> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:28:34 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #459
>
> Drugnews-Digest Wednesday, April 11 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 459
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n459/
>
> 001 US CA: Fontana Latest City to Place Moratorium
> on Pot
> Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
> 002 US CA: More Gay Men Using Meth, Study Finds
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> 003 CN QU: 7-year-old Chomedey Girl Pricks Herself
> With Dirty
> Source: Chomedey Laval News, The (CN QU)
> 004 US ME: Addiction Doctor Gets 6-Month Sentence
> Source: Portland Press Herald (ME)
> 005 CN NS: Canada: Mary Jane Is Not Just Peter
> Parker's Best Friend
> Source: Chronicle Herald (CN NS)
> 006 US CA: LA County Plan For Homeless Taking Shape
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> 007 US: PUB LTE: Pot Clubs In Peril
> Source: Reason Magazine (US)
> 008 US ID: Drug Court Set To Begin June 1
> Source: Idaho Mountain Express (ID)
>
>
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>
> Subj: 001 US CA: Fontana Latest City to Place
> Moratorium on Pot
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:48:56 -0700
> Size: 87 lines 3258 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a01.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_pot11.4014e6a.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_pot11.4014e6a.html
> Copyright: 2007 The Press-Enterprise Company
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.pe.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/830
> Author: Michael Mello, The Press-Enterprise
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana -
> Medicinal)
>
> FONTANA LATEST CITY TO PLACE MORATORIUM ON POT
> DISPENSARIES
>
> FONTANA - Fontana's City Council joined a number of
> other area cities
> Tuesday night with a 5-0 vote to ban medical
> marijuana dispensaries
> for 45 days.
>
> Only one speaker during a public hearing on the
> issue said she
> opposed a dispensary in Fontana.
>
> A few supported the emergency ordinance enacting the
> temporary ban,
> saying the city needs to study the issue before
> allowing dispensaries.
>
> Many more instead asked that the city set aside talk
> of a moratorium
> and open the path to bringing a dispensary to
> Fontana.
>
> [continues: 60 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 US CA: More Gay Men Using Meth, Study
> Finds
> From: Your Donation Will Be Doubled
> www.drugsense.org/donate.htm
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:55:26 -0700
> Size: 90 lines 4000 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Times
> Contact: letters@...
> Website:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
> Author: Susannah Rosenblatt, Times Staff Writer
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm
> (Methamphetamine)
>
> MORE GAY MEN USING METH, STUDY FINDS
>
> Use of the Drug, Which Is Associated With HIV
> Transmission, Has
> Surged Since 2005, According to Data Collected by a
> Nonprofit Agency.
>
> Crystal meth use among gay men has spiked since
> 2005, according to
> preliminary data collected by a Los Angeles
> nonprofit agency, with
> those using the drug in the last year five times
> more likely to test
> positive for HIV.
>
> Of the 6,360 gay men the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian
> Center tested for
> HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases last
> year, one in four
> reported using the drug at least once.
>
> That's a jump from 2005, when 18% of 5,300 gay men
> surveyed said
> they'd tried the drug, which triggers a euphoric
> high.
>
> [continues: 63 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 CN QU: 7-year-old Chomedey Girl Pricks
> Herself With Dirty
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:02:02 -0700
> Size: 92 lines 4737 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a03.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 05 Apr 2007
> Source: Chomedey Laval News, The (CN QU)
> Copyright: 2007 The Chomedey Laval News
> Contact: editor@...
> Website: http://www.chomedeynews.ca
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2596
> Author: Nancy Girgis, TCN
>
> 7-YEAR-OLD CHOMEDEY GIRL PRICKS HERSELF WITH DIRTY
> SYRINGE
> FOUND NEAR HER HOME
>
> Accidental Pricking Highlights Chomedey South's
> Problematic Area
>
> Chomedey South is often seen as a paradox, as young
> families with
> children co-exist alongside urban problems like
> prostitution and drug
> usae and peddling.
>
> However, the area's problems were highlighted
> following an incident
> last week, when a little girl pricked herself with a
> discarded needle.
>
> Seven-year-old Marie-Jane was walking to her bus
> stop on 79th Avenue
> on March 27 when she found the syringe in some
> nearby bushes. "I was
> really curious, I wanted to play doctor," Marie-Jane
> said. "I showed
> it to all my friends but some of them said I
> shouldn't play with that.
> But I stung myself two times with it, I didn't
> bleed."
>
> [continues: 65 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 US ME: Addiction Doctor Gets 6-Month
> Sentence
> From: Beth
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:02:09 -0700
> Size: 116 lines 5192 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a04.html
> Webpage:
>
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/070327shinderman.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 27 Mar 2007
> Source: Portland Press Herald (ME)
> Webpage:
>
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/070327shinderman.html
> Copyright: 2007 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/744
> Author: Gregory D. Kesich, Staff Writer
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?136 (Methadone)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm
> (Treatment)
>
> ADDICTION DOCTOR GETS 6-MONTH SENTENCE
>
> A doctor described as a giant in the field of
> addiction treatment
> will spend six months in prison for forging
> prescription slips and
> medical records, a judge decided Monday in U.S.
> District Court in Portland.
>
> As a psychiatrist in Illinois, Marc Shinderman, 64,
> wrote
> groundbreaking articles on the proper dose for
> methadone patients and
> simultaneous treatment of psychiatric and addiction
> disorders.
>
> But in Maine, where he was not licensed to prescribe
> controlled
> drugs, his practice of forging prescriptions and
> then falsifying log
> books to make it look as though patients had been
> seen by doctors
> with valid registrations led to criminal charges. He
> was convicted in
> July of 58 felony offenses.
>
> [continues: 88 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 CN NS: Canada: Mary Jane Is Not Just Peter
> Parker's Best Friend
> From: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:02:24 -0700
> Size: 141 lines 7032 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Chronicle Herald (CN NS)
> Copyright: 2007 The Halifax Herald Limited
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://thechronicleherald.ca/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/180
> Author: Tara Patriquin
> Note: Freelance writer Tara Patriquin is a certified
>
> personal trainer and a registered holistic
> nutritional consultant
> living and working in Halifax. Her column appears
> every Wednesday.
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis
> - Medicinal - Canada)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm
> (Decrim/Legalization)
>
> MARY JANE IS NOT JUST PETER PARKER'S BEST FRIEND
>
> There comes a time in every young girl's life when
> she has grown up
> and lets science override personal qualms. And so,
> this is my own
> personal catharsis here, folks. The topic:
> marijuana.
>
> Let me cut right to the chase. Regular and excessive
> use can lead to
> many problems, both acute and chronic. Some reports
> show that
> marijuana weakens the immune system. Delta-9
> tetrahydrocannabinol,
> or THC, the most active compound in marijuana,
> makes the white blood
> cells 35-40 per cent less effective than normal
> during time of
> intoxication. Sugar, I remind you, reduces the
> immune system by 50
> per cent for several hours after consumption.
>
> [continues: 113 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 US CA: LA County Plan For Homeless Taking
> Shape
> From: Beth
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:02:11 -0700
> Size: 182 lines 8503 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a06.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 10 Apr 2007
> Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
> Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Times
> Contact: letters@...
> Website:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
> Author: Cara Mia DiMassa and Jack Leonard, Times
> Staff Writers
>
> L.A. COUNTY PLAN FOR HOMELESS TAKING SHAPE
>
> South L.A., Pomona and a 'gateway' city are
> identified as possible
> sites for centers as part of a $100-million plan.
>
> Los Angeles County's much-touted effort to shift
> homeless services
> from downtown Los Angeles to other areas is
> beginning to take shape,
> with county leaders zeroing in on three communities
> where homeless
> centers could be built.
>
> A year ago, the Board of Supervisors approved an
> ambitious
> $100-million homeless plan, the centerpiece of which
> was a proposal
> to build five "regional centers" in the county.
>
> The plan was part of a campaign to improve
> conditions on skid row by
> reducing the concentration of facilities that
> provide shelter and
> health services to transients. The proposal raised
> concerns in some
> suburbs, where residents said they worried that such
> facilities would
> bring crime and blight.
>
> [continues: 153 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 US: PUB LTE: Pot Clubs In Peril
> From: derek
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:06:15 -0700
> Size: 28 lines 936 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 01 May 2007
> Source: Reason Magazine (US)
> Copyright: 2007 The Reason Foundation
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.reason.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/359
> Referenced:
>
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n139/a11.html?13830
> Author: Mike Barbitta
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)
>
> POT CLUBS IN PERIL
>
> Thanks for the great job on the article "Pot Clubs
> in Peril"
> (February). I operate the club at 194 Church Street
> that is mentioned
> in the article. I hope the article brings attention
> to the fact that
> no access is worse than limited access. We now face
> an additional
> hurdle: Despite the fact that we serve wheelchair -
> bound patrons at
> the door with a discount, there is the possibility
> that our permit
> will be rejected due to the fact that we are not
> wheelchair - accessible.
>
> Mike Barbitta,
>
> S.F. Medical Cannabis Clinic,
>
> San Francisco, CA
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 US ID: Drug Court Set To Begin June 1
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:27:11 -0700
> Size: 65 lines 2861 bytes
> File: v07.n459.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n459.a08.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Idaho Mountain Express (ID)
> Copyright: 2007 Express Publishing, Inc
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.mtexpress.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2296
> Author: Greg Moore, Express Staff Writer
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?159 (Drug
> Courts)
>
> DRUG COURT SET TO BEGIN JUNE 1
>
> A drug court--which provides treatment rather than
> prison terms for
> chronic users of illegal drugs--is expected to be
> in operation in
> Blaine County by June 1.
>
> Blaine will become the 31st of Idaho's 44 counties
> to have such a court.
>
> Drug courts allow those charged with drug-related
> crimes to have
> their guilty pleas erased after successfully
> completing an 18-month
> treatment program. The option is not available to
> anyone charged
> with selling drugs or with a violent or sexually
> related felony, or
> to illegal aliens.
>
> Members of the county's drug court development team
> obtained support
> for the program from the Blaine County
> commissioners after
> presenting the benefits of drug courts during a
> commission meeting Tuesday.
>
> [continues: 37 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
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