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HEA: Senado Discente de UC Berkeley Aprueba Proyecto para Dar Becas a Estudiantes con Solicitudes de Auxilio Negadas a Causa de Condenaciones por Delitos de Drogas

El miércoles por la noche, el senado discente de la UC Berkeley aprobó una medida que proporcionará becas de $400 a estudiantes con solicitudes negadas de auxilio federal según la disposición antidroga de la Ley de Enseñanza Superior [<em>Higher Education Act</em>] porque fueron condenados por acusaciones de delitos de drogas.
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Reportaje: Grupo de Reforma de las Políticas de Drogas Se Unirá a Estado de Nuevo México en Programa de Concienciación y Prevención a la Metanfetamina Financiado por la Unión

Por primera vez una organización de reforma de las políticas de drogas, la oficina de Nuevo México de la Drug Policy Alliance ha sido escogida para administrar una subvención federal de $500.000 para desarrollar estrategias abarcadoras de concienciación y prevención a la metanfetamina que visen a los jóvenes en el estado.
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Internship Opportunity with Off Center Media

Off Center Media is looking for interns to assist in archival research and help out on shoots for Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s documentary feature, “Disturbing the Universe” (www.disturbingtheuniverse.com).
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The Fleecing of California

[Courtesy of Larry D., a prisoner correspondent in California] The Fleecing of California The fleecing of California is being perpetrated under the guise of “Prison Reform.” Recently there was a loud cry over California’s over-crowded prisons. And, once again, our great Governor has come up with this brilliant plan to reform the prison system, or should we say, fleece the public? He wants to spend $10 billion dollars to build more prisons. Common sense tells us that if we “build-em” we’ll “fill-em.” In other words, no matter how many prisons California builds, the system will always be overcrowded because of California’s outrageous sentencing laws.
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Call for candidates for International Drug User Activists working group

[Courtesy of Stijn Goossens] Dear friends, This is a call for User Activists living in North-America, Latin-America, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Europe to be candidates for being in a working group of International Drug User Activists. This group will prepare the International Network Of People Who User Drugs to be an official network with statutes and a mission statement and anything else that is needed to be an official network.
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Open Source Becomes Open Sore For NIDA

Wikipedia has accused the National Institute on Drug Abuse of "vandalism" following repeated attempts by NIDA staff to alter the organization's wikipedia entry.

As with any controversial subject, NIDA's wikipedia page has frequently included links to sources that expose NIDA's penchant for quackery and junk science. Of course, wikipedia is a user-maintained encyclopedia that permits readers to add relevant information at their discretion. NIDA's attempted censorship reveals a failure to comprehend the spirit of wikipedia or the tenacity of its users.

DrugWarRant has links to the various disputed wiki pages. And my terrifying encounter with NIDA director Dr. Nora Volkow is detailed here.

Ultimately, this is just another case of bizarre drug warrior behavior that, though vexing, is preferable to what they'd otherwise be doing with their time. Indeed, I'd rather they occupy themselves vandalizing wikipedia than vandalizing the scientific method.

Predictably, this latest attempt at drug war censorship has utterly backfired.

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Film: "Rock Bottom: Gay Men & Meth"

A film by Jay Corcoran "Cautionary ...disturbing,...remarkably candor. [director] Jay Corocoran has never shied away from ...painful and political touchy aspects of gay male sexuality." --Steven Holden, New York Times