Editorial: Drug Busts as Taxpayer-Funded Media Lobbying/Electioneering Campaigns
If law enforcers stage a high-profile drug bust with the intention of influencing the outcome of the legislative process, is it lobbying?
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Harm Reduction: New Jersey Needle Exchange, Needle Access Bills Advance
New Jersey is the last state in the nation without either needle exchange programs or access to syringes without a prescription, but with bills moving in committee, that could soon change.
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Europe: Italian Government Gives Approval for Marijuana Derivatives for Pain Control
The Italian cabinet Thursday gave its approval for the use of marijuana derivatives in the relief of pain.
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Feature: Prominent Drug Reformers Run for Statewide Office in Connecticut, Maryland
Prominent activists are carrying the drug reform message in the Connecticut governor's race and the Maryland US Senate race.
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Feature: Afghanistan Throws Out Group Urging Legal Opium -- Not
Despite press reports to the contrary, a think tank advocating licensing of Afghanistan's opium crop for the licit medical market has not been banned from the country, the group says.
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DRCNet Video Review: "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law," Produced and Directed by Jed Riffe
Documentary filmmaker Jed Riffe's "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law" very successfully pulls together all the threads of the medical marijuana story in this compelling video.
In The Trenches
Brand New Connecticut Chapter of SSDP Hosts Candidate for Governor and Drug Policy Reformer Cliff Thorton
Thornton Suggests Drug Policy
by Theresa Murphy of The Daily Campus (10/12/06)
Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton was welcomed Wednesday afternoon by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, who invited Thorton to speak during their weekly meeting.
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Upward & Onward: 10 Years of Visionary Reform in California, a reception benefiting the Drug Policy Alliance
Supporters will gather to celebrate the five and ten year anniversaries of Proposition 36 and Proposition 215, respectively, and to honor three dear friends of DPA: philanthropists and DPA supporters John Sperling (Apollo Group) and George Zimmer (The Men's Wearhouse), and Marsha Rosenbaum (Safety First Project). Mayor Gavin Newsom is co-chairing the event together with Assembly Member Mark Leno and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez.
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Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.
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Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale
This important new documentary about the medical marijuana movement is DRCNet's latest membership premium.
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Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Reflections from a Dr. Hurwitz patient
I am sure many of you recognize the name of Dr. Wm. Hurwitz. Dr. Hurwitz was a nationally known very prominent pain management physician. He was known for his very aggressive pain treatment and had patients from almost every state in the country. These were the patients that nobody else would take, they were too complicated, needed doses that were too high for other doctors. I was one of these patients and Dr. H saved my life. He is the most caring and compassionate dr I have ever known. In his younger years he served with Doctors Without Borders in Brazil. He was known never to turn away people who couldn't pay.
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Drug Raids: Michigan Judge Rules Flint Rave Raid Arrests Unconstitutional
A Michigan circuit court judge has thrown out the arrests of 94 people charged with "frequenting a drug house" after Flint police raided a night club holding a rave.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Busy this week: judges on cocaine, cops dealing cocaine, cops selling ecstasy, Air Force pilots smuggling ecstasy, police chemists pilfering from the evidence pile -- and of course, jail guards smuggling dope into prisons.
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Europe: Dutch Appeals Court Rules Medical Marijuana Patient Can Grow His Own
Despite Holland's famously tolerant marijuana policies, growing the stuff has remained a crime. Now, an appeals court decision relating to medical use has caused the first crack in the dike.
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Canada: Supreme Court Rejects Random Drug Tests of Probationers
In a case from British Columbia, the Canada's Supreme Court has held that judges cannot impose drug testing as a probation requirement without authorization from Parliament, and an appeals court found they can't impose drug treatment either.
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Sentencing: Louisiana Supreme Court Hears Case of Heroin Lifers
More than 90 people serving life sentences without parole for selling heroin under an old Louisiana law remain in prison despite reforms that should have freed them. The state Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a pair of cases that could accelerate their release.
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Maybe They Just Like the Way it Smells
People are getting wasted on cocaine again. Science Blog reports on data from the University of Florida that may suggest a coming epidemic: