Pubdate: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET AMERICA, INTOXICATED: CONFERENCE TACKLES DISASTERS OF THE DRUG WAR By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. Posted December 11, 2007. 1,200 activists and experts converged on New Orleans for the Drug Policy Alliance conference, where AlterNet won a prize for its drug war coverage. http://alternet.org/drugreporter/70195/ - --------------------------- ANALYSIS OF "PLAN MEXICO" Laura Carlsen - Director, Americas Program Center for International Policy http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=16387 - --------------------------- DUTCH GOVERNMENT URGED TO OPEN DEBATE ABOUT UN DRUG CONVENTIONS Transform Drug Policy Foundation http://drugsense.org/url/13dsJM33 - --------------------------- DRUG TRUTH NETWORK Cultural Baggage Radio Show 12/12/07 - NEW ORLEANS: DPA drug conference panel (2/2) with Norris Henderson, Else Pederson-Wasson, Judge Calvin Johnson + Nora Callahan re Sentencing & remembrance of Michael Paul Phillips Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_121207.mp3 - --------------------------- UNODC DIRECTOR (LAMB) ADDRESSES THE DPA (SLAUGHTER) Transform Drug Policy Foundation http://drugsense.org/url/179W12AF - --------------------------- MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES BULLETIN Winter 2007 Portable Document Format (PDF) http://drugsense.org/url/25hYzkvg - --------------------------- 99 PERCENT SAY THEY WOULDN'T USE HARD DRUGS IF LEGALIZED Washington, DC -- Marking the 74th anniversary of the repeal of national Alcohol Prohibition, StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) on Tuesday released polling results suggesting that drug prohibition's main supporting argument may be simply wrong. Drug policy reformers point to a wide range of demonstrated social harms created by the drug laws - -- crime and violence, spread of infectious diseases, official corruption, easy funding for terrorist groups, to name a few -- while prohibitionists argue that use and addiction would explode if drugs were legalized. But is the prohibitionist assumption well-founded? http://drugsense.org/url/29Ee3c8Q - --------------------------- MPP TO GIULIANI, MCCAIN, ROMNEY: PROVE IT, OR STOP LYING MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE -- At a press conference in front of Rudy Giuliani's Manchester headquarters this morning with a massive mobile truck billboard in tow, a representative of the Marijuana Policy Project joined two New Hampshire patients to challenge presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney to back up their statements regarding medical marijuana with scientific evidence, offering the legal maximum $10,000 campaign contribution to any of the three who can prove that their statements are true. http://www.mpp.org/news/mpp-to-giuliani-mccain.html - --------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK START HEARINGS ON SENTENCING REFORM NOW Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of reducing the crack/cocaine sentencing disparity, urge your members of Congress to support legislation and hold hearings on the issue. http://drugsense.org/url/31UwmgpI - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake