pain
  8. Seminar in NYC, Friday, 5/28
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Issue #87, 4/16/99
  1. HEA Reform Campaign Online Petition Launched
  2. Conyers Reintroduces Racial Profiling Legislation
  3. Conyers Introduces Legislation to End Felony Disenfranchisement
  4. Unarmed Boy Shot in Drug Raid
  5. California Legislators Consider "Three Strikes" Modification
  6. Doctor's Undertreatment of Pain Draws Penalty
  7. Nevada Legislature Mulls Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
  8. Seminars at the Lindesmith Center
  9. Editorial: Disparity Dilemma
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Issue #86, 4/9/99
  1. Driving While Non-White
  2. Search and Seizure Protections Weakened
  3. 53 Year-old Grandmother Robbed, Beaten While Trying to Buy Cannabis for Her Arthritis
  4. California's Y2K (+1) Crisis
  5. Illinois Bill Criminalizes Marijuana Information on the Internet
  6. REPORT: Crises of the Anti-Drug Effort, 1999
  7. New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition -- ACTION Alert
  8. Leaders of South American Indigenous Peoples Challenge US Ayahuasca Patent
  9. EXHIBIT: Human Rights and the Drug War in Virginia
  10. Gore 2000 or Gore 1984?
  11. Cato Forums: Jesse Ventura, Prosecutorial Abuse, Forfeiture Reform
  12. Editorial: There Oughta Be a Law: Protecting the Masses From Themselves
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Issue #85, 4/2/99
  1. Announcements
  2. Portland, Oregon Police Called to Account for Surveillance Operation
  3. Two New Polls Show Strong Public Support for Drug Policy Reform
  4. Courts Place Limits on Drug Testing in Workplace, Schools
  5. Hash Bash Draws Ire of State Lawmakers
  6. California Democrats Give Nod to Industrial Hemp
  7. Government Reports: Prison, Drug Use Trends
  8. ACLU: Financial Privacy Update
  9. Editorial: Funding The Unknown Soldier
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Issue #84, 3/26/99
  1. Announcements
  2. New Report Finds One Million Americans Incarcerated for Non-Violent Offenses
  3. IOM Findings Strengthen Administrative Challenge to Repeal Marijuana's Prohibitive Status
  4. Alert: Support California Syringe Decriminalization Bill
  5. American Pharmaceutical Association Adopts Syringe Deregulation Position
  6. Vancouver Needle Exchange Study Clarifies Previous Study's Results
  7. Newsbriefs
  8. Editorial: Rolling Back the Tide
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Issue #83, 3/19/99
  1. Announcements
  2. Institute of Medicine Report Confirms Marijuana's Medicinal Value
  3. HEA Reform Bill Introduced in Congress
  4. Rep. Rangel Seeks End to Cocaine Sentencing Disparities
  5. Canada: Husband of Medical Marijuana User Arrested as Government Announces Clinical Trials, Possible Medical Exemption
  6. Minnesota Hemp Bill Progressing
  7. DPF Grant Deadline Coming Up
  8. Editorial: IOM Report Leaves Only One Thing Left to Say
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Issue #82, 3/12/99
  1. Announcements
  2. Internet Campaign Convinces Congress to Condemn "Know Your Customer," Battle Not Yet Over
  3. George Bush Jr. Hires Private Eye to Dig Up Own Past
  4. Report: US Anti-Drug Forces Corrupted
  5. Alaska Bill Introduced to Amend State's New Medical Marijuana Law
  6. Drug Policy Campus Activism Conference
  7. Washington State Bill Would Increase Judge's Discretion in Drug Cases
  8. Judge Denies California AIDS Patient's Urgent Plea for Medical Marijuana
  9. Federal Judge Allows Medical Marijuana Class Action Suit to Proceed, Questions Why Government Supplies Medical Marijuana to Some Patients, Not Others
  10. Events
  11. Online Petitions
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Issue #81, 3/5/99
  1. Announcements
  2. HEA Reform Campaign Gains Momentum -- DRCNet Attacked by Republican Rep. Souder
  3. Hundreds Rally Against Rockefeller Drug Laws
  4. Amnesty International Charges that Women Behind Bars Suffer "Rough Justice"
  5. Drug Policy Coalition Calls for Reversal of Budget Priorities
  6. Federal Bill Reintroduced to Legalize Medical Marijuana
  7. Canada's House of Commons Debates Medical Marijuana
  8. Australian Prime Minister Criticized Over FBI Invitation
  9. Sen. Hatch Advocates for Expansion of Maintenance Therapies for Opiate Dependency
  10. Hemp Reform Efforts Underway
  11. Editorial: Million Man Madness
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Issue #80, 2/26/99
  1. Announcements
  2. UN Drug Control Board Laments Reform, Urges Member Nations to Toe the Drug War Line
  3. Iran Says Executing Drug Smugglers "Unsuitable Solution" --but US Legislators Want to Try It Here
  4. DEA Chief Constantine Rips US Drug War Efforts, Bemoans Mexican Situation
  5. Jesse "The Governor" Ventura on the Drug War
  6. Sen. McCain Seeks Radical Cutbacks in Methadone Maintenance
  7. California Officials Comment on Medical Marijuana
  8. South Carolina Mulls Making Sale of Urine a Felony Offense
  9. American Farm Bureau Reverses Position on Hemp at Convention
  10. Canada: Terminally Ill Man Will Continue to Smoke Marijuana Despite Conviction
  11. Author of "Drug Crazy" Lecturing in Dallas, March 2nd
  12. Editorial: Mr. Ventura Comes To Washington
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Issue #79, 2/19/99
  1. Announcements
  2. Less Than Three Weeks Left to Defeat "Know Your Customer" Rules!
  3. ABA to Congress: Stop Federalizing Crime
  4. Connecticut Addressing Racial Disparities in Drug Enforcement, Sentencing
  5. U.S. Customs Service Report Acknowledges Corruption
  6. Man Shot Dead in Home by Police, Small Amount of Marijuana Found
  7. Medical Marijuana Opponents Mount Challenges in Oregon, Washington
  8. Hemp Beer Served on Air Force One
  9. Oregon Schools to Pay Students for Anonymous Tips
  10. RALLY: Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis, NYC, May 9
  11. Editorial: Another Isolated Incident
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Issue #78, 2/12/99
  1. Announcements
  2. As Certification Debate Nears, Mexico Declares "Total War" on Drugs
  3. White House Releases Drug Strategy Amid Criticism from Reformers
  4. New York State's Top Judge Calls For Rethinking of Rockefeller Drug Laws
  5. County Requests Federal Okay To Conduct Medical Marijuana Study
  6. Impact of the Closure of a Needle Exchange Program
  7. Editorial: Young Entrepreneurs and the Culture of Prohibition
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Issue #77, 2/5/99
  1. Fungus Funding
  2. Clinton's New Drug Control Strategy Repeats Mistakes of the Past
  3. Interview with Timothy Dunn
  4. Needle Exchange Controversy in Australia
  5. Memorial
  6. Event Info
  7. First Prisoner Released Under Michigan 650 Lifer Law Reform
  8. Increased Penalties, Prison Sentences Don't Deter Drug Use, ABA Study Finds
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Issue #76, 1/29/99
  1. Your Tax Dollars At Work: U.S. Developing Fungi to Kill Narcotics Plants
  2. Higher Education Act Student Reform Effort
  3. Rep. Ron Paul to Introduce Financial Privacy Legislation to Block Intrusive "Know Your Customer" Banking Rules
  4. Hemp for Victory
  5. Israel to Set Standards for Medicinal Use of Marijuana
  6. Life for Nonviolent Juveniles Proposed in Virginia
  7. The Lindesmith Center Drug Policy Seminar Series, January through April
  8. Conferences and Events
  9. Harm Reduction Training Institute, Winter '99 Calendar
  10. REPORT: Militarized Democracy in the Americas
  11. Editorial: Strange Logic
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Issue #75, 1/22/99
  1. Will Foster Parole Denied
  2. Senate Republicans Push a Drug-Free Century Act
  3. New York Mayor Giuliani Reverses Himself on Methadone
  4. California Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Kubby Arrested for Medical Marijuana
  5. Humboldt Residents Testify to Environmental Harm of Anti-Marijuana Helicopters
  6. Editorial: Standing at the Schoolhouse Door
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Issue #74, 1/15/99
  1. 10th Circuit Overturns Singleton Ruling: Feds May Trade Leniency for Testimony
  2. SNITCH
  3. Voice of the Prisoner
  4. Forfeiture Scandal in Missouri
  5. REPORT: Prohibition and Public Health
  6. Health Emergency 1999
  7. City of Oakland Files States' Rights Brief in Defense of Cannabis Co-op
  8. Peyote Foundation Tests Patience of Local Law Enforcement, May Test Arizona Religious Freedom Law
  9. Editorial: Buying Testimony, Perverting Justice
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Issue #73, 1/8/99
  1. Murder Charges Against Four in Baltimore Dismissed for Lack of Court Space
  2. Rehnquist to Congress: Stop Federalizing Crime
  3. SPECIAL REPORT: Canadian Citizens, Investors Busted for Hemp to Help Nicaraguan Hurricane Victims
  4. Ann Landers Speaks out On The Drug War, Marijuana Laws
  5. Syringe Exchange Protest in New Jersey
  6. Medicinal Marijuana in Hawai'i: A Review of Events
  7. Dutch Marijuana Use Half That Of America, Study Reveals
  8. MEDIA Alert: PBS Frontline to air "Snitch"
  9. Editorial: New Hope in California
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Issue #72, 12/24/98
  1. A Message to our Readers
  2. Livingston Out as Speaker, Drug Warrior Hastert Set to Take Gavel
  3. Court Hears Case to Decide Fate of D.C. Medical Marijuana Initiative
  4. Monitoring The Future Survey Released
  5. Appalachia: Under the Gun
  6. Editorial: Impeach This
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Issue #71, 12/18/98
  1. Diana McCague Sentenced for Syringe Exchange (Including McCague's Statement to the Court and Links to Prior Coverage of the Chai Project)
  2. ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Protest On Steps of New Jersey Statehouse
  3. Bills Seeking to Decriminalize Marijuana, Legalize Medical Marijuana and Legalize Hemp Cultivation to be Introduced in New Hampshire Legislature in 1999
  4. Patient Who Was Denied Liver Transplant For Using Medical Marijuana Dies
  5. MEDIA SPOTLIGHT: Drug Smuggling by U.S. Marines a Growing Problem
  6. Editorial: Unrighteous Indignation
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Issue #70, 12/11/98
  1. Exemplary Citizen to be Extradited on 25 Year-Old $10 Marijuana Conviction
  2. Supreme Court Strikes Down Car Search Law
  3. CONGRESSIONAL REPORT: Citibank Facilitated Salinas Money Laundering
  4. Exciting Resources Available Online
  5. Job Opportunity
  6. Fellowships and Academic Opportunities
  7. Giving the Gift of Hope
  8. Editorial: Human Rights Declared but Not Observed
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Issue #69, 12/4/98
  1. DRCNet Projects and Campaigns
  2. Alert: Show of Support Needed for New Jersey Needle Exchange
  3. U.S. Congress Triples Military Aid To Colombia
  4. REPORT: New York State Now Spending More On Prisons Than Higher Education
  5. Drug War Perjury Highlighted In Congressional Impeachment Hearings
  6. Thousands Protest at U.S. Army School of the Americas
  7. Swiss Legalization Referendum Fails, but Provides Hopeful Signs for Future
  8. Coalition Seeking DC Election Results Grows
  9. Editorial: Criminalizing our Children
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Issue #68, 11/20/98
  1. Federal Court To Decide on Legality of Testimony for Leniency Deals
  2. Amnesty International Report: Too Many Children Incarcerated in America
  3. Government Health Officials Deny Marijuana and Pain Study, Again
  4. Swiss To Vote on Drug Legalization
  5. Australian Officials Call For Heroin Maintenance
  6. Methadone Support and Advocacy Network Request for Proposals (RFP)
  7. Philadelphia Bar Association Holding Medical Marijuana Forum, 12/1
  8. And the Winner is...
  9. Editorial: Thanksgiving in a Time of (Drug) War
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Issue #67, 11/13/98
  1. 84% of Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences in Massachusetts Served by 1st-Time Offenders
  2. Protesters in District of Columbia Call for Release of I-59 Results
  3. Students Fight Back Against Higher Education Act Drug Provision
  4. Medical Marijuana Signature Gatherers Harassed by Sheriff in Florida
  5. Oregon Police Illegally Tapped Agricultural Supply Store's Phones -- Perhaps for Years
  6. British House of Lords Committee Calls for Medical Marijuana Access
  7. New German Government to Consider Legalizing Cannabis
  8. Quote of The Week
  9. Editorial: Remembering Veterans, Ignoring Lessons
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Issue #66, 11/6/98
  1. SWEEP!!!
  2. District of Columbia: Silencing the Voice of the Voters
  3. Arizona: Restoring the Will of the Voters
  4. Colorado: Ballot Status Uncertain, Voters Certain
  5. Oregon Perspective
  6. Report Finds Injection-Related AIDS Ravaging African American and Latino Communities -- Police Presence a Factor in Disease's Disproportionate Impact
  7. Supreme Court Hears Car Search Case
  8. DRCNet Launching STOPTHEDRUGWAR.ORG Web Site
  9. DRCNet Launches New "Activism" Online Discussion Group
  10. High School Honor Student Expelled for Sipping Sangria at Internship Party
  11. Editorial: Message Sent
  12. A Message from DRCNet to You
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Issue #65, 10/30/98
  1. Announcements
  2. STUDY: 13% Of Black Men Ineligible to Vote
  3. Mother Holding Child Shot By Police In Her Home
  4. Medical Marijuana Goes to Voters on Tuesday
  5. Forces Lined Up For and Against I-59
  6. Report From Oregon
  7. Court Ruling Ends Reverse Marijuana Sting Operations
  8. Tasmanian Government Wants Possession of Marijuana Legalized
  9. Editorial: The 13% Solution
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Issue #64, 10/23/98
  1. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Club Shuts Down, City Declares Medical Emergency
  2. Colombian President Calls for End to Eradication
  3. Grand Jury Fails to Indict in Death of Man Shot in Home
  4. Magazine Publishers of America Urges "Editorial Support" for PDFA Ad Campaign
  5. Washington DC Appropriations Bill Forbids District from Funding its own Syringe Exchange Program
  6. Scottish Citizens' Commission, Including Catholic Priest, Calls for Legalization, Reform
  7. Editorial: Death, But No Justice in Houston
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Issue #63, 10/16/98
  1. Why DRCNet?
  2. Federal Judge Orders Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Club Shut Down -- City to Consider Providing Marijuana to Patients
  3. Oregon Poll: Reform Positions Hold Lead
  4. Pain Went Up Sharply Among Oregon's Dying in Late 1997
  5. Swiss Okay Controlled Heroin Distribution
  6. Oklahoma Police Chief Threatens Harassment of Man Who Opposes the Drug War
  7. Marijuana Ranks Fourth Largest Cash Crop in America Despite Prohibition
  8. Social Concern a Sign of Teen Drug Use? Ask Orrin Hatch
  9. Car Seizure Law Upheld in Oakland
  10. "Driving While Black" Lawsuit Grows
  11. Web News
  12. Editorial: Putting People Before Ideology
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Issue #62, 10/09/98
  1. DRCNet Needs Your Help
  2. Drug Crazy Goes to Second Printing
  3. Harm Reduction Conference in Cleveland
  4. New Law Denies Student Loans to Non-Violent Drug Offenders
  5. Judge Dismisses Charges in George Singleton Case
  6. Oregon Initiatives
  7. Peter McWilliams Sues Attorney General for Failure to Enforce Prop. 215
  8. Editorial: Reality vs. Demagoguery
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Issue #61, 10/02/98
  1. DRCNet Passes 7,000 Mark, Eyegive Revenues Soaring
  2. New Jersey Needle Exchange Busted Again
  3. DRCNet Hits the Airwaves with Syndicated Weekly Program
  4. McCaffrey Seeks Expansion of Methadone Treatment
  5. Senate Mulls Whether to Prohibit Possession of Large Amounts of Cash by Travelers
  6. Police Corruption in UK at "Third World Levels"
  7. Hemp BC and Cannabis Cafe Raided Again, City Council Hearing Postponed
  8. California Supreme Court Rules On Parolee Searches
  9. Imprisonment for Legal Cooking Herbs in Oklahoma
  10. Report from Oregon
  11. Editorial: General McCaffrey Stands Up for Methadone Maintenance -- What Does He Want, a Medal?
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Issue #60, 9/25/98
  1. DRCNet Nearing the 7,000 Mark -- Your Voice Needed
  2. Alert: Congress Considers Jailing Children With Adults
  3. Alert: from the Andean Information Network
  4. On The Web
  5. Canadian Hemp Shop Bust Aided by U.S. Agents
  6. Hemp B.C. Business License Hearing Scheduled for Next Week
  7. Media Note: CBS Drama to Highlight Medical Marijuana
  8. Volunteers Needed for Washington, D.C. Medical Marijuana Initiative
  9. New Study Indicates that Cannabis Relieves Pain
  10. Drug War Militarization Bill Passes House Over Objections of Colombia
  11. Background on Juvenile Justice Bill
  12. Massacre in Ensenada, Mexico Hits Close to US
  13. Minnesota Marijuana Law Faces Constitutional Challenge
  14. Human Rights Activists Accuse Russian Police of Planting Drugs
  15. National Conference on Prisons This Weekend
  16. Editorial: Repentance for the Drug War
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Issue #59, 9/18/98
  1. Shattered Lives Book Offer Continues, Eyegive Participants Raising Valuable Funds for DRCNet
  2. Alert Feedback
  3. Free Will Foster Campaign Continues
  4. Attention Students
  5. DEA Raids Humboldt Cannabis Center, Destroys Patients' Medicine
  6. House Approves Anti-Medical Cannabis Resolution, Patient Arrested For Medicating in McCollum's Office
  7. Medical Marijuana On Ballot In D.C.
  8. Industrial Hemp Making Strides Worldwide
  9. Methadone Clinic Sues Fairfax Police
  10. Immigrant Children Used to Sell Cocaine in Vancouver's Black Market
  11. Editorial: Whose Privacy?
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Issue #58, 9/11/98
  1. A Note to Our Readers
  2. US-Trained, "Incorruptible" Mexican Anti-Narcotics Squad Widely Corrupted
  3. Alert: McCollum Drug Act Would Further Militarize Andean Drug War
  4. Texas Paper Releases Scathing Pentagon Review of Esequiel Hernandez Shooting
  5. Whitman, AIDS Council Still at Odds Over Needle Exchange
  6. Fayetteville City Council Rejects Random Drug Testing
  7. New Jersey Supreme Court Finds Right to Jury Trial in Forfeiture Cases
  8. March To Stop The Drug War, Berkeley, CA, 9/26
  9. First-Ever Global Conference on How To Legalize Cannabis
  10. Attention College Students!
  11. NY Attorney General Candidates Admit Past Marijuana Use
  12. Patient's Glaucoma Justified Medical Marijuana Use, Cultivation, Canadian Judge Rules
  13. Editorial: Long, Hot Summer
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Issue #57, 9/04/98
  1. Gray vs. Satel in Slate Online Magazine
  2. Federal Judge Rejects Oakland Buyers' Club Status, Rejects Government's Call for Immediate Shut-Down
  3. Police Seize Methadone Treatment Clinic Files
  4. In Response to Slaying, "Chad's Law" Will Place Stricter Limits on Use of Children as Informants in California
  5. Judge Finds City-Imposed Restrictions on Scheduled Marijuana Rally Unconstitutional
  6. Survey Finds American Teens Woefully Uninformed About Government
  7. California State Senate Adjourns Without Taking Action on Medical Marijuana Research Bill
  8. Afghani Opium Crop Grows Despite Taliban's Promises of Eradication
  9. Editorial: From Ignorance to Tyranny
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Issue #56, 8/28/98
  1. Household Survey Reports: Teen Marijuana Use Up Again
  2. Trial In Canada Brings Medical Marijuana To National Attention
  3. Private Researcher Plants First Medical Marijuana Crop
  4. Media Alert: DARE Criticized in Houston
  5. News Briefs
  6. New DRCNet Mailing Lists
  7. Events
  8. Editorial: Spin, You Win
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Issue #55, 8/21/98
  1. Prison, Probation and Parole Populations Growing Rapidly
  2. American Psychological Association Calls for Repeal of Mandatory Minimums
  3. Conference: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, Berkeley, CA, 9/25 - 9/27
  4. Giuliani Carries out Methadone Threat
  5. Methadone Conferences Coming Up -- In New York!
  6. REPORT: Marijuana Prohibition Has Not Curtailed Marijuana Use by Adolescents
  7. West Australia Decriminalizes Marijuana On "Trial" Basis
  8. Peter McWilliams Released on Bond
  9. War on Drugs Blamed for Lapse in Ethical Standards of Federal Prosecutors
  10. Driving While Black: Legislative Alert from the American Civil Liberties Union
  11. Editorial: One in Thirty-Five
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Issue #54, 8/14/98
  1. Study Comes Out Against Jailing of Women Who Use Drugs During Pregnancy
  2. Canadian Member of Parliament to Introduce Motion on Heroin Trials
  3. Australian Families and Friends Groups Hold "Voice Day" in Queensland, September 1st
  4. Cannabis Club Staff Designated as Officers of City of Oakland
  5. NIDA Ignores Own Experts' Advice to Provide Marijuana for Medical Research
  6. Harm Reduction Conference in New Jersey
  7. Conferences Coming Up
  8. Editorial: An Injustice in California
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Issue #53, 8/07/98
  1. Marijuana Arrests Up For 6th Straight Year in California
  2. Chavez Turns Down Plea Bargain
  3. Arizona Supreme Court Judge Sides with Legislative Council, Voting Pamphlet Will List "Heroin, LSD, and Some Forms of PCP" in Prop. 300 Description
  4. D.C. Appropriations Bill Would Ban Even Local Spending on Needle Exchange
  5. Misusing the Evidence
  6. British Columbia Looks to Harm Reduction Strategy
  7. National Party of Western Australia to Debate Heroin Maintenance
  8. Health of Afghani Women Deteriorating Under Taliban Regime
  9. Citizens Truth Commissions
  10. Fall 1998 Soros Fellowships in Drug Policy Studies
  11. Conferences Coming Up
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Issue #52, 7/31/98
  1. NJ NEP Workers' Conviction Upheld in Appeals Court
  2. Oakland City Council Votes To Shield Local Cannabis Dispensary From Federal Prosecution Controversy Over Searches
  3. D.O.J. Asks for Dismissal of Hemp Suit
  4. Feds Indict Peter McWilliams, Todd McCormick and Others, Alleging Vast Conspiracy To Supply Medical Marijuana
  5. Peaceful Prison Protest Earns Solitary Confinement
  6. Action Request: The Tax Stamp Controversy
  7. New Zealand Health Ministry: Pot Poses No Serious Risk
  8. Newsbriefs
  9. Link of the Week
  10. A Campaign for Substance Awareness
  11. Debating Points
  12. Office of National Drug Control Policy Hard at Work
  13. Editorial: The Pompano Beach Twelve
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Issue #51, 7/24/98
  1. New York Mayor Giuliani Threatens to End Methadone Maintenance
  2. Marijuana Reform Party Organizes in New York State
  3. Orange County Medical Marijuana Distributor Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
  4. Oakland City Council Votes Again To Support Medical Cannabis
  5. Oppose Harsh New Mandatory Minimums -- Urge Congress to Vote Against H.R. 3898 -- an action alert from the Drug Policy Foundation
  6. Strip Searches at O'Hare Get U.S. Senator's Attention
  7. Drug War Briefs
  8. Quote of the Week Milton Friedman on Drugs
  9. An Interview with Dr. Robert Newman: methadone maintenance, and the self-inflicted wounds of the methadone establishment
  10. Editorial: Prohibition, Punishment and Plano, Texas
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Issue #50, 7/17/98
  1. Week Online Hits 50th Issue, DRCNet on the Move
  2. Drug Crazy Update
  3. Drug Czar Gets Facts Wrong Again... Infuriates Dutch on Eve of Visit
  4. Wire Report of the Week
  5. Prohibition Poll on Time Online
  6. Taliban Ban Television
  7. Legislative Update
  8. Editorial: The General Invades (and Insults and Infuriates) The Netherlands
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Issue #49, 7/10/98
  1. Government Kicks Off Billion Dollar Anti-Drug Ad Campaign
  2. Feds File Motion Allowing Marshals to Shut Down Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
  3. Oakland City Council Adopts Liberal Medical Marijuana Guidelines
  4. Reports: Correlation Between Alcohol and Crime Much Stronger than Correlation Between Illicit Drugs and Crime
  5. Federal Study Suggests Marijuana May Prevent Brain Damage in Stroke Victims
  6. Anti-Needle Exchange H.R. 3717 Moves to Senate
  7. Michigan Legislature Reforms "650 Lifer" Law
  8. Heicklen Arrested at Start Of 30 Hour Protest at Central Pennsylvania Festival Of The Arts
  9. Special Report: Drug Policy Down Under
  10. Editorial: Running Ads vs. Protecting Kids
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Issue #48, 7/2/98
  1. Join the DRCNet Thousand
  2. Point and Click for Drug Policy Reform
  3. U.S., U.K. Plan Biological Warfare in Opium-Producing Nations
  4. Canadian Doctors Call for Opiate Maintenance, but Attorney General Cites "Bad Message"
  5. Treatment-Resistant AIDS Spreading, Bolstering Case for Syringe Exchange
  6. On Polling Numbers and Syringe Exchange in New Jersey
  7. FDA Orders Books Destroyed
  8. Crop Eradication Leaves Lebanon Peasants Hungry
  9. News Briefs
  10. Orlando, FL: Statewide Medical Marijuana Conference, 7/25
  11. Washington State Medical Marijuana Initiative Submits Signatures
  12. Independence Day for KY Farmers: University of Kentucky to Release Hemp Research
  13. Editorial: Who's a Fraud?
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Issue #47, 6/26/98
  1. German Police Call for an End to the Drug War
  2. PRIDE Teen Survey
  3. U.S. Pressures Colombia to Spray Dangerous Herbicide in Eradication Efforts
  4. Pastrana Elected President of Colombia
  5. California Legislature to Debate Measure Providing Medical Marijuana Distribution By Local Communities
  6. Professor Julian Heicklen in Jail
  7. FEDS: Drug Lords Attempted to Buy Russian Submarine
  8. First Amendment Rights of Alternative Media Threatened in Austin, Texas
  9. "Coincidences" at Pain Patient Rally
  10. Editorial: The New "L-Word"
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Issue #46, 6/19/98
  1. McCaffrey Calls Legalization Movement "a devious fraud" -- Senator Biden Proposes Hearings
  2. Republican Drug War Amendment to Tobacco Bill Passes Senate, but Legislation Will Likely Fizzle
  3. Pain Patients Protest at Capitol, Blast DEA and Medical Boards
  4. Report on the Heroin Maintenance Conference in New York
  5. Money Laundering Sting Sparks International Incident
  6. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Aided in Money Laundering
  7. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Recommends Decriminalization
  8. French Government Report: Marijuana Poses Less Danger Than Alcohol
  9. District of Columbia Medical Marijuana Initiative Seeking Volunteers, Petition Deadline Coming Up
  10. Editorial: A Marker on the Path to Sanity
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Issue #45, 6/5/98
  1. DEA Holds Hearing on Use of Herbicide in Eradication
  2. "Big Six" Accounting Firm Bought Laundered Currency at Discount, US Government Says
  3. Man Whose Grandmother's Ashes Were Mistaken for Methamphetamine Suing for Wrongful Imprisonment
  4. Proposed "Multinational Anti-Narcotics Base" in Panama Now Uncertain
  5. US to Build Anti-Drug Military Training Center in Peru
  6. Medical Necessity Defense Allowed in McWilliams Case
  7. California Global Days
  8. California Primaries Report
  9. Hemp Update
  10. Nominations Being Accepted for DPF Awards
  11. Editorial: The UN, Making the World Safe for War
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Issue #44, 5/28/98
  1. Drug Crazy Hits the Stores!
  2. Final Week for Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts Offer!
  3. Colombian Soldiers Being Trained By US Special Forces
  4. Helicopter Manufacturers Battle Over Which Will Arm Colombians
  5. Washington: Conference on Latin American and the Drug War
  6. Medical Marijuana Summit in California
  7. California Medical Association Calls for Rescheduling of Marijuana
  8. Speaking at Medical Marijuana Conference Lands Patient in Jail
  9. Geriatric Prison Approved for Construction in Oklahoma
  10. Romania's Secret Service Implicated in Cigarette Smuggling
  11. Web Site News
  12. Quote and Link of the Week
  13. Editorial: Medicinal Marijuana, Summits and Balloons
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Issue #43 5/22/98
  1. "Operation Casablanca": Feds' Big Money Laundering Bust Amounts to Chump Change
  2. 40 Events Scheduled for Global Days Against the Drug War
  3. Another Bad Raid, Another Lawsuit for the City of New York
  4. Reverend Calvin Butts Calls Rudolph Giuliani "Racist"
  5. Medical Marijuana Summit Scheduled in California
  6. House Amendment to Higher Education Bill Bars Marijuana Smokers from Receiving Student Aid
  7. Bolivian Anti-Drug Squadron Eats Disabled Peasant's Fruit Crop, Leaving Her Without Income
  8. Quote of the Week: Milton Friedman on Colombia
  9. Media Alert: Brandweek Takes on the Partnership
  10. Link of the Week: Oregonians for Medical Rights
  11. New Book: Dark Alliance by Gary Webb tells the whole CIA-Crack Story
  12. Job Announcement: DPF Hiring an Assistant Communications Director
  13. Editorial: Bad raids
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Issue #42 5/15/98
  1. Preliminary Injunction Granted Against 6 California Buyers' Clubs: Medical Marijuana to Get its Day in Court
  2. Kentucky Farmers Seek Federal Court Ruling on Hemp
  3. Santa Clara County Buyers' Club Closes After Police Seize Assets
  4. Portland MS Patient Found Guilty of Marijuana Possession, Manufacturing
  5. Another Botched Raid in New York, Another Innocent Family Terrorized in the Name of "Our Children"
  6. San Mateo County Votes to Study Medicinal Marijuana: Says Research Will Provide Access for Patients
  7. Record Two Million Private Conversations Monitored by Government in 1997
  8. Forfeiture Victims Need Help
  9. Medical Journal Reports AIDS Patient's Persistent Hiccups Relieved by Marijuana
  10. Editorial: McLies
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Issue #41, 5/10/98
  1. Large Swath Of Appalachia Declared High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
  2. Federal Marijuana Eradication Program Seizes Nothing but Ditchweed, State Auditor's Report Says
  3. Indiana Reporter Arrested After Exposing Drug Task Force Corruption
  4. Memorial: Wesley Pomeroy, Law Enforcement Professional, Outspoken Advocate of Reform
  5. California: Dave Herrick Denied Medical Defense
  6. Student-Activist Arrested at RIT
  7. Jurors Outraged at Mandatory Life Without Parole for Woman after First Offense
  8. Australian Study: Marijuana Decriminalization Has No Impact on Rates of Use
  9. Editorial: Substances, Substances
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Issue #40, 5/3/98
  1. DRCNet Special Report: Drug War Under Fire from Left, Right -- The Battle Begins
  2. Members of Congressional Black Caucus Call for Drug Czar's Resignation Over Syringe Exchange
  3. Kemba's Nightmare, Part II
  4. Marijuana Activist Arrested After Appearing on Frontline
  5. Medical Marijuana in California
  6. Julian Heicklen: Penn State Protest Update
  7. Opiate Maintenance Conferences in New York
  8. Editorial: Prohibition's Final Battle
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Issue #39, 4/24/98
  1. Medical Marijuana Protesters Have Charges Dropped
  2. Clinton Administration Declares Syringe Exchange Safe and Effective: But Will Not Lift Ban
  3. Soros Pledges Additional $1 Million for Needle Exchanges in U.S.
  4. Hemispheric Leaders Pledge Cooperation in Global Drug War
  5. Belgium Decriminalizes Cannabis
  6. Editorial: Tobacco, the Newest Drug
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Issue #38, 4/17/98
  1. Week Online Reprint Policy
  2. UN Ambassador Richardson heads to Afghanistan... Narcotics Tops Agenda
  3. "Global Days Against the Drug War" United Nations Protest Takes Shape
  4. Press Release: Dutch Study Finds Marijuana Use Lower than Previously Thought
  5. Commerce Department Report: Over 100 Million People Online... but most of them not on DRCNet
  6. College Student Suspended for Two Semesters for Protesting "Zero-Tolerance" Policy
  7. Special Report: Medical Marijuana in Canada, and its Potential Impact on the US
  8. Events Coming Up
  9. Editorial: The 4-20 Debate
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Issue #37, 4/10/98
  1. DRCNet Exclusive: Syringe Exchange Funding Ban Decision to be Released Within Two Weeks
  2. Oakland Asset Forfeiture Law Challenged -- and, Federal Forfeiture Update
  3. Senate Would Extend Marijuana Prohibition to Include Medical Research
  4. Felony Charges for Woman Cultivating Marijuana for Ukiah Cannabis Buyers' Club
  5. "It's the Pain, Stupid": Kevorkian, Pain, and the DEA
  6. Vaclav Havel Vetoes Bill Criminalizing Drug Possession
  7. Update on Drug and Harm Reduction Policies in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
  8. German Doctors Vote in Favor of Heroin Prescription
  9. Drug Policy Letter Focuses on Women and Drugs
  10. Medical and Public Health Organizations Oppose Criminalization of Pregnant Addicts
  11. Editorial: Vaclav Havel's Second Prague Spring
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Issue #36, 4/3/98
  1. DRCNet Membership Drive a Success -- New Offer for April
  2. "Free Will Foster" Rally to be Held in Oklahoma City
  3. Aids Advisory Council to Vote on Resolution Calling for Shalala's Resignation
  4. Shalala Milk Ad Parodied by Pro-Needle Exchange Group
  5. Senate Fails to Reverse Mexico's Certification
  6. Lungren Motion Denied: San Francisco Buyers' Club to Remain Open Pending Jury Trial
  7. Multiple Sclerosis Patient, in Act of Civil Disobedience, Consumes Cannabis in Congressional Office
  8. RIT Students Defend Open Debate: Campus Marijuana Law Reform Group Pushes for University Recognition
  9. Murdered Teen Informant Made Deal Directly with Brea Police
  10. Lawmakers Call for Further Arms Buildup in Colombia
  11. High-Powered New Zealand Group Issues Report: Legalize And Regulate Cannabis
  12. Link Of The Week: An Up-Close Look at the Action
  13. Editorial: Escalation in Colombia -- On a path into the jungle
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Issue #35, 3/27/98
  1. Leaked McCaffrey Letter Indicates Opposition to Lifting Syringe Exchange Funding Ban
  2. 17 Year-Old Police Informant Killed, Girlfriend Raped and Shot in California
  3. Plano, Texas Undercover Police Bought Heroin Six Times for 16 Year-Old Recovering Addict
  4. A Strong Day in Court for Medical Marijuana in California: Further Arguments to be Heard April 6
  5. House Delays Vote on Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution: Still Time to Contact Your Congressional Representative
  6. Campus Group Advocating Marijuana Law Reform Denied Recognition by University President
  7. Penn State Professor Appears at Hearing: Continues Protest
  8. Basketball Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Busted for Pot at Canadian Border: Claims Medicinal Use
  9. DRCNet Special Report: Colombian Situation Worsens - U.S. Military Involvement Stepped Up - Backsliding Toward a Quagmire?
  10. Classified DEA Report Says Drug Corruption in Mexican Military More Serious Than Previously Believed
  11. Swiss Gov't Angered by World Health Organization's Delay in Evaluating Heroin Maintenance Trial
  12. Editorial: War crimes and quagmires... how low can we go, and where are we headed?
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Issue #34, 3/20/98
  1. Global Days Against the Drug War -- Demonstrations Planned to Protest U.N. Special Session on Narcotics -- Please Join the Coalition
  2. President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Votes "No Confidence" in Administration -- Demands Immediate Action on Syringe Exchange
  3. Major New Study Calls for Treatment Instead of Prisons
  4. The Makings of a Constitutional Crisis? California City Officials Back Medical Marijuana Outlets Vs. Feds
  5. Medical Marijuana Ballot Proposal Filed in Nevada
  6. Heicklen Update: Penn State Professor Still Challenging System
  7. California Cops Teach Parenting Classes -- "Lie to your kids," They Say
  8. Illinois Study Finds D.A.R.E. Graduates Using More Drugs than Their Peers
  9. Federal Agency Finds International Drug War a Total Failure
  10. Medical Marijuana Patient/Activist Meets with Canadian Health Minister
  11. UK Cannabis Campaign -- 2 out of 3 New MP's Favor Royal Commission Review of Drug Laws
  12. American Choice for President of Colombia Quits Campaign
  13. Malaysia to Drug Test Students
  14. Editorial: A call goes up for public health, but our government is at war
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Issue #33, 3/13/98
  1. Colorado: Needle Exchange Killed in Committee -- Activists Vow Civil Disobedience if Necessary
  2. President's Advisory Commission on AIDS to Meet Next Week -- Action on Needle Exchange to be Debated: In the wake of last year's talk of resignations, the call goes up for a strong stance by commissioners.
  3. A Conversation with Robert Fogel, Member of President's Advisory Commission on AIDS: What actions will the commission take in the face of the administration's inaction on the federal ban?
  4. Medical Marijuana Rally in San Francisco: The Feds are doing all they can to thwart the implementation of Prop. 215... On Tuesday, March 24, the opening day of the federal lawsuit against the buyers' clubs, Californians will march in protest.
  5. CNN Online Poll -- 96% Favor Legalizing Medical Marijuana: The people send a message to the politicians.
  6. Special Legislative Alert -- Contact Congress Today! House of Representatives to Debate the Medical Use of Marijuana: A "Sense of the House" resolution opposing medical mj, and efforts to legalize it, heads to the floor -- here's an opportunity to tell them what you think!
  7. Bill in Oklahoma Would Allow the Governor to Call Out the National Guard in Drug Cases: A step toward the further militarization of the Drug War.
  8. New Drug Testing Bill Approved in Iowa Legislature



    Special Cannabis Legalization Debate in Britain Comes to a Boil -- Three Stories

  9. In Radio Call-In Poll, 84% of Young Brits Claim a "Right" to Use Drugs: Also... see this week's editorial.
  10. House of Lords to Study Cannabis: The debate is taken up at the highest levels of the British government.
  11. Massive Cannabis Legalization March to be Held in London: Brits to take to the streets to call for reform.
  12. Editorial: Americans, the Drug War, and the concept of rights.
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Issue #32, 3/6/98
  1. Legislators Blast Mexico Certification: Resolutions to Overturn Introduced in Both Houses
  2. U.S. House Panel Approves Resolution Against Medical Marijuana
  3. Newt Gingrich Calls for Lifetime Ban of Drug-Using Athletes Who Refuse to Snitch
  4. Violent Week in Giuliani's New York Drug War
  5. Medical Marijuana Initiative Filed in Washington State
  6. Federal Agent Cleared in Shooting of Candy Bar-Holding Teen: Plus -- An Interview with Robert Godosky, the Teen's Attorney
  7. Professor's Penn State Pot Protest Continues
  8. California Inmates Get Ruling -- but no Justice -- in Sexual Assault Case
  9. Industrial Hemp Legalized in Canada!
  10. French Artists, Intellectuals Sign Petition Challenging Drug Laws
  11. Irish Priest Urges Legalization
  12. Quote of the Week: Who's the most "silly son-of-a- bitch" in Colorado politics?
  13. Editorial: A real live shooting war in America
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Issue #31, 2/27/98
  1. DRCNet Special Report: American Public Health Association Holds Congressional Briefing on Syringe Exchange
  2. It's "Certification" Time Again: Mexico Makes the Grade, Colombia Doesn't -- But Sanctions Will Be Lifted
  3. Colorado State Senate Okays Needle Exchange: Republican State Chair Explictly Threatens Reps Who Vote in Favor!
  4. House Republicans Declare: Damn the Science, Full Speed Ahead! Approve Resolution Opposing Any Use of Marijuana As Medicine (reprinted from Norml Weekly News)
  5. Hollywood Group Promises More Anti-Drug Themes (Also -- See This Week's Editorial)
  6. State Legislators Launch Counterattack on Prop 215 in California
  7. California Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Buyers' Clubs
  8. No Federal Charges to be Filed Against Marine Who Shot Hernandez
  9. Editorial: Hollywood and the Drug War
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Issue #30, 2/20/98
  1. Medical Marijuana Support Fund Established: New coalition providing assistance for grassroots medical marijuana projects.
  2. Gingrich Calls Clinton's New Drug Strategy "The Definition of Failure," Pledges GOP Legislative Package
  3. World Health Organization Suppresses Report Finding Marijuana Safer than Alcohol and Tobacco
  4. Needle Exchange Volunteer Arrested in New Jersey: Letters are needed!
  5. Protesting Penn State Professor Julian Heicklen, Fourt Others to be Charged. ALSO: 18 Year-Old High School Student Suspended for 3 Days Without Hearing for Being Arrested with Heicklen
  6. Ex-Michigan Gov: Drug Lifer Law "Inhumane"
  7. Medical Marijuana Activists to Open Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Across Eastern Canada (reprinted from NORML Weekly News)
  8. Interview with Canadian Medical Marijuana Activist Peter Young
  9. Classmates of UK Home Secretary Straw's Son Hand Him Petition for Legalization of Cannabis
  10. Job Opportunity: Drug Policy Foundation seeks Public Policy Director
  11. Editorial: Bill, Newt, and the coming battle over the war.
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Issue #29, 2/13/98
  1. ONDCP 1999 Drug Strategy to be Released This Saturday: Another "ten year plan" but a lot more of the same.
  2. 69th Anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The incident that caused national outrage, and led to the end of alcohol prohibition pales in comparison to today's prohibition-related violence.
  3. Canadian, American Officials Meet to Discuss Smuggling: But which way are the drugs flowing?
  4. Judge Moves Dennis Peron's Trial Back to Oakland: But Peron says he'll not be convicted in any venue.
  5. Penn State Professor Continues Marijuana Civil Disobedience for Fourth Consecutive Week: Yet to be arrested, Heicklen wants a trial by jury.
  6. Cooperation, Certification,and Corruption: U.S., Mexico, and Drug War Relations: An agreement is released in the wake of more corruption charges against a high ranking Mexican official. Just in time for the annual certification fight.
  7. Olympic Snowboarder Still High on Nagano Gold: Rebagliati gets to keep his medal.
  8. Allegations of Corruption Leveled Against Australian Anti-Drug Police Unit
  9. Editorial: Give us just one good reason why the Olympic Committee is testing athletes for marijuana.
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Issue #28, 2/6/98
  1. Attention All Students: Plug in, Stand up, Speak out!! DRCNet invites you to join U-NET, a campus-based discussion list and strategy forum for current and prospective drug policy activists
  2. Alert: Call to Action -- Johnnie Mae Brown, employed mother and tireless volunteer, is still being held on a 26 year-old warrant for fleeing drug treatment! We need a much larger response, and we have new contact information.
  3. California Correspondent Needed: The Week Online is seeking one or two individuals to cover the rapidly evolving California drug policy scene.
  4. 200 March in Protest of Surveillance Cameras in Washington Square Park
  5. A Conversation with Norman Siegel, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
  6. Enormous Drug-Corruption Scandal Rocks Scotland Yard: One of the world's most respected police forces succumbs to Prohibition's temptations.
  7. Canadian Activists Vow Massive Civil Disobedience: Will open numerous medical marijuana outlets.
  8. Mexican Unit Conducting Inquiry into Disappearances Found to be Infiltrated by Drug Traffickers
  9. Editorial: Surveillance, Corruption, and the War on Drugs
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Issue #27, 1/30/98
  1. Please Respond! Recovered Addict Arrested and Incarcerated for Fleeing Treatment -- in 1972!
  2. Officials in Oakland, San Francisco Oppose Federal Efforts to Close Medical Marijuana Outlets...
  3. ...and Mendocino County Sends Even A Stronger Message
  4. Florida's Cabinet Votes to Oppose Medical Marijuana Initiative: But the Signature Drive is Underway, and Drcnet Members are Urged to Volunteer!!
  5. High School Libraries Censor Marijuana Research Book Despite Wide Scientific Praise
  6. Penn State Professor Stages Second Protest -- and is Assaulted by Campus Police Chief
  7. 44 Ohio Cops Charged with Drug-Corruption
  8. Reno Delays Release of CIA/Crack Cocaine Report
  9. Former Mexican Governor Arrested for Money Laundering
  10. Drugs for Arms in Northern Ireland
  11. Former Scotland Yard Drug Chief Urges Legalization of Drugs
  12. Link of the Week: The Chicago Police are Looking for a Few Good Snitches
  13. Editorial: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Death of Common Sense...
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Issue #26, 1/23/98
  1. New York City Mayor Giuliani is Caught Suppressing Report Of His Own Aids Commission On Needle Exchange...
  2. ...But Gets $120 Million from Clinton For More Cops For His New Zero Tolerance Drug War
  3. Justice Department Report: 100,000 More Americans Behind Bars
  4. Two Southern California Medical Marijuana Clubs Targeted by Law Enforcement
  5. 17 Year-Old First Time Offender Faces 10 Years for Role in $20 Marijuana Sale: Excerpt from the Norml Weekly News Bulletin
  6. HHS to Conduct Binding Review of Marijuana's Prohibitive Status: Excerpt from the Norml Weekly News Bulletin
  7. Legal Marijuana Smokers Testify at Institute of Medicine's Public Hearing on Medicinal Marijuana: Press Release from the Marijuana Policy Project
  8. Forums: Boston 1/29, Minneapolis 2/5, San Francisco, 2/5
  9. New Hampshire Man Kept Behind Bars for Refusing to Acknowledge God in his Recovery
  10. Penn State Professor Protests Pot Laws with One-Man Smoke-in
  11. Miami School Drug Test Plan Altered
  12. Editorial: From Dr. King's Dream to Drug War Nightmare
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Issue #25, 1/15/98
  1. Vasconcellos Calls for Medical Marijuana Access in Face of Federal Action Against Clubs
  2. Defense Fund Established for Buyers' Club Defendants
  3. Washington State Bill Authorizing Medical Marijuana to be Considered: Your responses needed!
  4. Pentagon Proposes Ending Military Border Patrols
  5. President Clinton Signs Directive: Authorizes $200 Million to try to Reduce Drugs Use... in Prisons
  6. EU Parliament Delays Vote on Drug Commission Report
  7. Colombian Foreign Minister: "If US Doesn't Certify Us, There Will be a Political Earthquake"
  8. British Medical Journal, Lancet, Calls on US to Act on Needle Exchange
  9. New Australian Harm Reduction-Based Drug-Ed Program Sends Kids to Teach Kids
  10. Nuclear Cruiser USS California Deployed in Drug War
  11. Harm Reduction Workshop in Boston
  12. Editorial
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Issue #24, 1/9/98
  1. A Look Ahead at 1998
  2. War on Patients to Escalate: Federal Government Announces Plan to Raid Cannabis Buyers' Clubs
  3. DRCNet Exclusive!! British Euro-MP's Ordered by Blair to Vote Against Commission Recommendations for EU Drug Policy
  4. Ann Landers, Anthony Lewis Trash Drug War: DRCNet subscribers are urged to respond!
  5. Candle Correction
  6. Giuliani Pledges a "Drug Free New York"
  7. Heroin in New England -- Cheaper, Purer Than Ever
  8. Federal Anti-Drug Ad Campaign to Hit Airwaves
  9. America "Works With" Her International Partner
  10. U.S. Counternarcotics Base to Replace Air Force Base When Panama Canal is Turned Over
  11. Signature Drive Underway for Industrial Hemp Ballot Initiative in California
  12. UK: Home Secretary's Son Found Dealing Cannabis, Legaliation Debate Rages
  13. Australian Cops: "Policign is not the Answer"
  14. "Smoke a Joint, Lose a Limb?": Pending Mississippi Bill Threatens Dismemberment For Convicted Drug Violators
  15. Student Suspension Overturned
  16. Jury Nullification Ballot Initiative in California
  17. Job Opportunity at DPF
  18. Editorial: A "Drug Free New York"? C'mon Rudy
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Issue #23, 12/20/97

  1. Transfer interrupted!

    from DRCNet
  2. California's Prison Population Expected to Increase Dramatically
  3. California Court Rules Cannabis Buyers' Clubs Not "Caregivers" Under 215: But Peron and SF Prosecutor Hallinan think there's a way out.
  4. Report on Institute of Medicine's First Public Hearing on Medicinal Marijuana
  5. Cannabis Decriminalization Conference in the UK: The Independent on Sunday hosts an historic beginning to a national debate.
  6. Health Canada Set to Approve Medical Marijuana on a Case-by-Case Basis: "There is no problem with marijuana as medicine" says Canada's chief regulator.
  7. Media Alert from Families Against Mandatory Minimums: Women bearing brunt of unjust sentencing.
  8. November Coalition Spearheads National Show of Protest: "A Light in the Window" for the holidays, for the duration, until the prisoners of the Drug War come home.
  9. Editorial: The drug warriors claim they are "Protecting our children"? Sacrificing them in service to Drug War profiteers is more like it.
  10. How to Donate to DRCNet
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Issue #22, 12/12/97
  1. Point and Click for Drug Policy Reform: Innovative web site lets you raise money for DRCNet, just by following a few web links once a day. AND: How to support DRCNet with a tax-deductible, end-of-the-year donation.
  2. The Week Online Welcomes Tim Devlin: Veteran Canadian journalist and broadcaster adds his voice to the international beat.
  3. Canadian Court Declares Medical Marijuana Prohibition Unconstitutional: A huge victory for patients. National reform may well follow.
  4. President's Advisory Council on AIDS Issues Tough Report: Sets Deadline for Lifting Ban on Needle Exchange Funding.
  5. American Medical Association: "Let Doctors, Patients Discuss Medical Marijuana" -- Prestigious medical organization's resolution rebuffs feds' attempted intimidation of doctors.
  6. Denver City Council Approves Needle Exchange... but state must act first to change law.
  7. George Soros Signs on to Indepent on Sunday's Cannabis Campaign... On the eve of an historic conference on the issue.
  8. Key West Medical Marijuana Club Founder Freed: Judge Okays First-Ever "Medical Necessity Distribution Defense". (from the NORML Foundation)
  9. Poll: Americans consider drug abuse "greatest threat facing kids.
  10. French Minister of Health Calls Medical Marijuana Legalization "Obvious": The once hard-line government starts to take a new look at drug policy.
  11. Australian Mayors: Enforcement "Will Not Work": A call to the national government to change strategy.
  12. Columbian President Press Secretary and a Reporter Kidnapped by Cartels: American Prohibition continues to undermine order.
  13. Link of the Week: Cast your vote and state your case in National Review's on-line medical marijuana survey.
  14. Editorial: The drums of reform are getting louder.
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Issue #21, 12/5/97
  1. British Correspondents Needed: The Week Online is currently looking for two individuals to cover the scene in the U.K.
  2. Harvard Study Finds Mandatory Sentences Wasteful: The study, led by an Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, is strong evidence in the case against mandatory minimums.
  3. Stydy Finds Racial Disparities in Drug Sentences in Alabama: Really? Hmm.
  4. Clinton Backs UN Drug Car's Planto Give Economic Aid to the Taleban in Exchange for Opium Eradication: Once again, America is put in bed with the devil by its drug warrior leaders.
  5. New Hampshire Legislator Introduces Medical Marijuana, Hemp Bills: "It's time to discuss these issues" says lawmaker.
  6. Prohibition-Induced Gang Warfare on Native American Reservation: 50 shots fired between children battling over drug turf.
  7. Colombia Passes Extradition Legislation... But it Won't be Retroactive: US isn't satisfied, hints that recertification decision will be impacted.
  8. Mexico: Gun Battle at Border Kills Guard, and Newspaper Editor Shot by Cartel. More Prohibition-related violence.
  9. UK's New "Drug Czar" Rejects Legalization of Cannabis: Despite growing pressure, Hellawell claims it won't happen.
  10. Quote of the Week: Mr. Hellawell should hear what was said about the possibility of repealing Alcohol Prohibition in America!
  11. Drug Policy Institute Accepting Applications: Arnold Trebach, author, and founder of the Drug Policy Foundation, hosts a valuable program in Europe for the summer of '98.
  12. Editorial: Supporting barbarians in the drug war.
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Issue #20, 11/23/97
  1. Texas Okays More Prison Construction: In a state where prison capacity has tripled since 1992, and where prisons are expected to once again be full by April, 4,120 new beds will be added.
  2. NIH Panel Urges Loosening of Restrictions on Methadone: A study released this week by the National Institutes of Health echoes the recent call by Barry McCaffrey to make methadone more easily available.
  3. Study Shows that Early Onset of Drug Use Makes Addiction Harder to Break: People who start to use drugs at very early ages have the hardest time breaking future addictions.
  4. Brazilian Rock Band Incarcerated for Improper Lyrics: Members of the band "Planet Hemp" face 3 to 15 years behind bars because its lyrics "support" marijuana use, according to Brazilian officials.
  5. Canadian Mounties Target Medical Marijuana: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have set out to break up a medical marijuana network, close on the heels of a poll showing 83 percent public approval of medical marijuana.
  6. Six-Year-Old Suspended from School for Sharing Lemon Drops: Authorities call in ambulance and fire department.
  7. BBC Taking Online Poll/Comments on Marijuana Legalization: We'll tell you how to participate.
  8. Public Forum in Minneapolis: Public forum in Minnesota on Drug Policy Reform legislation in Connecticut.
  9. Editorial: Giving thanks in a time of (Drug) War.
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Issue #19, 11/15/97
  1. NJ Needle Exchange Continues Legal Battle: Medical Necessity Defense Rejected By Judge.
  2. Virginia Pushes Envelope on Pain Control: Medical Society Calls For Greater Acceptance Of Narcotics.
  3. Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine: Revised and Expanded Edition of the Landmark Book by Grinspoon and Bakalar.
  4. Media Alert: Magazine Does Hatchet Job on San Francisco's Reform-Minded District Attorney.
  5. Events: The Reformer's Calendar Updated -- Events Coming Right Up!
  6. Junior High Student Suspended for Supplying Cough Drop
  7. Drug Czar "Sends a Message" to the Pentagon Over Anti- Drug Budget: Military Reluctant To Expand Drug War Involvement.
  8. Shultz And Friedman Tell California Cops "Drug War is a Dismal Failure"
  9. Undercover Federal Narc Shoots Teen Holding Candy Bar
  10. Consumption of (Legal) Alcohol Plunges
  11. 18 Students Share Needle in Science Class
  12. 51% of Canadians Favor Decriminalization of Marijuana
  13. Clinton Removes Syria, Lebanon From List of "Problem" Drug Trafficking Nations
  14. Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferer Gets 9-Month Suspended Sentence in England: Patient Plans to Take Case to European Court of Human Rights.
  15. Colorado Governor Calls for Sentencing Reform: Prefers Alternatives to Incarceration and Educational Spending.
  16. Editorial: Youth are Victims of Drug War.
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Issue #18, 11/7/97
  1. Washington Initiative Fails at Ballot: No one said this was going to be easy...
  2. McWilliams Case Set Back: Judges "changes mind" on medical necessity defense.
  3. California Medical Marijuana Providers Conference: Groups sign on to principles and guidelines document.
  4. Patient Threatened with Arrest after Seeking Dialogue: Yuba County accused of violating Prop. 215.
  5. South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Eight Year Prison Sentence for Woman Whose Baby was Born with Drugs in System: Decision bodes poorly for those most in need of pre-natal care.
  6. Prohibition at Work: Mexican law enforcement officers once again involved in sometimes lethal criminal activities.
  7. Canadian Passports New Currency in Illegal Drug Market: Formerly unimpeachable documentation falls victim to international black market in drugs.
  8. Poll: British MP's Would Modify Cannabis Law -- split most evident within Labour Party.
  9. Five Former Cops Plead Guilty to Drug Trafficking: Once more, even the seemingly law-abiding are corrupted by Prohibition.
  10. Whitman Wins, Needle Exchange Loses: In a very tight race, New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman keeps her job, and NJ residents are none the healthier for it.
  11. Miss America Visits Needle Exchange Program: Kate Shindle continues to advocate for needle exchange.
  12. New MS Treatment Very Effective, But Very Expensive... Medical marijuana still illegal as alternative.
  13. World Bank Endorses Needle Exchange Funding: Pragmatic health policy trumps political concerns in a world at risk.
  14. McCaffrey Calls Allegations "Inappropriate": Drug Czar takes issue with unnamed US officials quoted in Newsweek.
  15. Irish Teens Top European Drug Users: "Get tough" approach apparently less effective than Dutch strategy, where teen drug use is far lower.
  16. Study Finds Not All Drug Users Are Losers: British foundation-funded report finds many drug-using youth are thoughtful and knowledgeable about their drug use.
  17. Narcs vs. Murphy Brown: DEA Chief criticizes fictional news anchor for medical marijuana use.
  18. Media Watch: Drug war issues in the news.
  19. Editorial: Are the drug warriors really fighting for this nation's youth?
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Issue #17, 11/2/97
  1. Focus on Colombia: An extremely eventful two weeks... Elections, Recriminations, and oh, yes, we're sending hardware to perhaps the world's most inhumane military.
  2. UCSF Study Finds Cannabinoids are Effective Against Pain: They work differently but act similarly to opioids... with less severe side effects. Another Chance to Help Will Foster: The UCSF study confirms what Will Foster knew all along... medical marijuana relieved his Rheumatoid Arthritis... but he's still serving 93 years for cultivation! Your voice is needed!
  3. Ninth Co-sponsor Signs on to Federal Medical Marijuana Bill: Get your representatives on board!
  4. Medical Marijuana Defense Will Be Allowed in Michigan: A judge ruled this week that Peter McWilliams, author, AIDS/Cancer patient, can present his defense in court.
  5. Needle Exchange: Harris Poll finds 71% favor lifting the ban!
  6. Jailed for Vitamins: Police "error" costs man six weeks in jail.
  7. Show and Jail: 11 year-old Texas boy faces drug possession charges.
  8. Plan to Put 10,000 U.S. Troops on the Texas-Mexico Border Dies in Committee: A young man's death is not totally in vain.
  9. Survey: Drug Use Rising Among Youngest Teens: Current strategies failing to curtail use.
  10. Quote of the Week: Everybody wants to play doctor...
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Issue #16, 10/24/97
  1. 11th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform: Dave and Adam returned this week from the conference, hosted by the Drug Policy Foundation and their dynamic new Executive Director.
  2. House Passes Bill Demanding Accountability: And the White House doesn't like it a bit.
  3. U.S. Senators Question Mexican Certification: But Mexican president Zedillo blames the U.S. for his country's plight.
  4. Referendum to Halt Recriminalization of Marijuana Qualifies for Oregon Ballot: Now the voters will decide.
  5. Medical Marijuana Initiative Filed in Colorado: Carefully drafted measure includes a voluntary ID card system.
  6. Mothers March on New Jersey State Capitol for Needle Exchange: Hundreds of mothers call for legal needle exchange in state with third-highest incidence of injection-related AIDS. ALSO: Free community forum on needle exchange at Rutgers University.
  7. Prohibition-Related Murder on Campus on Tennessee State University: One dead, one wounded in dorm room.
  8. William F. Buckley on Marijuana Myths: The editor of National Review gives a full-column, syndicated thumbs- up to the new book from The Lindesmith Center and authors Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D. and Dr. John P. Morgan, M.D.
  9. News from the UK: Britain's New Drug Czar Reacts to the Independent's Cannabis Campaign... and the INdependent Responds... plus other news
  10. Link of the Week: Bringing realism and quality research to the Latin America debate.
  11. Editorial: Congressional Drug Warriors call for accountability and results... Hey, maybe they're on to something.
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Issue #15, 10/11/97
  1. Media Alert: CNN covering Vancouver's Marc Emery TOMORROW (Sunday night).
  2. First Federally Sponsored Med Mj Research Research Approved: After years of bureaucratic stonewalling, Dr. Donald Abrams is finally going to be allowed to test the effects of marijuana on AIDS patients.
  3. Clinton AIDS Advisors Consider Resignation in Protest of Federal Ban on Needle Exchange Funding: Turning up the heat from inside the beltway.
  4. Interview with Alexander Robinson: In an exclusive interview, the President of the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, and member of the President's Advisory Council on AIDS discusses the Council's frustrations with the Clinton Administration.
  5. FBI Report Shows a Record Year for Marijuana Busts: Over 680,000 Americans were arrested last year on marijuana charges.
  6. American Medical Association Calls for More Rational Drug Policies: The Journal of the American Medical Association reports this month that the AMA membership has voted to officially endorse Harm Reduction and the study of alternatives to the Drug War.
  7. Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Steps Down: In the wake of an interview with a Mexican magazine in which he decried the level of corruption in Mexico and American Drug War politics, Canada's ambassador returns to Ottawa.
  8. Hung Jury for Hawaiian Activist Charged with Buying Legal Hempseed: Aaron Anderson has been charged with a crime that is not a crime, the DA admits that his advocacy is the reason. DRCNet MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO RESPOND.
  9. B.C. Canada's Attorney General Calls for an Examination of Decriminalization: Another call for reform from North of the Border.
  10. Aussies Spending $7 Billion Per Year on Illegal Drugs: Report notes failure of Prohibition.
  11. 1997 Miss America Calls for Needle Exchange: Has this year's paragon of All-American virtue really eschewed vapidity to take on Washington? In the immortal words of Marv Albert, whom, we assume, will not be allowed near Miss America's hotel room anytime soon): YES!
  12. Quote of the Week: Prominent drug policy research calls CASA's work "thin".
  13. Link of the Week: Expose of some of CASA's thinness.
  14. Editorial: The voices of reform are growing louder... whether or not the Drug Warriors want to hear them.
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Issue #14, 10/3/97
  1. Web Magazine Rates Drug Library a Perfect 5: The October issue of WEB MAGAZINE reviews DRCNet's DrugLibrary web site.
  2. DPF Conference This Month: The 11th International Conference on Drug Policy taking place in New Orleans.
  3. Swiss Vote Overwhelmingly Against "Zero-Tolerance": In an event of international significance, over 70% of Swiss voters reaffirm their nation's course toward reform.
  4. Mecical Marijuana Debate in Congress: House Judiciary Committee holds hearings on medical marijuana.
  5. Needle Exchange Funding: Grant info for large, small and start-up needle exchange programs.
  6. Substance Abuse Research Grants: Call for proposals from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  7. McCaffrey and Methadone: In what can only be described as a seminal moment in the history of methadone maintenance programs in the U.S., Barry McCaffrey comes out in strong support of reforms including the decentralization of distribution.
  8. British Newspaper Launches Campaign to Legalize Cannabis: The Independent on Sunday, with the backing of over 100 prominent Britons including Paul McCartney, says it will continue its campaign "until the laws are changed." And: Study Finds That 1 In 4 British youth Have Used Drugs in the Past Year.
  9. Rash of Overdoses in Australia: In the wake of the government's change of heart on heroin maintenance, Aussies are reminded of the perils of the black market.
  10. Colombian President Defends His Drug War Record: While visiting New York to attend a special U.N. session on narcotics, Samper defends himself, calls on consumer nations to reign in demand. And: Russian Mob Supplies Heavy Artillery, Teams with Latin American Drug Traffickers -- In what will doubtless become yet another rationale for escalation of this self-perpetuating war, the bad guys (the other bad guys) become better armed and more coordinated.
  11. Link of the Week: Monitoring the Colombia situation.
  12. Quote of the Week: An about face by ex-general McCaffrey on the public's ability to decide the medical marijuana issue.
  13. Editorial: The Swiss opt out of another war.
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Issue #13, 9/28/97
  1. Campaign '97 Update
  2. 9 Year-Old Busted on Candy Rap
  3. Another French Official Speaks Out for Legalization of Cannabis
  4. Mexican Priest Praises Drug Traffickers' Benevolence... Journalists Attacked by Archbishop's Aides for Asking Questions about the Incident
  5. Baltimore Health Commissioner Testifies on Needle Exchange
  6. Spy vs. Spy
  7. Cia Turns 50
  8. Freudian Slip
  9. Mexican Journalists Terrorized
  10. Former Pakistani Prime Minister's Accounts Alleged to Contain "Drug Money"
  11. Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Heroin Maintenance and Other Liberal Drug Policies
  12. Dutch Heroin Maintenance to go Ahead as "Pilot Project"
  13. Canada's Medical Marijuana Prohibition Challenged by Multiple Sclerosis Patient
  14. Reformers Charge Washington State Government with Using Federal Funds to Politic Against Drug Reform Initiative
  15. Black Market Meth Labs Kill One Child, Force Evacuation of 30 Families
  16. Shalala Continues to be Dogged by Needle Exchange Questions
  17. Editorial: World Gone Mad
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Issue #12, 9/20/97
  1. Climb Aboard DRCNet's Campaign '97! Many members have signed on, but we still need more of you to help.
  2. International: An entire Mexican anti-narcotics under the Attorney General's supervision arrested on drug trafficking charges... But questions also abound as to the Mexican Military's competence to manage the Drug War... Colombia's Army launches counter- insurgency... Australia looks into over the counter availability of a powerful anti-overdose drug.
  3. War in California: Officials say that Mexican narcotics traffickers are increasingly involved in cultivating marijuana within our own borders.
  4. Oops: State and Federal agents in Massachusetts raid the wrong house and coerce owner into "allowing" a warrantless search.
  5. War on Free Assembly: Seattle's recent Hempfest marred by official "mistakes" and inappropriate police presence.
  6. Events: Mothers to march for needle exchange in Trenton, NJ... Boston Freedom Fest scheduled this weekend... Harm Reduction Conference in Denver... Mental Illness and drug abuse conference in Baltimore...
  7. Link of the Week: Join Mother's Voices in calling for an end to the government's pro-AIDS policies against needle exchange.
  8. Quote of the Week: Joseph Califano says that the problem is not enough snitches in schools... But Jerome Miller says that's an unwise strategy.
  9. Editorial: The Clinton Administration's refusal to act on needle exchange is a sad triumph of politics over government.
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Issue #11, 9/12/97
  1. Organization News: Membership/fundraising drive underway... AND: David Borden to address military and other drug war topics at UVA Charlottesville next week.
  2. Medical Marijuana: Plaintiffs in Conant v. McCaffrey, the class-action suit by California doctors to establish the right to recommend marijuana, win another stage... ALSO: Editor of Medical Tribune calls for med mj availability.
  3. Needle Exchange: House passes amendment that would strip Shalala of the power to lift the ban on using Federal AIDS funding for needle exchange.
  4. War on the Border: Against the Pentagon's wishes, the House votes to add provision for 10,000 troops on U.S.-Mexican border to defense bill.
  5. War in the Capital: In our nation's capital, nearly 50% of black males between 18-35 are under criminal justice supervision.
  6. Focus on Michigan: A questionable reform of Michigan's "Lifer Law"... Also, Detroit gets federal designation... AND, A Drug Free Michigan?
  7. Free Kemba Smith: Youth lead the way in the campaign against mandatory minimum sentencing.
  8. International: Colombia faces terror threat and a guerrilla war it can't win.
  9. Quote of the Week: Monkey business from the new issue of the Drug Policy Letter.
  10. Link of the Week: A national organization fighting for acceptance of the most successful addiction treatment in use and for dignity for its patients.
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Issue #10, 9/5/97
  1. International News: Britain feels the pangs of a stirring revolution... Costa Rica hands over its sovereignty to the DEA... Drug War Eco-damage in the Amazon... AND, Dutch minister to provide heroin maintenance to hard-core addicts from church.
  2. Death Threats: Cartels threatening U.S. officials?
  3. Publishing News: Ex-CIA drug runner signs with Doubleday Books to tell all. (And of course, sells the movie rights!)
  4. Medical Marijuana: New Mexico board says "tell it to the feds." And... Journey for Justice II getting ready to hit the road.
  5. The Activist Guide: New issue of DRCNet's newsletter -- hot off the press!
  6. Calendar Updates: Exciting event listings that have come in since our last calendar distribution.
  7. Protests in Washington! Activists from various drug policy causes take it to the front line.
  8. "A Third Way": A group of "moderates" issue "Principles for a Practical Drug Policy"
  9. Link of the Week: Kemba's Nightmare
  10. Quote of the Week: This guy's running for sheriff? Bob Marley should've moved to Mendocino County.
  11. Op-ed: Contrasting views on the new "moderates", from the Associate and Executive Directors of DRCNet!
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Issue #9, 8/29/97
  1. International News: U.S. reports "progress" in the international War on Drugs. ALSO: Drug Policy in the U.K. - could the fog be lifting? The Economist calls for "legalisation"...Police Foundation to study drug policy. AND: 30,000 march in Germany's first-ever mass demonstration for drug law reform. FINALLY: Blood bath in Mexico as traffickers vie for supremacy.
  2. Drug War Corruption: Employees at points of entry find that crime pays better than baggage handling.
  3. Medical Marijuana: California Attorney General adds a surprising voice to calls for research.
  4. Student Drug Testing: An old and nearly forgotten phrase is uttered by a New Jersey judge... Probable cause.
  5. Media Alert: The Wall Street Journal hits the nail on the head with regard to the Drug War's destruction of Colombia's society. Reformers are urged to respond.
  6. Justice and Human Rights: Criminal justice systems out of control in the U.S. and China.
  7. Link of the Week: Shedding light on the impact of America's overused criminal justice system...
  8. Quote of the Week: Drug Czar McCaffrey has figured out one of the problems.
  9. Editorial: Needle exchange is still illegal in New Jersey... but that doesn't make it wrong.
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Issue #8, 8/22/97
  1. Medical Marijuana: California appeals court ruling is a win-win for medical marijuana patients!... ALSO: New Mexico Board of Pharmacists considers rescheduling marijuana... Dutch hospital to study mj-effects on MS spasticity...
  2. Needle Exchange: George Soros gives $1 Million for NEPs.. ALSO: The Family Research Council twists science, strains credulity, and makes a lot of noise... But the facts, the experts and nearly everyone else disagree.
  3. Drugs and the Military: No indictments for marines who shot Texas schoolboy Esequiel Hernandez... ALSO: Cartels hiring ex-U.S. GI's.
  4. International News: Australian Prime Minister John Howard caves in to media pressure and cancels heroin maintenance trial. BUT: The Dutch seem ready to go ahead with their own version.
  5. Drug Education: Television's newest odd couple... Mario Cuomo and William Bennett to co-chair the Partership for a Drug Free America. ALSO: New study, same results... D.A.R.E. doesn't work.
  6. Media Alert: George Soros has already fought the Nazis and the Communists. These days he's taking on the Drug Warriors... The New York Times interviews the world's wealthiest harm reductionist. PLEASE RESPOND
  7. Link of the Week: A special friend of DRCNet, the November Coalition champions the cause of current -- and future -- prisoners of the Drug War.
  8. Quote of the Week: Undercover cops corruptible? The FBI knows.
  9. Editorial: "A Drug Free America"
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Issue #7, 8/15/97
  1. Note from DRCNet: Our mission is to disseminate information. We depend upon our members to keep us informed!!
  2. Media/Legislative Alert: Needle exchangers convicted in New Jersey. Large response needed.
  3. Medical Marijuana: The New England Journal of Medicine follows up on it's January editorial in support of medical marijuana with a piece by Dr. George Annas calling for studies AND current availability. (Those radicals.)
  4. International News: Constitutional Challenge to Canada's marijuana prohibition... The British Medical Journal editorializes against a U.S. style Drug Czar for the UK... The Clinton Administration meets to discuss hemispheric "cooperation"...
  5. New Book: 'Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts' by Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D and John P. Morgan, M.D. "is the most accurate book on the effects of marijuana that has appeared to date." - Andrew Weil, M.D., author of 'Spontaneous Healing'
  6. Statistic of the Week: We're just not building the prisons fast enough.
  7. Demonstration in Washington, DC: Against the ban on federal funding for needle exchange. Participants/ Volunteers/Support needed.
  8. Web Site News: Complete newsletter archive, and updated media links page.
  9. Job Opportunities: Psst... Wanna be the new U.K. Drug Czar?
  10. Link of the Week: A somber but inspiring double entry this week from the other side of the world.
  11. Quote of the Week: Honesty, not hysteria, educates children.
  12. Editorial: When truth is not our vehicle, the messages we send don't reach our kids.
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Issue #6, 8/8/97
  1. National household Survey Results: Teen Marijuana use levels off. Heroin use up among 18-25 year-olds.
  2. Needle Exchange: Two Representatives have introduced a bill to lift the ban on federal funding, to be considered when the House gets back from recess.
  3. International: Foreign press gets real about the War on Drugs.
  4. Medical Marijuana: BREAKING NEWS!! Five months ago, the NIH convened a panel of health professionals to determine what to do about medical marijuana. After promising a report "in the next four weeks," it has finally been released.
  5. 60th Anniversary of Marijuana Prohibition: The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) issues a report on where we are and how we got here.
  6. Quote of the Week: It's time...
  7. Link of the Week: The killing of an 18 yr.-old American by US Marines on the Mexican border has led to a grand jury investigation in Texas. The Drug Policy Forum of Texas is closely monitoring the case, and that makes them our link of the week.
  8. Editorial: If the US government could make the illegal drug trade disappear, would it?
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Issue #5, 8/1/97
  1. Recent Alerts: Chai Project trial to be continued, and Sentencing Disparity alert still timely.
  2. Drug-Related AIDS: Disposable patients... Disturbing numbers from the CDC
  3. Medical Marijuana: Bone cancer patient, and patients on the whole lose in Washington State Supreme Court.. Med mj activist arrested in Los Angeles... A 450 mile "Wheelchair Caravan" is being planned for the northeast and DRCNet members are urged to lend a hand!
  4. International News: Australia approves stage 1 of heroin maintenance trial!! ALSO: More Drug War corruption... This time it's the Mexican Army.
  5. New Book Release: Several wonderful books will be appearing on the shelves over the next several weeks. This week: "Crack In America," edited by sociologists Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman. A revealing look at the substance and the hype of America's latest "demon drug." A Must Read!!
  6. Link of the Week: A rational, reasoned approach to the drug policy debate... What are this group's real motives?
  7. Quote of the Week: A.M. Rosenthal shows off his knowledge of narcotics and his respect for Mexico's sovereignty.
  8. Editorial: The world leads while America continues its war.
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Issue #4, 7/24/97
  1. Past Alerts: Oregon activists are fighting back against recriminalization.
  2. Proposition 200: The Arizona State Legislature voted to overturn the will of the people. But more than enough signatures have been collected to put the ball back in the people's court.
  3. International Blackmail: The word from down under is... BUSTED -- US State Department is exposed blackmailing Australia to resist reform.
  4. Link of the Week: Cannabis policy report makes front page news in New Zealand.
  5. Organization News: One new Advisory Board members signs up, while another bids farewell but not goodbye.
  6. Media Alert: Good discussions of medical marijuana and the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity by the New York Times.
  7. Quote of the Week: It's budget time. If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of military brass begging for Drug War funds.
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Issue #3, 7/17/97
  1. Past Alerts: Civil Asset Forfeiture. Or, Henry Hyde forfeits.
  2. Web Site NEws: The ultimate Drug Policy Reform search engine!!!
  3. Legal Brief: Peter McWilliams, Writer - TV Correspondent -- Activist -- Medical MJ User, going to trial in Michigan.
  4. Link of the Week: The Swiss Heroin Prescription Trial is a Success. The results are in, and The Lindesmith Center has the report summary ONLINE.
  5. Employment: Job opportunities in the movement.
  6. Quote of the Week: What part of "BLACK MARKET" doesn't President Clinton understand?
  7. Editorial: "All the news that's fit to... er... that doesn't question the status quo."
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Issue #2, 7/10/97
  1. Last Week's Alert: DRCNet Gets WIRED!!
  2. Web Site News: New at drcnet.org, Is a Drug "War" militarily feasible? A critique by Joseph Miranda, former instructor at the U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare CENTER. ALSO: "Making Sure Drugs Kill". Is harm maximization a rational policy?
  3. Past Alerts: Oregon recriminalizes marijuana possession.
  4. Link of the Week: The largest minority-run AIDS agency in the U.S. -- Pushing the envelope on housing, harm reduction and human dignity.
  5. Media Alert: New!! For our subscribers who want to do more, we present Media Alert. Each week we will highlight a news story or feature that begs for our response. As with our Action Alerts, DRCNet provides contact information and sample correspondence.
  6. Employment/Volunteer Opportunities: Looking for a job? A new career? A volunteer or internship position? We will keep you informed of any Movement-related employment opportunities as they come up. This week, 2 employment opportunities, both at the Drug Policy Foundation! PLUS, a volunteer needed in the DRCNet office.
  7. Quote of the Week: New!! Each week DRCNet chooses the best -- or the worst -- from the front lines. And yes, we accept nominations.
  8. Editorial: Change will only happen if we believe it's possible.
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Issue #1, 7/2/97
  1. Last Week's Alerts: Government fires opening salvo in war on internet reform activities: DRCNet members respond!
  2. Past Alerts: Update on Will Foster -- DRCNet helps get action! Oregon MJ Recrim - last chance to act!
  3. Web Site News: New Home Page (at an easy-to-remember address!) New sections on Drug-Related AIDS, Prisoners of the Drug War, and Action Alert Archives.
  4. Link of the Week: A chance to fill out a Drug Warrior survey!
  5. Employment: Two new job opportunities in the movement!
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