Dear Subscribers:

The past two issues of The Week Online (issues 18 & 19) have been written from Strudel Internet Bar in Jerusalem, (where I have been on "vacation"). These issues would not have been possible without the generosity and kindness of proprietors Phil and Miranda Kaiser. If you find yourself in Jerusalem, make a point of stopping in to read your current issue of The Week Online at Strudel. You'll find great food & drink and a welcoming crowd -- tell them DRCNet sent you. Finally, thanks too to Debbie, Avi, Fyonna, Joey the King of Jerusalem (behind the bar) -- and everyone else at Strudel for making us feel at home in the City of Peace. In the meantime, take an online stroll to Strudel at http://www.drcnet.org/strudel.html.

Shalom, Adam

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. NJ Needle Exchange Continues Legal Battle: Medical Necessity Defense Rejected By Judge
2. Virginia Pushes Envelope on Pain Control: Medical Society Calls For Greater Acceptance Of Narcotics
3. Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine: Revised and Expanded Edition of the Landmark Book by Grinspoon and Bakalar
4. Media Alert: Magazine Does Hatchet Job on San Francisco's Reform-Minded District Attorney
5. Events: The Reformer's Calendar Updated -- Events Coming Right Up!
6. Junior High Student Suspended for Supplying Cough Drop
7. Drug Czar "Sends a Message" to the Pentagon Over Anti- Drug Budget: Military Reluctant To Expand Drug War Involvement
8. Shultz And Friedman Tell California Cops "Drug War is a Dismal Failure"
9. Undercover Federal Narc Shoots Teen Holding Candy Bar
10. Consumption of (Legal) Alcohol Plunges
11. 18 Students Share Needle in Science Class
12. 51% of Canadians Favor Decriminalization of Marijuana
13. Clinton Removes Syria, Lebanon from List of Problem Drug Trafficking Nations
14. Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferer Gets 9-Month Suspended Sentence in England
15. Colorado Governor Calls for Sentencing Reform: Prefers Alternatives to Incarceration and Educational Spending
16. Editorial: Youth are Victims of Drug War

this issue, one-page printer version

Week Online archives

If you like what you see here and want to get these bulletins by e-mail, please fill out our quick signup form at https://stopthedrugwar.org/WOLSignup.shtml.

PERMISSION to reprint or redistribute any or all of the contents of Drug War Chronicle is hereby granted. We ask that any use of these materials include proper credit and, where appropriate, a link to one or more of our web sites. If your publication customarily pays for publication, DRCNet requests checks payable to the organization. If your publication does not pay for materials, you are free to use the materials gratis. In all cases, we request notification for our records, including physical copies where material has appeared in print. Contact: StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 293-8340 (voice), (202) 293-8344 (fax), e-mail [email protected]. Thank you.

Articles of a purely educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of the DRCNet Foundation, unless otherwise noted.

Out from the Shadows HEA Drug Provision Drug War Chronicle Perry Fund DRCNet en Español Speakeasy Blogs About Us Home Why Legalization? NJ Racial Profiling Archive Subscribe Donate DRCNet em Português Latest News Drug Library Search special friends links: SSDP - Flex Your Rights - IAL - Drug War Facts StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNet) 1623 Connecticut Ave., NW, 3rd Floor, Washington DC 20009 Phone (202) 293-8340 Fax (202) 293-8344 [email protected]