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Media
Scan:
David
Borden
on
Cultural
Baggage,
Forbes,
Alternet,
Pot
TV
10/31/03
DRCNet executive director
David Borden was interviewed on the Houston Pacifica radio KPFT show "Cultural
Baggage" on Tuesday, 10/28. Visit http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to102803.ram
to check out the wide-ranging discussion on topics such as Rush Limbaugh
and oxycontin, the ecstasy research scandal, Canada marijuana policy, the
drug reform movement and more. Cultural Baggage offers weekly discussions
with high-quality advocates, politicians and other drug reformers and host
Dean Becker, and its archives and upcoming shows are well worth checking
out -- visit http://www.cultural-baggage.com
to take look and listen!
Other current links:
Pot TV interviews Jack Layton,
head of Canada's National Democratic Party:
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2271.html
Forbes magazine on "High
Times: The Business of Marijuana":
http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/10/29/cx_jp_1029cannabits.html
Deroy Murdock writes on "Uncle
Sam's Wacky War on Drugs" for Alternet's Drug Reporter:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17024
Marsha Rosenbaum writes on
"The Ecstasy Debacle" for Alternet:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16854
Mike Newirth reviews Jacob
Sullum's "Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use" for In These Times:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=387_0_4_0_M
(Read DRCNet's review of
"Saying Yes" at https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/289/sayingyes.shtml
-- complete with pictures from a DC author reception -- and visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/
to get your own copy!)
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Issue #307, 10/17/03
Editorial: It's Time to Rejoin the Free World |
Presenting "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters" |
Decriminalization Comes to Britain: House of Commons Passes Cannabis Rescheduling Bill |
Leftist Legalizer Elected Mayor of Bogota in Voter Rebuke of Colombian President |
Dutch Government Seeks Ban on Foreigners in Coffee Shops |
One and a Half Million Drug Arrests Last Year, Nearly 700,000 for Marijuana, FBI Reports |
Media Scan: David Borden on Cultural Baggage, Forbes, Alternet, Pot TV |
This Week in History |
Newsbrief: MAPS/UMass Marijuana Grow Proposal Gets Backing from Senators Kennedy and Kerry |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story |
Newsbrief: Campaign Comments -- Lieberman on Drug War Racial Disparities |
Newsbrief: Federal Appeals Court Says Nervousness Not Enough to Prompt Driver Search |
Newsbrief: More Death Squad Drug Killings in the Philippines |
Newsbrief: Retrograde Drug Politics in Kentucky Governor's Race |
Newsbrief: North Carolina Congressman in Drug Treatment Slush Fund Scandal |
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 |
Perry Fund Accepting Applications for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 School Years, Providing Scholarships for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions |
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