Pubdate: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 Source: DrugSense Weekly Website: http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm Note: Below is the Table of Contents for the DrugSense Weekly which may be read on-line at the URLs shown, followed by the Hot Off the 'Net section of the Weekly. DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, JAN. 2, 2004 #331 & HOT OFF THE 'NET Read This Publication On-line at: http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n331.html - ------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS: * This Just In (1) Chief Justice Attacks A Law As Infringing On Judges (2) Punishment Sought In Medical-pot Case (3) SB-420 On Hold (4) Strip-search Ruled Illegal In Drug Arrest * Weekly News in Review Drug Policy- (5) U.S. Will Ban Ephedra Early Next Year (6) General Roadblock Violated Fourth Amendment Rights (7) Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions (8) Parent Upset Over Undercover Drug Sweep (9) Fired State Worker Sues Over Random Drug Tests Law Enforcement & Prisons- (10) Drugs War Filling Virginia's Prisons (11) Major Parole Moves on the Table (12) How a Cop Hid $560,000 in This Office (13) Fake-Drug Informants May Get Lenience Cannabis & Hemp- (14) In Canada's Marijuana Debate, Supreme Court Backs Criminal Penalties (15) Alaskans to Vote on Pot Legalization in '04 Election (16) AL Gore Keeps Silent After Son's Marijuana Arrest (17) Senator Hooser's Son Arrested for Possession of Marijuana (18) Crusader for Pot Dies After MS Fight International News- (19) Human Rights Alarm Over Bloody Drugs Crackdown (20) Opium 'Threatens Afghan Growth' (21) Drug Test For Candidates Pursuant To Law: Comelec (22) PM's Drug Report Shifts Focus To 'High Harm' Users * Hot Off The 'Net Footage of South Carolina School Drug Raid The Canadian Supreme Court Cannabis Law Challenge with Pot-TV Dick Cowan and John Conroy on the Canadian Supreme Court Decision Cultural Baggage Radio Show Cannabis Health Narco News Reborn * Letter Of The Week Police Tactics Hurt Schools / By Tom Angell * Published Letter To The Editor Writer Of The Year Kirk Muse * Feature Article Comcast Censors Medical Marijuana Group / By MPP * Quote of the Week Henry Bessemer - ------------------------------- HOT OFF THE 'NET - ------------------------------- FOOTAGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DRUG RAID Goose Creek, SC: Stratford High School; November 5, 2003. This copy of Stratford High School's surveillance videotape, narrated by Principal McCrackin, shows students as young as 14 being terrorized by police with guns and drug-sniffing dogs in an early-morning SWAT raid. http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/cms/aclu/20031205_ACLU_DrugBust.rm - ------------------------------- The Canadian Supreme Court Cannabis Law Challenge with Pot-TV Recorded from a Live Pot TV broadcast. In a devastating decision the prohibitionist core of the Canadian Justice System Rules in Favor of criminalizing millions of Canadians for using cannabis. http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2384.html - ------------------------------- Battle For Canada #8: John Conroy on the Canadian Supreme Court Decision Richard Cowan interviews John Conroy, attorney for Caine in Supreme Court case. Did the Court say that jail is not justified? http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2387.html - ------------------------------- Cultural Baggage Radio Show 12/23/03: Commander Brian Paddick UK Police Officer Who Introduced 'Softly Softly' Policy on Cannabis Audio: http://cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to122303.ram 12/30/03: "Triple Felon" Ed Rosenthal Ed Rosenthal, the guru of ganja, the poster boy for medical marijuana and now "a triple felon, thanks to the Federal Government. Audio: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to123003.ram 01/06/04: Judge James P. Gray Running for US senate seat in the state of California. Author of "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed, and What We Can Do About It - A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs." http://cultural-baggage.com/kpft.htm - ------------------------------- Cannabis Health Issue #8 January / February 2004 http://www.cannabishealth.com/issue08/index.html - ------------------------------- Narco News Reborn Narco News will begin publishing again - "reporting on the drug war and democracy from Latin America" - in a matter of weeks. http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article888.html - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake