Pubdate: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET - --------------------------- AMERICANS: STARS IN BARS Does our high incarceration rate represent the right kind of toughness? By Jacob Sullum http://www.reason.com/news/show/125306.html - --------------------------- END 'NANNY STATE' BANS, ARGUES MAJOR NEW STUDY Prohibitions impose huge costs on individuals and society, yet produce few benefits in return. http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=release&ID=138 - --------------------------- ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD Disproportionate Application Of Drug Laws Undermines The Conventions, Says Incb Vienna, 5 March (United Nations Information Service)-The Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) today called on Governments to apply the law proportionately when prosecuting drug offenders, as not doing so could undermine efforts to effectively implement the very conventions that these laws seeks to enforce. http://www.incb.org/incb/index.html - --------------------------- CLOSED MINDS By Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen According to what the media described as "a United Nations report released Wednesday" - more on that description in a moment - the soft treatment of celebrity drug offenders gives young people the impression that drug use is no big thing. Thus, it "could undermine wider social efforts at reducing demand for drugs." http://drugsense.org/url/sksMltcQ - --------------------------- DRUG TRUTH NETWORK Century of Lies - 03/04/08 - Phil Smith Phil Smith of StopTheDrugWar.org discusses empowerment of criminals through the drug laws, plus Al Byrne of Patients Out of Time on the upcoming National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/1790 Cultural Baggage Radio Show - 03/05/08 - Catherine Austin Fitts Catherine Austin Fitts, former HUD assistant secretary discusses the economic nightmare of the drug war. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/1791 - --------------------------- PERU AND BOLIVIA REVOLT AGAINST THE INCB Cocaleros in Bolivia threathen to occupy the installations of the United Nations in the country as well as those of Coca Cola in El Alto in protest against the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to "abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea," according to the newspaper La Razon. http://drugsense.org/url/kYXpxO0x - --------------------------- DR. MITCH EARLEYWINE ON THE CAPITAL OUTSIDER Host John Mounteer interviews teacher and author Dr. Mitch Earleywine, and discuss his recent book, Parents' Guide to Marijuana http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7754036465847187909 - --------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK - --------------------------- PETITION YOUR SENATORS TO SUPPORT MEDICAL MARIJUANA RESEARCH Download and print out a petition calling on your U.S. Senators to support access to materials for FDA-approved medical cannabis research. The goal is to collect 30,000 signatures by April 21st. http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5448&preview=1&cache=0 - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake