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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Victory for Hemp! Federal Judges Reject DEA Effort to Ban Hemp Foods
2. DRCNet Interview: Chuck Thomas and Troy Dayton, Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative
3. Sweet Home Alabama: Marijuana Legalization Advocate Convicted on Pot Charge in Kafkaesque Trial -- Appeal Filed Immediately
4. Action Alert: HEA Campaign Entering New Stage -- Your Letters and Phone Calls Needed!
5. Newsbrief: Legalization Talk in Trinidad
6. Newsbrief: Brit Police Chief Says Legalize Heroin, Irks Other Cops
7. Newsbrief: Australian Federal Government Issues Threat to Stop New Safe Injection Sites
8. Newsbrief: Prohibitionist Sweden Sees Drug Deaths Climb
9. Newsbrief: Philadelphia Drug War Reality Tour Hits the Airwaves, Internet
10. Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story
11. Newsbrief: US Senate to Consider Lifting Buprenorphine Restrictions
12. Ohio Patients Network Art Contest
13. UCSF Seeking Patients for Medical Marijuana Research
14. Offer and Appeal: New StoptheDrugWar.org Ink Stamps and Strobe Lights -- DRCNet Needs Your Support in 2004
15. The Reformer's Calendar

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