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Issue #268, 12/20/02
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Special Offer Continues -- DRCNet Needs Your Help!
- Editorial: Expanding the Chorus
- 108 Euro-Parliamentarians Call for Legal, Regulated Drug Trade, Reform of UN Conventions
- Congressional Drug Warrior Having Doubts: Dan Burton's Near Epiphany
- Michigan Legislature Repeals Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws
- Canadian Marijuana Activists Skeptical on Decrim
- Canadian Supreme Court Postpones Marijuana Cases, Cites Parliament Report, Justice Minister Statement on Decrim
- DRCNet Book Review: "Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords, and Washington's War on Drugs"
- And the Winners Are
- Federal Judge Shows Keen Interest in Raich/Monson Medical Marijuana Case
- Bolivia Coca Growers Announce Blockades for January 6 -- Will Continue Dialogue
- DC Measure 62 Clears Hurdle, Goes to Congress 268/jeffjones Newsbrief: Oakland Cannabis Co-op Director Founded Guilty on Federal Jury Tampering Charges, Handed Out Flyer at Epis Trial
- Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
- Newsbrief: Stop the Presses! Poor, Blacks Face Brunt of Houston Drug War
- Newsbrief: Texas ACLU Report Slams Task Forces, Calls for End to $200 Million Annual Boondoogle
- Newsbrief: MPP Continues "War on Drug Czar" -- More Complaints to be Filed, O'Reilly Appearance Tonight
- Newsbrief: Budget Cuts Free Kentucky Drug Prisoners -- Oklahoma Next?
- Newsbrief: Nickelodeon Censors Beverly Hillbillies Marijuana References
- Newsbrief: Asset Forfeiture Unconstitutional in New Jersey
- Media Scan: Joycelyn Elders in Globe and Mail, George McMahon in Fort Worth Weekly, Jeff and Tracy, Santa Fe New Mexican, Medscape
- DC Job Opportunities at DRCNet
- Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum
- The Reformer's Calendar
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