Marijuana: In Annual Harvest Roundup, 98% of All Marijuana Seizures Are Ditchweed
Law enforcement authorities seized a whopping 233 million marijuana plants last year under a DEA program. Too bad 98% of them were ditchweed.
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Harm Reduction: Pittsburgh Needle Exchange Wins Health Board Approval for Continued Operation
Pittsburgh's sole needle exchange program is one step closer to being formalized after its legality was challenged earlier this year.
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South Asia: India Rebels Threaten to Kill Drug Traffickers, Tobacco Dealers
Separatist rebels in the Indian state of Manipur are threatening to execute drug traffickers and have already done so.
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Event Launching the Colorado Campaign for Safe Access
Please Join Us
What: Support Medical Rights: Event Launching the Colorado Campaign for Safe Access
When: Thursday, September 21st, 7-9pm
Where: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 294-9281, directions at http://www.mercurycafe.com/map.html
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Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Control Policy in Bolivia
The Washington Office on Latin America is pleased to invite you to a seminar:
Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Control Policy in Bolivia
with Felipe Cáceres, Vice Minister of Social Defense
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Appeal: Please Support DRCNet's New Web Campaign!
We believe you'll be excited and impressed when you see our new web site and what it can do. But it needs your help.
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Callout: Please Submit Blog Posts, News and Events on New DRCNet Web Site!
Our new web site has many new interactive features...
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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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Feature: Vancouver's Safe Injection Site Gets Only Limited Continuing Exemption
Insite, Vancouver's pioneering safe injection site, has won a temporary reprieve from the Canadian government, but now the government wants more research and is refusing to pay for it.
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Job Opportunies: Drug Policy Alliance, NYC & Sacramento
DPA is hiring a public affairs director in New York and a director for their California state capital office.
In The Trenches
Senate Adopts $700 Million for Halting Opium Production
press release from Drug Policy Alliance
For Immediate Release: September 7, 2006
Contact: Tony Newman (646) 335-5384 OR Bill Piper (202) 669-6430
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Feature: Afghan Opium Crop Hits Record as Violence Increases
The West faces a crisis in Afghanistan, as opium cultivation rises to all-time record levels and a reinvigorated Taliban insurgency takes on NATO and the US.
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Attention Night Owls: Your Editor Will Be on the Radio Sunday Night
Chronicle editor Phil Smith (that's me) will be the guest on Kootenay Co-op Radio's "Fane of the Cosmos" program Sunday night. Based in Nelson, BC, Kootenay Co-op Radio is the independent voice of the Kootenay counterculture.
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Feature: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Stirs the Waters in Ireland
LEAP member former Florida police chief Jerry Cameron went to Ireland and managed to really roil the waters.
In The Trenches
Reformers Call for a âNew Bottom Lineâ
For Immediate Release: September 7, 2006
Contact: Tony Newman (646) 335-5384 OR Bill Piper (202) 669-6430
New Government Survey Shows Illegal Drug Use Rates Holding Steady; Drug War Critics Point to Overwhelming Failure
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DEA Feeling the Pain
The DEAâs war on pain doctors got a facelift today as explained in their ironically titled press-release âWorking Together: DEA and the Medical Communityâ.
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Welcome Okies
Working for drug policy reform in Oklahoma can be interesting...want to help?
Norma Sapp/OKNORML
405-321-4619
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Europe: Scottish Police Move Toward Warnings for Simple Marijuana Possession
Scottish police have embarked on a pilot program where people caught with small amounts of marijuana are warned, not arrested.