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[Courtesy of MPP] Dear friends, With the world desperately short of blogs and clamoring for more, the Marijuana Policy Project has come to the rescue with our very own blog, at http://blog.mpp.org/. Seriously, we expect to post news and analysis you're unlikely to see anywhere else, including little-reported events and research studies that deserve notice but escape the attention of the mass media. Please check it out, sign up for a feed if you're so inclined, and let me know what you think. Regards, -- Bruce Mirken, Director of Communications -- Marijuana Policy Project -- P.O. Box 77492 -- Capitol Hill -- Washington, D.C. 20013

Drug Truth Network Update: 4:20 Drug War NEWS from 90.1 FM in Houston and dozens of radio affiliates in the US and Canada & on the web at www.kpft.org. John Stossel, ABC NEWS: "Alcohol prohibition created Al Capone and the Mafia. Drug prohibition is worse. It's corrupting whole countries and financing terrorism." - John Stossel our guest on Tuesdays Century of Lies. We provide the "unvarnished truth about the drug war" to scores of broadcast affiliates in the US and Canada. 4:20 Drug War NEWS 07/14/08 to 07/20/08 now online (3:00 ea:) Select online at www.drugtruth.net Sun - Jim Hightower, Texas/American Icon Sat - Glenn Greenway with Poppygate Report Fri - Brother Robert Muhammed 5/5 Thur - Brother Robert Muhammed 4/5 Wed - Brother Robert Muhammed 3/5 Tue - Brother Robert Muhammed 2/5 Mon - Brother Robert Muhammed of the Nation of Islam discusses the impact of the drug war on the Black community 1/5 Next - Century of Lies on Tues, Cutural Baggage on Wed (Now With Transcripts): - Cultural Baggage 12:30 PM ET, 11:30 AM CT, 10:30 AM MT & 9:30 AM PT: Reports from Netroots Nation - Century of Lies 12:30 PM ET, 11:30 AM CT, 10:30 AM MT & 9:30 AM PT: Rick Noriega Cand. for US Senate + Roger Goodman running for reelection as state rep in Washington Hundreds of our programs are available online at www.drugtruth.net, www.audioport.org and at www.radio4all.net. Check out our latest videos via www.youtube.com/fdbecker: Please become part of the solution, visit our website: www.endprohibition.org for links to the best of reform. "Prohibition is evil." - Reverend Dean Becker, Drug Truth Network Producer Dean Becker 713-849-6869 www.drugtruth.net

Soirée in the Land of Enchantment: Karen and I flew to Santa Fe, New Mexico on the 9th at the invitation of Sallie Bingham. Good food and conversation flowed for 3 hours as like-minded citizens met to share stories and support the Drug Policy Alliance. (http://www.drugpolicy.org/homepage.cfm) Misty donated about 14 books to anyone who contributed. Her hoof print signature graced the inside cover. Karen and I enjoyed 2 and one half days traveling by car in New Mexico. We enjoyed the magnificent landscape as we played tourist and scouted possible retirement locations. Me retire??!! Yikes!! Booked: I am scheduled to make a presentation to ‘by invitation only’ group of VIP conservatives this July 30th. Grover Norquist, Executive Director of Americans for Tax Reform (www.atr.org) made the arrangements. I am excited. Howard – radio host: My brother Frosty has a twice weekly, one hour radio program. As he went on vacation, he asked me to host it on the 8th. I had two guests, Richard Mack and Paul Armentano. LEAP speaker Sheriff Mack spoke passionately of his opposition to policy & specific problems it causes in Arizona. NORML deputy director Paul Armentano educated the audience on the practical uses of medicinal cannabis. I have been interviewed over 100 times by radio. It is fun. However, it is definitely a separate skill to be the interviewer. It is work. Concerned Senator: Jim Webb (D-VA): Bob in Colorado sent me the link to Senator Webb’s remarks, as Webb opened the 2nd Senate hearing on Mass Incarceration. The link follows: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/540/congress_joint_economic_committee_jim_webb_drug_policy_hearing. Senator Webb is the first MOC to call for hearings on our issue, EVER. Boy Scout motto: be prepared: Upon my arrival in DC, my mentor Eric Sterling advised me to always be ‘camera ready.’ In this town one never knows where or when a camera will shine on you or you meet a VIP unexpectedly. Thus I was in coat and tie on Wednesday evening at the Heritage Foundation event, though half the 100 gathered were w/o coat and tie. I engaged in conversation a person who had asked a question during the Q& A session. An hour later we exchanged business cards & a commitment to go to a shooting range and target practice (pistols). He was a fellow Texan and an advisor to President Bush. Thanks Eric. Note: before the program began, I was chatting with a retired oil executive. Upon learning I had been in Egypt, he asked, “Enta tatkallem Arabi?” I whipped off two decent sentences in Arabic. He wants me to speak to his Republican Club in Virginia. It was fun. Like riding Misty, speaking foreign languages is fun, a pleasant diversion and helps me from burning out.