TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Week Online Needs Your Help
2. Editorial: I Smuggled Coca Soap into the United States
3. Road to Vienna: British Government Chides International Narcotics Control Board on Cannabis Rescheduling Critique
4. Will Canada Marijuana Decriminalization Be Collateral Damage in Iraq War?
5. Maryland Legislature Rebuffs Drug Czar, Passes Medical Marijuana Bill, Awaits Governor's Signature
6. DRCNet Interview: Ed Forchion, the New Jersey Weedman
7. Newsbrief: DEA Issues Final Hemp Rule, Would Ban Hemp Food Products in Weeks, Hempsters Fight Back
8. Newsbrief: Bill to Allow Syringe Purchases Moving in Illinois Legislature
9. Newsbrief: Bill to Restrict Needle Exchanges Gets Push in Rhode Island
10. Newsbrief: Colombia to Get $100 Million Bounty for Supporting Iraq War
11. Newsbrief: More Americans Dead in Colombia
12. Newsbrief: Lawsuit Charges Chicago Cops with Pattern of Illegal Stops, Searches of Minorities
13. Newsbrief: Bush to Nominate Woman Prosecutor to Head DEA
14. Newsbrief: Silence on Pusherstrasse -- Christiania Drug Sellers Strike for Future of "Free City"
15. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story
16. Jobs at WOLA
17. The Reformer's Calendar

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