DRCNet Associate Director Adam J. Smith is on vacation this week in Israel, but is so devoted to (or perhaps obsessed with) the cause that he located an Internet cafe, where he was able to read his e-mail and compose most of this issue of The Week Online.

Accordingly, this week's edition of The Week Online is sponsored by Strudel, Jerusalem's one and only Internet Bar. If you ever find yourself in the middle-east, you can find Strudel at 11 Monbaz Street, Russian Compound, Jerusalem, Israel, 95150, 972-2-623-2101 (phone), 972-2-622-1445 (fax), [email protected], or visit them on the web at http://www.eye-on-israel.com/Strudel/homepage.htm. (Their server was down last we checked, but should be back up shortly.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Washington Initiative Fails at Ballot: No one said this was going to be easy
2. McWilliams Case Set Back: Judges "changes mind" on medical necessity defense
3. California Medical Marijuana Providers Conference: Groups sign on to principles and guidelines document
4. Patient Threatened with Arrest after Seeking Dialogue: Yuba County accused of violating Prop. 215
5. South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Eight Year Prison Sentence for Woman Whose Baby was Born with Drugs in System
6. Prohibition at Work: Mexican law enforcement officers once again involved in sometimes lethal criminal activities
7. Canadian Passports New Currency in Illegal Drug Market
8. Poll: British MP's Would Modify Cannabis Law -- split most evident within Labour Party
9. Five Former Cops Plead Guilty to Drug Trafficking
10. Whitman Wins, Needle Exchange Loses
11. Miss America Visits Needle Exchange Program
12. New MS Treatment Very Effective, But Very Expensive... Medical marijuana still illegal as alternative
13. World Bank Endorses Needle Exchange Funding
14. McCaffrey Calls Allegations Inappropriate
15. Irish Teens Top European Drug Users
16. Study Finds Not All Drug Users Are Losers
17. Narcs vs. Murphy Brown: DEA Chief criticizes fictional news anchor for medical marijuana use
18. Media Watch: Drug war issues in the news
19. Editorial: Are the drug warriors really fighting for this nation's youth?

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