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Issue #243, 6/28/02
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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the banner "Out from the Shadows: Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century."
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from throughout Latin America will be held in the city of Merida, Yucatan,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial: The Specter of Coming Violence
- DRCNet Interview: Roger Goodman, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
- DRCNet Book Review: Drug War Heresies
- Supreme Court Allows Drug Testing All Students in Extracurriculars
- Slim Supreme Court Majority Upholds But Also Criticizes Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
- New York Rockefeller Law Reform Dies This Year as Pataki, Democrats Deadlock
- Vermont Governor Quietly Signs Compromise Medical Marijuana Bill
- Newsbrief: Unitarians Approve Anti-Drug War Platform
- Newsbrief: Fatal Drug Overdoses on the Rise in Florida
- Newsbrief: New York Pharmacies Fail to Distribute Sterile Syringes
- Newsbrief: Arizona Supreme Court Rules Police Knock and Talk Violates Privacy Rights
- Newsbrief: Kansas Sentencing Commission Wants to Focus on Prevention
- Newsbrief: Illinois Juvenile Drug Courts Given a Green Light
- Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana Distributor Angers Judge in California
- Newsbrief: UN Reports Drug Use on the Rise Worldwide
- Newsbrief: Scottish Police to Ignore Marijuana Use
- Web Scan: Uniform Crime Report, World Prison Population List, Transnational Institute, Imani Woods, CDC, WorldNet Daily
- The Reformer's Calendar
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