Pubdate: Fri, 31 Dec 2004
Source: DrugSense Weekly
Section: Feature Article
Website: http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm

2004 IN THE NEWS

Below is a selection from the most viewed news clippings of the year. With
an average of over 1,600 clippings MAP archived each month, the choices
were not easy. You, our readers, helped with the choices, as all are among
the top 10% in terms of the number of times the selected clippings have
been accessed. From that group we selected what we hope is a good cross
section, leaning towards the more in depth items.

Thank You to the volunteer MAP newshawks, editors, letter to the editor
writers, and all who donate so generously of their time and funds to make
this effort, entering it's tenth year, possible!

JANUARY

US: Feds To Revamp Drug Testing
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n097/a02.html

Canada: Huge Marijuana Factory Was One Strange Joint
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n079/a06.html

US: Montel Williams Goes to Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n046/a05.html

US MN: Wheeler Dealer
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n040/a10.html

UK: OPED: One In Four Believe Sale Of Cannabis Should Be Legalized
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n172/a04.html

FEBRUARY

Sweden: Web: Drug Deaths Quadruple
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n262/a05.html

US SC: High School Drug Raid Rattles Town
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n278/a07.html

US WA: DEA's Hangup Over Industrial Hemp Isn't Healthy
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n325/a03.html

US UT: Column: Congress Fights Drug War By Blunting Reform Efforts
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n342/a03.html

UK: Goodbye Ecstasy, Hello 5-Meo-DMT
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n281/a10.html

MARCH

US OK: Series: When Meth Hits Home
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n433/a09.html

US: The Ecstasy Factor
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n407/a06.html

Switzerland: Web: UN Drugs Body Slams Switzerland
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n384/a06.html

US: Documenting The Agony Of Ecstasy
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n513/a10.html

US NV: Legalizing Marijuana May Not Change Much, Researcher Says
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n511/a11.html

APRIL

US: Transcript: Hearing on Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n553/a05.html

US IL: On Streets, Drug Trade the Only Game in Town
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n596/a10.html

US MI: Pot, Pain and Politics
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n542/a05.html

US: Ruling in Suit Charging Censorship Could Affect Transit Systems
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n661/a05.html

Canada: Activist: Ottawa's Pot Not Worth Smoking
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n653/a03.html

MAY

US: Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n691/a10.html

New Zealand: Weighing Up The Risks Of Drug Testing At Work
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n708/a08.html

Afghanistan: Heroin Trade Booms In Afghanistan
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n706/a11.html

US: Where There's Smoke
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n763/a06.html

US: Drug Bill Makes Bands Pay for Fans' Pot Use
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n774/a06.html

JUNE

US: Series: Denied by the Drug Provision, a Personal Narrative
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n804/a09.html

CN BC: Legalize, Tax Lucrative Pot Industry: Study
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n843/a06.html

US: 0-2 in 9th, Ashcroft May Seek Review
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n843/a08.html

US: Scientists Sue To Get Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1040/a07.html

Mexico: Betrayal On The Mexican Border
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n889/a01.html

JULY

US: An End To Marijuana Prohibition
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n939/a04.html

US WV: 20-Year Drug Sentence Tossed Over Supreme Court Ruling
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n938/a10.html

Colombia: FARC and the Paramilitaries Take Over Colombia's Drug Trade
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n976/a05.html

US CO: Conflict Over Legalization a Growing Part of Drug War
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n988/a07.html

Canada: Pot Use Doubles Since '89
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1043/a09.html

AUGUST

CN ON: OPED: Drug Laws Make The Body A Battleground
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1092/a03.html

UK: Herbal Craze Puts Drug Users On a Legal High
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1139/a01.html

US: Push To Legalize Medicinal Pot Stalls In Congress
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1197/a11.html

CN NF: The Other Side Of Oxycontin
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1250/a02.html

US GA: Who Was Kenny Walker?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1245/a01.html

SEPTEMBER

Netherlands: Growing Marijuana, With Dutch Government Help
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1324/a02.html

CN BC: Free Crack Pipes on the Way
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1347/a08.html

CN BC: Marijuana Candidate Bringing Cannabis Cafe Debate
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1364/a11.html

US NY Edu: Column: New York Drug Laws Too Strict
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1438/a08.html

US AK: If the Voters Plant It, Will It Grow?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1395/a11.html

OCTOBER

US: Justices Show Inclination To Scrap Sentencing Rules
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n000/a316.html

US: Web: How the Government Lost the Drug War in Cyberspace
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1415/a04.html

US MA: Districts Polled On Marijuana Law
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n000/a318.html

US: A Measured Response
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1473/a05.html

US CA: Column: Dr. Leveque's License Revoked
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1762/a04.html

NOVEMBER

US: Web: Drugs And The Nation
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1592/a02.html

Canada: Ombudsman Calls For Inmate Needle Exchange
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1647/a05.html

US WI: Series: More Prison Time Doesn't Always Result in Less Crime
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1722/a03.html

US FL: Editorial: A 55-Year Sentence for Selling a Few Joints' Worth
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n000/a284.html

US NY: OPED: Southern Quagmire
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1741/a12.html

DECEMBER

US: The Brain's Own Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1742/a03.html

US CA: Shattered Grass?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1769/a02.html

US WI: Doctors, Drug Agency At Odds On Pain Relief
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1768/a06.html

US CA: Column: Health Canada Okays Sativex
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1827/a10.html

US  NY: Column: Why Some Politicians Need Their Prisons to Stay Full
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1845/a07.html

Newshawk: Remembering Gil Puder http://www.leap.cc/puder/
Pubdate: Fri, 12 Nov 2004
Source: DrugSense Weekly
Website: http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm
Note: Below is the Table of Contents for today's issue of the DrugSense
Weekly which may be read on-line at the URLs shown.

DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, NOV. 12, 2004 #375

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec1

(1) Justices Hear Case On Drug-Detection Dogs (2) Canada: We'll Make Pot
Laws, PM Tells Cellucci (3) Two Marijuana Proponents Convicted Of
Possession (4) Editorial: Ashcroft II

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Medical Marijuana Vote Called Invalid (6) Pressed To Do Well On
Admissions Tests, Students Take Drugs (7) Oxycontin Lawsuit Settled (8)
U.S. Calls Doctor Dealer, Not Healer

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In Inmates (10) More Women Fill
Prisons (11) Governor Seeks Rise In Prison Spending (12) The Usual Suspects
(13) Police Say Suspects Chose Site

Cannabis & Hemp

(14) Drugs And The Nation (15) Nearly Three-Fourths Of West Has Medical
Marijuana Laws (16) Researchers Buzzing About Marijuana-Derived Medicines
(17) Pot Bill Could Mean Trade Slowdown - Congressman (18) B.C. Considers
Regulating Hydroponic Equipment

International News

(19) Canadians Sentenced To 16 Years For Peddling Ecstasy In Vietnam (20)
Drug Trafficking On The Rise, Warns Ali (21) The War On Drugs Is 'Lost'
(22) Public-Private Jail Proposal Sets Off Alarms

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec3

Remembrance And Ignorance: In Afghan Fields The Poppies Grow...

Jean Cooper Arrest Protest - Up In Smoke Cafe

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Keep The Government Out Of Your Medicine Cabinet

Better Waking Through Chemistry

Judging Prohibition

Veterans For Medical Marijuana

The D.A.R.E. Generation Returns to D.C.

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec4

Drug Laws A Threat To Individual Rights / By Chris Buors

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec5

Playing Cops And Dealers At School / By Stephen Young

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec6

Brehon Somervell

"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
- Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief, 1929
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4218.gif

Ganjawarnews: 11-6-4 http://tinyurl.com/5ald9
Illustrated: http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x75578.shtml

Florida's Journey for Justice
Across Florida the medical marijuana patients marched:  past swamps, rusting
railroad
tracks, shotgun shacks  and hog farms, dodging dogs in small towns booming
  with income from new prisons.

In wheelchairs, cars, recreational vehicles, even a scale  model jail cell towed
on a
donated trailer, the Journey for Justice med-pot caravan sojourned two hundred
miles in
seven days of northern Florida springtime.

Thousands of bemused but friendly Floridians, in rural towns, or driving by on
two lane
roads, saw activist Kay Lee, wearing a striped prisoner's uniform, walking miles
for
justice. They saw Eddie Smith, a cancer and AIDS survivor, wheeling down the
grassy
roadside in sheets of blinding rain.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1592.html

Murli at Fort Ganja: Cannabis commune raided several times.
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/75/75578.jpg

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I
have
said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense”-
Buddha

Woody Guthrie
http://www.woodyguthrie.com

This photo of Woody Guthrie and his guitar with "This Machine Kills Fascists"
sign, was taken between the years 1941-45 for the film "Hear My Banjo Sing."
The photographer is unknown.
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Ganjawarnews: 11-5-4 http://tinyurl.com/5ahdd
Illustrated: http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x75533.shtml

“If the jury have no right to judge the justice of a law of the government, they
plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the
government;
for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.”
- Lysander Spooner, "Trial by Jury"

Before Prohibition
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm

Vin Mariani was the leading coca wine. This advertisement features an
endorsement from
Berthelier, a popular late 19th century actor. The caption immediately below the
photograph reads, "Your marvelous Tonic needs certainly no further
recommendation as
everyone is familiar with it, and no one would be without it. I claim 'VIN
MARIANI' can
have no equal; it will live forever." The caption also proclaims "over 7,000
written
endorsements from prominent physicians in Europe and America" and that the
product has
had acclaim for 30 years.
(From Harper's Magazine, March, 1894.)

In addition to endorsements from  celebrities, physicians, and scientists,
Pope Leo XIII also endorsed the popular  product for its beneficial effects.
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DrugSense Weekly,               Nov. 5, 2004                       #374

Read This Publication On-line at:  http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

      (1) US: Drug Trial Of Former Pain Doctor Opens Today
      (2) US CA: Critics Of '3 Strikes' Law Plan To Continue Push For Change
      (3) New Zealand: Medical Cannabis Out, Says Anderton
      (4) US KY: Bullitt School Drug Sweeps Bring 1 Arrest, 9 Citations

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

      (5) Roll, Roll Up, For The Dope Opera
      (6) Ex-Drug Task Force Chief Pleads Guilty
      (7) Editorial: An Information War On Drugs
      (8) Syringe Law Not Making An Impact

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

      (9) Man Gets 99 Years For Drug Deal
      (10) Police Arrests Of Black Men Ripped
      (11) Detective Turned Son Into Dealer
      (12) Deputy Charged With Intent To Distribute Cocaine

Cannabis & Hemp-

      (13) At Least 17 Of 20 Marijuana Initiatives Pass
      (14) Liberals Unveil Pot Bill For Second Time
      (15) Let's Remember Prohibition - And Legalize Marijuana
      (16) Top Court Frees Police To Use Infrared Devices

International News-

      (17) Karzai Declares War On Drugs
      (18) The Mystery Of The Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die
      (19) Crack Kits Hit B.C.'S Streets
      (20) Outrage At Jailing Of Invalid

* Hot Off The 'Net

      Drugs and the Nation / By Steven Wishnia, AlterNet
      Dr. Mikuriya's Medicine / By Peter Gorman, AlterNet
      DanceSafe DVD Offer
      After the War on Drugs - Options for Control
      Walters And Me
      Canadian House of Commons Debates Cannabis Bill
      Eight Reforms for Our Next President
      Working Under Fire: Drug User Health and Justice 2004
      Marijuana Residue Present On US Currency, Study Says
      Marijuana-Like Compounds May Aid Array Of Debilitating Conditions
      Drivers on Pot - Issues and Options

* Letter Of The Week

      Colombia Drug Disaster / By Martin Lepkowski

* Feature Article

      In The War On Drugs, Europe Must Make A Separate Peace
      / By  Polly Toynbee

* Quote of the Week

      George W. Bush

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THIS JUST IN
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(1) US: DRUG TRIAL OF FORMER PAIN DOCTOR OPENS TODAY

A  prominent  former pain doctor from McLean will go on trial today in
federal  court in Alexandria, accused of leading a broad conspiracy to
traffic  in  prescription  narcotics  that  prosecutors say led to the
deaths of three patients.

The  case against William E. Hurwitz has drawn national attention from
advocates  for  patients  with chronic pain, who decry it as a zealous
attempt  to  criminalize  what  they  consider  good medical practice.
Government officials say the prosecutions of Hurwitz and other doctors
has helped stem growing abuse of OxyContin and other potent
prescription painkillers.

Hurwitz, 59, is charged in a 62-count indictment that includes charges
of  drug  trafficking  resulting  in  death and serious bodily injury,
conspiracy  to traffic in controlled substances and health care fraud.
Prosecutors  allege  that  Hurwitz  prescribed excessive quantities of
dangerous  narcotics  to patients who were then selling the drugs on a
lucrative  black  market.  His  dosages,  they  said,  led  to serious
injuries and the three deaths.

The  trial is the culmination of a two-year federal investigation into
doctors,  pharmacists  and  patients  suspected  of selling potent and
addictive  painkillers.  About  50  people  have  been  convicted. Law
enforcement  sources said the probe is ongoing, though Hurwitz was one
of the ultimate targets.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Thu, 04 Nov 2004
Source: Washington Post (DC)
Copyright: 2004 The Washington Post Company
Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/491
Author: Jerry Markon, Washington Post Staff Writer
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?232 (Chronic Pain)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/oxycontin.htm (Oxycontin/Oxycodone)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1572.a01.html

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(2) US CA: CRITICS OF '3 STRIKES' LAW PLAN TO CONTINUE PUSH FOR CHANGE

Californians  will  never  know  whether  Proposition 66, a measure to
reform  the state's "three strikes" law, would have led to the release
of thousands of "murderers, rapists and child molesters."

But  using that imagery in a multimillion-dollar television blitz last
week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his unrivaled political clout to
persuade  scores  of  California voters to change their minds and vote
down Proposition 66 by a 53 to 47 percent ratio.

Now,  the  decade-old  fight  over  the toughest sentencing law in the
nation  is  back to square one. Even critics of Proposition 66 concede
the  hard-fought campaign is likely to produce reforms to a law put in
place  after  the  Polly  Klaas kidnapping and murder by felon Richard
Allen Davis.

"Nobody  is  under  the  delusion that because this thing didn't pass,
this is going to be the end of it," said Santa Clara County prosecutor
David  Tomkins,  a  three-strikes  expert  who opposed Proposition 66.
"This sniping over three strikes needs to end."

Schwarzenegger  himself said Wednesday that he planned to consult with
Attorney General Bill Lockyer and legislators on possible improvements
to the law.

"If  there's  something  wrong  with  it  you  know  that  needs to be
adjusted, then we should do that," he said.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Thu,  4 Nov 2004
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2004 San Jose Mercury News
Website: http://www.mercurynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390
Author: Howard Mintz
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1571.a10.html

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(3) NEW ZEALAND: MEDICAL CANNABIS OUT, SAYS ANDERTON

Associate  Minister  of Health Jim Anderton says he will not support a
bill allowing the cultivation of cannabis for pain relief.

But Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons believes the drug should
be allowed for medical reasons.

The  issue has arisen after Christchurch man Neville Yates was sent to
jail  for  five  months  by  Christchurch  District  Court Judge David
Holderness  for  growing  cannabis  he  says  he uses for pain relief.

Yates,  who is wheelchair-bound and brain-damaged after being hit by a
truck  30  years  ago,  had  been  sent  to  jail in 1999 for the same
offence.

Mr  Anderton,  chairman  of  the ministerial committee on drug policy,
said  yesterday  that  he  would  not support a bill allowing cannabis
cultivation for pain relief.

"The Ministry of Health is looking into this issue but it has to do it
on  a  careful basis. It has to have clinical evidence and advice that
using  cannabis  for  pain  relief  is  safe," he told National Radio.

Mr  Anderton said the effects of smoking cannabis were even worse than
tobacco.

He  said  if cannabis was to be allowed for medical reasons, it had to
be properly administered and trialled clinically to ensure it did have
the benefits claimed.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Thu, 04 Nov 2004
Source: New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Copyright: 2004 New Zealand Herald
Website: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/300
Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1564/a10.html
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1569.a05.html

===

(4) US KY: BULLITT SCHOOL DRUG SWEEPS BRING 1 ARREST, 9 CITATIONS

Kentucky State Police arrested one student and cited nine others last
week in drug sweeps at Bullitt County's three high schools.

Police  arrived unannounced at Bullitt Central, Bullitt East and North
Bullitt  high  schools  Friday  and  used  seven drug-sniffing dogs to
search lockers, classrooms and parking lots for illegal drugs, Trooper
John  Nokes  said.  They found small amounts of marijuana and about 25
pills,  all  prescription  muscle  relaxants,  at  Bullitt Central and
Bullitt East.

   [snip]

Nokes said the amount of drugs confiscated wasn't any larger than they
typically find during school sweeps.

School  officials requested the action after being offered the service
by  the  state  police,  said  Pat  Smith-Darnell, the school system's
director of anti-drug programs.

That  offer  was  made  to  school  systems two years ago, after state
police added 16 German shepherds to their statewide dog unit, bringing
the total to 25.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Thu, 04 Nov 2004
Source: Courier-Journal, The (KY)
Copyright: 2004 The Courier-Journal
Website: http://www.courier-journal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/97
Author: Tonia Holbrook, The Courier-Journa
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1575.a02.html

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Domestic News- Policy
----------------------------------

COMMENT: (5-8)

   European  viewers  of MTV will see a new drama about cannabis dealers
   next  month.  An MTV executive says it will be educational. "It's the
   perfect  time  to  do  a  programme about this because it's something
   people  are  confused  about. People may know cannabis has been taken
   down  a  notch legally but they don't know what that means," he said.

   We'll  see  what people learn from it, but I hope something like this
   makes  it  way  across  the  ocean.  Any  network  could make a great
   reality  series  about  a  typical  drug  task  force.  If it's truly
   realistic,  there  will  be  corruption  like  that found in Alabama,
   where  a  task  force chief has been convicted of extortion and other
   crimes related to his position.

   A  typical pro-drug-war editorial in Virginia acknowledged that a new
   prescription  drug database isn't working to stop drug-related crime,
   but  then  argued  the  program  should  be  expanded.  Finally,  few
   Illinois  residents seem to be taking advantage of liberalized needle
   purchase laws.

===

(5) ROLL, ROLL UP, FOR THE DOPE OPERA

MTV  has  found  a  way  to stay ahead of the pack - a new drama about
drug dealers

MTV  reckons  that if it wants to be down with the kids and remain the
most-watched  music  channel  among  16-  to  24-year-olds,  it has to
stick  its  neck  out.  Hence  the first-ever drama to be shown on the
channel  will  be based, controversially, on the life and times of two
cannabis  dealers.  "It's  a  departure for us," says Richard Godfrey,
senior  vice  president of MTV Productions Europe, of the "dope opera"
-  called  Top  Buzzer - which begins next month.From the early rushes
,TopBuzzer  looks  like  nothing  else you'd see on TV, nothing like a
BBC3  or  Channel  4  show,"  says  Godfrey, revealing precisely which
channels he's benchmarking his output against.

Asked  why  the  music  channel  has gone for drama he replies: "We've
taken  the  decision  to  invest  in original programme development in
the UK and we need a balance of projects."

   [snip]

"It's based on a culture that exists and it's a perfectly
justifiable  one  on  which  to  base a show," says Godfrey. "It's the
perfect  time  to  do  a  programme  about this because it's something
people  are  confused  about.  People may know cannabis has been taken
down a notch legally but they don't know what that means."

   [snip]

Pubdate: Mon, 25 Oct 2004
Source: Independent  (UK)
Copyright: 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/209
Author: Lucy Rouse
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?207 (Cannabis - United Kingdom)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1536/a06.html

===

(6) EX-DRUG TASK FORCE CHIEF PLEADS GUILTY

The  former  head  of  the  Lauderdale  County Drug Task Force pleaded
guilty  Tuesday  to  extortion,  lying to the FBI and misappropriating
funds in his work as task force director.

David  Lynn  Scogin, 44, of Florence has also agreed to pay $20,000 in
restitution.  U.S.  District  Judge Robert B. Propst will sentence him
Dec. 16.

Scogin  was  originally  charged  in  a 10-count indictment last July.
But on Tuesday, he agreed to plead guilty to three counts.

According to the indictment, Scogin extorted $5,000 from an
individual  in  April 2002 by forcing the person to give the drug task
force the money to avoid an arrest.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Wed, 03 Nov 2004
Source: Birmingham News, The (AL)
Copyright: 2004 The Birmingham News
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/45
Author: Chanda Temple
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1567/a01.html

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(7) EDITORIAL: AN INFORMATION WAR ON DRUGS

Virginia  needs  its pilot prescription-monitoring program not only to
continue, but to expand beyond its current limited reach.

Since  Virginia  started  a  pilot  prescription-monitoring program in
Southwest  Virginia  about  a  year  ago,  the  region's  wave of drug
addiction and related crime has not subsided.

That  is  not  an  argument  for ending the program, but for expanding
it.  The  General  Assembly  should make the pilot project permanent -
right  after  reluctant  lawmakers  take  the  steps needed to make it
fully effective.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Thu, 28 Oct 2004
Source: Roanoke Times (VA)
Copyright: 2004 Roanoke Times
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/368
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/oxycontin.htm (Oxycontin/Oxycodone)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1530/a07.html

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(8) SYRINGE LAW NOT MAKING AN IMPACT

SPRINGFIELD  --  Relatively  few  people appear to be taking advantage
of  a  new  state law that allows them to purchase up to 20 hypodermic
syringes without a prescription, one of the state's largest
pharmacies said Tuesday.

Gov.  Blagojevich  enacted  the  law  in  July of last year amid heavy
lobbying  from  the  AIDS Foundation of Chicago, which pushed the idea
as  a  means  to  reduce the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C among
intravenous drug users.

"I  don't  think  there has been a real large difference for us so far
in  the  sale  of  syringes," said Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin.
"It's  not  like  all  of  a sudden our sales have doubled. That's not
the case.

"A  lot  of that is because there's still some education that needs to
be  done  among  the  public  that  they don't need a prescription for
that," he said.

Citing  proprietary  concerns,  Walgreens  would not divulge its sales
for  prescription-free  syringes  under  the new law, which was pushed
by  state  Sen.  Donne Trotter (D-Chicago). The Illinois Department of
Public  Health  does  not  track  how  many people buy needles without
prescriptions, an agency spokesman said.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Wed, 27 Oct 2004
Source: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
Copyright: 2004 The Sun-Times Co.
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/81
Author: Dave McKinney, Sun-Times Springfield Bureau
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1535/a01.html

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Law Enforcement & Prisons
-------------------------

COMMENT: (9-12)

   About  $1,000  worth of crack in a set-up drug sting netted a 99-year
   sentence  in  Texas.  Sadly,  the case doesn't seem to be an anomaly.
   The  Texas  drug  war  is  skewed  by  race,  and  there's  a similar
   situation  in  Toronto,  according  some  Canadian  judges. Also this
   week,  more prohibition-related corruption, including a heart-warming
   family story.

===

(9) MAN GETS 99 YEARS FOR DRUG DEAL

A  Matagorda  County  jury  handed a Bay City man the maximum possible
punishment  --  99 years in prison -- on a conviction of selling crack
cocaine  Wednesday  --  the  second  such  sentence  in as many weeks.

Johnnie  Jones,  27,  of  Bay City, was convicted of unlawful delivery
of a controlled substance in a drug free zone.

In  addition  to  the 99-year sentence, the jury also assessed Jones a
$20,000 fine.

Jones  resisted  authorities  during  the  trial -- refusing to change
out  of  his  jail outfit and forcing deputies to physically carry him
into the courtroom, deputies said.

Jones  also  struggled with officers later during fingerprinting after
his sentencing, deputies said.

Jones  was  accused  of  selling  2.5  ounces  of  crack cocaine to an
undercover  officer  with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).

The  DPS  officer  negotiated the sale with Jones on March 10, 2003 in
the  Roland  Hillard  Memorial  Apartments  at  1408  Whitson  Street,
according to the indictment.

The  apartments  are  within  1,000 feet of Linnie Roberts Elementary,
and  convictions  for  selling drugs within that distance of a school,
by state law, draw a stiffer felony classification.

Jones  told  the  undercover  officer that he would sell the drugs for
$400 an ounce.

After  the  officer  asked  to  see them, Jones gave the officer three
individually  wrapped  bags  containing  the  drugs,  records  show.

The  officer  paid  $1,000  for the bags, and left the complex to meet
with  a  federal  Drug  Enforcement  Agency  (DEA) agent who took them
into evidence, indictment records show.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Sun, 24 Oct 2004
Source: Bay City Tribune, The (TX)
Copyright: 2004 Bay City Tribune
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3004
Author: Michael Smith, Bay City Tribune
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?217 (Drug-Free Zones)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1547/a07.html

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(10) POLICE ARRESTS OF BLACK MEN RIPPED

JUDGES  HAVE  been  sharply critical recently of police conduct during
searches  and  arrests  of  young  black  men.  Last  week,  the Crown
attorney  decided  to  stay  and withdraw drug dealing charges against
admitted  drug  dealer Sheldon Jackson, 28, who was pulled over in his
new  750  BMW  in  2001  on  St.  Clair Ave. W. by Det. Glenn Asselin.

Asselin  is  the same officer named in the Kevin Khan case, considered
the first "Driving While Black" case ruling in Canada.

Khan, a real estate broker, was acquitted last month of a
drug-trafficking  charge.  Justice  Anne  Molloy  said Asselin and his
partner  "fabricated  significant aspects of their evidence" when they
pulled  the  28-year-old  over  on  Marlee  Ave.  on  Oct.  22,  2001.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Fri, 29 Oct 2004
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2004, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Sam Pazzano, Courts Bureau
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/racial.htm (Racial Issues)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1535/a05.html

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(11) DETECTIVE TURNED SON INTO DEALER

A  detective  who  recruited his son to pull off a drugs deal has been
jailed.  Suspicious  colleagues  bugged  William Jones, 47, for months
during  forbidden  contacts  with  a police informant who was involved
in  the  drugs  conspiracy.  At Harrow Crown Court on Friday Jones, of
Ware,  Herts,  admitted  conspiracy  to  supply  cannabis  and willful
misconduct  in  a  public office. The former Scotland Yard officer and
father-of-three was jailed for three years and nine months.

Jurors  heard  conversations  were secretly taped in his police car as
he  promised  former  robber Anselm Peries, 35, of Bushey, information
about a multi-million pound hold-up.

'Wicked  behaviour'  They  then  heard  Jones briefing his son about a
drugs  deal  in  which  he wanted him to buy UKP 425 of cannabis resin
from a house linked to the informant and sell it in a pub.

When  fellow  officers  investigated  the  detective's background they
found  he  had also indirectly accepted UKP 12,500 from Peries to help
set up a cafe in Borehamwood.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Fri, 29 Oct 2004
Source: BBC News (UK Web)
Copyright: 2004 BBC
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/558
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?207 (Cannabis - United Kingdom)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1543/a10.html

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(12) DEPUTY CHARGED WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE

Roanoke  Sheriff's  Deputy Tierre Allen McGinnis was supplying inmates
with cocaine, a police investigation alleges.

By Lindsey Nair 981-3334 The Roanoke Times

A  former  Roanoke Sheriff's deputy was indicted on two felony charges
Monday  after  a  two-month  investigation  alleges  that  he  sneaked
cocaine into the jail.

Tierre  Allen  McGinnis,  25,  is  charged  with possession of cocaine
with  the  intent  to  distribute and possession of a firearm while in
the  possession  of  cocaine.  The  second  charge carries a mandatory
minimum sentence of five years in prison.

Roanoke  Sheriff  George  McMillan  said the investigation began about
the first of September after three separate tips came in to
authorities  that  a  deputy was delivering drugs to inmates. One came
from  an  inmate  at  the jail, one went to the Roanoke police and one
to the Drug Enforcement Agency, he said.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Tue, 02 Nov 2004
Source: Roanoke Times (VA)
Copyright: 2004 Roanoke Times
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/368
Author: Lindsey Nair
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?199 (Mandatory Minimum Sentencing)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1566/a09.html

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Cannabis & Hemp-
---------------------------

COMMENT: (13- 16)

   I'd  like  to  begin  this  week  with  a  moment  of silence for the
   Democratic Party and for liberal values such as equality,
   compassion,  social  justice, secularism, and diplomacy; all of which
   just  died  at  the hands of a conservative electorate bent on 4 more
   years  of  international  isolation,  radical  right-wing  ideology,
   religious  revivalism,  increased  drug  prohibition  spending  and
   enforcement, social and sexual inequality, and flat out
   war-mongering.

   [silence]

   Now  let's  get  back  to  business.  The  U.S.  election featured 20
   cannabis  ballot  initiatives,  ranging  from full-on legalization in
   Alaska  to smaller municipal medical initiatives such as those in Ann
   Arbor  Michigan  and  Columbia,  Missouri.  I  consider  all of these
   groundbreaking  and meriting of notice, and so in a bit of a twist on
   our  normal  compilation  of news articles, we will start this week's
   section  with  a  press  release  by  the  Marijuana  Policy  Project
   outlining  the results of all 20 ballot measures. MPP reports that 17
   of  20  initiatives  were  passed by voters, including record support
   for  a  medical  marijuana  program  in Montana. This becomes all the
   more  significant in light of the Bush victory in that state, going a
   long  to prove that compassionate access to medicinal cannabis is one
   of the only truly bi-partisan issues in this country.

   And  there  was  also  some  interesting  news from Canada this week,
   where  the  ruling  Liberal  party  once  again unveiled a bill which
   would  decriminalize  the  minor  possession  of  cannabis while also
   doubling the penalty for cultivation. Bill C-17 would make
   possession  of 15 grams or less of cannabis by an adult punishable by
   a  fine  of  $150 ($100 for youth), but would also double the maximum
   penalty  for  cultivation  of over 50 plants to a maximum of 14 years
   in  prison. The Liberals also attempted to deflect police concerns by
   simultaneously  introducing a new drugged-driving bill that gives law
   enforcement  more power to test and detain those suspected of driving
   under the influence of drugs.

   Our  next  article  is an editorial by Canada's leading daily calling
   for the legalization of cannabis. While supporting the
   decriminalization  of  personal  possession,  the  Globe  and  Mail
   questions  the  constitutionality  of  the  proposed  drugged-driving
   bill,  and urges the government to move towards - the legalization of
   cannabis.  Meanwhile  the  Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the
   police  use  of  infrared  technology  to identify potential grow-ops
   without  obtaining  a  warrant  does not violate a suspect's right to
   privacy.  So  while the U.S. faces another 4 years of rule by the far
   right,  Canada is allowing law enforcement to control the drug policy
   debate.  Just  how  much  are  flights  to Holland this time of year?

===

(13) AT LEAST 17 OF 20 MARIJUANA INITIATIVES PASS

Proposals  to  reform  marijuana  laws  racked  up record-setting vote
totals  across  the  country  Tuesday,  leaving  reformers  cheering
despite a few setbacks.

Montana  voters  approved a medical marijuana measure, Initiative 148,
by  an  overwhelming 62% to 38%, eclipsing the previous record for any
state's  first  vote  on  a  medical  marijuana  initiative,  the  61%
support  received  by  a  medical  marijuana measure in Maine in 1999.

In  Alaska,  Measure  2  scored  the  highest  vote  percentage  ever
achieved  by  a  statewide  proposal  to abolish marijuana prohibition
entirely  and  replace it with a system of regulation. With 43% of the
vote,  Measure  2  outpolled  previous  attempts  in  Alaska,  Nevada,
California,  and  Oregon  -  - none of which received more than 41% of
the vote.

Efforts  to  replace prohibition with regulation got a huge boost from
Oakland  voters,  who  approved  Measure  Z by 64% to 36%. The measure
commits the city of Oakland to supporting the taxation and
regulation  of  marijuana  in  California and makes personal marijuana
offenses the lowest priority for Oakland law enforcement.

In  Ann  Arbor, Michigan, voters overwhelmingly passed a local medical
marijuana  initiative,  Measure  C,  74%  to  26%.  In August, Detroit
voters passed a similar measure by a 60% to 40% margin.

Voters  in  Columbia, Missouri, gave big wins to two separate reforms:
A  medical  marijuana  proposal,  Proposition 1, passed by 69% to 31%;
and  Proposition  2, which replaces jail time with a maximum $250 fine
for  marijuana  possession, also received a solid endorsement with 61%
of the vote.

   [snip]

Continues: http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr110204b.html

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(14) LIBERALS UNVEIL POT BILL FOR SECOND TIME

Paul  Martin's  Liberals reintroduced a controversial bill Monday that
would  decriminalize  marijuana  possession  and  replace  criminal
charges  with  fines  for  anyone  caught  with  up to 15 grams of the
drug.

The  new  possession bill comes with the same old warning from Justice
Minister  Irwin  Cotler: This doesn't mean marijuana will be legalized
in Canada.

"Marijuana  use  is  and remains illegal," he said. "What we have done
here is alter penalty frameworks."

If  the  bill passes, adults who are caught with less than 15 grams of
marijuana  could  be  fined  up  to $400, but would not be left with a
criminal record.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Mon, 01 Nov 2004
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada Web)
Copyright: 2004 CBC
Note: Written by CBC News Online staff
Related: http://www.cfdp.ca/mj2003.htm
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1558.a09.html

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(15) LET'S REMEMBER PROHIBITION - AND LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

The  commercial  cultivation  of  marijuana,  once largely confined to
British  Columbia,  has spread nationwide. In Ontario, the harvest has
grown  by  an  estimated  250  per  cent in the past two years. Police
recently  raided  grow-ops in Moncton. In Edmonton, real-estate agents
are  exploring  their  legal  liability for selling a house that turns
out to have been a nursery.

Remember this, when you consider Bill C-17.

The  Liberal  government's  third attempt at decriminalizing marijuana
possession  was  introduced  in  the House yesterday. Whether the bill
makes  it  into  law  will  largely depend on whether Parliament lasts
long enough to get it through.

   [snip]

In  an  effort  to  control  the  spread  of grow-ops, governments are
skirting  with  unconstitutional  laws.  The  Ontario  government  has
introduced  legislation  that would permit authorities to cut power to
homes suspected of growing marijuana.

At the federal level, Bill C-16, which was also introduced
yesterday,  will  expand  police  powers  to  compel  blood, saliva or
urine  tests  for suspected drugged drivers. Both laws may well offend
the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Tue, 02 Nov 2004
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2004, The Globe and Mail Company
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168
Author: John Ibbitson
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1561.a02.html

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(16) TOP COURT FREES POLICE TO USE INFRARED DEVICES

The  Supreme  Court  of  Canada  put  marijuana  enforcement  ahead of
privacy yesterday, freeing police to use sophisticated
heat-detection  equipment  to  ferret  out  indoor growing operations.

The  7-0  decision reversed an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that had
urged  a  more  liberal  attitude toward marijuana and the right to be
free of unfair search and seizure.

   [snip]

Peter  Zaduk,  a  Toronto  lawyer  who  has defended scores of grow-op
charges,  predicted  that  police forces will silently rejoice. "I can
see  them  systematically  flying over whole neighbourhoods," he said.
"Their  mindset  is  that  marijuana grow houses are an epidemic. They
are obsessed with the idea of them being on every block.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Sat, 30 Oct 2004
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2004, The Globe and Mail Company
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168
Author: Kirk Makin, Justice Reporter
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1543.a02.html

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International News
---------------------------

COMMENT: (17-20)

   The  Afghan government really means business, this time. According to
   wire  reports  last  week,  a  senior Afghan official from the ruling
   Karzai  regime  sternly warned a seminar in Kabul that no opium would
   be  grown.  "Growers  must  not  plant  poppies  this year," Interior
   Minister  Ali.  A.  Jalali commanded. Opium production in Afghanistan
   had  fallen  to  record  lows  before  the  U.S.-led  invasion of the
   landlocked  Asian  nation in 2001. Since that time, opium growing has
   soared  to  the  highest  levels  ever.  The government threatened to
   destroy  all opium crops this year, and to skip paying farmers even a
   token  amount  in compensation for destroyed crops, as in past years.

   While  U.S.  drug  czars  ballyhoo  an abstract "tipping point" (just
   around  the corner) where suddenly prohibition will become effective,
   on the ground in Colombia, there are indications a new
   herbicide-resistant  coca plant that survives glyphosate (Roundup) is
   spreading.  A  feature  article  from Wired magazine reports that the
   new coca strain (known as "supercoca", "la millonaria", or
   "Boliviana  negra")  also produces more leaves than other strains, as
   well  as  being  resistant  to the herbicide used against it. The new
   strain  was  believed  to  have  been  a  natural  resistance-giving
   mutation that was noticed and propagated by farmers.

   In Vancouver, Canada, a crack-user's support group is now
   distributing  free  crack pipes. The "kits advance harm reduction and
   prevent  the  spread  of  HIV  and  hepatitis  C," said Rob Morgan, a
   self-described  crack  cocaine addict. Private donations paid for the
   kits  some  500  of  which  have  been  handed out so far. Officials,
   including  Mayor  of  Vancouver, Larry Campbell, had earlier endorsed
   the  creation  of  a  crack  smoking  room for Vancouver. The city of
   Vancouver  also  has  a  "safe-injection"  site,  the  first in North
   America.

   And  finally  this week, a report from The Press in New Zealand, that
   a  brain-damaged  man  there was sentenced to five months in jail for
   growing  medical  cannabis.  The  cannabis,  said  the  man, relieved
   chronic  pain  from  an  accident  30  years  ago which left him in a
   wheelchair  ever  since.  The  judge  lashed  out  at  "pro-cannabis
   advocates"  at  the  sentencing, and scolded the man for not pleading
   guilty. Christchurch District Court Judge David Holderness
   proclaimed  that  not  jailing  the  brain-damaged,  wheelchair-bound
   patient,  "in  this  case  would  be  to  suggest  that there is some
   special  category  of cannabis-cultivation offenders -- those who use
   it for medicinal purposes."

===

(17) KARZAI DECLARES WAR ON DRUGS

Kabul,  Afghanistan,  Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Afghan Interior Minister Ali. A.
Jalali  told  provincial security chiefs Monday that poppy cultivation
must stop and future crops would be destroyed.

The  announcement  was  made  at  the  ministry  in  Kabul  during  an
anti-narcotics  seminar  attended  by  provincial  security chiefs and
senior government officials.

   [snip]

"Growers  must  not  plant  poppies this year," Minister Jalali warned
the  officers.  He  told  them  to  return to their provinces and tell
growers  that  cultivating  poppies  was  against Islam, and beginning
this year the government would destroy their crops without
compensation.

The  ministry  said the government is committed to destroying the drug
economy, and that if the security chiefs fail to stop poppy
cultivation  in  their provinces, the government's eradication program
will begin

Pubdate: Tue, 02 Nov 2004
Source: Washington Times (DC)
Copyright: 2004 News World Communications, Inc.
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/492
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1566.a11.html

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(18) THE MYSTERY OF THE COCA PLANT THAT WOULDN'T DIE

   [snip]

Over  the  past  three  years,  rumors  of  a  new strain of coca have
circulated  in  the  Colombian  military.  The  new  plant, samples of
which  are  spread  out  on  this  table,  goes  by  different  names:
supercoca,  la  millonaria.  Here in the southern region it's known as
Boliviana  negra.  The  most  impressive characteristic is not that it
produces  more  leaves  -  - though it does - but that it is resistant
to  glyphosate.  The  herbicide,  known by its brand name, Roundup, is
the  key  ingredient  in  the  US-financed, billion-dollar aerial coca
fumigation  campaign  that is a cornerstone of America's war on drugs.

One  possible  explanation:  The  farmers  of the region may have used
selective  breeding  to  develop  a hardier strain of coca. If a plant
happened  to  demonstrate  herbicide  resistance,  it  would  be  more
widely  cultivated,  and  clippings  would  be either sold or, in many
cases, given away or even stolen by other farmers. Such a
peer-to-peer  network  could,  over  time,  result in a coca crop that
can withstand large-scale aerial spraying campaigns.

   [snip]

We  hike  up  the  ridge,  and  suddenly there are healthy coca plants
stretching  to  the  horizon.  On  one  side  of  an  imaginary  line,
devastation.  On  the  other, billowing, neck-high coca plants dotting
hillsides  that  are  denuded  of  all  other  vegetation.  "Boliviana
negra,"  Don  Miguel  says,  pointing  at the large bushes. "They were
sprayed as well."

   [snip]

The  new  strain  is  disseminated via cuttings; farmers cut off stems
and  sell  them. Some farmers, looking to make more money, travel with
their  cuttings  and  peddle them around the region. And once a farmer
grows  a  new  plant, he can sell his own cuttings. It's file-swapping
brought to the jungle - a highly efficient decentralized
distribution chain.

Don  Miguel  doesn't  know  where  the strain originated. He has heard
rumors  of  a  group of mysterious agronomists who develop better coca
plants  for  the  traffickers,  but  he doesn't know where they are or
anything about them.

He  does  have  a  clear  sense  of how the new plant is affecting his
region.  At  first,  he  says, the aerial spraying was successful, but
now,  with  the  arrival of Boliviana negra, it's affecting only those
who  are  growing  lawful  crops.  "The  truth  is that the fumigation
drives  us  to the one thing that will survive - and that is Boliviana
negra," he says. "Not bananas, not yucca, not maize."

   [snip]

This  technique  -  applied  over  four years - is now the most likely
explanation  for  the  arrival of Boliviana negra. By spraying so much
territory,  the  US  significantly  increased  the  odds of generating
beneficial  mutations.  There  are  numerous  species of coca, further
increasing  the  diversity of possible mutations. And in the Amazonian
region, nature is particularly adaptive and resilient.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Mon, 01 Nov 2004
Source: Wired Magazine (CA)
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/505
Author: Joshua Davis
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/mycoherbicide
(mycoherbicide)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1556.a06.html

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(19) CRACK KITS HIT B.C.'S STREETS

VANCOUVER  --  A  support  group  for  drug  users  began distributing
hundreds  of  free  crack pipes over the weekend in an initiative they
say  will  slow the spread of disease among drug users. Over 500 crack
kits  were  handed  out  Friday and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug
Users  plans  to  hand  out  hundreds  more  in  the coming days, said
network  president  Rob  Morgan.  The  group  wants  public funding to
maintain the program.

"In  the  same  way  as  handing  out needles, these kits advance harm
reduction  and  prevent  the  spread  of  HIV  and  hepatitis C," said
Morgan, a self-described crack cocaine addict.

Each  kit  contains a glass pipe, mouthpieces, condoms, alcohol swabs,
matches,  and  smoking  instructions.  Money to buy the kits came from
private  organizations  and  street  donations. Morgan said drug users
are  asked  to  donate  at least $1 for the kits. "But we're not going
to turn people away," he said.

Health  officials  are  also  being  lobbied to create a crack smoking
room  in  the  city's  controversial safe injection site, the first of
its kind in North America.

Pubdate: Mon, 01 Nov 2004
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2004, Canoe Limited Partnership
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Canadian Press
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1558.a01.html

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(20) OUTRAGE AT JAILING OF INVALID

Wheelchair-bound  and  brain-damaged beneficiary Neville Yates is back
in  prison  as  accusations  fly  over  him  becoming  a  pawn  in the
cannabis debate.

Christchurch  District  Court  Judge  David  Holderness  yesterday
sentenced  Yates  to  five months jail for growing cannabis, which the
sickness  beneficiary  uses to relieve the chronic pain he has endured
since being hit by a truck 30 years ago.

As  the  judge  acknowledged that Yates would find jail hard, he had a
swipe  at  the  cannabis  activists  in court who had played a part in
Yates's doomed defence of medical necessity.

They  included  Blair  Anderson,  who  stood  for  the  Christchurch
mayoralty  on  a  policy  of repealing the prohibition on cannabis and
who acted as in-court assistant to Yates.

"You  were  not  greatly  assisted  by (Anderson) and other members of
the  group  who  were,  plainly,  pro-cannabis  advocates,"  the judge
said.

   [snip]

Yesterday's  sentence  provoked  violent  scenes, with abuse yelled at
the  judge  and  angry  protesters  forced  from the court building by
security staff.

   [snip]

Garrett,  prosecutor  Craig  Ruane  and  the  probation  officer  who
prepared  the  pre-sentence  report  had all supported a non-custodial
penalty.

   [snip]

"I  don't  overlook  that  a further prison term will be difficult for
you  and  I  have  regard  to  your  physical  difficulties  and  your
significant problem with pain," he said.

"However,  in  my  view,  to  impose  a non-custodial sentence in this
case  would  be  to  suggest  that  there  is some special category of
cannabis-cultivation  offenders  -  those  who  use  it  for medicinal
purposes.

   [snip]

Pubdate: Wed, 03 Nov 2004
Source: Press, The (New Zealand)
Copyright: 2004 The Christchurch Press Company Ltd.
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/349
Author: John Henzell
Photo: http://www.mapinc.org/images/Yates.jpg
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?232 (Chronic Pain)
Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1564.a10.html

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DRUGS AND THE NATION

By Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. Posted November 4, 2004.

The  election  results  show  there  is  still substantial support for
liberalizing  the  nation's  drug laws ? just not too far or too fast.

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20408/

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DR. MIKURIYA'S MEDICINE

By Peter Gorman, AlterNet. Posted November 3, 2004.

The  prime  target of the government's campaign against physicians who
recommend  medical  marijuana  is  fighting  for  his patients and his
professional life.

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'After  the  War on Drugs - Options for Control' is a major new report
examining  the  key themes in the drug policy reform debate, detailing
how  legal  regulation  of  drug markets will operate, and providing a
roadmap and time line for reform.

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WALTERS AND ME

Remember  how  Michael Moore tracked down the CEO of GM to ask why his
town  had  been  ruined  in  Roger  And Me? This Moore-esque hour-long
Potumentary  follows  the  history  of the Canadian "decrim" bill, now
called C-17.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3163.html

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CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATES CANNABIS BILL

Comments  from  members  of  parliament Libby Davies, Randy White and
Keith Martin.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3160.html

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EIGHT REFORMS FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

The  Drug  Policy  Alliance recommends eight reforms to make our drug
policies more rational, fiscally responsible, and fair.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/11_02_04eightreforms.cfm

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WORKING UNDER FIRE: DRUG USER HEALTH AND JUSTICE 2004

5th National Harm Reduction Conference

New Orleans November 11-14, 2004.

http://www.harmreduction.org/conf2004/

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MARIJUANA RESIDUE PRESENT ON US CURRENCY, STUDY SAYS

November 4, 2004 - Cleveland, OH, USA

Cleveland, OH: Trace levels of THC and other cannabinoids are present
in  United States paper currency, according to the findings of a study
published  in  the  September  issue  of  the  Journal  of Analytical
Toxicology.

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RANGING FROM PARKINSON'S DISEASE TO PAIN

No  longer  a  pipe  dream,  new  animal  research now indicates that
marijuana-like  compounds  can aid a bevy of debilitating conditions,
ranging  from  brain  disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) and Parkinson's disease, to pain and obesity.

http://apu.sfn.org/content/AboutSFN1/NewsReleases/am2004_cannabinoids.html

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DRIVERS ON POT - ISSUES AND OPTIONS

On  November  1,  Canada's federal government introduced a legislative
scheme  to deal with drug-impaired (read "cannabis-impaired") driving.

http://www.cfdp.ca/mj2003.htm#c16

The  Canada Safety Council has come out with a sensible alternative to
this intrusive bill, along with an issues paper that looks at cannabis
and impaired driving.

http://www.cfdp.ca/mj2003.htm#csc

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COLOMBIA DRUG DISASTER

By Martin Lepkowski

I  am  pleased that Rafael Lemaitre, the deputy press secretary in the
White  House  Office  of National Drug Policy, took notice of my Sept.
14  Commentary  column,  "Plan  Colombia: Poisoning a country," in his
Sept. 23 letter, "Plan Colombia a clear success."

A  few  facts:  To  say  that  the glyphosate used in Colombia is your
garden-variety  herbicide  is,  to put it kindly, untrue. Mr. Lemaitre
and  company  know that the glyphosate used in Colombia is being mixed
with  other  chemicals that have not been approved, or even tested for
harmful  effects.  The  chemical  company Monsanto specifically states
not  to  mix  glyphosate  ( Roundup ) with other chemicals. It goes on
to  say  that  users  of  its  product  should wear gloves, protective
clothing, and, especially, eye protection, because of the
possibility  of  severe  eye  damage. Try telling this to a child when
the  planes  come  to  spread  their  chemical brew on the Colombians'
fields, homes and schools.

It  is  true  that there has been a reduction of coca in some parts of
Colombia.  However,  Accion  Andina,  an independent agency monitoring
growth  and  production of coca, reports that before fumigation began,
coca  could  be  found  in 12 Colombian provinces; now it can be found
in 20.

The  agency  also  reports  an  increase  in the production of coca in
nearby  countries.  One  wonders:  Is  the  White  House contemplating
spraying  in  these  countries,  too?  Will  our fumigating planes fly
deeper into the Amazon forest?

I  wonder  if  the  White House reads its own State Department report,
dated  March  2004,  stating  that  the price of coca is not rising in
Colombia,  and  that  coca  cultivation  is increasing elsewhere. Even
"Drug  Czar"  John Walters has said that fumigation has failed to make
a  significant  dent in the amount of cocaine flowing out of Colombia.

Colombia's  President  Alavaro  Uribe  has  provided  some  Colombian
families  with  alternative-development  aid.  However,  he  should be
aware  that  some  of  these  funded  projects  have  been  fumigated.
According to a U.N. report, fumigation has destroyed 11
government-sponsored  substitution  and alternative-to-coca-production
programs.  Also  note  that  10,000 complaints of food-crop fumigation
have been filed with the U.S. Embassy in Colombia.

It  is  worth  noting,  too,  that some Colombian government officials
have  ties  to  paramilitary  narco-traffickers. President Uribe could
be doing more to weed out these corrupt politicians.

In  conclusion,  I  refer  the  White  House  Office  of National Drug
Policy  to  a  Rand  Corporation study that states that prevention and
drug-treatment therapies are 23 times more effective than
drug-eradication  programs.  To  date,  U.S. taxpayers have spent $3.3
billion  on  Plan  Colombia.  I  think  another  approach is in order.

Martin Lepkowski
Wakefield

Pubdate: Sat, 30 Oct 2004
Author: Martin Lepkowski
Source: Providence Journal, The (RI)

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IN THE WAR ON DRUGS, EUROPE MUST MAKE A SEPARATE PEACE

By  Polly Toynbee

Give  Addicts  a  Prescription  and  End the Crime Wave Destroying Our
Cities

Waiting  to  see  who  has  won  the  most important U.S. election for
decades,  the  world  has  been  an  anguished  bystander, pressing up
against  the  window  of  the superpower. So much depends on America -
from  climate  change  to  terms  of global trade and haphazard forays
into global policing.

But  one  policy on which the U.S. has always had an iron grip was not
mentioned  at  all  -  because both candidates would agree on it. Both
would  say  the  global "war on drugs" must go on. Since 1961 the U.S.
has  strong-armed  most  countries into signing UN conventions to join
this  futile  and  destructive battle. Drug prohibition has torn apart
poor  drug-producing  countries and wreaked drug-fuelled terror on the
streets  of  every  city  in  the world. It has created crazed addicts
lurking in dark streets everywhere from Rio to Russia.

"A  drugs-free  world  - we can do it!" is the slogan of the UN Office
on  Drugs  and  Crime.  It is, it says daftly, "on target to reach its
goals".  What  goals?  To  eradicate drug abuse and the cultivation of
coca,  cannabis  and  opium by the year 2008. Yes, in just four years.

Prohibition  not  only  hasn't  worked, it makes things ever worse. If
ever  there  was a good example of a policy where Europe needs to make
its  own  way,  this  is  it.  The  former Interpol chief (and now its
honorary  secretary  general)  Raymond  Kendall  has  broken  official
silence in Europe over this.

Writing  in  Le Monde, in a preview of a key lecture later this month,
he  declared  the  drugs  war  lost and said that enforcement policies
had  failed  to  protect  the  world from drugs. It was time for "harm
reduction"  instead  of the UN's "obsolete international conventions".
He  called  for  Europe  to take the lead in an international movement
to  reform  policy  when the UN's drug conventions come up for renewal
in 2008.

Under  the  conventions,  all countries are obliged to pursue growers,
dealers and users in an expensive attempt to hold back an
unstoppable  tide.  Prohibition  has  bred  crime  on  an unimaginable
global  scale.  Bravely,  most countries have to pretend that they are
winning  -  when  it  is  painfully  obvious  there  are  only losers.

Look  at  the  absurdity  of  our  own  Home  Office's five-year plan,
published  this  summer.  Here  are  its  drug  targets:  "We  aim  to
increase  the  proportion  of heroin seized from 10% in 2003 to 16% in
2006  and  cocaine from 12% to 26%. We will make the UK a more hostile
environment for organised drugs trafficking."

These  figures  are  almost  touchingly  barmy. The Home Office has no
idea  what  proportion  of  any  drug  it is seizing. If it does seize
more,  it  may  only  be a bad sign that there is more on the streets.

The  Home  Office  appears  not  to  have  read  the  prime minister's
strategy  unit  report  (unpublished),  which  found  that  UK  police
enforcement  had  failed to have any meaningful impact on illegal drug
supply.  Sadly,  this  report  took  fright  at  the  logic of its own
findings,  and  ended  up  calling  for mandatory treatment for heroin
addicts  -  now  expected  in  the  Queen's  Speech. Evidence suggests
forced  treatment  rarely  works:  even  the  results  for  voluntary
treatment are not always brilliant.

Meanwhile,  out  there  in  the  real world far from UN or Home Office
fantasy  targets,  Time  magazine  reports that the revenue from opium
grown  in  Afghanistan  this year is $30bn already; 95% of the crop is
destined  for  Europe,  and  it  is  the  source of most of the heroin
arriving  in  Britain. But how is Hamid Karzai supposed to prevent it?
Who  can  stop the poorest country on earth from growing the only crop
that brings in wealth? In the chaos of the Iraq war and its
aftermath,  the  Jordanian  anti-narcotics  department is alarmed, the
BBC reports, to find a new and unfamiliar sea of drugs from
Afghanistan  pouring  across  its  borders  and out across the region.

Look  at  other  opium-growing regions, and it's the same story. Their
governments  are  obliged  to crack down as best they can or risk U.S.
revenge  in  loss  of  aid,  trade  and  other  penalties.  Drugs harm
individuals,  but  it  is  not drugs that cause social calamity. It is
their  prohibition  that  brings a wave of criminality and corruption,
chasing profits of up to 3,000%.

What  the  former  head of Interpol is saying echoes the excellent new
report  by  the  Transform  Drug  Policy  Foundation,  setting  out  a
step-by-step  route  map towards controlled legalisation. There is now
a  free  market  in  the  most  dangerous  drugs  -  absurdly known as
"controlled  drugs"  when the opposite is the case. Their availability
is  in  the  hands  of  the  worst  people on any street corner on the
globe.  A  rational,  evidence-based  policy  would  seek  to kill the
market,  put  dealers  out  of business and put control of these drugs
into the safe hands of pharmacists.

Raymond  Kendall  calls  for  Europe to "medicalise" drugs, instead of
criminalising  them.  He  cites British research that finds every UKP1
spent  on  treatment  saves  UKP3  in  the criminal justice system. By
prescribing  pharmaceutical  opiates,  he  says there is an 80% cut in
addict  deaths,  a  drop  in  the  spread of disease and, above all, a
"sharp cut in the delinquency rates of drug addicts".

He  has  spent  his working life trying to cut off supply, only to see
it  soar,  prices drop and the number of addicts rise. Now he comes to
the  only  sensible  conclusion:  the  war on drugs doesn't work. Give
all  addicts  a  prescription,  and  they  can  lead reasonably normal
lives,  with  no  need  to  commit  crime.  The UKP300bn global market
would  grind  to  a  stop  with  an  end  to its violence, corruption,
fraud, money laundering and financing of terrorism.

In  Britain,  drugs  are  cheaper  than  ever.  The  lowest  estimate
suggests  half  of  all  prisoners  are jailed for offences related to
their  need  to  sustain  a  habit  of,  on  average, UKP50 a day. The
government  spends  far  more  on  enforcement  than on treatment. But
treatment  is  not  the whole answer: sometimes it works, sometimes it
doesn't.  For  many  addicts,  maintenance  is  the  best option. Most
citizens  only  care  about  stopping  addicts  committing  crimes and
rescuing  inner-city  zones  that  have  become battlegrounds for drug
gangs  and  pimps  running  drug-addicted  prostitutes.  No  one  is
suggesting  selling  the  stuff  in  corner  shops, but destroying the
market  by  making  it easy to register for controlled drug use is the
only hope left.

No  American  politician  would  find it easy to start a revolutionary
rethink  on  the  drugs  war. But Europe can and should; Holland began
and  now  has  a  shrinking, ageing number of addicts. Together the EU
could  move  step  by  step to rationalise drug policy; it is just one
example  of  what  Europe  could do together to offer another, non-US,
liberal model of democracy.

Pubdate: Wed, 03 Nov 2004
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Copyright: 2004 Guardian Newspapers Limited
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175
Author: Polly Toynbee
Cited: http://www.tdpf.org.uk

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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"One  of  the  interesting  questions  facing baby boomers is, have we
grown  up?  Are we willing to share the wisdom of past mistakes? And I
think the message ought to be to all children, 'Don't use drugs. Don't
abuse  alcohol.'  That's  what  leadership is all about." -- George W.
Bush, Boston Globe, p. A3 Aug 22, 1999

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Thread: 74% of Ann Arbor Voters Called Invalid...
Ann Arbor Police Chief Dan (Anslinger) Oates said in a written statement he has
directed his officers to continue enforcement of all marijuana sale and
possession
offenses as they did before the vote. Oates' decision came after City Attorney
Stephen
(Jim Crow) Postema said Wednesday that Ann Arbor's new medical marijuana
initiative is
invalid. Although the initiative was legally and appropriately placed on the
ballot
after a petition drive, Postema said 27-year-old case law dictates that city
officials
can refer complaints for prosecution under state law even though it would be
contrary
to the city's new charter language... snip

... "But the citizens of Ann Arbor have spoken just as clearly,"  "And people
who would
like to be employed by the city should either listen to the voice of the people
when
they vote or they should seek employment ... in another community. If the people
of Ann
Arbor didn't speak clearly yesterday, then I don't know what it takes." Scio
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"I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You
just go to
a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that
stuff,
so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground -
why not?
Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke."
- Howard Stern

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Both Pot Propositions Pass by a Large Margin By Luke Distefano
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19763.shtml
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A2 Voters Pass Initiative To Legalize MMJ By Leslie Rott
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19766.shtml
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Marijuana Measures Pass Handily By Dave Moore
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19765.shtml
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Voters: Make Pot a Low Priority By Heather MacDonald
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19762.shtml
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Medical Marijuana Approved By Allison Farrell
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19761.shtml
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Medical Marijuana Gets 74% Approval By Tom Gantert
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19760.shtml
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Voters Support Ballot Questions on Marijuana By Brian Eastwood
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Voters Pass Medical Marijuana Ballot By Susan Gallagher
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The Marijuana Conspiracy By Tara Apperson
CN Source: Lumberjack November 02, 2004
President Rollin Richmond thinks marijuana should be legalized. I agree with
him. In an
October meeting with The Lumberjack staff Richmond said, “My own personal view
is that
marijuana, like alcohol, should be legalized and should be taxed.”  Marijuana is
illegal for political reasons, not legitimate health reasons. Marijuana is far
less
harmful than alcohol, or even cigarettes. For those who don’t agree with the
recreational use of marijuana, just look at the hemp industry.
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Legal Weed By Laurel Chesky
SC Good Times: October 28-November 3, 2004
In latest battle, WAMM members remain hopeful that judge will rule their way.
Mike
Corral left the courtroom last Wednesday, March 30, feeling confident. " We were
nervous at first, but by the end of court, things were looking up," he says.
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- Dr Donald Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies

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Renee Boje fights extradition to US
As I watch my wife out of the  corner of my eye with my 2-year-old son almost
asleep at
her breast, I can think of nothing that has weighed more heavily over my heart
than the
US extradition order against her for a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years to
life.
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“The real issue is should we legalize marijuana. Let's have a debate about
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- John Walters, Office of National Drug Control Policy;
“That is fascinating to hear from the man who on every occasion refuses to
debate us.”
- Bruce Mirken, Marijuana Policy Project

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India: Prince of Pot High on India by Gurmukh Singh, Vancouver
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India Ganja Party
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US WI: Hemp Sign Brings Fine for Masel by Judith Davidoff
Capital Times Wisconsin (29 Oct 2004)
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US NV: New Marijuana Initiative For 2006
Perhaps building on the momentum of this year's polarized election, the locally
based
Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana is working with the nationally based
Marijuana Policy Project to get an early start on the November 2006 ballot.
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Nader Urges Bush to Grant Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders
Describes Drug War as Three Decade, Unjust Failure Washington, DC: Independent
Presidential candidate Ralph Nader today wrote President Bush urging that he
grant
clemency to 30,000 non-violent drug offenders.  Nader?s letter highlighted the
three
decade long failed, and unjust, drug war.  His call for clemency highlighted a
similar
request made by 400 clergy members to President Bill Clinton in 2000.
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sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use” - Galileo
Galilei

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"President Bush said in his television address not long ago: 'Our outrage
against drugs
unites us as a nation!' A nation of what? Snoops and informers? Take a look at
the
knee-jerk, hard-core shits who react so predictably to the mere mention of drugs
with
fear, hate and loathing. Haven't we seen these same people before in various
contexts?
Storm troopers, lynch mobs, queer-bashers, Paki-bashers, racists - are these the
people
who are going to revitalize a 'Drug-free America'??"
- William Burroughs, "The Drug User"

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and one that can make American mills independent of importations."
- Mechanical Engineering, February 1937

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To all Khristzion Ganjawar Junkies

Dear twisted geeeezus freak babykiller poison pusher without a clue as to why
the
Ganjawar exists. You abort more pregnancies with your 90 million pounds of herb
and
pesticides on the cotton clothes you hawk in your wallmarts. You spray those
poisons
but not all of it stays on the crop. Much of it runs off, and you bible thumping
midgetbrained chickenhawk bitches think its just an act of God, so forgetabout
it. Its
the right wing anti-conservative fortune 700 club naziphucks kids having the
abortions.
Too afraid of their murdering for Pat&Jer Op rescue parents to discuss condoms.
Proper
obedience given to the male head of the house, even if its the family minivan.
Lying
spoiled isolationists merkin fascists cheerleaders.

Now lets talk about the abortions from those agent orange bombs or the smart
bombs
hitting infrastructures or depleted uranium poisoning for what? Oil, fucking oil
in
Colombia, Thailand Vietnam or Iraq. Veggie oil grown by farmers works for me,
hemp
takes little or no chemicals but because of reefer mad idiot s like you keeping
the
stigma alive with your cheech and chong generalizations about Ganja. Profits on
poisoning and profits on treating the poisons with even more chemicals from the
drug
store you boot licking anti American coward!

Now how about the needle exchanges you wod junkie fothermuckers cry about and
close
down? How many abortions or new Hep C or AIDs babies you create with your
Ganjawar. Ass
assassins! Those christinsanely sodomized in juvi prison or as adults to live
with that
trauma cause they grew some marijuana? How sick are you to profit on such
misery.

The pollution Ganja protects against aborts more, you can wimply call
miscarriage but
its the same thing. You whine about the environmental protection and the
environmentals
whine about you while both avoid the reality that hemp makes stronger wood
products and
paper without the bleaches and replaces many of the pesticides and chemicals as
a
border crop. But cause of naive twit's spreading gossip to either make a
paycheck or
just plain ignorance, are worse than Hitler or Polpot. They only murdered
millions. You
assist in the poisoning and treatment cycle. With only Ganja/hemp as a natural
competition and answer to the problem you aren't even aware of. You suck it up
and do
what your told and cry about Fauxnews red herrings until your tired and pass
out, then
get up  and go to work, come home and do it over. While you spray the
cockroaches
scurrying behind the lead based paint your rug rat just ate. You synthetic
degenerate
pushing your cardboard foods on nationwide tv for decades and now wonder why
obesity
and heart disease is epidemic? With again Ganja as much an appetite regulator to
decrease the cravings as it does to increase them for wasting syndrome patients.

The hempseed is the most nutritionally complete food on the planet and you
poison it as
a Ganjawar statistic and instead settle for grain to feed the cows, and more
millions
of pounds of abortion causing babykilling generic DDT. Spread in the dirt kids
play in
and in the water pregnant mommas drink and bath their babies in. Housing
materials
carpets and textiles without the poisons is somehow wrong to you Ganja phobic
chickenlillies.

So many medical discoveries hidden from the public, that alone should piss off
every
single red blooded American. Especially the families who lost loved ones when a
possible remedy existed but for nothing more than greed and politicks was
suppressed by
the very same government... and many of the very same scum of the earth in
office now.
So I can say with no regrets that doing nothing at all is a sin, but purposely
standing
in the way of Ganja truth is a mortal sin. May your God have Mercy on your soul,
when
its located.

So since the Archeologists, not theory-ologists discovered the ancient temple
incensors
to have trace amounts of hashish one doesn't have much of a leap of faith to
consider
the fact that Jesus and Moses inhaled and who am I to argue with their wisdom?
So
Sacramental Ganja is food, fuel, fiber and FARMaceuticals including preventing
illness.
An alternative to the fossil fools poisons and cardboard foods. Alternative to
chopping
down rain forest or old growth or clearcutting anything. Alternative to strip
mining
mountaintops when hemp fiberboard is more dent resistant than sheet metal we
import.
How many natural products is only limited by the imagination. Products grown in
Canada
but DEAth threat deterrents to Mexico?   One might not feel the need to
illegally cross
the border with a cash crop staple in their backyards. How many more years will
you
assist this bloody fascism, will be determined by how fast the people start
seeing
things for themselves and not accepting unbelievable things cause some Enron
Anderson
Worldcom ethics committee or DEAth monger said so... Though some will probably
never
get it and many will bury their heads to keep the paycheck.

So Wise up junior missy, your cannibalizing the country jerking that Iraqi crude
oil
blue, white and redneck banner for Bushit, converted to plastic in China then
sewn by
kids in Thailand sweatshops. So Ganja phobes can spastically show the world
their
behind the Imperialists jagoffs out sourcing their pollution and greed and near
is the
end of capitalism as we know it. Killed by you Fascists sluts. Volunteer slave
sheople
who won't even see the dividends but you follow and vote for these International
Corporatists  without allegiance to any one country. Sucker born every minute,
except
the herds by the second informing themselves on Fauxnews and stupid human
tricks.
Bring it on wod junkies!
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of DEAth
DdC

Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_03.HTM#brain

America's Founding Fathers Said...

"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving
mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch
wealth
and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real
Anti-Christ."
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979

  "The hocus-pocus phantasy of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and
three
heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of
martyrs."
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA, Jefferson’s Works, Vol. IV, 360,
Randolph's ed.

Pharmos Compounds Demonstrate Neuroprotection
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11377.shtml

  "I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do not find in
our
particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all
alike
founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children,
since
the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and
imprisoned. What
has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the
other
half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA, letter to William Short

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"Christianity ... (has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
...
Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus
by a
large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the
teaching of Jesus."
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA

Marijuana Ingredient Helps Head Injuries
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11046.shtml

David Frost: Say is this still a Christian Country?
Billy Graham: No! We're not a Christian Country. We've never been a Christian
Country.
We're a secular Country, by our constitution. In which Christians live and which
many
Christians have a voice. But we're not a Christian Country.
Dr Billy Graham is an American evangelist and associate of US presidents;
Sir David Frost is a British interviewer

Compound May Reduce Brain Trauma Damage
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"Gentlemen, we are not, nor have we ever been a Christian Nation ...
The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewishor
Mohammedan
nation."
John Adams, second President of the USA

Marijuana: Good for The Brain
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread10904.shtml

" The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for
absurdity."
John Adams, second President of the USA

The Founding Fathers Were Not Christians
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/founding_fathers.html

"Dunghill."
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA, referring to the Bible

Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic
Study

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/medical/can-babies.htm

"What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on
civil
society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political
tyranny.
In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the
people.
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy
convenient
auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty,
does not
need the clergy."
James Madison, fourth President of the USA

Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
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"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are
mixed
together."
James Madison, fourth President of the USA

Cannabis prevents brain damage
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"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity
been on
trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and
indolence in
the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry
and
persecution."
James Madison, fourth President of the USA, A Biography in his Own Words, edited
by
Joseph Gardner, p. 93

Hemp vs Cotton
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"Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse
than
Moses. Here is an order, attributed to 'God' to butcher the boys, to massacre
the
mothers and to debauch and rape the daughters. I would not dare so dishonor my
Creator's name by (attaching) it to this filthy book (the Bible)."
Thomas Paine, American revolutionary philosopher

Organic Cannabis/Tobacco vs Chemical Cigarettes
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"It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God
against the
evils of the Bible."
Thomas Paine, American revolutionary philosopher

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
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Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins ... and
you will
have sins in abundance.
Thomas Paine, American revolutionary philosopher

Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer
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"The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended
imitation
of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty."
Thomas Paine, American revolutionary philosopher

The report the WHO tried to hide
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/news.jsp;jsessionid=BDDFIPMGBMCN

"Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and
Oaths,
and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in
these
days?"
John Adams, second President of the USA

America was NOT founded on Christianity!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I20312A85

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think
the
System of Morals and his Religion ... has received various corrupting Changes,
and I
have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his
Divinity;
tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and
think it
needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of
knowing the
Truth with less trouble."
Benjamin Franklin, A Biography in his Own Words, edited by Thomas Fleming, p.
404,
(1972, Newsweek, New York, NY) quoting letter by Franklin to Exra Stiles March
9, 1790

The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America
http://www.chestnutcafe.com/cafe/US_History.html

If people let the government decide which foods they eat and medicines they
take, their
bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under
tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

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“Another fertile source of this species of derangement [moral insanity] appears
to be
an undue indulgence in the perusal of the numerous works of fiction, with which
the
press is so prolific of late years, and which are sown widely over the land,
with the
effect of vitiating the taste and corrupting the morals of the young. Parents
cannot
too cautiously guard their young daughters against this pernicious practice.” -
Dr.
W.H. Stokes, Scientific American, April 1849

Ganjawarnews: 10-25-4 http://tinyurl.com/6vrzx
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How John Kerry Exposed The Contra-Cocaine Scandal By Robert Parry
Source: Salon Magazine October 25, 2004
Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his
popularity,
the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy
secrets.
In December 1985, when Brian Barger and I wrote a groundbreaking story for the
Associated Press about Nicaraguan Contra rebels smuggling cocaine into the
United
States, one U.S. senator put his political career on the line to follow up on
our
disturbing findings. His name was John Kerry.
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Bush Crime Family
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The Village Idiots
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T290151D5

Ultimate Hypocrisy
While waging its self-styled “War on Drugs” against Third World peasants and
American
civilians, the Reagan/Bush/Quayle/Clinton/Gore administrations (1981-1999) have
encouraged and covered up drug smuggling and distribution by high ranking
officials of
the U.S. government.

On one hand, Bush violated international law by invading Panama to bring reputed
drug
smuggler and long-time Bush/CIA employee Manuel Noriega to the U.S. to stand
trial.

On the other hand, he refused to extradite Oliver North, John Hull, Admiral
Poindexter,
General Secord, Lewis Tambs, and other Americans to Costa Rica, where they are
under
indictment by that government for operating a drug smuggling operation there.

(The Guardian, British newspaper, “Cocaine shipped by contra network”, July 22,
1989.)

Federal hearings conducted by U.S. Senator John Kerry’s (MA) Subcommittee on
Terrorism
and Narcotics in 1988 and 1989 documented widespread acts by the CIA and
National
Security Agency (NSA) to block investigations by the Customs Department and FBI
into
cocaine smuggling by “intelligence operatives” under the guise of national
security. No
indictments were ever handed down, and witnesses testified under grants of
immunity
with little media attention.

Special Iran-Contra investigators failed to act on this information or evidence
developed by the Christic Institute implicating government complicity in
narco-terrorism. And when General Secord was convicted in January 1990 for
crimes
related to the Iran Contra drugs-for-arms scandal, he was given a fine of $50
and a
brief probation when a federal judge decided that the poor fellow had already
“suffered
enough”.

This from an administration that promotes the death penalty—even beheading —for
marijuana dealers.*

* On the Larry King Show in late 1989, then drug czar William Bennett, a
possible
Republican presidential candidate in 2000, said he had no moral problems with
beheading
drug dealers … only legal ones.
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/14/ECH14_18.HTM#ultimate

More than Sixty Years of Suppression
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Information disseminated by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
pertaining to the medical use of marijuana fails to meet federal standards for
"quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity," and must be amended, according
to a
petition filed by the organization Americans for Safe Access (ASA).

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“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life
when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”
- Archibald MacLeish, "In Praise of Dissent," 1956

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Illustrated: http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x75036.shtml

Break down of the law
by Reverend Damuzi (01 Mar, 1999)

Canadian cops are smashing down doors,
shooting people and pets for handfuls of herb

Grenadiers blast fist-sized bombs through windows. Soldiers in unmarked, black
uniforms
swarm through the shards of a battered door, shooting people on reflex. This may
be
customary on the battlefield, but in your own home it's an Orwellian nightmare.
This is
the War on Drugs, in which police officers have been replaced by SWAT teams.
And, like
any army, SWAT teams run the percentages. If you look like the enemy, you are
the
enemy. If you are holding something in your hand, it is likely a weapon, and so
you
will be shot. Regular police officers, affected by the SWAT mentality, are  also
carrying heavier weapons and a lighter concern for human life.

Baptized in blood... continued...
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1786.html

Jason Rowsom comforts his daughter after police invasion.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/library/images/uploads/1786-Bloodbathvictim.jpg

"Kona: loyal pet shot dead by pot-police during home invasion."
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“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug treatment
bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more and more people
to
arrest and ‘treat’?

“More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and
stockades
than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting?
From
what?”
—Fred Oerther, M.D., Portland Oregon, September, 1986.

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A tradition of terror by David Malmo-Levine
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"No successful effort to suppress marijuana use has been found
in a review of the historical literature."
- Consumer Reports, "Licit and Illicit Drugs," 1972

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CN SN: 'Prince Of Pot' Gets Out Of Jail
SASKATOON - Released on Monday after 61 days behind bars, marijuana activist and
entrepreneur Marc Emery knelt in the Saskatoon snow and kissed the cannabis-leaf
flag
his supporters have flown across from the courthouse since Day 1.

He then launched into a contemptuous diatribe against Saskatchewan's
"intolerable"
attitude and promised to try changing it from the inside.  He plans to establish
a
chapter of the Marijuana Party within three months and offer a full slate of
candidates
in the next provincial election.  continued...
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1476/a10.html?999

Canada CowersUnder DEAth Threats
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"a-motivation [is] a cause of heavy marijuana smoking
rather than the reverse"
Dr. Andrew Weil (Rubin & Comitas Ganja in Jamaica, 1975)

demockercy
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``I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head
will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the
earth.''
-- Charles Dickens, on "America"

law power and justice
http://www.lawpowerandjustice.com/cds/stoprape.html
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The Scythians, High Plains Drifters
The Scythians were a barbaric group of pre-Common Era nomadic tribes who are a
fascinating example of an ancient cannabis using group. The Scythians played a
very
important part in the Ancient World from the seventh to first century BC. They
were
expert horsemen, and were one of the earliest peoples to master the art of
riding and
using horse-drawn covered wagons. This early high mobility is probably why most
scholars credit them with the spread of cannabis knowledge throughout the
ancient
world. Indeed, the Scythian people travelled and settled extensively throughout
Europe,
the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and Russia, bringing their knowledge of the
spiritual
and practical uses for cannabis with them. . .

Mellowing with Time
It could well be that in later times the cannabis smoke had somewhat mellowed
the
Scythians, and their spiritual leaders directed them towards becoming a more
civilized
people. The ancient Greek historian Ephorus wrote in the fourth century BC that
the
Scythians 'feed on mares milk and excel all men in justice'. His comments were
followed
in the first century BC by Strabo, who wrote that 'we regard the Scythians as
the most
just of men and the least prone to mischief, as also far more frugal and
independent of
others than we are.'
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/jul95/scythians.html
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"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." - Goethe

Ganjawarnews: 10-20-4 http://tinyurl.com/4d25q
Illustrated: http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg1x74968.shtml

Grow Tips by Nüz
Metro Santa Cruz October 20, 2004
With the county OKing a marijuana limit that allows patients up to 3 pounds for
medical
use and a 100-square-foot plant canopy, Nüz visited the WO/MEN'S ALLIANCE OF
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA's garden to see what those limits really look like.  Visiting on a
sunny
Sunday afternoon, we were hit by the unmistakable skunky smell of weed before we
even
saw the garden, where Christmas was apparently under way in October, with coop
members
harvesting plants the size of fir trees.
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God & The Presidency: An In-Depth Examination Of Faith In The Bush White House

Journalist Ron Suskind examines how Bush's belief in God has impacted his
presidency,
how some of Bush's supporters believe he is an instrument of God and the growing
concern among many non-Evangelical Republicans. One former Reagan/Bush official
says,
"Just in the past few months. I think a light has gone off for people who've
spent time
up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of
weird,
Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do." We also speak with
Esther
Kaplan author of the new book, "With God On Their Side: How Christian
Fundamentalists
Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House."
[includes
rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1423216
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Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
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Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread17430.shtml

America was NOT founded on Christianity!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I20312A85

The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America
http://www.chestnutcafe.com/cafe/US_History.html

"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
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With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan
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Cannabis lit
A new book reveals the hidden history of cannabis in the Bible.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1949.html
Cannabis Culture Archives: Sacrament
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"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious
instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is
built on
air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from
faith . . .
we need believing people."
Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to
the
Nazi Vatican Concordant of 1933

Bush Faith Based Defense
http://www.bushspeaks.com/img/faith_based_defense.jpg

"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's
and unto God the things which be God's." Jesus (Luke 20:25)

Jefferson on Food&Drugs
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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable,
and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.” - George Orwell
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BREAKING NEWS!! Jim Miller arrested at Bush Rally
Gary Storck October 18, 2004
Jim Miller was arrested Monday at a Bush rally in Evesham NJ. He was walking
along a
road exercising his 4th Amendment rights with the Cheryl Miller memorial
wheelchair
when he was confronted by a police officer who knocked the wheelchair on its
side, with
US flags on the chair falling into dirt and a picture of Cheryl also falling off
a
protest sign on the chair. The sign referenced Bush's flip-flop on mmj. A
watching
crowd of Kerry supporters angrily reacted to the officer's behavior.

After replacing the chair to an upright position and putting the picture and
flags in
their original spots, he turned his back to the officer and placed his hands
behind his
back and was arrested. He was released about an hour later.

The Camden Courier Post posted the following pictures of Jim's arrest on their
website.
He was not blocking traffic, BTW. Jim will be sending a report for me to pass
along
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Jim is a true hero. Almost 5 years to the date of our action at Barr's office
and a
year and half after losing Cheryl, he's still playing offense!
Gary Storck http://www.immly.org

CherylHeart.org http://cherylheart.org

Bob Barr Kills Democracy linx http://tinyurl.com/2xh2z

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"I think that marijuana should not only be legal,
I think it should be a cottage industry.
It would be wonderful for the state of Maine.
There's some pretty good homegrown dope.
I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it
with fertilizers and have greenhouses..." - Stephen King, 1980

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Cancer Killer
U.S.  War on Drugs Stalling Mind-Blowing Research into Pot's Cancer-Healing
Properties

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Clinical research published in a journal of the American Association for Cancer
Research showing that marijuana's components can inhibit the growth of cancerous
brain
tumours is the latest in a long line of studies demonstrating the drug's
potential as
an anti-cancer agent. But despite the value of such findings both in terms of
the
treatment of life-threatening illnesses and as news, U.S.  media coverage has
been
almost non-existent.  Why the blackout? Not one such study has been acknowledged
by the
U.S.  government.
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Howard Dover howard@... 15 Oct 2004
http://www.greentherapy.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

What do Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, Montel Williams, Jack Black, Jesse Ventura,
Willie
Nelson, Stephen King and a host of many others have in common?  I’ll give you a
hint…it is a medical marijuana comedy show benefit…an Extravaganja, if you will…

On Sunday, October 24th, 2004, The Comedy Store (8433 Sunset Blvd., L.A.) is the
place
to be for a hilarious night of comedy and good vibes.  Comics include, but are
not
limited to, Joe Rogan (Fear Factor), Bil Dwyer (Extreme Dodgeball & Battlebots),
Ngaio
Bealum (MTV & Comedy Central) and Charlie Viracola http://www.planetcharlie.com 
There
will also be a special appearance by the burlesque troupe ‘Green-Eyed Ladies’. 
This is
a night not to be missed!

Show time is 8:20 pm.  (That’s 4:20 in Portugal!) Doors open at 7:30 pm.

Tickets, available at the door, are $20 and only $10 for those with a compassion
club
card or a doctor’s recommendation for the use of medical marijuana.

Proceeds support Inglewood’s Let’s Rap Brothers locally and their Operation
Africa, a
quality of life activity for Black men afflicted with HIV/AIDS, Sister Somayah’s
Crescent Alliance Self Help for Sickle Cell and the Marijuana Policy Project
Foundation
http://www.mpp.org  We also support the work of Americans for Safe Access
http://www.safeaccessnow.org

Your support is greatly needed and appreciated.  Make no mistake about it. 
California
is ground zero for the unnecessary war on medical marijuana patients.

Last year’s show raised enough for a couple of ounces, so hopefully this show
will do
better!  One thing is guaranteed for sure, this evening will be a smoking good
time!

CHECK OUT http://www.greentherapy.com
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Often imitated, but never duplicated, the www.DrugSense.org hosted news
clipping services www.mapinc.org (or surf directly to the clippings at
www.drugnews.org  ) and www.cannabisnews.com  bring you dozens of cannabis
related news clippings every day.

And these clippings are provided by news feeds to well over a hundred other
websites.

Below is a selection of some of the clippings from the past week, with
links to the actual clippings:

US: Cancer Killer
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1463/a01.html

US MT: OPED: Feds Huff and Puff About Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1455/a07.html

CN ON: PUB LTE: Legalize, Regulate, And Tax Cannabis
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1467/a04.html

CN BC: Crashed 'Pot Plane' Linked To Surrey
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1467/a05.html

CN BC: LTE: Marijuana Use, Trafficking Remains Illegal
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1467/a06.html

CN BC: Downed Pilot Shipped Pot From Langley
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1466/a13.html

UK: Cannabis Hang Ups Causing Suffering
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1466/a03.html

US CA: Council Set to Vote on Medical Pot Law
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1465/a05.html

US DC: Column: Hearty Hemp
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1465/a06.html

US AZ: PUB LTE: What's Wrong With Antipot Laws
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1465/a07.html

US AZ: PUB LTE: Legalize Marijuana to Regulate It
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1465/a08.html

US MT: PUB LTE: OK Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1465/a09.html

US AK: Anti-Pot Fight Comes to Fairbanks
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1465/a03.html

US AK: LTE: Marijuana Vs Privacy
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1464/a03.html

US IA: Edu: PUB LTE: Taxpayers Real Losers in Pot Wars
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1464/a07.html

CN BC: PUB LTE: Cannabis Harm Stems From Its Prohibition
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1464/a02.html

US IA: Edu: LTE: Pot, Progressive Thinking Bad for Society
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n000/a257.html

US OR: County Urges 'No' Vote on Medical-Pot Expansion
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1463/a07.html

US OR: PUB LTE: Safe Access to Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1463/a08.html

CN ON: Edu: Interview: Truth, Culture, and Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1463/a12.html

CN ON: PUB LTE: The Mix-up With Legal Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1463/a02.html

US AK: Governor, Doctors, Police Speak Out Vs Marijuana Bill
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1461/a03.html

CN BC: PUB LTE: Thanks for the Hemp Seed Oil
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1459/a09.html

US AK: PUB LTE: We Can't Stop Use or Illegal Sale of Pot, So Why Not
Control, Tax It
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1459/a10.html

US IL: Editorial: Government Hemp Too High
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1459/a02.html

US MT: Voting on Pot Issue
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1457/a08.html

Netherlands: Dutch Government Can't Sell Its Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1454/a08.html

Netherlands: Dutch Government Faces Marijuana Glut
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1453/a05.html

US AZ: Buckeye P D Makes Record Marijuana Bust
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1453/a09.html

Netherlands: Dutch Health Ministry's Pot Program Called 'A Bust'
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1453/a02.html

CN SN: Pot Activist To Leave Jail Monday
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1452/a08.html

US SC: LTE: Don't Underestimate Marijuana Dangers
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1452/a09.html

US OR: OPED: Measure 33 Would Improve Marijuana Law
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1451/a01.html

CN BC: LTE: Marijuana Still Harmful
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1450/a03.html

US: 3 Western States To Vote On Pot Proposals
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1449/a03.html

CN MB: Potent Painkilling Drug Being Abused
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1448/a04.html

US MT: U.S. Fights Hard Against Medicinal Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1447/a06.html

US: Voters in West Weigh Medical Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1445/a08.html

CN ON: Lights Out For Pot Grow-Ops
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1444/a02.html

CN ON: Kwinter's Marijuana Mistake Has Aides Rushing To Clear Air
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1444/a06.html

US OR: PUB LTE: Cannabis Research Suppressed
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1444/a07.html

US LA: Edu: PUB LTE: Anti-Pot Laws Ineffectual, Counterproductive
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1444/a12.html

US AK: LTE: We Can't Keep Youths From Tobacco and Alcohol, So Why Add
Marijuana?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1443/a05.html

US: Three States Weigh Marijuana Issues This Year
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1443/a10.html

CN ON: 31,000 Marijuana Plants Seized
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1441/a05.html

US OR: Pain Relief With Legal Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1441/a09.html

CN MB: Medical Pot Backer Admits to Grow Op
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1441/a11.html

US AK: Legalization Advocates Hope to Tax Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1440/a03.html

US AK: LTE: Outside Pot Pushers Don't Give a Hoot About Alaskans' Freedoms
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1440/a04.html

US AK: Alaskans to Decide on Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1440/a09.html

US OR: PUB LTE: Update Medical Marijuana Law
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1439/a08.html

CN BC: Another Week, Another 1,900 Pot Plants
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1439/a01.html

US: Wire: Marijuana Proposals Go to Voters in Three Western States
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1439/a04.html

CN ON: PUB LTE: Prohibition Of Marijuana Is A Miserable Failure
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1438/a05.html

CN MB: PUB LTE: Lying To Kids About Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1438/a01.html

US MA: PUB LTE: The Marijuana Debate
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1437/a03.html

US MA: PUB LTE: The Marijuana Debate
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1437/a06.html

US OR: PUB LTE: Allow Recreational Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1437/a07.html

CN ON: PUB LTE: Teens Know Marijuana Is Safer To Use Than Alcohol
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1436/a03.html

Sandy Thomas and her great-nephew Anthony Smith are among several relatives
and friends of Jonathan Magbie at a candlelight vigil outside the D.C. jail.
(Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post)
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Jonathan Magbie
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Jonathan&Rayguns

Young Jonathan Magbie in 1982 (paralyzed from the chin down),
meeting President Reagan during the proclamation of National Respiratory Therapy
Week.
Last month, he was sentenced to jail for marijuana possession.
It turned out to be a death sentence.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762
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Loretta protest' killer judge
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762
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Monday, October 11, 2004 Pictures
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762
Loretta Nall has been protesting outside the courthouse.
She writes: "Tomorrow I plan to get arrested
because I am going to unfurl a cloth banner in the courtroom that reads...
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Angel's Fight to Stay Alive
http://www.angeljustice.org
Angel Raich v. Ashcroft
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/raich.htm
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Drug WarRant by Pete Guither
There's a war going on.
It destroys lives and families,
spawns violence, suspends civil liberties,
tramples on the infirm, locks up millions of peaceful citizens,
costs billions, and subjugates reason with fear.
This blog looks at the front lines of the drug war,
with news, analysis, and the occasional rant.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/

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Their Lips are Moving By George Ochenski
Source: Missoula Independent October 14, 2004
Everyone has heard the joke about how you can tell when operatives from the Bush
administration are lying—their lips are moving. Given the Bush presidency’s
horrid
record of lying about everything from preemptive war to domestic issues such as
the
environment, health care and education, it should come as no surprise that
they’re at
it again. This time, it’s to interfere in Montana’s election on medical
marijuana,
I-148. And guess what? Their lips are moving again.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19643.shtml

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Reefer Madness By Abbie Hoffman
The Nation, November 21, 1987
Since 1980 the President and Nancy Reagan, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d and
White
House drug policy advisers such as Dr. Carlton Turner, have made numerous rash
and
absurd statements about drugs. Dr. Turner claimed that smoking marijuana leads
to AIDS
(the sequence: Pot leads to harder drugs, which lead to sharing needles, which
leads to
AIDS). Peter Bensinger, former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration,
claimed
that marijuana was harmful because it "contained dioxin.' The dioxin, of course,
came
from government spraying. Such statements are reminiscent of the 1920s, when the
public
was told that cocaine made blacks impervious to bullets.
http://www.pdxnorml.org/Nation_Hoffman_112187.html
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The Great Marijuana Hoax By Allen Ginsberg
7:38 P.M. Nov. 13, 1965 San Francisco, California, USA, Kosmos
How much to be revealed about marijuana especially in this time and nation for
the
general public! for the actual experience of the smoked herb has been completely
clouded by a fog of dirty language by the diminishing crowd of fakers who have
not had
the experience and yet insist on being centers of propaganda about the
experience. And
the key, the paradoxical key to this bizarre impasse of awareness is precisely
that the
marijuana consciousness is one that, ever so gently, shifts the center of
attention
from habitual shallow purely verbal guidelines and repetitive secondhand
ideological
interpretations of experience to more direct, slower, absorbing, occasionally
microscopically minute engagement with sensing phenomena during the high moments
or
hours after one has smoked. continued...
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Voting on Pot Issue By Allison Farrell
Source: Montana Standard October 12, 2004
Helena -- In the last few months of his short life, Travis Michalski of Helena
had lost
a third of his body weight. His skinny frame was wracked with so much pain, he
couldn't
bear his families' hugs. And the powerful medications his oncologist gave him to
combat
the torment of terminal cancer wouldn't stay down.  Chemotherapy, which
Michalski
started immediately after he was diagnosed with the rare blood cancer called
Hodgkin's
disease, found him vomiting the very day he began treatment.
He couldn't even stomach his anti-nausea medication.

So Michalski did some Internet research, and soon took to smoking marijuana to
calm his
digestive tract. The drug also took the edge off the anxiety he dealt with every
day,
knowing he would die and leave his 8-year old son behind. continued...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19629.shtml

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For Lying Stoneage Deputy Dawg Czars http://tinyurl.com/6orav
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Deputy Dawg Czar Opposes Legalizing Marijuana
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19612.shtml
White House sent, U.S. Deputy Dawg Czar Scott Burns said the marijuana lobbyists
in
Washington, D.C. are ‘‘conning'' people into believing there are benefits to the
drug.
He said  no credible medical authority, such as the American Medical
Association, has
ever endorsed the drug.

Except the Homegrown government joints sent out to a few remaining patients.
And previous to the racist lies of Fascism continued by these dangerous poison
pushers
in competition to medicinal, recreational and industrial cannabis.
As it was...
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As it continues...
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The assassins of youth...DARE/PDFA
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"Behind  Czarist 'Truths'
-  Deception  No Way To Wage Drug War"
The dogmatic heartlessness of the war on drugs was on flaming display Monday in
Flagler
and Volusia counties as national drug "czar" John Walters brought a message high
on
zero tolerance and dubious facts to a high school and a drug treatment center.
Walters'
sophomoric claims and punishing solutions illustrate
exactly why a record 74 percent of Americans believe the war on drugs is a
failure and
why claims like Walters' cannot be trusted: They are irresponsibly blind to
reality.
http://www.mpp.org/USA/news_1665.html

"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are
convicted of
nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens
the
lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially
devastating to
the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem
accompany the
perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan

U.S. Deputy Dawg Czar Scott Burns said
the legalization of medical marijuana sends the ‘‘wrong message'' to children...
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US NC: Drug Testing At Work?
N.C.  Statute Leaves Confusion About Employees' Rights
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1449/a04.html?999
Market competition and ambiguity in North Carolina's statute has created a
climate
where drug-testing companies are screening existing employees at workplaces even
as
regulators are penalizing businesses for that infraction, the Observer has
found. Job
applicants can be screened at an employer's site to save time and money. 
Because
existing employees have more at stake if a drug test goes awry, the state
requires such
testing be done in approved clinical settings.
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Nol van Schaik freed from prison!
Marc Emery looks forward to his release from jail next Monday,
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The Official Story: Debunking “Gutter Science”
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_00.HTM

President Ronald Reagan, at the urging of then Vice President George Bush,
appointed
Carlton Turner as the White House Drug (czar) Advisor in 1981. Soon after Turner
left
office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business
with
the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show
their
loyalty.

Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his
disgrace,
Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry:
urine-testing.

This kind of business denies the basic rights of privacy, self-incrimination
(Fifth
Amendment) rights, unreasonable search and seizure, and the presumption of
innocence
(until proven guilty).  Submission to the humiliation of having your most
private body
parts and functions observed by a hired voyeur is now the test of eligibility
for
private employment, or to contract for a living wage.

Turner's new money-making scheme demands that all other Americans relinquish
their
fundamental right to privacy and self-respect.
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Scandalous Tom DeLay, Ashcroft&Indonesia, Bakkker&Carlyles,
SincerClairNarrowcasting...
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James Baker's Double Life
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Bush's envoy has a private interest in Iraqi debt, reports Naomi Klein.
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Students Focus Protests on Nation's Drug Policies
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"We are the DARE [Drug Abuse Resistance Education] generation
and we know that 'Just Say No' didn't work," said Barclay.
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US MA: Denial of College Aid to Drug Offenders Decried
The 108th Congress adjourned yesterday, likely slamming the door on financial
aid for
as many as 26,967 of the neediest college students this school year.
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Vote for Change: Televised Grand Finale
Next Monday evening, the Vote for Change tour will culminate in one of the great
moments of this election -- a grand finale, televised live on the Sundance
Channel,
featuring Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Dave
Matthews
Band, the Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, John Mellencamp, and many
other
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mobilize.
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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1436/a04.html

Pubdate: Sun, 10 Oct 2004
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Page: A-4
Webpage:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/10/MNG0996S2L1.DTL
Copyright: 2004 Hearst Communications Inc.
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/388
Author: Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Kerry (Kerry, John)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/bush.htm (Bush, George)

MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATES LIKELY TO GET A BREAK UNDER KERRY

DEMOCRAT SAYS HE WOULD STOP POT CLUB RAIDS PUSHED BY BUSH

Sen. John Kerry hasn't tried to make medical marijuana an issue in his
presidential campaign, but he has some differences with President Bush
on the subject.

Kerry says he would end the raids that have been a feature of the Bush
administration's crackdown on medical marijuana in California, where
voters approved the use of the drug for medical purposes in 1996. The
Massachusetts senator has also signed a letter urging the
administration to stop blocking medical marijuana research at the
University of Massachusetts.

Perhaps most importantly, Kerry said at a campaign forum last year
that his "disposition is personally favorable" to marijuana as
medicine, but that he would await further scientific studies before
taking a definitive stand. He also criticized mandatory minimum prison
sentences for first offenders and called for more drug education and
treatment.

That's not nearly as far as activists would like him to go. Kerry
hasn't endorsed legalizing medical marijuana at the federal level or
leaving the issue up to the states and hasn't backed legislation,
currently stalled in Congress, that would allow patients and suppliers
to use their state laws as a defense against federal charges.

But Kerry's position and tone suggest that he would take a different
approach than Bush, who has escalated the federal war against state
medical marijuana laws launched by his predecessor, Bill Clinton.

Where the Clinton administration focused on civil suits to shut down
the nonprofit clubs that supplied marijuana to California patients,
the Bush administration has used criminal prosecutions against growers
and suppliers, has sent federal agents to seize a patient's six
homegrown marijuana plants and is preparing for a high-stakes U.S.
Supreme Court battle against two seriously ill Northern California
women.

The president hasn't mentioned medical marijuana during the campaign.
But in his last campaign, during a 1999 appearance in Seattle, he
answered questions about the issue by saying, "I believe each state
can choose that decision as they so choose."

Bush, who regularly portrays his rival as a flip-flopper, has yet to
explain his own apparent turnabout on this subject. Asked by The
Chronicle about the president's views, now and in the past, Bush's
campaign office reiterated his opposition to medical marijuana.

The issue may not have much effect on the presidential election. But
the outcome of the election is likely to affect the future of medical
marijuana, in part because of the case scheduled to be argued in the
Supreme Court term that begins next month.

The two plaintiffs, Angel Raich of Oakland and Diane Monson of
Oroville (Butte County), want court orders barring the federal
government from interfering with their doctor-approved use of
marijuana as therapy for their conditions, Raich's brain tumor and
wasting syndrome and Monson's back spasms.

A federal appeals court ruled last December that the federal ban on
marijuana couldn't be constitutionally applied to patients who obtain
the drug without charge from within the state in which they live, if
the state allows marijuana use for medical purposes. The ruling had
the potential to shield local marijuana cooperatives from federal
prosecution, but the Supreme Court granted the Bush administration's
request to review the case.

If the government wins, it will be free to target patients as well as
their suppliers in the nine states that have legalized medical
marijuana. That decision would be up to the incoming administration, a
circumstance that adds significance to Kerry's comments at an August
2003 town hall meeting in New Hampshire.

Asked by a local activist about marijuana, the senator said, according
to a transcript, "My disposition is personally favorable but ... I
want to get that scientific review to make certain that there's a way
to manage it effectively. ... I certainly would put a moratorium on
the raids until that has happened."

Kerry has said on other occasions that he would halt medical marijuana
raids, sometimes specifying raids on patients. Dale Gieringer,
California coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws, says Kerry told him at a fund-raiser last year that he
favored keeping federal agents out of medical marijuana clubs.

With regard to research, Kerry and his Massachusetts colleague, Sen.
Edward Kennedy, signed a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration
last October urging approval of the University of Massachusetts'
proposal to grow marijuana for its own federally approved medical
research. When the DEA did not respond, researchers and advocates
filed suit this July.

Kerry's campaign did not respond to requests from The Chronicle to
spell out his position on medical marijuana.

Similar inquiries were made to the Bush campaign, including references
to Bush's 1999 statement on leaving the issue to the states. The
campaign's response didn't mention the 1999 comment, but instead
accused Kerry of "flip-flopping on medical marijuana" by saying he
was open to the issue but was withholding final judgment until
research was completed. The campaign did not explain how those
positions were inconsistent.

Bush's campaign also supplied a statement from then-press secretary
Ari Fleischer at a 2001 press briefing. He said Bush "does not believe
that it's appropriate to allow what is a controlled substance to be
given to people in terms of medical marijuana. There are other
effective ways, the president believes, to help people who suffer illness."
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THAILAND'S WAR ON DRUG USERS:
THE ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS
NOW PLACED AT BETWEEN 3,000 AND 5,000
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US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR! 2500 dead the first 10 months...
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United States' Answer To Drug War Proves Harmful
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Thailand: US Grants Usd 45 Million Assistance To Thailand
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1416.a02.html

* The Thai Army receives U.S. training...
* Since 1974, the U.S.  government has provided a total of over 85 million
dollars
to Thailand under the bilateral assistance program for anti-narcotics...
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What else would they do?
The Thai's are just following through with Bushn Newtn Walters and Bennetts
avocation...

They poison hundreds of thousands with chemicals, hemp doesn't use, Thousands
more on
morons hidden chemical weapons in cigarettes. Pesticide venom, Prison rape as
deterrents and poisoning pot with paraquat for disobedient kids. Scams for
profits
killing citizens to push reefer madness, This is the inevitable result of
Trafficking
the Büshit Ganjawar to profit his NewWeirdOdor fascist.
Peace, Love and Liberty or Büshit DEAth! ... DdC
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POT LIMIT: 3 POUNDS PER YEAR
Santa Cruz County Approves Medical Marijuana Ordinance
SANTA CRUZ - An impassioned audience greeted the Santa Cruz County Board of
Supervisors
on Tuesday morning, when the board unanimously approved a new ordinance
providing
guidelines for medical marijuana use in Santa Cruz County.
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When the Law is Illicit, Obedience is a crime!
Nixon had no business interfering with science.
GOPerversions of standards for political and financial profit.
13 inches to a foot on a whim of a politicop?
28 cent quarters if you have a Bush sticker on your bumper?
I think standards are developed for the good of all,
and when cheaters and liars disregard physics, science should step in.
But who pays them, the same corporate labs selling their inventions.
In competition? The x corporate heads now sitting in Congress?
Delay selling poisons ain't to eager to stop making millions.
Nor any of the other loud lying scumbags. Selling out Americans.

Didn't Klintoon possess, regardless of inhaling?
Didn't Doublewe traffic, passing the joint or tooting the caine??
Or his kids taking bong hits... Such Hypocrites!
John P. Walters analytical chemistry,
I guess we know what the Pee stands for...
Klintoon didn't do enough for the righteous slot machine junkies?
Pushing 3/4 million Americans into the criminal just us system.
How many new AIDs cases from John Pee's hysterical printed word propaganda?
Clean needles doesn't breed junkies Waldo.
They do prevent disease from spreading.

But its not Americans they wish to protect, its International Corporatists.
Collecting the Billions of dollars spent. But not circulated back to the US.
To Monsanto poisons and Searle Pharmaids treating what the poisons are doing.
and the new epidemic of building prisons, instead of schools.
Write a book about fictional scenarios, based on theory and half truths.
Then legislate it. Profits mandatory maximums in some cases.

Slot junkie Bennett suggested beheadings,
but Waldo explained how forced treatment and caging,
pays more than killing, like the fascist before em.
Czar bogeyman commercials coincidentally...
keeping hemp from cutting in on Bush Ladens oil profits...
or for plastics and poisons sprayed on the cotton.
Stronger hempaper and wood products.

Waldo's lackeys spreading red herrings...
Speaks of the dangers of Meth
and how legalizing hemp would send the wrong message?
That dying means suffering or morally comatosed Pharmachemically.
Preventing drug companies from inflating pill prices,
with free home grown RxGanja is communist!

Hemp foods a threat to the meat industry,
and the 12 pounds of grain for each pound of meat,
drinking irrigated fresh water and tons of Dow & Monsanto poisons,
not used on ditchweed... comprising 99% of Waldo's statistics...
Must be a conspiracy...
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Newshawk: Empower Activists www.drugsense.org/donate.htm
Pubdate: Thu, 07 Oct 2004
Source: Anchorage Daily News (AK)
Page: Front Page, Top of Page
Image: of front page http://www.adn.com/images/pdf/A1/anchorage_10_07_04.pdf
Webpage: http://www.adn.com/front/story/5641630p-5572951c.html
Copyright: 2004 The Anchorage Daily News
Website: http://www.adn.com/
Author: Tataboline Brant, Anchorage Daily News
Cited: Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org/
Cited: Alaskans For Marijuana Regulation and Control
http://www.regulatemarijuanainalaska.org
Cited: Yes on 2 http://www.yeson2alaska.com/
Cited: Nevada's Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/
Cited: Montana's Initiative 148 http://www.montanacares.org/
Cited: Oregon's Measure 33 http://www.yeson33.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/marijuana+initiative
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Marijuana+Policy+Project

OUTSIDE INTERESTS FINANCE LOCAL PRO-MARIJUANA EFFORT

Initiative: Alaska Group Buys Ads With $550,000 From D.C.-Based Marijuana
Policy Project.

A group working to decriminalize marijuana in Alaska has been bankrolled by
an Outside organization to the tune of half a million dollars, making it
one of the best-funded ballot issue groups in state history, according to
reports filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

Alaskans For Marijuana Regulation and Control has already spent most of the
$551,227 buying airtime for radio and television ads, mailing brochures,
paying staffers and conducting get-out-the-vote telephone pushes, according
to the group's 30-day pre-election campaign disclosure report filed Monday.

All but $510 of the money came from the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana
Policy Project, which is also funding pro-pot initiatives in other states
this year.

With 27 days to go until the Nov. 2 election, Alaskans For Marijuana
Regulation and Control has already outspent nearly all the ballot issue
groups in state and local elections dating back to 1997, APOC records show.
Only three groups since 1997 have spent more: the Alaska Family Coalition
spent about $617,000 in 1998 to push for a constitutional amendment banning
same-sex marriage; the Yes Committee spent $650,000 in 2002 on its campaign
for a new convention center in Anchorage; and the Vote Yes! Committee spent
almost $700,000 in 1999 to push for using part of the Permanent Fund to
balance the state budget. Only the same-sex marriage measure won voter
approval.

The fund raising is further evidence the legalization campaign this year is
more sophisticated than a similar, unsuccessful effort in 2000.

Alaskans For Marijuana Regulation and Control has about 55 times the amount
of money as the only organized opposition to Ballot Measure 2: Alaskans
Against the Legalization of Marijuana/Hemp.

That group, which fought against legalization efforts in 2000, has about
$10,000 in its coffers, according to its APOC report.

Matthew Fagnani, president of the local drug-testing firm WorkSafe Inc. and
chairman of the opposition group, declined to discuss his group's campaign
strategy. He said he's working with about half a dozen people to defeat
Ballot Measure 2, which he said would have "grave social ramifications" on
Alaska if it passes.

The initiative would make it legal under state law for people 21 and older
to grow, use, sell or give away marijuana. It would also allow for state
regulation and taxation of marijuana similar to alcohol or tobacco and for
laws limiting use in public and to protect public safety.

"I think Alaskans need to be aware that this initiative is clearly
supported and financed by Outside interests that have very little to do
with Alaska," Fagnani said in an interview Monday. "They're trying to make
Alaska a poster child for the rest of the nation."

Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, said if the
measure passes, "it could be a signal of larger changes to come around the
country." But even if it fails, he said, it's still a step in the right
direction for stimulating a discussion on marijuana policy that the nation
needs to have.

"This is nothing we came up with and got on the ballot," Mirken said. "This
was a totally homegrown campaign."

Mirken said his organization has about 15,000 dues-paying members,
including some in Alaska. One of those members is Ohio billionaire Peter B.
Lewis, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. This year Lewis
donated $485,000 to MPP, as well as $2.5 million to the anti-war, anti-Bush
online advocacy group MoveOn.org and about $3 million to a similar
organization, America Coming Together.

Mirken said a big part of what the MPP does "is support local activists who
have ideas but maybe not a lot of resources."

The Marijuana Policy Project has spent comparable amounts of money as in
Alaska on other statewide marijuana initiatives in Nevada, Oregon and
Montana, Mirken said, although he didn't have exact figures.

According to the Billings, Mont., Gazette, the MPP spent about $197,000 as
of mid-September on a campaign there to legalize the use of medical
marijuana -- something Alaska voters did in 1998.

The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., recently reported that the MPP spent
about $476,000 as of Sept. 16 on a campaign there to expand access to
medical marijuana.

It was not clear how much money the organization spent in Nevada. An
initiative there, similar to the one Alaskans will vote on next month,
failed to make it to the ballot after a signature snafu. Supporters are
already gearing up to get it on the 2006 ballot, Mirken said.

Mirken did not know how much money his organization contributed to the
failed legalization efforts in Alaska in 2000. "It certainly was not the
sort of sizable support we're doing this year," he said.

That initiative, which was turned down by about 60 percent of voters, also
aimed to decriminalize pot, but the age limit included in the measure was
younger: 18. It also wanted the government to set free some jail inmates
convicted of marijuana crimes and set up a commission to consider
restitution to them.

"It overreached a bit," Mirken said -- a sentiment expressed by people on
both sides of the issue.

This time around, proponents have stripped down their demands on voters to
make the measure more appealing. They also have some prominent figures on
their side: an associate biomedical professor, a former deputy commissioner
of corrections and a former attorney for the Republican Party of Alaska.

Some opponents of legalization have expressed worry about the professional
nature of the campaign, but Fagnani said he has faith the measure will fail
despite "misleading" ads by proponents.

Some of the ads -- there are four, two radio and two television -- portray
Ballot Measure 2 as a privacy issue, the argument being that Alaskans have
a constitutional right to use small amounts of pot in the privacy of their
own home and that despite this, the government still spends "millions" to
enforce prohibition.

"If the privacy of your home isn't respected now, then what's next?" one
radio ad asks. "Will they be at your door demanding to know if you have
cigarettes in your home? Or alcohol? Or guns? Don't let this be the future
for Alaska."

Other ads portray the measure as a public policy issue, saying the
government's drug war has failed, that too many kids can get their hands on
pot and that Alaska needs to try something new, like regulation.

Fagnani doesn't buy the arguments: "If this initiative passes, Alaska will
have more social problems than they currently have with alcohol or
tobacco," he said. "I would rely on the intelligence of the voters to read
the initiative very carefully and come to the conclusion that this is not a
good policy."

Alaskans For Marijuana Regulation and Control is working with two main
groups locally: Yes on 2 and Alaskans for Rights and Revenues.

Yes on 2 has raised close to $21,000 to date, according to its APOC report.
Most of those donations were nonmonetary covering such things as office
space and utilities. About $1,300 was in cash or checks from 21
individuals, all but two of them Alaskans.

Alaskans for Rights and Revenues has raised about $1,655, according to its
treasurer, Tim Hinterberger, an associate professor at the biomedical
program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Most of those were
individual donations, he said. The largest single one, for $975, was from
the Texas-based Foundation for Constitutional Protection.

Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control has already spent more than
$300,000 on radio and television spots.

David Finkelstein, a former state legislator and the paid treasurer for the
group, said that's probably it for the television ads, which are scheduled
to air through Election Day. But, he said, "We have a lot of potential for
expansion in print and radio."

There are no limits under state law on how much can be contributed to
ballot issue groups.

[sidebar]

TEXT OF BALLOT MEASURE 2

This bill would remove civil and criminal penalties under state law for
persons 21 years or older who grow, use, sell or give away marijuana or
hemp products. State or local government could not require a permit or
license for personal cultivation or distribution of marijuana, but could
regulate marijuana like alcohol or tobacco. It removes all existing state
restrictions on prescription of marijuana by a doctor for all patients,
including children. It allows for laws limiting marijuana use in public and
to protect public safety.

Medical Marijuana Patients Arrested at D.C. Protest
wildtimber2112@... 5 Oct 2004
Civil Disobedience on Steps of Health and  Human Services
14 in Custody
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Group Challenges U.S. Marijuana Law
By Jacqueline Soohoo and Enily Solovieff
Source: Daily Californian October 06, 2004
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19601.shtml
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Area Activists Arrested in D.C.
San Mateo County Times October 06, 2004
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~2425~2449070,00.html
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Re: Medical Marijuana Patients Arrested Today at D.C. Protest
Erin and Bill Hildebrandt parentsendingprohibition@...

As most of you know, Erin was one of the patients arrested - she was in for
about 4 1/2
hours, but she's out now.  Everything went fine, from what she's told me.

I think what they've done today was a fantastic effort to pressure the
government into
accepting the therapeutic value of cannabis.  I think Erin was very brave, and
they all
deserve a round of applause!!
Bill
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Erin Hildebrandt, Exec. Dir. * Bill Hildebrandt, Assoc. Dir.
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