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Drug Users Go to Court to Keep Safe Injection Site Open

Press Release – For Immediate Release, August 31, 2006 Drug Users go to Court to keep Safe Injection Site Open Vancouver – The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) will seek an injunction in BC Supreme Court to prevent the federal government from closing Insite, North America’s first safe injection site.
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Bungled DEA Raid Raises Troubling Questions

California NORML Release, Aug 31 2006 Yesterday's DEA raid at Trichome Healing Center in Van Nuys ended in a stand-down. No arrests were made. An undercover DEA team arrived without a warrant. One agent tried to gain entry with a bad ID, but was turned down. The agent blew his cool, a security guard saw his gun and thought he was a robber; a scuffle broke out, and other agents came to the rescue. After several hours, the DEA procured a warrant from a local judge. The DEA left the scene after midnight, but not before calling in a professional safecracker to clean out the premises. In the meantime, patient advocates were on hand protesting. Degee Coutee called an LAPD operator, who appeared unaware of the raid. LAPD arrived and reassured the crowd that they had a right to protest and take pictures.
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Trackback?

I tried this both ways. I put in the URL of my blog entry where I did the textual critique of the article sent by Dana, and I tracked back from a new post at my blog to the entry I just posted here.
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Schizophrenia and Cannabis

I got an email from Dana Beal recently that asked us to review an article published in the UK Guardian/Observer that stated that scientists had 'proved' that pot causes schizophrenia. I did a textual critique of the article, which is available at my personal blog. If you are on the WMM list, I hope you will see it in your next email update. http://writch.com/blog/?postid=151 But that isn't the point of this post. The point is that there is another undercurrent in the big question of the cause of schizophrenia which appears to be a valid approach.
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The Potradictions of Life in Amsterdam...

The Potradictions of Life in Amsterdam Not many people realize that marijuana was never legalized in Holland, it is just permitted, and even then only in certain places... Here I am in lovely Vondel Park in Amsterdam. Its a sun-shiny, blue sky day. I get nervous around a lot of people sometimes. There are a lot of people here today.
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Baking and Entering

Delightfully smug sex columnist Dan Savage got stoned and walked into Seattle’s City Hall with a fake gun and bag full of pot cookies. For all the right reasons.

It all started when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels proposed a wildly impractical ordinance which would hold nightclub owners responsible for any drug possession on their premises:

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