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Salon.com continues its drug war coverage with two articles:

Drug War Politics, discussing whether the leading presidential candidates are de-emphasizing the drug issue because of their own suspect histories.
http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/10/12/drug_wars/

Reefer Madness, by Gary Kamiya, charging that "America's surreal hypocrisy about recreational drugs has reached the full-blown Dali stage."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/12/drugs/

Excerpts and other info from this week's PBS Frontline two night special, Drug Wars, are available online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/. Click on the "Symposium" link for video footage of a symposium in Washington, DC sponsored by Frontline, National Public Radio and the Georgetown University Law Center.

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