Media
Scan:
20#20,
Christian
Science
Monitor,
Salon.com
7/7/00
20/20 on the DEA's fallen
top drug informant, Andrew Chambers:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000628_deainformant_feature.html
Uncle Sam is Watching You
-- Op-Ed in the Christian Science Monitor on the ONDCP Internet "Cookie-Gate"
controversy, by Criminal Justice Policy Foundation president Eric Sterling:
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/07/03/fp9s1-csm.shtml
Three salon.com pieces on
Colombia:
The corruption of Col. James
Hiett:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/07/05/hiett/
The death of Army pilot Jennifer
Odom in Colombia -- first of many in an undeclared war?
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/07/05/odom/
War instead of peace:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/07/05/colombia/
Also in Salon: The
poisoning of suburbia -- an 18-year-old girl dies after taking a pill disguised
as ecstasy. This Salon article provides a sophisticated discussion
of the dangers inherent in a black market drug supply and even goes into
harm reduction and safety testing, but fails to note that deaths from contaminants
are a consequence of drug prohibition.
http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/07/06/pma/
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Issue #144, 7/7/00
Follow That Story: Feds' Drug War Gets 90-Day Reprieve from Texas Border DAs, Dueling For Dollars to Continue | New Mexico's Governor Johnson Speaks Out on Drug Policy in Houston, Sets Up Drug Policy Review Commission at Home, Addressing Shadow Conventions Next Month | St. Paul Cops Pose as Census Takers | Interview with Libertarian Presidential Nominee Harry Browne | Errata: Ralph Nader and Industrial Hemp | Scottish Parliament Members Call for Dutch-Style Coffeehouses as Legalization Debate Heats Up | Nevada Legislature to Consider Marijuana Reform Bill in 2001, Judicial Commission to Call for Similar Changes | Media Scan: 20/20, Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com | AlertS: Free Speech, California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington State | HEA Campaign | Event Calendar | Job Opportunity in Britain | Editorial: Over the Limit
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