DID YOU READ THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DUST UP DEBATES? PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE DrugSense FOCUS Alert #364 - Friday, 25 April 2008 This week the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times featured a drug war debate between Jacob Sullum, who needs no introduction; and Charles "Cully" Stimson who was a local, state and federal prosecutor, a military prosecutor and defense attorney, and a deputy assistant secretary of Defense. Currently, he is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. The series is MAP archived as follows: Monday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n414/a05.html Tuesday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n415/a09.html Wednesday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n418/a05.html Thursday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n421/a02.html Friday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n426.a01.html Besides being targets for letters to the editor the series provides arguments we are likely to see as efforts are made for and against initiatives which will be on the ballot in various states. Tuesday's DUST UP about medical marijuana presents arguments we may see about the Michigan initiative http://StopArrestingPatients.org/ Already one Detroit TV station has been broadcasting anti-initiative ads you may see at http://stoparrestingpatients.org/video.html The other OPEDs present arguments we may see used for or against the California's initiative, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008 http://www.drugpolicy.org/statebystate/california/nora/ What happens on Election Day is up to you. If you are not registered to vote, there are websites that provide help, like Rock the Vote at http://drugsense.org/url/Ylqy68Vz Style guides for writing effective letters to the editor are available at MAP's Media Activism Center: http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides Prepared by: The MAP Media Activism Team www.mapinc.org/resource =.

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