Pubdate: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET - --------------------------- DRUG DOG BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON TAPE WKRN-TV in Nashville Looks like there may be some drug planting too. http://drugsense.org/url/S1w6yvWr - --------------------------- POLICY NARCOSIS The government keeps returning to a punitive-prohibitionist stance on drugs when every informed view, including its own analysts', advises otherwise By Steve Rolles http://drugsense.org/url/ctKOC5q5 - --------------------------- DRUG TRUTH NETWORK Cultural Baggage Radio Show - 02/27/08 - Martin Terry Professor Martin Terry of Sul Ross University discusses the legal peyote trade in the US and Mexico and it's use by the Native American Church. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/1782 Century of Lies - 02/26/08 - Mark Bennett LEAP speaker Dean Becker interviews Mark Bennett, incoming head of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association regarding the DA scandal, the jail scandal, the decades long and ineffective waging of the drug war. Pt 2 http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/1774 - --------------------------- PETER CHRIST OF LEAP ON WHAM ROCHESTER, NEW YORK Retired police officer Peter Christ from LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), talks about why the group advocates the legalization, regulation, and control of currently banned drugs. http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=138 - --------------------------- PEW REPORT FINDS MORE THAN ONE IN 100 ADULTS ARE BEHIND BARS Washington, DC - For the first time in history more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison-a fact that significantly impacts state budgets without delivering a clear return on public safety. According to a new report released today by the Pew Center on the States' Public Safety Performance Project, at the start of 2008, 2,319,258 adults were held in American prisons or jails, or one in every 99.1 men and women, according to the study. http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=35912 One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 http://stage.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/One%20in%20100.pdf - --------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK CRACK THE DISPARITY: CALL THE U.S. SENATE NOW Imagine being able to reform one of the worst federal drug laws of all time. You can do it. The draconian crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity is on the ropes. We need you to provide the knock-out punch. http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/022508crack.cfm - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake