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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #364 - Friday, 25 April 2008

This week the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times featured a drug war debate between Jacob Sullum, who needs no introduction; and Charles "Cully" Stimson who was a local, state and federal prosecutor, a military prosecutor and defense attorney, and a deputy assistant secretary of Defense. Currently, he is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

The series is MAP archived as follows:

Monday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n414/a05.html

Tuesday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n415/a09.html

Wednesday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n418/a05.html

Thursday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n421/a02.html

Friday's DUST UP http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n426.a01.html

Besides being targets for letters to the editor the series provides arguments we are likely to see as efforts are made for and against initiatives which will be on the ballot in various states.

Tuesday's DUST UP about medical marijuana presents arguments we may see about the Michigan initiative http://StopArrestingPatients.org/

Already one Detroit TV station has been broadcasting anti-initiative ads you may see at http://stoparrestingpatients.org/video.html

The other OPEDs present arguments we may see used for or against the California's initiative, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008 http://www.drugpolicy.org/statebystate/california/nora/

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Style guides for writing effective letters to the editor are available at MAP's Media Activism Center:

http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides

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Prepared by: The MAP Media Activism Team -- www.mapinc.org/resource

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