TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Editorial: It's Time to Rejoin the Free World
2. Presenting "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters"
3. Decriminalization Comes to Britain: House of Commons Passes Cannabis Rescheduling Bill
4. Leftist Legalizer Elected Mayor of Bogota in Voter Rebuke of Colombian President
5. Dutch Government Seeks Ban on Foreigners in Coffee Shops
6. One and a Half Million Drug Arrests Last Year, Nearly 700,000 for Marijuana, FBI Reports
7. Media Scan: David Borden on Cultural Baggage, Forbes, Alternet, Pot TV
8. This Week in History
9. Newsbrief: MAPS/UMass Marijuana Grow Proposal Gets Backing from Senators Kennedy and Kerry
10. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story
11. Newsbrief: Campaign Comments -- Lieberman on Drug War Racial Disparities
12. Newsbrief: Federal Appeals Court Says Nervousness Not Enough to Prompt Driver Search
13. Newsbrief: More Death Squad Drug Killings in the Philippines
14. Newsbrief: Retrograde Drug Politics in Kentucky Governor's Race
15. Newsbrief: North Carolina Congressman in Drug Treatment Slush Fund Scandal
16. DRCNet Temporarily Suspending Our Web-Based Write-to-Congress Service Due to Funding Shortfalls -- Your Help Can Bring It Back -- Keep Contacting Congress in the Meantime
17. Perry Fund Accepting Applications for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 School Years, Providing Scholarships for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions
18. The Reformer's Calendar

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