Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director

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• 1. Feature: The 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference -- Mr. Costa Meets the Opposition

  The 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference opened with a bang Thursday in New Orleans as the United Nation's top drug fighter addressed a skeptical and sometimes hostile audience.

• 2. Feature: The Bible, a Black Bag, and a Drug Dog -- A Florida Drug War Story

  In the latest installment of the Chronicle's occasional series on the day-to-day workings of the drug war, we go to Florida, where a drug interdiction exercise disguised as a traffic enforcement effort, some sheriff's radio shenanigans, a suspicious Bible, and a drug dog left one Key West man wondering what hit him.

• 3. Press Advisory: Ninety-Nine Percent Say They Wouldn't Use Hard Drugs If Legalized, According to Zogby Poll

  The results of a new poll -- commissioned by DRCNet -- suggests that prohibition of "hard" drugs may not reduce their use.

• 4. Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!

  Apply for an internship at DRCNet for this fall (or spring), and you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!

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

  Troopers telling lies, troopers selling cocaine, cops peddling coke, Border Patrols agents peddling pot, cops peddling cocaine and pot, but not a single jail or prison guard this week!

• 6. Sentencing: Racial Disparities in Drug Sentences the Norm in the Nation's Most Populous Counties, Study Finds

  A report released this week by the Justice Policy Institute finds that racially disparate sentencing is the norm in the nation's most populous counties.

• 7. Latin America: Mexico's President Says Fighting Drugs, Crime His Highest Priority

  One year after he took office, Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the war on drugs remains his highest priority. Some 24,000 troops are in the field, but the traffic and the violence appear to continue unabated.

• 8. Europe: British Drug Council Calls for Heroin, Cocaine Prescribing By Nurses, Pharmacists, Chides Government's Drug Strategy Consultation

  As Britain's Labor government prepares to announce a new long-term drug strategy in the spring, the battle is heating up. Now, the government's own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is calling for nurses and pharmacists to be able to prescribe heroin and cocaine, and chiding the government for making a joke of consultations around the new strategy.

• 9. Weekly: This Week in History

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

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• 11. Resource: DRCNet Web Site Offers Wide Array of RSS Feeds for Your Reader

  A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

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• 13. Resource: Reformer's Calendar Accessible Through DRCNet Web Site

  Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.