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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
EDITORS NOTE: DrugSense neither endorses or encourages the use of any
psychoactive substance be it legal or illegal but feels the choice of
determining whether or not to use such substances is inevitably a
decision to made by each individual adult as part of his or her
inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as
laid out in the Declaration of Independence which can be reviewed at.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
The opinions below are from the National Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws (NORML) web page at: | ||||||||||||||||||||
NORML's Principles of Responsible Cannabis Use | ||||||||||||||||||||
When marijuana is enjoyed responsibly, subjecting users to harsh
criminal and civil penalties provides no public benefit and causes
terrible injustices. For reasons of public safety, public health,
economics and justice, the prohibition laws should be repealed to the
extent that they criminalize responsible marijuana use. | ||||||||||||||||||||
By adoption of this statement, the NORML Board of Directors has
attempted to define "responsible cannabis use." | ||||||||||||||||||||
I. Adults Only - Cannabis consumption is for adults only. It is
irresponsible to provide cannabis to children. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Many things and activities are suitable for young people, but others
absolutely are not. Children do not drive cars, enter into contracts,
or marry, and they must not use drugs. As it is unrealistic to demand
lifetime abstinence from cars, contracts and marriage, however, it is
unrealistic to expect lifetime abstinence from all intoxicants,
including alcohol. Rather, our expectation and hope for young people is
that they grow up to be responsible adults. Our obligation to them is
to demonstrate what that means. | ||||||||||||||||||||
II. No Driving - The responsible cannabis consumer does not operate a
motor vehicle or other dangerous machinery impaired by cannabis, nor
(like other responsible citizens) impaired by any other substance or
condition, including some medicines and fatigue. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Although cannabis is said by most experts to be safer than alcohol and
many prescription drugs with motorists, responsible cannabis consumers
never operate motor vehicles in an impaired condition. Public safety
demands not only that impaired drivers be taken off the road, but that
objective measures of impairment be developed and used, rather than
chemical testing. | ||||||||||||||||||||
III. Set and Setting - The responsible cannabis user will carefully consider his/her set and setting, regulating use accordingly. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"Set" refers to the consumer's values, attitudes, experience and
personality, and "setting" means the consumer's physical and social
circumstances. The responsible cannabis consumer will be vigilant as to
conditions -- time, place, mood, etc. -- and does not hesitate to say
"no" when those conditions are not conducive to a safe, pleasant and/or
productive experience. | ||||||||||||||||||||
IV. Resist Abuse - Use of cannabis, to the extent that it impairs
health, personal development or achievement, is abuse, to be resisted
by responsible cannabis users. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Abuse means harm. Some cannabis use is harmful; most is not. That which is harmful should be discouraged; that which is not need not be. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Wars have been waged in the name of eradicating "drug abuse", but
instead of focusing on abuse, enforcement measures have been diluted by
targeting all drug use, whether abusive or not. If marijuana abuse is
to be targeted, it is essential that clear standards be developed to
identify it. | ||||||||||||||||||||
V. Respect Rights of Others - The responsible cannabis user does not
violate the rights of others, observes accepted standards of courtesy
and public propriety, and respects the preferences of those who wish to
avoid cannabis entirely. | ||||||||||||||||||||
No one may violate the rights of others, and no substance use excuses
any such violation. Regardless of the legal status of cannabis,
responsible users will adhere to emerging tobacco smoking protocols in
public and private places. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Adopted by the NORML Board of Directors February 3, 1996 Washington, DC | ||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1-2) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The ACLU launched a coordinated attack against the racial profiling
with a New York press conference and lawsuits against police agencies
in four widely separated locations. | ||||||||||||||||||||
That such agencies employ racial profiling was confirmed by an
unlikely group- but one that should know: 39 federal prosecutors who
also happen to be black men. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(1) ACLU: DRUG WAR BASED ON RACE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
NEW YORK (AP) The war on drugs has significantly increased the number of traffic stops based on race throughout the country, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released Wednesday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"Skin color has become a substitute for evidence in a way that really
resembles Jim Crow justice on the nation's highways," ACLU Executive
Director Ira Glasser said. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) 39 BLACK U.S. ATTORNEYS DESCRIBE WARNING SONS ABOUT RACIAL PROFILING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
(Atlanta) - Passing down a fear like an heirloom, black fathers give
their sons a warning. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In what is often a rite of passage for some black fathers and their
teenage sons, Richard Deane sat down with Jonathan Deane, 15, earlier
this year and explained that he may be stopped by police simply because
he is a young, black male. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This father-son snapshot might serve as just another reminder of the
sometimes frayed trust between police and the minority community,
except that Deane is a U.S. attorney, the chief federal law enforcement
officer in Atlanta and the northern portion of Georgia. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (3) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Despite nominal endorsement as a mainstay in the (effective) treatment
of heroin addiction, and despite a surge in heroin availability,
access to methadone maintenance therapy is still woefully inadequate-
as pointed out in this caustic Florida op-ed: | ||||||||||||||||||||
(3) EDITORIAL: HOW TO SAVE A HEROIN ADDICT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
You can rant yourself hoarse about the Puerto Rican heroin connection. | ||||||||||||||||||||
You can demand more money for more cops, with more tools. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Despite an influx of drug enforcement dollars, the high-minded rhetoric
of national politicos and the copious bleeding of liberal hearts
everywhere, deaths from heroin use in Orlando jumped from 16 in 1997,
one year after state-financed methadone funding was last available in
Orlando, to 36 last year. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
It's also clear that despite lip service to "treatment," the real
enthusiasm of both McCzar and Congress is for the more macho areas of
enforcement and interdiction. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(4) HIGH-TECH DETECTION BOOSTS WAR ON DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Customs inspectors peering into the tractor-trailer at the
Colombia-Solidarity Bridge along the U.S. border saw nothing more
threatening than a cargo of cookies. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But after passing the truck through an X-ray machine the size of a car
wash, agents caught a look at the real treat stashed in the truck:
more than 5,600 pounds of marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The thermal camera is the most requested item in the Office of National Drug Control Policy's technology transfer program, first funded in 1998. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"We know these systems work, and we know the cops need these tools,"
said Barry McCaffrey, the administration's drug control policy
director. He is seeking more money for the program. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (5-7) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
For those who've wondered just how many overlapping police
jurisdictions there are, let alone how many sworn officers function
within them, you've got wry company from Houston columnist Thom
Marshall who, despite pushing his quest, was ultimately unable to
answer either question. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Not only is it hard to count cops, it's not all that easy to count
inmates; two articles from California underscore the enormous size to
which that state's prison system has grown and the upcoming crisis
that growth will produce in the near future. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(5) COLUMN: TRYING TO COUNT ALL THE COPS IS HARD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
At least once a week, Bryant Reed of La Porte finds himself wondering how many police agencies we have watching us and why we need so many. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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I, too, have wandered down the trail of speculation about law
enforcement proliferation. Writing down just the agencies that came
quickly to mind, I came up with more than 20, including district
attorney investigators, game wardens, postal inspectors and federal
officers with the INS, DEA, ATF, CIA ... | ||||||||||||||||||||
Once, some time ago, I decided to make a few calls and find out just
how many policing agencies and the total number of cops of all kinds we
have in our town.... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) CA: PRISONS NEAR CAPACITY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
ROBERT Presley, the highly respected former cop and state senator who
heads the state's correctional agency, says that in just two years,
"every nook and cranny" in the state's huge prison system will be
filled with inmates. | ||||||||||||||||||||
There are 160,000 inmates now, eight times the 1980 prison population,
thanks to get-tough policies adopted by legislators and voters. And
despite massive prison construction in the 1980s and early 1990s, all
but a few inmates are doubled up in cells designed for one person or
housed in gymnasiums and other temporary quarters. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) A RETURN TO THE GOAL OF REFORMING INMATES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Officials Reconsider the Discredited Idea of Rehabilitation as Two Out of Three California Parolees Are Back in Prison Within Two Years. | ||||||||||||||||||||
CORCORAN, Calif. - The white prison van pulled up to the train stop in Corcoran, in the shadow of the big grain silos, and out walked two young inmates just released from the state penitentiary down the block. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The same scene, more or less, plays out each day in prison towns up and
down the state. Of the 160,000 inmates locked safely away in
California's 33 penitentiaries, more than half will be getting out in
the next two years. Their prospects - and by extension ours - are not
bright. .... | ||||||||||||||||||||
Many are going straight from maximum-security cells and round-the-clock lockdowns to a world of liberty without any real preparation or transition, just the $200 in "gate money." The chance of a parolee committing a new crime or violation in two years and crossing back over the line has been rising and is now more than two out of three.... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (8-9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Meanwhile, on the Right Coast, the Rockefeller reform charade was good for a few more gasps; the NYT tut-tutted Mr. Silver's lack of resolve and the Rev. Al Sharpton got into the act. Just as in California, nothing substantive will happen this year, but the issue is certain to be raised again next year, with more organized support for reform. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(8) MR. SILVER'S SILENCE ON REFORM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The fight to overhaul New York State's rigid Rockefeller-era drug laws
took a depressing turn recently when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
said the Assembly would not take up Gov. George Pataki's proposed
changes. Mr. Pataki's tepid proposals deserve criticism, and this may
have been Mr. Silver's way of expressing it. But the Speaker seems
also to have foreclosed debate on an issue that badly needs an airing,
and broader reform. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) SHARPTON TO PROTEST DRUG LAWS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The penalty for not fighting for Rockefeller Drug Law reforms: The Rev.
Al Sharpton knocking on your door. The dapper downstater wants an
explanation from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver about why the
Manhattan Democrat isn't pushing for reforms to the tough drug
penalties. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (10-12) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
As noted here recently, the once effective DEA lobby against hemp has
been defeated; the burning question is now which state will harvest
the first crop. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medical Cannabis will be showcased at the high profile trial of Steve
Kubby, scheduled to begin in July. While Kubby's arrest received far
more publicity than any other single case, coverage has been
nevertheless sketchy. That was remedied by a detailed article authored
for a Canadian publication by High Times reporter Pete Brady. His
entire text deserves close reading. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Brady himself was arrested and threatened with prosecution because of
his connection with the Kubby case. Charges against him were recently
dropped, a hopeful omen, indeed. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) HEMP PRODUCTION BEGINS IN SOME STATES, STILL BARRED IN KENTUCKY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Jun. 5--Bluegrass farmers' dream of growing U.S. hemp finally might be
coming true, but not in Kentucky. | ||||||||||||||||||||
North Dakota, spurred by the first-year profits of neighboring Canadian
farmers, legalized industrial hemp production in April. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But Hawaii will probably get it into the ground faster. On July 7,
Gov. Benjamin Cayetano will sign a bill authorizing 10 acres of
variety trials. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) CANDIDATE KUBBY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Libertarian Politics, Medicinal Pot, Overzealous Narks And A CC
Journalist Mix It Up In California. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In 1996, Steve Kubby helped ensure passage of California's landmark
medical marijuana law, Proposition 215, and became the proud father of
a baby girl. In 1998, the 52-year-old entrepreneur was the Libertarian
Party's candidate in the California governor's race. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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But Kubby's audacious public battle to end America's drug war wasn't just out on the edge, it was over the edge, like wearing a target in the center of which was written in big red letters: "Arrest Me." | ||||||||||||||||||||
On January 19, 1999, the target got hit. Kubby and his wife Michelle
opened the front door of their Northern California chalet to find
armed agents from the North Tahoe Drug Enforcement Task Force (NTTF),
an agency staffed with investigators from California, Nevada, and the
federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) MEDICAL POT CASE AGAINST JOURNALIST DROPPED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Butte County district attorney has dropped its case against Pete Brady. The Chico journalist was charged with possession of marijuana despite being a lawful medical marijuana user under California's 1996 Compassionate Use Act, enacted by voters as Proposition 215. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (13-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Caribbean drug gateway to the US mainland received some press
attention last week; it seems that Cuba is very willing to "crack
down" on trafficking but, impoverished by US sanctions, isn't very
effective. Ever the fan of interdiction, McCzar seems impelled to
help, but has been restrained by the predictable squeals of
anti-Castro Cuban expatriates. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a tiny nation shocked the world with a flurry of drug-related hangings; several news articles made clear that the issue had been around for several years and is complicated both by local fear and a turf battle with the Privy Council in London. Given the population still on death row, more shocks may be in store. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(13) CUBA WAGES A LONESOME WAR ON DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
CAYO CONFITES - On this sandy speck of land off the northern coast of Cuba, the only line of defense against Colombian drug traffickers bound for the United States consists of an aging Soviet-era patrol boat, a British radar system with a six-mile range and 15 Cuban soldiers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Castro's program has so impressed U.S. law enforcement officials that
they would like to cooperate further with their Cuban counterparts, who
already have provided discreet assistance in several major cases.
There's just one problem: Some members of Congress, with backing from
many Cuban Americans, are dead set against any cooperation between
Havana and Washington, which have not had diplomatic relations since
1961. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(14) TRINIDAD THREE HANGED DESPITE PLEAS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
PORT OF SPAIN - Early yesterday warders in Frederick Street Prison, in
the old quarter of Port of Spain, led a thickset inmate from his cell
to the gallows outside, covered his head with a hood and placed the
noose of the rope around his neck. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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By Monday morning it will be more than Chadee who will have met his end
on Frederick Street. Two other men were hanged yesterday, at one-hour
intervals. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Another three are due to go to the gallows today and a third group of three are to be executed in the same manner at dawn on Monday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The enthusiasm here for capital punishment has been fed by a
frustration with rising violence and crime on the twin islands, much of
it associated with gangs and the drug trade. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (15-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Britain, fresh on the heels of news that Camilla's son is a tooter,
came a report that bankers to the Royal Family are non-compliant in
reporting suspicious transactions. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Canada, the Star took some apparent relish in tweaking the Mother Country for its hedonistic ways, while two other reports point up that Canada is far from unified in its approach to drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(15) UK: DRUG CASH LAUNDERED THROUGH ROYAL BANK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coutts & Co, bankers to the Royal family, is being targeted by
money-launderers and criminals who are laundering millions of pounds
of drug profits through its branches. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coutts and other private banks have been criticised by the National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) for failing to co-operate fully
in the fight against money-laundering. All banks have a legal duty to
report suspicious transactions. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) BRITAIN IN GRIP OF DRUG CULTURE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
LONDON - Britain is in a drug frenzy, with an epidemic of stories
about high-flying celebrities and low-life addicts laying bare the
extent of the craze. | ||||||||||||||||||||
To hear the tabloid press tell it, top sports figures regularly snort
cocaine, posh society is awash with pills and powders, and recreational
drug users have even penetrated the BBC. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Heroin use is rising among the young and poor as prices drop, while
cocaine is as common as Chianti in many professional circles in which
people are cash-rich and weary from the working week. | ||||||||||||||||||||
It's estimated the equivalent of $16 billion (U.S.) is spent on illegal
drugs each year in Britain. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) CANADA: MANDATORY DRUG TESTS A FAILED IDEA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
There is no proof that drug and alcohol addiction is a bigger problem
with people on welfare than any it is with any other group. Nor is
there proof drug and alcohol addiction is a greater barrier for them to
find and keep employment than it is for any others. | ||||||||||||||||||||
That hasn't stopped the government of Premier Mike Harris from
proposing mandatory drug testing and treatment for welfare recipients.
The Tory proposal isn't about true welfare reform. It's about bashing
the poor, perpetuating stereotypes and dividing society along class
lines. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) CANADA: DRUG DOGS TO CHECK SCHOOLS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
St. Albert Decides | ||||||||||||||||||||
In the first program of its kind in Canada, RCMP officers and
dope-sniffing dogs will patrol St. Albert's Protestant and Catholic
schools in the upcoming school year. | ||||||||||||||||||||
On Wednesday St. Albert RCMP agreed to send random patrols through
schools run by St. Albert Protestant Schools and the Greater St.
Albert Catholic Regional Division. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"We want to make sure our schools are drug-free and students don't
indulge in illegal substances," said Protestant chairman Morag
Pansegrau. "We do not have a drug problem in our schools, but this has
been initiated by the RCMP to make sure young people lead appropriate
lifestyles." | ||||||||||||||||||||
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During an American University speech in late 1996, McCaffrey praised Thailand for its drug war progress without offering any specifics. Last week, a NYT report supplied some of the missing details; they shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with US foreign policy and with the way our drug war has empowered repression throughout the Third World. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(19) THAILAND TORN BY DEADLY DRUG BUST (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- They were armed, they were angry and they had
hostages. They were also surrounded. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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It was a standoff. So the police summoned Gen. Salang Bunnag, the man
known as the toughest cop in the Royal Thai Police. | ||||||||||||||||||||
A short while later, the six drug dealers were dead. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Many Thais applauded Salang. The dealers, they said, had gotten what they deserved. Others were appalled. Such killings by the Thai police are not uncommon, according to a U.S. State Department report. They just aren't carried out on national television. Local and international human rights groups demanded government action. Nothing happened. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
ENDCS Drug Strategy "Short Version" now On-line and Printable | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Excellent (but lengthy) Effective National Drug Control Strategy
(ENDCS) prepared by Common Sense for Drug Policy has been reduced to a
shortened 4 page "pull out" version suitable for faxing, emailing or
mailing to politicians, media types or whatever. The ever productive
DrugSense Webmaster Matt Elrod has made this handy tool available in
printable format on-line. Using Adobe Acrobat you simply open up the
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
"Enslave the liberty of one human being and the liberties of the world
are put in peril." - William Lloyd Garrison | ||||||||||||||||||||
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