Coming in the Chronicle this week
We've got a bad bill in California, a bad arrest in Wisconsin, needle exchange news on a couple of fronts, a bevy of corrupt cops, and our favorite Australian MP goes to a rave and likes it.
Australian MP Says Raves Safer Than Hotel Bars, Urges Pill Testing Programs
The ecstasy-friendly MP Sandra Kanck is at it again.
Canadian Senator and Former Mayor Roasts UN Anti-Drug Chief in E-Mail over "World Drug Report"
We didn't get the permission back in time to include this in issue #441 of Drug War Chronicle, but Sen. Campbell wrote back and said it's okay.
In an e-mail sent to Vancouver drug reformer and harm reductionist Mark Haden, Vancouver's former mayor, Larry Campbell, now a Senator, wrote the following e-mail, titled " UNODC World Drug Report 2006 full of scientific insults," with permission to distribute it:
DRCNet friend and future Speakeasy blogger Cliff Thornton is first African American to run for governor of Connecticut
Check out the <a href="http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/NEWS01/606260303/1002">Norwich Bulletin</a> for Cliff's latest press coverage.
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