Feature: Pain Patients, Pain Contracts, and the War on Drugs
Pain contracts that force chronic pain patients to agree to intrusive drug testing and other invasions of privacy are becoming increasingly ubiquitous.
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Feature: Reefer and Religion -- Nevada Clergy Embrace Marijuana Legalization
In a first, more than two dozen members of the clergy in Nevada came out in support of regulating marijuana. The news continues to reverberate.
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Feature: Justice Department Report Shows Drug Use Among Prisoners Holding Steady, But Emphasizes Increased Methamphetamine Use
A new government report finds prior drug use by prisoners almost unchanged from a decade ago, but highlights slight increases in prior methamphetamine use while removing alcohol from consideration.
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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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NJ WEEDMAN (Ed Forchion) to Appear on CNN's Glenn Beck Show 10/19
NJ WEEDMAN reports:
On Tuesday Oct 10th, 2006 NJWEEDMAN did a interveiw for the Glenn Beck Show that will air on Thursday Oct 19th, 2006 - http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/glenn.beck/
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Paraphernalia: Florida County Approves Tough New Ordinance
Florida's Pinellas County has passed a tough new paraphernalia ordinance that lowers the standard of proof necessary to win a sales conviction.
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Pain Medicine: Dr. Hurwitz Denied Bail, to Sit in Prison Pending New Trial
Dr. William Hurwitz will remain in prison pending a new trial after a federal judge decided he was a flight risk.
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Latin America: Tijuana Mayor Vows to Investigate Entire Police Force for Links to Drug Trade
The mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana has ordered an investigation of all 2,300 city police for links to the drug trade, but there is more to the mayor's move than meets the eye.
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Methamphetamine: Georgia Governor Makes It Campaign Issue, Seeks to Double State Task Force
Locked in a tight race, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is making methamphetamine a campaign issue.
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South Pacific: New Zealand Sports Drug Tests Snag Mainly Marijuana Smokers
New Zealand's drug testing in sports regime is catching hardly anyone using banned substances, and most of those it does catch were just smoking marijuana.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A tawdry tale out of Tulsa tops the corrupt cops stories this week.
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This is Your Government on Drugs
What happens when a satirical TV program tricks 50 members of Italian Parliament into taking a drug test? Controversy.
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The Chronicle plans a trip to the Andes
Snowflakes are falling in the Dakotas today. With winter coming to the High Plains, it's a good time to be thinking about heading south, and that's just what I intend to do in a few weeks, probably in early January. Thanks to a targeted gift from an individual donor (the same guy who financed my Afghanistan trip last year), I will be heading to Bolivia and Peru to report on the status of the Andean drug war.
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From SAFER Colorado: Marijuana Initiative Campaign to Unveil Billboard Highlighting Drug Czar's Ad Calling Marijuana Use the "Safest Thing in the World"
MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 10, 2006
On the same day the nation's Drug Czar is in town...
Marijuana Initiative Campaign to Unveil Billboard Highlighting Drug Czar's Ad Calling Marijuana Use the "Safest Thing in the World"