> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:53:37 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #496
>
> Drugnews-Digest Thursday, April 19 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 496
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n496/
>
> 001 CN BC: Gov't Fleecing Pot Patients
> Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC)
> 002 US OK: Edu: Column: World Goes Up In Smoke Each
> April 20
> Source: Daily O'Collegian (OK State U, OK Edu)
> 003 US NC: Brunswick Mulls Student Drug Testing
> Source: Star-News (NC)
> 004 CN BC: Editorial: Needle Exchange Failure
> Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
> 005 US HI: 2 Educators On Kauai Held On Pot Charges
> Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI)
> 006 CN BC: Former Lacrosse Star Arrested For Grow Op
> Source: Record, The (CN BC)
> 007 US CA: Many Queasy Over Pot Shop In Templeton
> Source: Tribune, The (San Luis Obispo, CA)
> 008 CN ON: City Hit By Drug Plague
> Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
> 009 CN SN: Christianity Helped Addict Reform
> Source: Regina Leader-Post (CN SN)
> 010 CN SN: PUB LTE: Biased Stories On Salvia Follow
> Tack On
> Source: StarPhoenix, The (CN SN)
> 011 US SD: Court Asked To Revive Challenge To
> Student Loan
> Source: Sioux City Journal (IA)
>
>
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>
> Subj: 001 CN BC: Gov't Fleecing Pot Patients
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:38:37 -0700
> Size: 60 lines 2447 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a01.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC)
> Copyright: 2007 Goldstream News Gazette
> Contact: editor@...
> Website: http://www.goldstreamgazette.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1291
> Author: Rudy Haugender
>
> GOV'T FLEECING POT PATIENTS
>
> The amount the federal government overcharges
> patients legally using
> medical marijuana is deplorable, say the
> Conservative and Liberal
> candidates for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca.
>
> "Outrageous," says Conservative candidate Troy
> DeSouza. Sitting
> Liberal MP Keith Martin described the new charges
> as "usurous."
>
> Ottawa charges patients 15 times more for the bulk,
> certified
> medical marijuana than Health Canada pays its
> official supplier,
> newly released documents show.
>
> But sympathy for sick patients who have been
> prescribed marijuana by
> doctors is the only thing Martin, a medical doctor,
> and DeSouza agree on.
>
> DeSouza doesn't want marijuana decriminalized
> because "I don't want
> to see kids getting involved (smoking marijuana)
> and I'm not in
> favour of legalizing it."
>
> [continues: 31 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 US OK: Edu: Column: World Goes Up In Smoke
> Each April 20
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:38:44 -0700
> Size: 88 lines 3691 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Daily O'Collegian (OK State U, OK Edu)
> Copyright: 2007 Oklahoma State University
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.ocolly.com
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1275
> Author: Greg Gotcher, Opinion Columnist
>
> WORLD GOES UP IN SMOKE EACH APRIL 20
>
> Tomorrow seems like just another day to the average
> person, but to a
> number of people, tomorrow's date marks a special
> occasion where all
> responsibilities and worries go up in smoke.
>
> Why is there such a fuss about April 20? Why do all
> the slackers
> always seem to hype this date? When April 20
> finally comes around
> they are nowhere to be found. What are they doing?
>
> Perhaps they are just taking a day of rest to stay
> inside, take it
> easy and study.
>
> However, this doesn't seem likely considering the
> origins of 420
> (it's pronounced "four-twenty," not "four hundred
> and twenty").
> April 20 is called 420 because April is the fourth
> month of the
> year, and it's the twentieth day of the month.
>
> [continues: 61 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 US NC: Brunswick Mulls Student Drug
> Testing
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:38:43 -0700
> Size: 58 lines 2626 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a03.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Star-News (NC)
> Copyright: 2007 Wilmington Morning Star
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.wilmingtonstar.com
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/500
> Author: Ana Ribeiro, Staff Writer
>
> BRUNSWICK MULLS STUDENT DRUG TESTING
>
> As the Brunswick Board of Education prepares to
> vote on a policy to
> require all the school system's employees to
> undergo drug testing,
> it may want students to head in the same direction.
>
> During a meeting held Tuesday at the county
> government complex,
> staff and board members discussed this and other
> policy and
> curriculum issues. Another hot topic was the most
> recent county data
> showing a substantial gap between black and white
> students' test
> scores: 27.6 percentage points in math and 13.4
> points in
> reading, for grades three through eight. Although
> the school system
> has adopted customized learning programs and seen
> some improvement
> since the 2004-05 school year, it's still seeking
> reasons for the
> gap, schools spokesman Adam Henning said.
>
> A lengthy discussion on drug screenings preceded the
> presentation on
> test scores.
>
> [continues: 31 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 CN BC: Editorial: Needle Exchange Failure
> From: CMAP http://www.mapinc.org/cmap
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:38:34 -0700
> Size: 58 lines 2243 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a04.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=d3f7a12d-\
9aa5-490f-9ae7-7c97d32d2b63
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=d3f7a12d-\
9aa5-490f-9ae7-7c97d32d2b63
> Copyright: 2007 Times Colonist
> Contact: letters@...
> Website:
> http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/481
>
> NEEDLE EXCHANGE FAILURE
>
> It all seemed tremendously urgent back in January
> when concerns about
> the needle exchange's effects on the Cormorant
> Street neighbourhood
> came to the boil.
>
> Everyone -- health officials, police, city council,
> the business
> community, AIDS Vancouver Island -- came together
> and agreed the
> location was unsuitable and something had to be
> done. Everyone
> professed a great desire to fix the problem.
>
> Or almost everyone. The Vancouver Island Health
> Authority,
> responsible for addiction services, was
> conspicuously absent.
>
> Moving the needle exchange to a more appropriate
> location and
> facility would cost more money. VIHA was in fact
> proposing to cut
> funding for AIDS services in the capital region by
> one-third.
>
> [continues: 30 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 US HI: 2 Educators On Kauai Held On Pot
> Charges
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:38:42 -0700
> Size: 61 lines 2493 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI)
> Copyright: 2007 Honolulu Star-Bulletin
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.starbulletin.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/196
> Author: Tom Finnegan
>
> 2 EDUCATORS ON KAUAI HELD ON POT CHARGES
>
> Kula Schools' Vice Principal and a Science Teacher
> Face Marijuana Charges
>
> MOLOAA, Kauai ; A science teacher and the athletic
> director of an
> expensive private North Shore school were arrested
> last week for
> allegedly growing marijuana at their home.
>
> Alan Bertolino, 43, the science teacher at Kula
> Intermediate and
> High School, was charged with second-degree
> commercial production of
> marijuana, among other charges. He worked at the
> school for about two months.
>
> Bertolino, who is being held in lieu of bail, was
> fired Monday, Kula
> High Principal David Mireles said.
>
> Kula Vice Principal and Athletic Director David
> Rojeck, 42, was
> charged with third-degree promotion of a
> detrimental drug, a petty
> misdemeanor.
>
> [continues: 33 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 CN BC: Former Lacrosse Star Arrested For
> Grow Op
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:38:34 -0700
> Size: 81 lines 3262 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a06.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Record, The (CN BC)
> Copyright: 2007 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
> Contact: editorial@...
> Website: http://www.royalcityrecord.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1654
> Author: Mia Thomas
>
> FORMER LACROSSE STAR ARRESTED FOR GROW OP
>
> A former all-star New Westminster Salmonbellie has
> been arrested
> after police found a marijuana grow operation in his
> North Delta home
> last week.
>
> The 44-year-old man, who can't be named because he
> hasn't been
> charged, was a Western Lacrosse Association all-star
> for three years
> during his career as a men's senior A box lacrosse
> player.
>
> He played with the Salmonbellies for seven full
> seasons in the 1990s.
>
> Charges are expected by the end of the week,
> although police hadn't
> submitted their report to Crown counsel as of Monday
> afternoon.
>
> Delta police had received information about the grow
> operation,
> spokesperson Const. Sharlene Brooks said in a press
> release.
>
> [continues: 54 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 US CA: Many Queasy Over Pot Shop In
> Templeton
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:46:14 -0700
> Size: 123 lines 5322 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
> Source: Tribune, The (San Luis Obispo, CA)
> Copyright: 2007 The Tribune
> Contact: letters@...
> Website:
> http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/391
> Author: Stephen Curran
>
> MANY QUEASY OVER POT SHOP IN TEMPLETON
>
> Town's Advisory Group Set to Discuss the Proposed
> Dispensary Thursday
>
> Community and business leaders in Templeton say
> they'll fight a
> proposal for a medical marijuana dispensary on the
> town's north side.
>
> Templeton schools Superintendent Deborah Bowers and
> others argue that
> allowing a dispensary in an industrial park at 3850
> Ramada Drive
> would undermine Templeton's anti-drug efforts and
> thrust the
> community into an ongoing legal battle over medical
> marijuana.
>
> Property owner and applicant Kent Connella has
> proposed a
> 1,450-square-foot medical marijuana co-op in the
> single-story complex.
>
> The Templeton Area Advisory Group is slated to
> discuss Thursday night
> whether the proposed business meets a set of
> guidelines spelled out
> in a county ordinance governing medical cannabis
> dispensaries.
>
> [continues: 95 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 CN ON: City Hit By Drug Plague
> From: CMAP http://www.mapinc.org/cmap
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:46:13 -0700
> Size: 78 lines 2965 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a08.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
> Copyright: 2007 Canoe Limited Partnership
> Contact: oped@...
> Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
> Author: Donna Casey, Sun Media
>
> CITY HIT BY DRUG PLAGUE
>
> Crack Explosion Overwhelming Downtown
>
> It's a disturbing sight Gord Diamond sees too often
> when he takes his
> dog for a walk around his downtown neighbourhood.
>
> It's a young woman who's "freaked out," stumbling
> down the sidewalk,
> scouring the streets for a fix of crack cocaine.
>
> For Diamond, who's lived with his wife at their
> George St. condo for
> six years, he sees the stumbling, strung-out woman
> and thinks of his
> two daughters -- women in their mid-30s who've had
> the good fortune
> of a loving and supportive home.
>
> 'DESTROYING THEMSELVES'
>
> "These are women who are the same age who are
> destroying themselves
> - -- it bothers me," said Diamond, the former
> director of transit
> services at the City of Ottawa.
>
> [continues: 48 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 009 CN SN: Christianity Helped Addict Reform
> From: CMAP http://www.mapinc.org/cmap
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:46:13 -0700
> Size: 73 lines 2839 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a09
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a09.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=1a70e242-c488-41d7-824\
7-fc9cc6ae7104
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Regina Leader-Post (CN SN)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=1a70e242-c488-41d7-824\
7-fc9cc6ae7104
> Copyright: 2007 The Leader-Post Ltd.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/361
> Author: Will Chabun, The Leader-Post
>
> CHRISTIANITY HELPED ADDICT REFORM
>
> Jesus Ran a Gang.
>
> "Hey, I had a Grade 5 education," Serge LeClerc
> said, a little
> apologetically, to the hundreds assembled Wednesday
> for the annual
> Saskatchewan Prayer Breakfast.
>
> "I had to put it into terms that I understood."
>
> What LeClerc understood back in 1985 was crime and
> surviving on the street.
>
> Born to a Cree mother who'd been raped in Toronto's
> seamy core, he
> grew up in that city's housing projects, was sent to
> a religious
> reform school (where he was cruelly beaten) and by
> 15 was carrying a gun.
>
> [continues: 46 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 010 CN SN: PUB LTE: Biased Stories On Salvia
> Follow Tack On
> From: CMAP http://www.mapinc.org/cmap
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:46:12 -0700
> Size: 38 lines 1487 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a10
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a10.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: StarPhoenix, The (CN SN)
> Copyright: 2007 The StarPhoenix
> Contact:
>
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/letters.html
> Website: http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/400
> Referenced:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n450/a07.html
> Author: Tara Kooy
>
> BIASED STORIES ON SALVIA FOLLOW TACK ON MARIJUANA
>
> Re: Police powerless as psychedelic herb remains
> legal (SP, April 9).
> After another ridiculous article on salvia, I
> thought it was time to
> write. I am not trying to promote or support use of
> salvia, but the
> last two SP stories on it have been unnecessary and
> biased.
>
> In Legal hallucinogen concerns police (SP, Dec. 16),
> Saskatoon police
> admitted to not having any recorded issues with
> salvia use yet they
> apparently consider it a major problem in the city.
>
> It's highly confusing that people are choosing to
> attack this
> little-known substance with few documented incidents
> of danger.
> Meanwhile, alcohol kills people daily in multiple
> forms, be it from
> drunk driving, related physical abuse, fetal alcohol
> syndrome,
> alcohol poisoning or liver disease.
>
> Playing a blame game is pointless, but where is the
> logic in Canada's
> choices in the legality of mind and body altering
> substances? We are
> lucky enough to be able to legally kill ourselves
> with liquor and
> cigarettes, but the simple escape of salvia or
> marijuana are only for
> the "criminal."
>
> Tara Kooy
>
> Saskatoon
> - ---
> MAP posted-by: Elaine
>
> [end]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 011 US SD: Court Asked To Revive Challenge To
> Student Loan
> From: Students Fight Back -
> www.SchoolsNotPrisons.com
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:52:19 -0700
> Size: 83 lines 3918 bytes
> File: v07.n496.a11
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n496.a11.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
> Source: Sioux City Journal (IA)
> Copyright: 2007 Sioux City Journal
> Contact: mikegors@...
> Website: http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/945
>
> COURT ASKED TO REVIVE CHALLENGE TO STUDENT LOAN
> RESTRICTIONS
>
> PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has
> been asked to
> reinstate a lawsuit that seeks to strike down a law
> denying federal
> financial aid to students convicted of drug
> offenses.
>
> The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties
> Union on behalf of
> students who lost their eligibility for college
> loans, argues that
> the federal law violates the constitutional ban on
> double jeopardy by
> subjecting students to a second criminal punishment
> after they have
> already served a court-imposed sentence.
>
> In the past six years, the law has prevented more
> than 200,000
> students or would-be students from getting grants,
> loans or other
> financial assistance, according to the ACLU.
>
> U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann of Aberdeen
> dismissed the
> lawsuit in October, ruling that the law does not
> violate the
> Constitution's provisions requiring equal protection
> and prohibiting
> double jeopardy.
>
> [continues: 54 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
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