Exciting
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12/11/98
"Drug War Facts," an extensive compilation of facts, stats and general background on a wide range of drug policy issues, is published online by Common Sense for Drug Policy and updated monthly. Check out Drug War Facts at http://www.csdp.org and visit it regularly to brush up on your numbers, prep for your next debate, or enhance your next letter to the editor. "Win At All Costs," a landmark ten-part series that is the fruit of a ten-year investigation into federal prosecutorial misconduct, has been published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The series, which will undoubtedly be considered for a Pulitzer Prize, details a culture of lawlessness among federal agents and prosecutors whose pursuit of convictions has come to overshadow their ostensible role as seekers of justice. You can find the series online at http://www.post-gazette.com/win/. Last week, famed Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz granted an interview to DRCNet, in relation to his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee regarding perjury. Dershowitz touched on drug policy issues, and the corrosive effect of drug enforcement on police scruples (see http://www.drcnet.org/wol/069.html#perjury). We forgot to mention that the testimony itself is available online, at http://www.c-span.org/guide/executive/investigation/ -- follow the link to December 1. The Lindesmith Center has a variety of new documents in its online library, including a "focal point" compilation of the research on safe injecting rooms, the National Research Council's 1982 report, "An Analysis of Marijuana Policy," articles on methadone maintenance, use of herbicides in drug crop eradication, Latin America drug policy, including discussions of militarization and the certification process, and more. Check out TLC's Recent Additions web page at http://www.lindesmith.org/library/new.html.
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