Source: The Media Awareness Project of DrugSense
Pubdate: 16 Jan 1998

Dear Readers,

I was reminded that not everyone knows the state codes we use, nor how we
use them. The codes are below. You may wish to print them.

We use the state codes to show the location of the story for an article,
not the location of the newspaper.  Thus a story about the harassment of
folks gathering signatures on a medical marijuana initiative in Flordia
will have a subject line of US FL: even if the story was in the New York
Times.

A story about something the U.S. Congress does, for example, is a national
story and should have a subject line code of  just US:, not US DC.

Published letters, however, normally carry the code of the state of the
newspaper.

The codes are used by many of the readers who receive this service by email
as single item news items, called MAPNews items. This is our fastest
service, since it does not require waiting for enough items for a
DrugNews-Digest to kick out. MAPNews items are the whole article. About
11,700 sent in 1998. You may sign up for the single item email list at:
http://www.MAPinc.org/lists/

Richard Lake 
Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest
http://www.DrugSense.org/drugnews/

U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AL ALABAMA 
AK ALASKA 
AS AMERICAN SAMOA 
AZ ARIZONA 
AR ARKANSAS 
CA CALIFORNIA 
CO COLORADO 
CT CONNECTICUT 
DE DELAWARE 
DC DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
FL FLORIDA 
GA GEORGIA 
GU GUAM 
HI HAWAII 
ID IDAHO 
IL ILLINOIS 
IN INDIANA 
IA IOWA 
KS KANSAS 
KY KENTUCKY 
LA LOUISIANA 
ME MAINE 
MH MARSHALL ISLANDS 
MD MARYLAND 
MA MASSACHUSETTS 
MI MICHIGAN 
MN MINNESOTA 
MS MISSISSIPPI 
MO MISSOURI 
MT MONTANA   
NE NEBRASKA 
NV NEVADA 
NH NEW HAMPSHIRE 
NJ NEW JERSEY 
NM NEW MEXICO 
NY NEW YORK 
NC NORTH CAROLINA 
ND NORTH DAKOTA 
MP N. MARIANA ISLANDS 
OH OHIO 
OK OKLAHOMA 
OR OREGON 
PW PALAU ISLAND 
PA PENNSYLVANIA 
PR PUERTO RICO 
RI RHODE ISLAND 
SC SOUTH CAROLINA 
SD SOUTH DAKOTA 
FM STATES OF MICRONESIA 
TN TENNESSEE 
TX TEXAS 
UT UTAH 
VT VERMONT 
VA VIRGINIA 
VI VIRGIN ISLANDS 
WA WASHINGTON 
WV WEST VIRGINIA 
WI WISCONSIN 
WY WYOMING 
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake