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A DrugSense publication
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Table of Contents
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DrugSense THIS WEEK (Top) | ||||||||
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Thanks to feedback from our readers we are making a slight change
in the way you will receive DrugSense Weekly. Past editions have
been sent out at about the same time as the Focus Assignments.
To further lighten the e-mail load of our members you will now get
this newsletter around midweek. Thanks again for all the compliments
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We like to hear what our readers think of DrugSense Weekly and
invite you to take a shot at writing a feature article. Feel
free to send comments/suggestions to our editor, Tom Hawkins,
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Enjoy!
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Tom Hawkins, editor
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Thank You Ashley Clements
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For some time Ashley Clements has provided our members with a sense
of pride and accomplishment through MAP's "We Get Published" section,
http://www.mapinc.org/lte/
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Due to other projects the time has come for him to pass on the torch. Ashley will be working extensively on the Drug Policy Forum of Texas site at http://www.mapinc.org/DPFT/ among other things. | ||||||||
The duty of taking over the We Get Published section has fallen to me, Tom Hawkins. I am proud to assume this important responsibility and hope to uphold the fine tradition Ashley has established. | ||||||||
Words can never fully express the thanks due but on behalf of our
members everywhere let me express the highest congratulations to
Ashley H. Clements for a job well done. Thank you, Ashley and best
of luck with all your future endeavors. | ||||||||
Tom Hawkins, editor
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM MAPTalk (Top) | ||||||||
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It has been quite a week for LTEs in the Halifax Daily News... | ||||||||
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Congratulations Lynn Carol, for getting the following letter published in
the Halifax Daily News. I think we can thank big bro MAP for this, unless
Lynn is on cmap/mattalk. Mark, forward this to her. That makes two of our
letters, one good news article about Cannabis Day, and one great column on
the same published in ONE WEEK by the Daily News. The wire version of the
gateway story they printed was actually one of the least slanted I saw
(scripps howard). We're getting through to these guys, though I get the
feeling the local AIDS Coalition might have worked behind the scenes on
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"Fight The Power"
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LTE: MARIJUANA NOT ADDICTIVE
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To the editor,
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strokes, rather than the normal caffeine withdrawal headaches, would
coffee suddenly be seen as a life threatening drug?
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Lynn Carol
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Tom O'Connell, among others, sounds off to The Scotsman... | ||||||||
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The Scotsman
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To The Editor:
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It's gratifying that Alan Cochrane's dissatisfaction with the empty "Just
Say No" slogan ( Damaging addiction to an empty old slogan, July 6)
eventually furnished him with enough insight to understand that such
admonitions directed arrogantly at bright teens along with patently
false or conflicting data have the opposite effect. In point of fact, drug
policy wonks had figured it out long before Mr. Cochrane and at least a
full decade before Nancy Reagan's infamous slogan; they called the
increased teen interest in drug experimentation fostered by such efforts
the "forbidden fruit effect."
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Sincerely,
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A note of compliment from Mark Greer... | ||||||||
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I was just reading Tom O'Connell's great letter on the Pye editorial and I
thought it would be good to point out a conversation Tom and I had awhile
back. Have you all noticed the phenomenal improvement in the overall
quality of our LTEs over the last year? I believe that posting out letters
here and on the web has had a synergistic effect on us all. We learn from
each other and pick up gems that can be used over and over. This is also
beginning to shape and refine our message. These are unpredicted but
excellent side benefits to the MAPTalk list.
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Keep up the great work gang we are forming the nucleus of what is going to
be a very powerful force. | ||||||||
Mark Greer
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The Hernandez shooting has stirred the emotions of many as has the fair
treatment of this situation by the Texas Rangers... | ||||||||
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Dear Texas Rangers:
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Just a note of thanks -- for standing up to the federal government's
obvious efforts to quash investigation about the shooting of Ezequiel
Hernandez by U.S. Marines. I imagine you are under pressure to let the case
drop under the "official" explanation. | ||||||||
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Respectfully Yours
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R. Vlahos
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Many continue to be amazed at the biased treatment of tobacco... | ||||||||
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Dear Talkers,
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certainly looks different especially with regard to tobacco. The
Richmond Times Dispatch has been running a series on the "state of
tobacco." Two months of articles are located, thru hyperlink, at one
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Take a look: http://www.gateway-va.com/pages/news/tobac/tobacco.htm | ||||||||
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vty, jerry sutliff
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One of the many responses to the recent Focus Assignment... | ||||||||
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Pravda Lite?
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Recent reporting about research on laboratory rats corroborating the
marijuana "gateway" theory was carried as a major story by nearly every
newspaper and news program in the country. By contrast, another marijuana
study, also funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), garnered
practically zero media coverage when it was published in this April's issue
of the American Journal of Public Health. | ||||||||
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Craig Schroer
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Still on a roll in the Halifax Daily News... | ||||||||
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All,
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The Daily News has now given more ink to the MAP response to the new
'gateway' bs than they gave to the original wire story. HA. Congrats
to Paul Wolf, who joins Lynn and myself with his letter in the lte
section of the DN today. | ||||||||
Chris Donald
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A Humongous WAYTAGO for MAP Members Tom O'Connell And Jerry Sutliff :) | ||||||||
These two letters alone had a potential readership of over 2 million and
had an ad value in excess of $12,000
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The WSJ is one of our primary targets and this is a major MAP victory. | ||||||||
For those not subscribed to MAPTalk the volume and quantity of LTEs being
sent out by MAP members is a truly inspiring thing to see. A list of
hundreds of published MAP letters in a huge number of major and minor
papers can be viewed at http://www.mapinc.org/lte/
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Mark Greer
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This pretty cool weekly legal analysis of the TV show COPS is highly recommended for those who wish to be more informed on their rights and various mistakes many people make when being detained by police. | ||||||||
To subscribe to the Copswatch Report please e-mail
with the message "subscribe". | ||||||||
Mark Greer
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WAYTAGO Richard
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Toledo blade circ 220,000 Ad value of this letter $1,584. I have posted
our 5 published LTEs today to the ARO list so that some of the leaders from
other groups can get a feel for what MAP is doing nearly every day. I
estimate we exceeded $15,000 in advertising value today for the reform
movement.
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Mark Greer
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