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Issue #443 -- 7/7/06

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Feds Hit San Diego Medical Marijuana Co-ops Again
  1. EDITORIAL: IS ECSTASY A DANGEROUS DRUG?
    Whether ecstasy is truly dangerous depends on how you look at it, but the numbers themselves make the claim a tough sell.
  2. MEDICAL MARIJUANA: FIVE ARRESTED, 13 DISPENSARIES RAIDED BY DEA IN SAN DIEGO
    Just a week after the US House of Representatives voted to continue funding Justice Department raids on medical marijuana patients and providers in states where it is legal, the feds struck again.
  3. FEATURE: BATTLE OVER CALIFORNIA'S PROPOSITION 36 TO HEAD TO COURT
    Last week, the California legislature voted to approve changes to Proposition 36, the state's "treatment not jail" law, that would alter the law's basic philosophy. This week, Prop. 36 supporters are waiting for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign the bill into law. Then they will immediately file suit to have the new law overturned.
  4. FEATURE: WISCONSIN DRUG REFORM ACTIVIST AND SENATE CANDIDATE BEN MASEL ASSAULTED, ARRESTED BY CAMPUS COPS, PLANS TO SUE
    Wisconsin's best known drug policy reformer, Weedstock organizer Ben Masel, was pepper-sprayed and arrested by University of Wisconsin-Madison police as he collected signatures for his senatorial campaign the evening of June 30.
  5. SAD NEWS: DRUG POLICY SCHOLAR LYNN ZIMMER DEAD AT 59
    New York University sociologist and prominent academic supporter of drug policy reform Lynn Zimmer succumbed to multiple sclerosis last Sunday.
  6. LAW ENFORCEMENT: THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES
    This week, we have a pair of missing Border Patrol agents and a pair of drug-smuggling prison guards.
  7. VOTE HEMP ALERT: PROPOSED NORTH DAKOTA HEMP RULES
    North Dakota's agriculture commissioner has proposed licensing farmers to grow industrial hemp. Vote Hemp is gathering positive feedback on the proposed rules before the July 20 deadline.
  8. AUSTRALIA: MEMBER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA PARLIAMENT SAYS RAVES SAFER THAN HOTEL BARS, URGES TESTING PROGRAMS FOR ECSTASY AND OTHER PILLS
    South Australian Democratic MP Sandra Kanck, who in May told parliament "ecstasy is not a dangerous drug," attended a rave Saturday night and told ABC Radio she felt safer there than at a hotel bar. Kanck said she attended the rave as part of educating herself during Australia's current debate on drugs and urged other MPs to do the same.
  9. EUROPE: RUSSIAN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR BAN ON MAGAZINES OVER DRUG, SEX CONTENT
    Russia's crackdown against the drug culture continues, with one of the nation's highest legal officials calling for three popular teen magazines to be shut down for promoting an unhealthy interest in sex and drugs.
  10. HARM REDUCTION: DELAWARE NEEDLE EXCHANGE BILL PASSES HOUSE, AWAITS GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
    Delaware's Senate and now House have approved a needle exchange bill that the governor is expected to sign. This leaves New Jersey as the only state in the nation without a law authorizing needle exchange programs.
  11. HARM REDUCTION: MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR VETOES NEEDLE SALES BILL
    Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney vetoed a bill last Friday that would have allowed the sale of syringes without a prescription, claiming it could lead to increased heroin use. With the bill's easy passage, the legislature could choose to override the veto.
  12. CANADIAN SENATOR AND FORMER MAYOR ROASTS UN ANTI-DRUG CHIEF IN E-MAIL OVER "WORLD DRUG REPORT"
    Vancouver's former mayor, now a senator, wants the world to know what he thinks of UN drug czar Antonio Costa.
  13. WEB SCAN
    Politicians Who Have Used Marijuana Radio Ad, Tony Papa on Dwight Gooden, VICS Cannabinoid Chronicles
  14. WEEKLY: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
    Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
  15. WEEKLY: THE REFORMER'S CALENDAR
    Showing up at an event can be the best way to get involved! Check out this week's listings for events from today through next year, across the US and around the world!

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