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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Dedication: Patrick Dorismond
2. Students Helping Students, HEA Update
3. Colombian Governors Come to Washington to Denounce Plan Colombia, DRCNet Interviews Tolima Governor Jaramillo
4. US District Court Overturns Mandatory Drug Tests in Texas School, Lockney Policy Was Nation's Broadest
5. Drug Reform Battle Heats Up in New York: Pataki Package Would Increase Marijuana Penalties, Democrats Offer Alternative Bills, Activists Don't Like Either Version
6. New Mexico Update: Ups and Downs for Johnson's Reform Package, State GOP in an Uproar
7. In Another Step on Path to Cannabis Decrim, Swiss Government Submits Proposed Law to Parliament
8. Hemispheric Parliamentarians Reject Debate on Drug Legalization
9. Uruguayan Leader Takes Legalization Views Online, Recommends Traffic
10. Narco News: Mexican Federal Police Chief Calls for Legalization, Bush Adds Another Half Billion to Colombia Fire
11. San Francisco Conference Looks at Women and the Drug War
12. Job Listing: Access Works! in Minneapolis
13. The Reformer's Calendar
14. Editorial: The Rule of Law

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