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Contents
Article from Net: Bookstore privacy
of records compromised
Article from Net: RAVE Act passes
w/o 'rave'; dance environment favors psychoactives
Article from Net: Ricaurtegate:
gov't censorship/lies & E research
Article from Net: Cognitive Liberty
in the Classroom
Article from Net: Cognitive Liberty
Course
Article from Net: 56% of congress
acknowledge reasonableness of medical cannabis
Newsletter: Drug War Chronicle #311
- November 14, 2003
Newsletter: Rays of hope in drug
policy reform
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article from the net =======
http://www.episcopalbookstore.com/pages/news.asp
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Policy:
The
information that you provide to us, either when you simply visit our site, or
order from us online is held in strict confidentiality. We will not share it
with anyone, for profit or for free. You may order from us with confidence that
your privacy rights are protected.***
***As of
the end of October 2001 there has been a slight change in the above policy. The
antiterrorism bill has been signed into law. It gives the federal government
expanded authority to search business records, including the titles of books
purchased by our customers. The new law includes a gag order that prevents us
from disclosing “to any other person” the fact that we have received an order to
produce documents. The Episcopal Bookstore will resist any requests as far as
we can. Except for complying with this law, we will continue to keep your
information strictly confidential.
The events
occurring since the September 11th event keep most of us on edge, not only us
in this ministry-which-is-the-store, but, it seems, to many others. We’ve
noticed a different pattern to the frequency of shoppers visiting our store. We
have also seen a dramatic increase in orders through this Web site. Apparently
many customers are more comfortable ordering without leaving their home or
workplace.
If this
fits you at this time, please know that we will do all we can to meet your
needs as an individual, with our utmost care, and with the dedication to get
your purchases to you quickly and safely. The increased number of sales has not
effected our quick, personal service to you, our brothers and sisters in
Christ.
More:
http://www.mapinc.org/find
Search
past year for "tattered".
This case -- based around a drug book bought from Tattered Cover -- is
still in development.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n052/a04.html?1482
DRUGS
SQUAD FUMES AS BOOKSHOP SHIELDS READER
Prize-Winning
US Writers Queue Up To Defend Privacy Of Customer Who Bought Uncle Fester's
Illicit Manual
It never
won a Pulitzer or appeared on the New York Times bestseller lists but a
400-page book about the manufacture of illicit drugs by an author known as
Uncle Fester is at the centre of a legal battle over the privacy of the US
book-buying public. In what has been
described as a landmark case for the US book industry, the Tattered Cover
bookshop in Denver, Colorado, has spent 18 months resisting the attempts of
both police and courts to obtain the identity of a customer who purchased Uncle
Fester's opus, Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Drug Laboratories .
Many of
the country's most celebrated authors, publishers and booksellers are
supporting the shop, which has argued that handing over the information would
be a serious attack on free speech.
'There is
a right to privacy in this country and that includes the right to read what we
like without government interference,' says award-winning novelist Michael
Chabon. 'If the police get what they
are after in this case, what is to stop them demanding to know all sorts of
things - like who has been reading books about any subject the authorities deem
to be 'dangerous', such as religious beliefs that don't fit into the so-called
mainstream.'
Chabon,
who won the Pulitzer last year for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay, is one of several leading writers, including David Eggers, Dorothy
Allison and the children's book author Daniel Handler, who have giving
financial support to the Tattered Cover's legal defence fund, along with the
American Booksellers' Foundation.
'People
shop in bookstores on the understanding that their choices are confidential,'
says Chris Finan, president of the ABF's Foundation for Free Expression. 'There are a lot of books about subjects -
mental health, sexual dysfunction - that we do not want our wives or husbands
to know we've been reading about. If
people know the police can get that kind of information they will not shop for
those books.'
The case
centres on a raid by drug enforcement officers at a trailer park near Denver in
March last year. The Uncle Fester book
and another called Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic Drug
Laboratories were found inside a trailer owned by a man suspected of operating
a methamphetamine lab. An envelope
discovered in his rubbish bin contained an invoice from the Tattered Cover.
The
following day four plainclothes officers arrived at the shop with a search
warrant, demanding to know if the books were bought there and, if so, by
whom. The shop's owner, Joyce Meskis,
refused to provide the information. 'It
is not our job to do the police's work for them,' she said.
Denver
police then asked that it enforce the subpoena. At a subsequent hearing, lawyers for the bookshop argued the
police had failed to interview other witnesses who could have helped convict
the suspect. Details of a customer's
purchasing record were not sufficiently important to the criminal case to
justify the 'chilling effect' that releasing such information would have on the
right to free speech enshrined in the First Amendment, they said.
However,
the court upheld the police request - a decision which has been challenged by
the shop's owners in the State's Supreme Court. A ruling on the appeal is expected in the next few weeks.
The case
has echoes of that brought by Kenneth Starr against two bookshops in Washington
DC during his investigation into the Monica Lewinsky 'scandal'. When it emerged that Lewinsky - who was said
to have given President Clinton several books as presents - was a regular customer
at the shops, Starr demanded to see her purchase records. The shops' owners resisted his request, but
the case never reached court after Lewinsky struck a deal with the former
Independent Counsel.
Finan said
yesterday there was a growing problem with authorities seeking private
information from bookshops. 'I'm afraid
this may be a bad idea whose time has come, and the chilling effect on
publishing could be very serious indeed.
In the Lewinsky case, a false rumour went around that the bookshops were
going to comply with Starr's request.
The effect of that was they saw a big fall-off in business. People trust bookstores to protect them. If they don't have that trust, they will not
shop there.'
The
Tattered Cover, spread over four floors in downtown Denver, is a required stop
on the book tour schedule for every bestselling author and has a reputation for
stocking radical, independently published books that have little chance of
finding shelf space in chain stores such as Borders and Barnes and Noble.
Meskis
said she had been heartened by the support she and her staff had received from
writers, publishers and the public.
More than 400 people turned up at a fund-raising event at a San
Francisco bookshop last night.
'Like us,
they realise that everyone in society has to do what they can to uphold the
rule of law but that we also have an obligation to the community to protect the
constitution. When you have one
responsibility bumping up against another, then that's when the courts should
decide.'
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end of article from the net =======
The RAVE
act has been an ongoing struggle for a year.
It's surprising how it finally passed, by not being a separate bill but
by slipping into another, and by removing the particular reference to
'rave'. This news item shows that even
though the drug policy reform situation is dismal, it is an ongoing battle and
the existing activist efforts are having some effect.
Rock concerts
have become extremely restrictive, the opposite of the early "dance
concerts" of the late 1960s, which were like the Acid Test
happenings. Raves have served to
replace the restrictive rock concert environment by a return to the more open
environment of the Acid Test happenings and the late 1960s "dance
concerts".
There is a
connection between "dance" and entheogens. The necessary openness of a dance environment, compared to a
stationary-seating rock concert, seems to break open enough free, flexible
situation to enable psychoactives in as well.
Stationary-seating rock concerts have become almost totally controlled,
whereas it is inherently harder to control a "dance" environment so
firmly.
-----Original
Message-----
From:
Drug Policy Alliance
Sent: Friday,
April 11, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject:
RAVE Act Passes - Tell Ashcroft Not to Abuse It
Dear
Members, Subscribers and Friends,
I do not
normally use our alert channel to send a personal message. However, I wanted to let you know that the
Illicit Drug Anti- Proliferation Act (also called the "RAVE Act"),
which was attached to the AMBER Alert bill, passed both the House and Senate
late yesterday (April 10).
The RAVE
Act threatens free speech and musical expression while placing at risk any
hotel/motel owner, concert promoter, event organizer, nightclub owner or
arena/stadium owner for the drug violations of 3rd parties - real or alleged -
even if the event promoter and/or property owner made a good-faith effort to
keep their event drug-free. It applies
not just to electronic-music parties, but to any type of public gathering,
including theatrical productions, rock concerts, DJ nights at local bars, and
potentially even political rallies. It gives heightened powers and discretion
to prosecutors, who may use it to target events they personally don't like -
such as Hip-Hop events and gay and lesbian fundraisers.
Sadly, the
RAVE Act was added to the AMBER Alert bill conference report at the very last
minute by Senator Biden (D-DE), its original sponsor. The AMBER Alert bill creates a system for responding to child
abduction. It has nothing to do with
drug policy. The RAVE Act had not
passed even a single committee in the House or Senate this year. One senator's pet issue made a mockery of
the Democratic process - becoming law without any public hearing or opportunity
for input whatsoever.
You should
be aware that your letters and faxes clearly had an effect. (FYI - you sent Congress 13,000 faxes this
week alone!!) For example, the word
"rave" was removed from the version of the bill that passed. Eliminating such blatant discrimination is a
victory for our continued freedom of speech.
Also, the original bill suggested that prosecutors should view the sale
of water and the presence of glowsticks or massage oil as evidence of drug
use. These ludicrous
"findings" were completely removed thanks to you.
President
Bush will sign this child abduction bill, which means the RAVE Act will become
law as well. We will be working with
the legislators who opposed this provision - such as Senators Durbin, Kennedy
and Leahy and Representatives Conyers and Scott - for its repeal. In the meantime, however, it is up to all of
us to be the watchdogs of its enforcement.
Attorney
General John Ashcroft will have to make decisions about its enforcement
priority among the many public safety issues the Department of Justice
handles. He must be held responsible
when he implements this scheme. We want
him to know that he is not free to shut down our dance clubs, our festivals and
our freedoms. We will be watching the
activities of law enforcement and prosecutors, and we will act when our rights
are violated. You can help us by faxing
Attorney General Ashcroft here.
http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=1581
We thank
our many partners in this effort for your hard work: EM:DEF, ROAR, Buzzlife
Productions, Davey D., electronic dance and music organizations throughout the
U.S., club owners, hotel organizations, beverage and licensing groups, the ACLU
and many, many others. But most of all,
I want to say thank you personally to our members and supporters.
You truly
deserve credit for reacting so quickly and so forcefully. It has really been amazing. When Bill McColl, our Director of National
Affairs, told me about this issue last June he said that he thought the RAVE
Act would pass in about 2 weeks. You
proved us wrong. It took 10 months, a
change in control of the Senate, backroom maneuverings and substantial changes
to the bill. I'm proud of the hard
work of our members, friends and our coalition. Rest assured we will continue to work together to mobilize
opposition and advocate to fix this dangerous law.
Sincerely,
Ethan
Nadelmann
Executive
Director
Drug
Policy Alliance
The
Ricaurte bunk-research expose clearly reveals the forces of
prohibition-for-profit that distort and misportray entheogenic and therapeutic
tools as worthless hazards. -mh
Sent:
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
To:
drugnews at psychedelic-library.org
Subject:
Re: Ricaurte Retracts Science Paper about MDMA and dopamine
At 12:55
07/11/2003 -0800, Robert Forte wrote:
I find it
more than plausible that Ricaurte was knowingly fraudulent in the corrupt field
of drug research and politics. Here is
a little story. I was a graduate
student at the U of Chicago from 82-85, in the divinity school, where, among
other investigations of drugs and consciousness, I conducted some quasi formal
naturalistic studies of the effects of MDMA.
In the course of this three year project I observed that in addition to
the theological language my subjects (students and faculty) used to describe
their experience (grace, agape, love, acceptance, belonging), they also
described the experiences, with little provocation, as intensely therapuetic,
psychologically. So I brought my little
bag of the then-legal magic dust over to the medical school where I interested
Daniel Freedman, then president of the American Psychiatric Association, in its
curative effects. Dr Freedman was very interested in the abundant anecdotal
evidence that MDMA experiences could be useful in treating addictions and he
sent me over to Dr Charles Schuster who was directing the U of C drug abuse
research unit in another part of the hospital. I think Ricaurte was on his
staff at the time. Schuster and I had several meetings. I gave him some MDMA,
which he gladly accepted, and suggested he try it with his significant other.
A couple
weeks later, on May 31, 1985, as I was on my way to give a presentation to the
divinity school on "The Curative Effect of MDMA," a summary of my
observations, the headline of the Chicago Tribune read, "Ecstasy Declared
Illegal." The article cited some
research done by Charles Schuster, who was now the national expert on the
stuff, that it caused brain damage and therefore presented an imminent threat
to the public health, justifying this emergency ban. We knew the ban was coming. A number of us were quickly trying to
get some research underway before the government's repressive classification
would occur. But I was shocked that
Schuster and his team would so quickly be deemed the experts. The year before,
I turned on a few folks at the Harvard medical school: one of them, Lester
Grinspoon, then called MDMA one of the most valuable medicines in psychiatry.
So I
called Schuster to express my surprise and dismay. He couldn't talk. There was
press conference with NBC he had to get ready for. I was welcome to attend he
said. I quickly changed the title of my
lecture to "America's Newest Crime," and set off for the hospital, to
the news conference. There I saw
Schuster and Lewis Seiden telling the world that their earlier research with
MDA led them to think that MDMA would cause the same damage to the brain's
serotonergic receptors they found with MDA because of a structural relationship
between the molecules; never mentioning that there are a great many fairly
common drugs that bear a structural relationship to MDA and therefore should
warrant the same concern. Was he calling for a ban on all those diet pills,
anti depressants, etc?
While the
reporters were still present, I accused him of ruining research into a
promising drug by typing it this way in the popular media. I reminded him that
there were still people who thought that LSD caused chromosome damage because
of government attempts to tarnish that valuable medicine. He ushered me back to
his office away from the reporters and explained to me that the government
funded his Drug Abuse Research Unit and that sometimes he had to do what he was
asked to do and that's all there was to it.
Two years later Dr. Schuster was named head of the National Institute of
Drug Abuse.
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announcement from the net =======
http://www.alchemind.org/News/cognitive_liberty_class1.htm
June 10,
2002
Cognitive
Liberty in the Classroom
A unique
course recently offered in the Philosophy Department of the University of
British Columbia explored the historical precedent and current applications of
cognitive liberty. UBC student Mark Bryan was prompted to design this course
after years of working within an academic system that ignored any connection
between freedom of thought and altered states of consciousness, particularly those
engendered by psychedelics. “It always seemed odd to me that the university, a
place where freedom of thought is championed, will deal with an immense range
of subjects, yet will pretend that psychedelics do not exist. Academic freedom
was being hindered by the belief that a certain portion of human thought and
activity could be swept under the carpet,” stated Bryan.
Taking
advantage of a program allowing for student-directed seminars, Bryan designed
and led this innovative course, saying he “wanted to design the ‘Cognitive
Liberty: Psychedelic Perspectives’ course in such a way that it would be the
most challenging, interesting, and unusual course that I (and hopefully my
classmates) participated in at university.”
Despite
admonitions that getting approval for this course from the UBC board might meet
apathy or even hostility, Bryan’s enthusiasm and academically-sound course
outline sparked the curiosity of the oversight committee. After the fact, Bryan
confirmed “the success of the class can partially be measured by the amount of
interest I received from people who heard about the course after it started.” A
class poll elicited responses such as “excellent,” “dynamic,” “rare” and
“invaluable.”
The
structure and the subject of the course were unique for the university because
the course was learner-centered not teacher-centered. Classes were formatted as
discussion groups relating to the reading outlined for the week. The reading
list ranged from John Stuart Mill to Richard Glen Boire to Thomas Roberts. Guest
speakers were also invited to share with the seminar participants. During the
“psychedelic cultures” week Scotto Moore, the editor of TRIP magazine,
introduced the use of Internet groups as a form of psychedelic community.
Additionally, Ken Tupper of Simon Fraser University spoke about his recently
defended MA thesis on the use of entheogens as educational tools.
Participants
in the course praised its unique focus and overall success. “I really feel that
I have been part of a ground-breaking and radical new form of education
(related not only to the unique course content, but also to its format as a
student-directed course),” raved Stacey Sobell. “I feel more informed, aware
and inspired about both psychedelic and cognitive liberty issues that I ever have
before. Let’s hope that more and more of these classes start popping up all
over, and perhaps our society’s negative relationship with psychedelic
substances might begin to change for the better.”
STUDENTS
& PROFESSORS -- If you would like more information about developing a
“Cognitive Liberty” course at your university, please email
info~at~alchemind.org.
===== end
of announcement from the net =======
CCLE
Announces Launch of New “Cognitive Liberty & Neuroethics” Curriculum
The Center
for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics is pleased to announce that its new
"Cognitive Liberty & Neuroethics" curriculum is now available on
our re-vamped website at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty..org/proj_coglib.html
With the
intent of making this course as easy as possible to organize and run, we are
offering a syllabus (along with a reading package and web resources) to
interested post-secondary professors and students so that they may offer the
course to students on their campus, or take it as an independent study option.
Many
academic institutions fail to discuss the topic and importance of cognitive
liberty (the right of each individual to think independently, to use the full
spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought), even
though in today's drug and technology saturated world the topic of cognitive
liberty is of utmost importance to anyone interested in living in a society
where one has the ability to think freely.
We hope
that students will find "Cognitive Liberty & Neuroethics" to be a
stimulating, thought-provoking addition to their education. If you know of
anyone who might want to run this course at his or her institution, please
forward this message to them.
The list
below is the weekly topical outline for the course. For greater detail, and
many helpful resources for running the course at your university, please visit
the course URL at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty..org/proj_coglib.html
Week
1: Introduction to Cognitive
Liberty
Week
2: Introduction II: Philosophical Issues
Week
3: Food for Thought: Input
& Output
Week
4: Manufacturing Content I:
Freedom and the Classroom (Academic and Intellectual Freedom)
Week
5: Manufacturing Content II:
The Construction of Social Meaning
Week
6: Consuming Thoughts: The
Mass Media
Week
7: The Politics of
Consciousness, Altered States, & Baseline Consciousness
Week
8: Drugs: A Highly Opi(nion)ated Battle
Week
9: Technology & the Mind
I
Week
10: Technology & the Mind
II: Social Implications
Week
11: Reading the Mind: Looking Out,
Looking In–Surveillance Technologies
Week
12: Reality Models
Center for
Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE)
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org
According
to an article from the net, 55.7% of the congress voted in favor of an
amendment to prevent the DEA and Justice Department from arresting and
prosecuting medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in states that have
approved marijuana for medical use.
In
practice, the phony racket of prohibition-for-profit is an all-or-nothing
battle in the U.S. If the demon weed is
no longer under an absolute curse as king of dope addiction, the entire
prohibition scam is bound to completely collapse. If a single hemp seed is officially sanctioned in the U.S., the
entire edifice of the bogus, phony "War on Drugs" will come crashing
down.
Being
guilty of witchcraft and sedition is not a matter of degrees; it is inherently
emotional, non-rational, all-or-nothing.
Either dope is evil -- pure and simple, absolutely evil, down to the
last little hemp seed -- or else Prohibition is a huge, stinking pile of lies
and evil. The moment the
prohibitionists are forced to give, even slightly, the entire game is up for
them, because rationality is entirely and essentially set against
Prohibition.
To permit
even the slightest ray of rationality to shine on Prohibition would bring the
entire programme instantly and entirely to shame. Prohibition is completely dependent on the entire lack of taking
a rational stance, a rational and reasoned frame of mind.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Drug
Policy Alliance
Sent:
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:30 PM
Subject:
Breaking News: Huge Support for Marijuana Amendment
152
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS VOTE FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The Drug
Policy Alliance and its allies have been frantically calling congressional
offices, converting members of Congress and preparing information on medical
marijuana in anticipation of the most exciting drug policy vote in the past ten
years and the votes have just come in.
Although
the amendment to prevent the DEA and Justice Department from arresting and
prosecuting medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in states that have
approved marijuana for medical use DID NOT PASS, we are overjoyed at the number
of Congress men and women who came out in support of reform.
The vote
was 152 to 273. There has never been a
vote in U.S. history this favorable towards medical marijuana.
You helped
achieve this, let's keep the heat on Congress. As soon as we know how each
Representative voted, we will send you the information so that you can thank or
educate them.
... the
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Publication of the Drug Reform Coordination Network
(formerly
The Week Online with DRCNet)
"Raising
Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S.
Smith, Editor, psmith~at~drcnet.org
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Borden, Executive Director, borden~at~drcnet.org
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1. DRCNet Interview: Larry Campbell, Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/campbell.shtml
2. South Carolina: High School Drug Raid Sparks Incredulity, Outrage
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/stratford.shtml
3. DRCNet Honchos Challenge DC with CD --
Borden and Guard Refuse to Report for Jury Service in Protest of Drug Laws
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/honchos.shtml
4. Drug Policy Alliance 2003 Conference
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/dpa2003.shtml
5. BUSTED:
Special Video Offer for DRCNet Members
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/bustedoffer.shtml
6. Newsbrief:
Canada Decriminalization Bill Dies Quiet Death
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/c38.shtml
7. Newsbrief:
Bolivian Intellectuals Issue Call for Debate on Coca Law
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/coca.shtml
8. Newsbrief:
FAMM Study Show States Embracing "Smart on Crime" Reforms
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/smart.shtml
9. Newsbrief:
Illinois Targets Ecstasy, Speed on Campus
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/projectx.shtml
10.
Newsbrief: Texas Drug Task Force
Prosecutor Plays "Let's Make a Deal" With Wealthy Defendants
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/deal.shtml
11. This
Week in History
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/thisweek.shtml
12. DRCNet
Temporarily Suspending Our Web-Based Write-to-Congress Service Due to Funding
Shortfalls -- Your Help Can Bring It Back -- Keep Contacting Congress in the
Meantime
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/shortfalls.shtml
13. Perry
Fund Accepting Applications for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 School Years, Providing
Scholarships for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/310/perryfund.shtml
14. The
Reformer's Calendar
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/311/calendar.shtml
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There are
an unusually high number of relatively positive news articles this week for the
drug policy reform movement. If I can
only post an occasional peripherally on-topic posting about drug policy reform,
I'd like to post good news.
2.
National News
A.
Prosecutors Vow Not to Retry Tulia Defendants After Sole "Witness" is
Discredited
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/04_01_03tulia.cfm
B. ONDCP
to End Drug-Terror Ads, Cancel Evaluation
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/04_02_03ondcp.cfm
C.
Anti-marijuana Drug Czar Ad Campaign Scares Parents, Endangers Youth
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/04_01_03czar.cfm
D.
National Day of Action for Student Financial Aid
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/04_03_03ssdp.cfm
E.
Oklahoma: Marijuana Decriminalization Advances
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/03_31_03oklahoma.cfm
F. DEA
Final Rule on Hemp Foods Challenged
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/03_28_03hemp.cfm
3.
International News
A. EU
Presidency Joins NGOs in Calling for Harm Reduction, Reform of UN Drug
Conventions
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/01_04_03un.cfm
B.
Denmark: "Free City" Drug Dealers Go On Strike
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/03_31_03denmark.cfm
C. Jamaica
to Decriminalize Marijuana
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/03_31_03jamaica.cfm
D. Belgium
to Legalize Cannabis
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/03_31_03belgium.cfm
E.
Brazilian Health Official Slams Failed Drug Policy
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/04_03_03brazil.cfm
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