Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director

Do we really want to help kids find the drug dealers?

• 1. Editorial: Do We Really Want to Help Kids Find the Drug Dealers?

  Drug offender registries are a hare-brained idea that is more likely to help young people find drug dealers than prevent them.

• 2. Feature: What Would Jesus Do? Religious Communities as Drug Reform Allies

  The drug reform movement, much of it secular and unattached to traditional religious practices, is beginning to make serious inroads with mainstream religious denominations.

• 3. Feature: Vancouver Fights to Save Its Pioneering Safe Injection Site

  Vancouver is mobilizing to save the Insite downtown safe injection site from closure by a hostile federal government.

• 4. Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

  A former Massachusetts State Police sergeant goes to prison, a former Milwaukee detective cops a plea, a Virginia sheriff's deputy gets busted, and so do a pair of would-be drug-dealing prison guards.

• 5. Sentencing: Bill to Study Habitual Drug Offender Registry Introduced in Maine

  A bill introduced in the Maine Senate would lay the groundwork for what could be the nation's first registry of habitual drug offenders.

• 6. Europe: Britain Goes After Medical Marijuana Suppliers

  Despite the government's downgrading in 2004 of marijuana from a Class B drug to the less serious Class C, members of two British medical marijuana groups are headed to trial this week and next, and could face up to 14 years in prison.

• 7. Australia: Victoria Greens Call For Prescription Heroin, Safe Injection Sites

  The Victoria Green Party has unveiled a new drug policy platform that calls for prescription heroin trials for long-term addicts and the establishment of safe injection sites. But those were only the most controversial proposals in the platform.

• 8. Middle East: War Driving Iraqis to Drugs

  Thanks to the horrors of war, drug abuse is on the rise in Iraq, Iraqi officials and residents told the Associated Press Monday.

• 9. Canada: Vancouver Police to Stop Arresting Peaceable Drug Users, According to New Draft Policy

  Vancouver police are making it their official policy not to arrest people for quietly using drugs, but to focus instead on those who sell and make them.

• 10. Canada: Nelson, British Columbia, Head Shop Busted for Marijuana Sales

  Local police in a particularly tolerant part of Canada broke with longstanding unofficial tolerance to bust the Holy Smoke Culture Shop and Psyche-Deli.

• 11. Harm Reduction: Needle Access Bills to Become Law in Delaware, Massachusetts

  Governors in two states Monday signed into law bills that would ease injection drug users' access to clean needles -- in one case overriding a veto.

• 12. Web Scan: Cato on Paramilitary Police Raids, John Fugelsang on Drug War for Daily Kos, Australia Institute Drug Prohibition Report

  Cato on Paramilitary Police Raids, John Fugelsang on Drug War for Daily Kos, Australia Institute Drug Prohibition Report

• 13. Weekly: This Week in History

  Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

• 14. Jobs and Internships

  Marijuana Policy Project and Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

• 15. Weekly: The Reformer's Calendar

  Showing up at an event can be the best way to get involved! Check out this week's listings for events from today through next year, across the US and around the world!