Media
Scan
--
Too
Many
to
List
in
the
Headline
This
Time!
5/28/04
Jennifer Gonnerman tells
the story of Rockefeller Drug Law prisoner Ashley O'Donoghue and his mother
Cheri in "The Reluctant Activist," Village Voice, May 25:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0421/gonnerman.php
Bill Piper of Drug Policy
Alliance opines on the fate of DC's Measure 62, in "A Model Measure vs.
the Mayor," Washington Post, May 21:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46704-2004May21.html
Reason's Nick Gillespie reviews
Martin Torgoff's "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age"
for The Washington Post, May 23:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42448-2004May20.html
Marsha Rosenbaum expounds
on "Fallback Strategy for Teens Who Say Yes to Drugs" in the San Francisco
Chronicle, May 21:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle-old/archive/2004/05/21/EDGM06PHN71.DTL
Matthew Briggs of Drug Policy
Alliance publishes "From Abu Ghraib to Your Local Prison: Phony Stories,
Real War," May 20 in CommonDreams.org:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0520-06.htm
"The User's Voice," a harm
reduction newsletter published by UK-based John Mordaunt Trust, goes online:
http://www.usersvoice.org.uk
Harm Reduction Journal, an
online, peer-reviewed international journal of original research and scholarship
on drug use and its consequences for individuals, communities, and larger
populations, edited by Dr. Ernest Drucker:
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com
LA Times covers Judge Gray's
bid for the US Senate:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gray24may24,1,3451493.story?coll=la-home-local
DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics
reports on prison and jail inmates in 2003:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pjim03pr.htm
Paula Simon writes on "War
on Our Community: The Education Battlefront," San Francisco Bay View, May
19
http://www.sfbayview.com/051904/educationbattlefront051904
New York Times Magazine's
"The Ethicist" on federal prosecutor's second thoughts about drug laws:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/23ETHICIST.html
The Lancet on "Cannabis Induced
Political Syndrome":
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9421/full/llan.363.9421.editorial=_and_review.29597.1
Video footage from the Vancouver
"Beyond Prohibition" conference:
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/series/pottvseries-131-0.html
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Issue #339, 5/28/04
Editorial: Judge the System |
California Senate Votes to Bar Random Drug Tests in Schools |
DRCNet Interview: Frank Fisher, MD |
Medical Marijuana Minds Gather in Charlottesville |
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Oregon Assisted Suicide Law -- DEA Threats to Prosecute Hindered Pain Control |
Newsbrief: Camden Opens Second Front in New Jersey Needle Exchange Rebellion |
Newsbrief: Needle Exchange Comes to Paraguay |
Newsbrief: Ohio Man Deported for Minor Marijuana Conviction Found Murdered in Brazil |
Newsbrief: Life for Meth |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story |
Newsbrief: Kentucky Prosecutor Offers to Drop Charges in Return for Sex -- X-Rated Romp Caught on Video |
Newsbrief: Supreme Court Expands Police Search Powers Again -- Cops Can Now Search Parked Cars Incident to Arrest |
This Week in History |
Media Scan -- Too Many to List in the Headline This Time! |
3rd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival and Contest |
Job Opportunities at MPP |
Job Opportunity: Campaign Coordinator for Marijuana Policy Reform, ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project |
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