Pubdate: Fri, 14 Mar 2008
Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW)
Website: http://www.drugsense.org

HOT OFF THE 'NET

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U.S. COCAINE PLANE INVASION SPOOKING LATIN AMERICA

By Bill Conroy, Narconews.com

http://www.narconews.com/Issue51/article3031.html

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CRAZY 'POT WILL MAKE YOU SELL YOUR CHILDREN'

Warning from Otherwise Sane Senator

By Ron Fisher, NORML

Iowa constituent writes to Sen. Tom Harkin asking why medical pot is 
illegal, constituent gets off-the-wall fearmongering reply.

http://alternet.org/drugreporter/79425/

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OUR MOST IMPORTANT LEGISLATION EVER

By Ethan Nadelmann

I am excited to announce that the Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPA's 
lobbying arm) is sponsoring a ballot measure in California that 
represents the biggest sentencing and prison reform in United States history.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/031408nora.cfm

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THE GOLDEN AGE

How Americans Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Workplace Drug Testing

By Greg Beato, Reason Magazine

In the increasingly divided American landscape, where language, 
faith, and prime-time television no longer unite us as they once did, 
a thin golden line holds the nation together

http://www.reason.com/news/show/124385.html

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UNODC DIRECTOR DESCRIBES DPA EVENT AS '1000 LUNATICS', 'OBVIOUSLY ON DRUGS'

By Steve Rolles, Transform Drug Policy Foundation

In a strange and disturbing turn of events here in Vienna at the UN 
CND, the UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa, who had seemed to be 
making positive rhetorical gestures to the concerns of the NGO 
community with his speech on Monday, has this morning managed to 
spectacularly embarrass the UNODC with some intemperate remarks 
insulting a large swathe of the very civil society he has been at 
such pains to claim meaningful engagement with.

http://drugsense.org/url/bBlvt1Cn

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UNITED NATIONS DRUG POLICIES VIOLATE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER

A coalition of groups including the International Harm Reduction 
Association, Human Rights Watch and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal 
Network, have published a report taking the United Nations drug 
control policies to task for not being in compliance with essential 
human rights principles -- principles which, by United Nations 
charter, take precedence over other United Nations treaties.

The report is: Recalibrating the Regime: The Need for a Human Rights- 
Based Approach to International Drug Policy

http://hrw.org/pub/2008/hivaids/beckley0308.pdf

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SOMEONE HAS TO START WONDERING WHAT THE F IS GOING ON

The Wire co-creator Ed Burns talks about failure in the drug war, 
public education, the war in Iraq, and police strategies.

By Radley Balko

http://www.reason.com/news/show/125309.html

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DPA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ETHAN NADELMANN ON THE COLBERT REPORT

The Comedy Central funnyman recently visited DPA's New York City 
office to shoot a segment of "Better Know a Lobbyist" for The Colbert Report.

http://www.spike.com/video/2952263/

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DRUG TRUTH NETWORK

Cultural Baggage - 03/12/08 - John Baeza

John Baeza with 24 years of law enforcement experience now a speaker 
for LEAP, (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) + Poppygate Report 
with Glenn Greenway and a call for the first ever "Friends of LEAP" 
meeting, to make a coordinated contact with elected officials.

http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/1800

Century of Lies - 03/11/08 - Virginia McDavid

Virginia McDavid, running for a congressional seat in the state of 
Texas dares to discuss the need for change to our drug laws + NPR 
interview of "The Wire" writer & extract from "Faces of Colombia"

http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/1799

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WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK

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CONTACT THE 2008 CANDIDATES: DEMAND ACTION FOR SAFE ACCESS!

As the presidential primaries get closer and closer, we need to know 
where all the candidates stand on important medical marijuana issues. 
Call, write, and ask the candidates in person on their campaign trail 
where they stand on medical marijuana.

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5103

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THE WORLD PSYCHEDELIC FORUM

The World Psychedelic Forum with over 60 seminars, lectures, and 
panel discussions, presented by more than 50 experts, and some 30 
young researchers from all over the world, with a rich audio-visual 
supporting program, and a variety of external events during 3 nights 
offers a unique Easter weekend in Basel for the young and the young 
at heart, for the interested lay persons, as well as the 
professional, a gathering you will never forget!

http://www.psychedelic.info/index_2_eng.html 
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