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First Annual Ken Gorman Memorial Smoke-In

Please attend this memorial event honoring the work of Ken Gorman, who was recently killed in his Denver home. To learn more about Ken, please see http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/474/colorado_mar

Pete Morse Memorial Service (East Coast)

This is going to be a pot-luck event, so please bring a dish to share. Contact us by email if you plan to speak or perform at the service. Even if you cannot be there, send something along and we'll include somehow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to: Tenderloin Health/Homeless Youth Alliance, Attention: Mary Howe, P.O. Box 170427, San Francisco, CA 94117.

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

Drugs, Poverty and Ethnicity: Enhancing Treatment, Eliminating Disparities, and Promoting Justice

The day after Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday a new group, the Illinois Drug Policy Coalition in partnership with the National African American Drug Policy Coalition will officially launch a new broad-based advocacy group whose key objectives include: advocating for drug policies and laws that embrace the public heath nature of drug abuse; and to minimize the use of expensive criminal sanctions.

9th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert

On Saturday, January 20, 2007 Ploppy Palace Productions and Tobacco Road will be hosting the 9th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert to raise funds for FL NORML’s (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) medical marijuana campaign and the protection of patients’ rights. As part of this four stage extravaganza, some of South Florida's top bands, spoken word artists and community activists will join together for patients’ and physicians’ right to use medical cannabis.

Prison Arts and Crafts Show

*** Prison made jewelry, clothing, leathercrafts and more at our special prison craft shows *** Join us at First Trinity Lutheran Church for our holiday Prison Arts and Crafts Show on Saturday, December 16, from 10 AM to 5 PM. You'll find the perfect holiday gift at prices you can afford, from jewelry, craft items, and art -- all created by prison inmates across America. Also enjoy live music by MudPie jazz trio and other musicians. Don't miss this free events sponsored by the Prison Art Gallery. Mastercard, Visa, Amex and Discover welcome. First Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 E Street NW, Washington DC (half block from the Judiciary Square metro). Call 202-393-1511

Drug Dealers Don't Card

On Sunday, August 27, Troy Dayton, associate director of the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative will be giving the sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada at 10:30 a.m. at 780 Del Monte Lane, Reno, NV 89511.

6th National Harm Reduction Conference

November 9-12, Oakland, CA, "Drug User Health: The Politics and the Personal," 6th National Harm Reduction Conference. Sponsored by the Harm Reduction Coalition, for further information visit