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Resources:
Sentencing
Project
on
the
Drug
War
and
Welfare
Reform,
GAO
on
Alternative
Development,
NIDA
Marijuana
Farm,
International
Narcotics
Control
Board
3/1/02
The Sentencing Project has
released a new report analyzing the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act
on women convicted of felony drug offenses and their children. "Life
Sentences: Denying Welfare Benefits to Women Convicted of Drug Offenses"
can be downloaded from the Sentencing Project's web site at:
http://www.sentencingproject.org/allard/lifesentences.pdf
The US General Accounting
Office on February 8 issued a report, "Drug Control: Efforts to Develop
Alternatives to Cultivating Illicit Crops in Colombia Have Made Little
Progress and Face Serious Obstacles":
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-02-291
JCANT, the Journal of Cannabis
Therapeutics, has published "Chronic Cannabis Use in the Compassionate
Investigational New Drug Program: An Examination of Benefits and Adverse
Effects of Legal Clinical Cannabis":
http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/pdf_files/Chronic_Cannabis.pdf
A fascinating 1998 report
by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, detailing the activities of the
NIDA-funded University of Mississippi marijuana farm, was recently brought
to our attention:
http://165.112.78.61/NACDA/MarijuanaStatement.html
The International Narcotics
Control Board has issued its usual backward-thinking drug war report:
http://www.incb.org/e/ind_ar.htm
and http://www.incb.org/e/ind_pres.htm
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Issue #226, 3/1/02
Editorial: Losing Patience | SSDP "Souder Squad" Bushwhacks Congressman in Home District | DRCNet Launching John W. Perry Scholarship Fund for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions at NYC Event on March 26 | Oregon State Goes After Leading Medical Marijuana Doctor | DRCNet Interview: Sasha Abramsky, author of "Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation" | Bush Administration Peers Into Abyss and Blinks: Colombia Military Aid to Stay Restricted to Drug War -- For Now | Monitoring The Future 2001 Study Released: Mixed Results, Say Authors 226/israelidruguse Israeli Drug Use Up, Drug Authority Says: Maybe More Than You Think, Says Green Leaf Party | Prominent Anti-Drug Organization Criticized by Federal Agency for Bogus Underage Alcohol Findings | Weitzel Pain Case on Sixty Minutes, LP Ads Run in USA Today and Washington Times | Resources: Sentencing Project on the Drug War and Welfare Reform, GAO on Alternative Development, NIDA Marijuana Farm, International Narcotics Control Board | Errata: Vermont | Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia | The Reformer's Calendar
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