Source: The Media Awareness Project of DrugSense Pubdate: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 Website: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/ The last week has been a very busy week for the newshawks and editors of the news clipping service of the Media Awareness Project. For the first 20 days of March an average of 50 news items were posted each day, going out in our various email versions of the news, and posted to the website. The news on the medical marijuana front pushed the number of items posted for a single day to 76 on Thursday and to another record, 84 on Saturday. The medical marijuana issue has always been the subject of about a fourth of the news items we post, and marijuana overall, about half. You can easily focus in on specific topics of interest by using our searchable archives, with nearly 20,000 articles on line. For example, I searched the current, last two weeks, news using the keywords college and university (you just enter: college university - the and is understood) and found 41 news articles. The search feature is at the URL at the top of this message. Readers and webmasters may not be aware that we have a number of shortcuts that link to our search page and bring up the 40 most recent news items on each of the following topics or areas. You may like to bookmark your favorite topics. Webmasters are welcome to link to the news on their topics using these links. TOPICAL NEWS ARCHIVE SHORTCUTS http://www.mapinc.org/africa.htm Africa http://www.mapinc.org/asia.htm Asia http://www.mapinc.org/af.htm Asset Forfeiture http://www.mapinc.org/aussie.htm Australia & New Zealand http://www.mapinc.org/ca.htm California http://www.mapinc.org/canada.htm Canada http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm Cocaine http://www.mapinc.org/crime.htm Crime and Corruption http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm Decrim/Legalization http://www.mapinc.org/ecstasy.htm Ecstasy http://www.mapinc.org/europe.htm Europe http://www.mapinc.org/hr.htm Harm Reduction http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm Heroin http://www.mapinc.org/hemp.htm Industrial Hemp http://www.mapinc.org/ireland.htm Ireland http://www.mapinc.org/latin.htm Latin America http://www.mapinc.org/lsd.htm LSD http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm Marijuana http://www.mapinc.org/medmj.htm Medicinal Marijuana http://www.mapinc.org/props.htm Medicinal Marijuana Initiatives http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm Methamphetamine http://www.mapinc.org/oregon.htm Oregon http://www.mapinc.org/popular Popular Articles http://www.mapinc.org/prison.htm Prison and Incarceration http://www.mapinc.org/raves.htm Raves http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm Treatment and Rehab http://www.mapinc.org/us.htm United States http://www.mapinc.org/wisconsin/ Wisconsin http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm Youth We are looking forward to other major improvements in our service in the weeks ahead. Be watching! Richard Lake Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest email: 19,832 articles online! For subscription information see: http://www.MAPinc.org/lists/ Quick sign up for DrugNews-Digest, Focus Alerts or Newsletter: http://www.DrugSense.org/hurry.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Effective National Drug Control Strategy is on line at: http://www.csdp.org/edcs/ ............................................. Get Active! Write Letters to the Editor! See Three Tips for Letter Writers: http://www.mapinc.org/3tips.htm and the Published Letters Archive: http://www.mapinc.org/lte/ ............................................. Information on the state and topic discussion lists supported by DrugSense is at: http://www.drugsense.org/lists/ ............................................ We also sponsor an interactive chat room for activists. Point your web browser to: http://www.mapinc.org/chat/ And join the discussion. The chat starts at about 9:00 p.m on Saturday and Sunday night Eastern time. ........................................... - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake