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DRCNet is pleased to welcome Phillip Smith, the new principal editor and writer of The Week Online. Phil holds a BA in Political Science, (University of South Dakota, 1979), an MA in Latin American Studies (University of Texas at Austin, 1989), and served as an editor at the magazine Covert Action Quarterly from 1993-1996.

Phil has done freelance reporting on Central American and Mexico since the 1980s, and has had articles published in In These Times, the Guardian (now defunct), New Politics and many other publications. He is also a long time drug policy activist, having helped to found one of the first NORML chapters in the state of South Dakota. He has also been involved in drug reform efforts at the local in Austin, TX and Washington, DC.

Phil can be reached at [email protected].

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Issue #140, 6/9/00 Welcome to Phil Smith | Drug War McCarthyism in Syracuse | Faint Glimmers of Hope in Texas | Arizona Initiative Hits Bumpy Ground | Political Earthquake Alert: California Drug Reform Initiative Passes First Big Hurdle | UC San Diego Pulls Plug on Controversial Server: BURN! Group's Hosting of Colombian Rebel Group Site Blamed | Human Rights Watch Releases Major Study of Race and Imprisonment in the Drug War | Opposition to Meth Bill Mounting | DRCNet Potentially Threatened by Meth Bill | Anti-Ecstasy Bill Filed in Senate | Canadian Court Upholds Marijuana Law, Dissenting Justice Finds Jail Sentences Violate Canadian Charter of Rights | Event Calendar | Job Openings, Temporary and Permanent | Editorial: Oaths and Allegiances

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