TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Editorial: Losing Patience
2. SSDP "Souder Squad" Bushwhacks Congressman in Home District
3. DRCNet Launching John W. Perry Scholarship Fund for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions at NYC Event on March 26
4. Oregon State Goes After Leading Medical Marijuana Doctor
5. DRCNet Interview: Sasha Abramsky, author of "Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation"
6. Bush Administration Peers Into Abyss and Blinks: Colombia Military Aid to Stay Restricted to Drug War -- For Now
7. Monitoring The Future 2001 Study Released: Mixed Results, Say Authors 226/israelidruguse Israeli Drug Use Up, Drug Authority Says: Maybe More Than You Think, Says Green Leaf Party
8. Prominent Anti-Drug Organization Criticized by Federal Agency for Bogus Underage Alcohol Findings
9. Weitzel Pain Case on Sixty Minutes, LP Ads Run in USA Today and Washington Times
10. Resources: Sentencing Project on the Drug War and Welfare Reform, GAO on Alternative Development, NIDA Marijuana Farm, International Narcotics Control Board
11. Errata: Vermont
12. Alerts: HEA, Bolivia, DEA Hemp Ban, SuperBowl Ad, Ecstasy Legislation, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, Virginia
13. The Reformer's Calendar

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