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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
DARE We Admit It? Drug War Is A Bust With Our Children | ||||||||||||||||||
Published in The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, 12098, page E9 | ||||||||||||||||||
What would you say if told that each year the federal government spends more than $650 million of our money on an education program that has been proven ineffective and may actually be hurting our children? | ||||||||||||||||||
You might wonder why the Republicans haven't attacked it as a taxpayer
rip off. Or why the Democrats, who consider education policy their
domain, haven't created a task force to find something better. Or why
parents and teachers haven't demanded some answers. | ||||||||||||||||||
Over the last five years, study after peer reviewed study has described
how D.A.R.E. and other anti drug programs fail to reach the teenagers
most at risk of drug abuse. Present in 70 percent of public schools
nationwide, D.A.R.E. relies on uniformed police officers and scare
tactics to drum the justsayno message into our kids. | ||||||||||||||||||
This is a national scandal. Yet in competing radio addresses about teen
drug use in December, neither the president nor the Republicans
addressed the failure of drug education programs. | ||||||||||||||||||
Studies conducted for the General Accounting Office, the Justice
Department and the California Department of Education received some
coverage by the media. But the truth about D.A.R.E. has been virtually
ignored or dismissed by our political leaders. | ||||||||||||||||||
It's little wonder why. D.A.R.E. is an effective marketing machine. By combining grassroots RR including T-shirts, bumper stickers and rallies with aggressive political lobbying of local, state and federal governments, D.A.R.E has become its own special interest group. | ||||||||||||||||||
Unfortunately, D.A.R.E, and other "just say no" programs rely on hype
over science when it comes to educating our kids. | ||||||||||||||||||
Dr. Joel Brown of Berkeley based Educational Research Consultants
conducted the most extensive evaluations of drug education programs to
date. His research, published in leading national scientific journals,
showed that drug education programs are not only ineffective but may
actually be hurting your kids. | ||||||||||||||||||
Brown's conclusions eloquently articulated for him by the teens he interviewed were so disturbing that in 1995 the California Department of Education, which funded Brown's study, buried the results. (The findings only became public in March 1997, when they were published in the Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis journal.) | ||||||||||||||||||
Research shows that kids who are taught that pot is as bad as heroin are more likely to experiment with heroin if they tried marijuana and experienced few consequences. Those kids suspect that if they were lied to about pot, then they were probably lied to about hard drugs as well. | ||||||||||||||||||
As a result, many teens rebel against the programs that are intended to
help them. The core of the problem is that D.A.R.E. and other "just
say no" boasters refuse to recognize that teenagers experiment with
drugs. Government surveys show half of high school students try an
illegal drug 80 percent if you include alcohol before graduation. What
does the "just say no" message offer these kids? How do we reach these
young people on the issue of drug abuse? | ||||||||||||||||||
Unfortunately, federal law makes it harder, not easier, to reach kids
who experiment with drugs. Federal funding is allowed to flow only to
"just say no" curricula programs that don't allow us to answer
honestly the questions our kids ask. | ||||||||||||||||||
Kids who experiment with drugs and those with substance abuse problems
alike are suspended or expelled from school, stigmatized and
ostracized. In short, we poorly educate all children and abandon the
kids most in need of our help. We can turn around drug education by
abandoning the "just say no" approach and funding pilot programs that
seek to reduce the harms associated with drugs, including addiction. We
should focus on the capabilities, not inabilities, of our children.
Most importantly we should understand that drug experimentation is
different from both misuse and drug abuse, and seek ways to help those
who have a problem with substance abuse. | ||||||||||||||||||
As in 12 step programs, the first step toward recovery is the
recognition that we have a problem. | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A news item from San Francisco suggests that McCzar's sincerity in calling for more liberal access to Methadone maintenance may be tested. | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) OFFICIALS CONSIDER VAST EXPANSION OF METHADONE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
SAN FRANCISCO - When former thief and drug pusher Walter Lamarr
Williams wanted to kick his 14-year heroin habit, he turned to the
most successful treatment method: methadone. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The shortage of methadone treatment in San Francisco -- 2,000 clinic
slots for 13,000 to 15,000 addicts -- has led city officials to look at
expanding the drug's availability. The Board of Supervisors is
considering whether to seek state and federal permission to allow
doctors in private offices to prescribe the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||
If the effort is successful, San Francisco would be the first city in
the nation to use private doctors for methadone treatment on a
widespread basis. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Last September, the move to make methadone available through pharmacies
gained the support of Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the White House national
drug policy director. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (2) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Besieged by a blizzard of lawsuits and charges of profiling, the
Customs service yielded to pressure and modified its airport search
procedures- just a bit. | ||||||||||||||||||
(2) U.S. CUSTOMS TO SEEK APPROVAL TO HOLD TRAVELERS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON -- The Customs Service, responding to allegations of abusive
drug searches, said Wednesday it will begin seeking approval from a
federal magistrate any time it wants to hold an airline passenger for
more than four hours. | ||||||||||||||||||
The new policy, effective Oct. 1, marks the latest change in the way
Customs checks passengers for drugs, and is the most significant step
to improve search procedures, said the agency's commissioner, Raymond
Kelly. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
New Mexico governor Johnson, who must be under enormous pressure, held
fast to his position as the highest ranking elected official to call
for a review of drug policy. He was also pointed in his remarks that
it's a federal- and not a state- issue. | ||||||||||||||||||
(3) GOVERNOR CLARIFIES DRUG VIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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SANTA FE -- Gov. Gary Johnson is unfazed by sharp criticism from fellow
Republicans and law officials of his call for a public dialogue on the
nation's drug policies. | ||||||||||||||||||
But Johnson said he agrees with some Republicans that New Mexico cannot, on its own, consider decriminalizing or legalizing drugs because the state would risk becoming a haven for addicts. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I would agree with that," Johnson said in an interview. "We are talking about federal law, and I see this as a national issue." | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Another Southwestern governor under pressure on drug issues was much
less forthcoming- and it could cost him. The refusal of George W. Bush
to address allegations that he once used cocaine could not only
jeopardize his quest for the nomination; once nominated, it could
raise the drug war as a campaign issue in 2000, no matter what the
candidates or their parties might prefer. | ||||||||||||||||||
(4) DRUG USE: A CAMPAIGN ISSUE IN THE MAKING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Bush Silence on Cocaine Query Feeds Media Quest for Answer | ||||||||||||||||||
The New York Daily News asked 12 presidential candidates last week if
they had ever used cocaine, but it was really only interested in the
one who wouldn't answer. | ||||||||||||||||||
Texas Gov. George W. Bush has steadfastly refused to say whether he used illegal drugs in what he calls his "irresponsible" youth. But news organizations appear increasingly disinclined to accept that response. And their persistence is making the question a campaign issue, despite the lack of any evidence tying Bush to past cocaine use. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In an audacious and shameful display of hypocrisy, McCzar slipped into
Houston and coerced its black leaders to endorse the drug war and
support a program that would immunize it against meaningful scrutiny
until 2007. | ||||||||||||||||||
The ephemeral "number of users" is the sum total of their claim to
success; he certainly can't talk about prison rolls, cost or overdose
deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||
(5) CITY ENTERS PACT TO HELP REDUCE ILLEGAL DRUG USE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Houston became the first city in the nation on Wednesday to enter into
an agreement with the federal government to develop a new comprehensive
plan designed to significantly reduce illegal drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||
During a ceremony at Wortham Center downtown, the partnership agreement
between the city and the federal government was formally signed by
Mayor Lee Brown and Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy. | ||||||||||||||||||
"We're announcing today the first of its kind," said McCaffrey, the
nation's so-called drug czar. "To understand the (drug) problems and
attempt to solve them, we've got to organize ourselves at the community
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Texas got $254 million in federal funds to fight illegal drug use last
year, McCaffrey said. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Now the question is where did it go? Were performance measures
effective? And how was it being integrated? Is it producing results?"
he asked. "The answer is yes. But, there's room for considerable
improvement." | ||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Ex-New State York Senator John Dunne seems to be trying to atone for having steered the Rockefeller laws through the legislature in the Seventies. This is the second critical op-ed acknowledging their failure and urging repeal to appear in a major newspaper. | ||||||||||||||||||
(6) OPED: PAYING FOR FAILED DRUG LAWS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Last month the nation's drug policy director, retired Gen. Barry
McCaffrey, criticized New York State's harsh and inflexible drug laws,
asserting that building more prisons will not solve the problem of
drug-driven crime and that New York needs more drug treatment programs
rather than more prison beds. He's right. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Compounding the failure of the drug laws is their uneven enforcement, which has been disproportionately harsh on communities of color. In New York 94 percent of those in prison for drug offenses are African American or Latino. This despite studies that show that whites make up the majority of those who consume drugs. Further, while about 70 percent of the women now being sent to prison are committed for drug crimes, a large percentage, including some 95 percent of those charged as drug couriers, have no previous history of criminal involvement. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Increasing attention is being paid to the destructive impact on families produced by the excessive incarceration which is so prominent in drug war thinking. This op-ed appeared in the Boston Globe. | ||||||||||||||||||
(7) THE FAMILIES LEFT BEHIND (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
As number of female inmates rises, more children left without mothers | ||||||||||||||||||
FRAMINGHAM - Kim Cooper adored her 7-year-old son, Scott. But she had a love that was even more powerful, one that ruled her daily life. | ||||||||||||||||||
When her son went outside to play, she would make crack cocaine on the
kitchen stove in her Billerica home. | ||||||||||||||||||
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But today, Cooper is inmate F36663, sentenced to MCI-Framingham for five years for drug trafficking. She is part of one of the fastest-growing segments of the nation's prison population: women. And with that segment grows another: children of female inmates, who are taken away from their mothers - punished, although they are not guilty. | ||||||||||||||||||
For Scott, membership in the group has meant a weight gain of 40
pounds, temper tantrums at school, and antidepressants. He even tried
to cut himself with a knife. | ||||||||||||||||||
The boom in female incarceration has reopened debate over whether laws
intended to capture violent drug kingpins, who are overwhelmingly male,
should be used to lock up women, break up their families, and send
children to overstressed child-welfare systems. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A respected TV personality chose to make public his strongly held, but
seldom revealed opposition to the drug war known before a tough
audience: a convention of law enforcement and correctional officers.
Sadly, the story was not given much play except in Denver, the
convention city. | ||||||||||||||||||
(8) WAR ON DRUGS CREATES CRIME, PRISON CHIEFS TOLD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Aug. 10 - Veteran TV anchorman Hugh Downs proclaimed his opposition to the war on drugs Monday while addressing a convention of more than 5,400 prison managers from across the nation and Canada. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I'd like to see an end of the war on drugs - it is just insane,'' he
said, adding that the federal government's long-term, multi billion
dollar war on drugs has "turned a medical problem into a crime
problem.'' His comment was in response to a question from the audience
after his talk. | ||||||||||||||||||
"When you outlaw something, you put it outside the law, and criminal
elements take it over,'' said Downs, who was the keynote speaker at the
first general session of the 129th annual Congress of Correction. The
nation was "smart enough to back off'' after trying Prohibition, which
made liquor illegal in the 1920s, he said, adding that he wondered how
the government ever expects to control access to "a weed that grows
wild, like marijuana.'' | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Despite postponement of the Kubby trial until February, the cannabis
news spotlight remained on Northern California; the news commanding
the headlines was NORML's test billboard campaign designed to reawaken
legalization as a political issue. | ||||||||||||||||||
(9) BUDDING CAMPAIGN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Ads urge pot users to fight arrests, promote legalization | ||||||||||||||||||
SAN FRANCISCO -- Show a little self-respect, potheads, urges an
advertising campaign begun Monday. It's time to come out of the closet
and fight for your right to party. | ||||||||||||||||||
In a blitz of humorous ads designed to get marijuana users more politically active in the struggle to legalize pot, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, has begun placing 30 billboards at bus shelters throughout San Francisco encouraging self-esteem for pot smokers and protest of their arrests. | ||||||||||||||||||
One says: ``Honk, If You Inhale.'' | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consistent with the malice they have demonstrated throughout, Placer County officials responded to the continuance granted by the judge because of Michele's condition with a delayed and highly questionable maneuver clearly intended to increase the Kubbys' distress. | ||||||||||||||||||
(10) SHERIFF'S DEPT. INITIATES FORFEITURE OF KUBBY ASSETS AFTER PREGNANCY (Top)COMPLICATIONS | ||||||||||||||||||
AUBURN, Calif., Aug. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following Tuesday's grant of a continuance in the medical marijuana trial of Steve and Michele Kubby due to complications with Mrs. Kubby's pregnancy, Placer County law enforcement officials are moving to seize the couple's assets. | ||||||||||||||||||
According to Truckee Attorney Dale Wood, who represents Mr. Kubby,
Placer County Deputy Sheriff Michael Lyke telephoned today to discover
where he could serve the Kubbys with papers to initiate civil asset
forfeiture proceedings. On Tuesday, Judge Robert G. Vonasek found good
cause that Michele Kubby, 33, could not proceed to trial for medical
reasons. He ruled to continue the trial to Feb. 15, 2000, over the
objection of prosecutors. | ||||||||||||||||||
Michele Kubby's medical condition stems from complications with her current pregnancy. Last fall, while her husband was the Libertarian Party candidate for governor in California, she suffered a miscarriage. | ||||||||||||||||||
According to Wood, law enforcement officials are moving to claim as
their own $2,374 in currency, one digital camera, and one computer,
which officers seized from the Kubbys on Jan. 19. Earlier the Kubbys
had moved to take possession of their computer for an independent
examination to see if law enforcement officials had tampered with the
evidence. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Colombia | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (11-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Recent events have rendered Colombia the most important arena testing American drug policy; one easily requiring a section of its own. The most singular aspect of official pronouncements and of most news analysis is failure to recognize that the dominance of an impossible American drug war makes "peace" in Colombia equally impossible; US policy demands that Colombia remain an unstable criminal nation. | ||||||||||||||||||
(11) HIGH-LEVEL VISIT SIGNALS U.S. ALARM OVER COLOMBIA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 10--A high-level team of U.S. officials began a two-day visit to Colombia today at a time of growing alarm in Washington over a surge in the guerrilla war here coupled with calls in both Bogota and Washington for large increases in U.S. military and anti-drug aid. | ||||||||||||||||||
As the world's top cocaine producer and home to the longest-running
civil conflict in the hemisphere, Colombia has long been viewed with
concern by Washington, but rarely has it been seen as an immediate
threat to U.S. security. However, cocaine and heroin output is rapidly
increasing here, Marxist rebels are strengthening their forces in case
slow-moving peace talks break down, and they appear to be reaping a
fortune from the drug trade. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(12) US SUCKED INTO COLOMBIAN WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The United States' senior diplomat, James Pickering, has spent two
days in Colombia this week trying to cement relations with Bogota, a
clear indication that Colombia is now Washington's main preoccupation
in Latin America. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The two visits, coupled with the creation of a US-funded anti-narcotics
army battalion and a new policy of intelligence-sharing with the
Colombian army, have provoked speculation in Colombia that the US is
planning closer involvement in the country's 38-year war - or even
direct military intervention. | ||||||||||||||||||
"That is totally false, totally crazy, totally irrelevant. There is no
intention on the US's part to intervene, [and] no request from Colombia
to do so," Mr Pickering said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) CONCERNS GROW ABOUT U.S. MILITARY AID TO COLOMBIA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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BOGOTA, Colombia--Back in 1982, when U.S. leaders feared communism more
than cocaine, then-Vice President George Bush attended the inauguration
here of President Belisario Betancourt and offered to build him a U.S.
military base to keep an eye on his country's leftist insurgents,
according to a Colombian official of that era. | ||||||||||||||||||
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In a press briefing in Washington on his return Monday from a trip to Colombia, Undersecretary of State Thomas R. Pickering dismissed the possibility that more U.S. troops will be deployed to this country. | ||||||||||||||||||
"That is not our policy," he said. "It is a crazy idea." | ||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Drug war confusion reigns in Ireland: government claims that increased
spending will result in a "sea change" improvement in the heroin
problem and hand wringing editorial insistence that the drug war must
be prosecuted at all costs were followed by piece stating the
situation has never been worse. | ||||||||||||||||||
(14) IRELAND: HEROIN DEALING WORSENS IN CAPITAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
HEROIN dealing on Dublin's streets is worse than it has been over the
past 20 years, say inner city community groups. | ||||||||||||||||||
Their view contradicts the statement by Minister of State Chris Flood
that the game is up for the capital's drug dealers. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Coalition of Communities Against Drugs says the heroin crisis is at
its worst for 20 years in some inner city areas. | ||||||||||||||||||
"Reports on the ground from many areas in Dublin indicate the situation
has reverted to 1996 levels with regard to open street dealing, while
residents of some areas, notably the Thomas Street, Meath Street,
Coombe vicinity of the south inner city, state that the situation is
the worst they have seen in two decades," a COCAD spokesperson said.
COCAD refutes claims by Minister Flood, who is responsible for the
National Drug Strategy, that there has been a sea change in heroin
affected communities. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (15) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
From England came a long, arcane (and discouraging) "insider" piece
describing the whys and wherefores of Labour's decision to sell out
treatment in Britain's bulging prisons in favor of more "tough on
drugs" enforcement. | ||||||||||||||||||
(15) UK: DRUGS TSAR VICTIM OF OUR STALINIST PRISONS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The Deadly Twist In Hague's Cultural Cringe | ||||||||||||||||||
To the conservative mind, the user of drugs is fallen. The original sin - the first taste, puff, sniff or stab with a needle - damns you to be a drooling addict forever. Drug prohibition has become a coercive instrument for the mass intimidation of the young and the poor (113,000 were convicted for drugs offences and 7,200 were jailed in 1997) because its supporters insist no dose is too small and those who cannot or will not 'just say no' must be punished for their weakness. | ||||||||||||||||||
There are millions who know the laws that have followed are a lie.
Statistics are unreliable, but the 1996 British Crime Survey found that
45 per cent of the 16- to 29-year-olds its researchers questioned were
prepared to admit to taking an illegal drug. | ||||||||||||||||||
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This week Hellawell will attend what looks like being a very chilly
meeting with the managers of the Prison Service. The plans to break the
cycle of addiction, crime and gangsterism are being sabotaged, not out
of malice but necessity. Reform and the right-wing logic of the Third
Way are incompatible. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Amid complaints of increased cross-border smuggling, a rumor that the
US was considering adding Canada to its list of problem drug-supplying
countries was quickly denied. | ||||||||||||||||||
(16) CANADA: U.S. VIEWS CANADA AS ALLY IN DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Foreign Affairs officials are denying news reports that say the United
States is considering adding Canada's name to a "blacklist" of major
drug trafficking and producing countries. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The idea of placing Canada on the list in order to shame it into taking
a more active role in combatting the drug trade was floated earlier
this summer, said Valerie Noftle, a Canadian foreign affairs
spokeswoman. "It was dismissed out of hand and that's where it now
sits," Ms. Noftle said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Focus Alert URL Announced | ||||||||||||||||||
A new URL for easy forwarding and online viewing of the most current
Focus Alert has just been created. Try it! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Live Camera in Dutch Cannabis Coffee Shop On-Line | ||||||||||||||||||
maarten Informs us: | ||||||||||||||||||
We placed a live stream cam on our dealer bar in coffee shop Willie
Wortel in Haarlem Holland. Daily we sell our marihuana and hashish to
our customers... http://www.wwwshop.nl/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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November Coalition Vigil Photos | ||||||||||||||||||
A collection of photos from The First November Coalition Vigil in North
Carolina can be viewed at: | ||||||||||||||||||
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Rockefeller Drug Laws Site Announced by NYSDA | ||||||||||||||||||
The New York State Defenders Association, a not-for-profit, membership organization, has been providing support to New York's criminal defense community since 1967. Its mission is to improve the quality and scope of publicly supported legal representation to low income people. | ||||||||||||||||||
They have created a good site on the Rockefeller Drug Laws And they
have linked to the DrugSense War on Drugs Clock See: | ||||||||||||||||||
http://www.nysda.org/Hot_Topics/Rockefeller_Drug_Laws/ | ||||||||||||||||||
Also visit their home page at: http://www.nysda.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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MAP Web page tops 1 Million Hits Per Month | ||||||||||||||||||
The MAP Web Pages Exceeded 1 Million Hits in July for the First Time
ever with 1,111,877 Hits in a single Month | ||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
"When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush | ||||||||||||||||||
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