TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Editorial: What Is It About Opium?
2. Politicians Exploiting Drug-Terror Link
3. Interview: John C. Thompson, Mackenzie Institute, Toronto
4. Drug War Budgets Unaffected by September Attacks
5. Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek Tougher Ecstasy Penalties, Would Make Possession a Felony
6. Supersnitch Scandal: Mistakes Were Made, Says DEA Chief Hutchinson -- But No One Made Them
7. Violence in the Chapare, Bolivia -- Two Sustain Bullet Wounds
8. Alert: Senate Judiciary Committee Voting on John Walters Nomination Wednesday
9. Other Alerts: HEA, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana
10. Salvia Divinorum Defense Fund Established
11. Errata: Who's a Drug-Runnin' Terrorist?
12. The Reformer's Calendar

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