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Harm Reduction: New Jersey Needle Exchange, Needle Access Bills Advance

New Jersey is the last state in the nation without either needle exchange programs or access to syringes without a prescription, but with bills moving in committee, that could soon change.

Europe: Italian Government Gives Approval for Marijuana Derivatives for Pain Control

The Italian cabinet Thursday gave its approval for the use of marijuana derivatives in the relief of pain.

Feature: Prominent Drug Reformers Run for Statewide Office in Connecticut, Maryland

Prominent activists are carrying the drug reform message in the Connecticut governor's race and the Maryland US Senate race.

Feature: Afghanistan Throws Out Group Urging Legal Opium -- Not

Despite press reports to the contrary, a think tank advocating licensing of Afghanistan's opium crop for the licit medical market has not been banned from the country, the group says.

DRCNet Video Review: "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law," Produced and Directed by Jed Riffe

Documentary filmmaker Jed Riffe's "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law" very successfully pulls together all the threads of the medical marijuana story in this compelling video.

Upward & Onward: 10 Years of Visionary Reform in California, a reception benefiting the Drug Policy Alliance

Supporters will gather to celebrate the five and ten year anniversaries of Proposition 36 and Proposition 215, respectively, and to honor three dear friends of DPA: philanthropists and DPA supporters John Sperling (Apollo Group) and George Zimmer (The Men's Wearhouse), and Marsha Rosenbaum (Safety First Project). Mayor Gavin Newsom is co-chairing the event together with Assembly Member Mark Leno and Assembly Speaker Fabian NÃºÃ±ez.

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.

Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale

This important new documentary about the medical marijuana movement is DRCNet's latest membership premium.

Weekly: This Week in History

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

Reflections from a Dr. Hurwitz patient

I am sure many of you recognize the name of Dr. Wm. Hurwitz. Dr. Hurwitz was a nationally known very prominent pain management physician. He was known for his very aggressive pain treatment and had patients from almost every state in the country. These were the patients that nobody else would take, they were too complicated, needed doses that were too high for other doctors. I was one of these patients and Dr. H saved my life. He is the most caring and compassionate dr I have ever known. In his younger years he served with Doctors Without Borders in Brazil. He was known never to turn away people who couldn't pay.

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