Pubdate: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET SPLIFF SPLIT Why don't more Republicans oppose the DEA's medical marijuana raids? By Jacob Sullum, August 1, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/121689.html - ------------------------------- GETTING BUSTED FOR POT CAN COST YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE By Silja J.A. Talvi, In These Times, July 31, 2007. Once you've been arrested for the harsh anti-marijuana laws on the books, you can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights to the right to adopt a child. http://alternet.org/drugreporter/58346/ - ------------------------------- CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW Tonight: 08/03/07 - Valerie Corral, director of Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana Listen Live Fridays 8:00 PM, ET, 7:00 CT, 6:00 MT & 5:00 PT at http://www.kpft.org/ Last: 07/27/07 - Eric Sterling, President Criminal Justice Policy Foundation and LEAP member, Drug War Facts, Poppygate, Dr. Mitch Earleywine on MJ plus Psychosis and Bruce Mirken of Marijuana Policy Project Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_072707.mp3 - ------------------------------- RETURN WITH ME NOW TO THE THRILLING DAYS WHEN MARIJUANA WAS SPELLED WITH AN H Today is the 70th anniversary of the Marihuana Tax Act, which Franklin Roosevelt signed into law on August 2, 1937. By Jacob Sullum, August 2, 2007 http://www.reason.com/blog/show/121724.html - ------------------------------- DRUG TREATMENT ISN'T A SILVER BULLET Memo to Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Al Gore III By Anthony Papa, AlterNet, August 3, 2007. It is time to treat addiction for what it is, a medical problem, not a criminal one -- even for celebrities who rely on rehab clinics to bail them out and continue driving down that road to oblivion. http://www.alternet.org/story/58672/ - ------------------------------- MORE SHODDY REEFER MADNESS REPORTING OF CANNABIS RISKS By Steve Rolles, Transform Drug Policy Foundation http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-shoddy-reefer-madness-reporting-of.html - ------------------------------- A QUESTION FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Dean Becker of Houston Texas has a question to the Republican Candidates: The drug war has cost our nation more than $11 Trillion dollars thus far, is it not time to tax, regulate and actually control the distribution of these drugs to adults? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6TaJ_WQ89M - ------------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK PLEASE REFUTE REEFER MANIA A DrugSense Focus Alert http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0351.html - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake