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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spinning the IOM Report: What Policy Changes Can We Expect? | ||||||||||||||||||||
Although the IOM report on medical MJ was predictably pusillanimous and deferential toward the irrational federal policy which has prohibited Cannabis for 62 years, the good news is that it acknowledged that cannabinoids have legitimate and important therapeutic applications- essentially the same (predictable) conclusions the IOM reached in 1982. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The difference is that both the political climate and the research
background have changed significantly since 1982, so their
recommendation for "more research" won't be as easy for NIDA to sweep
under the rug and ignore now as it was then. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Our madcap drug czar, who has mastered the dubious skill of embracing opposite poles of the same controversy in a single sentence- even while speaking on national television, was at it again. While there wasn't time for an exhaustive review of all the news articles, I believe important clues to the direction of future policy can be found in a relatively brief Reuters wire item which originated in LA on March 17: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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"Smokable marijuana is not the answer," McCaffrey said, adding the
federal government would continue to arrest those smoking marijuana for
medical reasons, including people in the seven states where voter
initiatives have made its medical use legal. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But he welcomed the report, which he said took the discussion over the
medical use of marijuana away from politicians and put it "firmly in
the context of science, where it belongs." | ||||||||||||||||||||
McCaffrey said while cannabinoids held no promise of cure, they could
be useful in pain management, which he said was a much neglected field
in modern medicine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"Everyone is looking for a cure these days and pain is seen as a sort of blurry background. There needs to be more pain management," he said. | ||||||||||||||||||||
McCaffrey said the government would continue to support bona fide research into medical uses for marijuana, and he called for more research into delivering THC, one of the medically beneficial ingredients of marijuana that has been isolated by scientists. | ||||||||||||||||||||
"In particular, I would support deep-lung delivery vehicles such as
aerosols," he said. He also supported controlled delivery by patches
similar to those used to deliver nicotine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
On a cautionary note, McCaffrey highlighted the report's finding that
developing pain killing drugs from marijuana could cost between $200
million and $300 million and said he did not think there was "any
commercial interest in the (pharmaceutical) market for the development
of such drugs." | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The federal government will continue to discourage, or even block,
human cannabinoid research in the US. | ||||||||||||||||||||
If Geoffrey Guy, or some other (non-US) commercial interest comes up
with a patentable aerosol delivery system (as now seems likely) the US
will grudgingly accord it the same (Sched 2) status as marinol. The
feds will NEVER legalize "smoked marijuana," but will continue to treat
it as the demon variant, just as heroin is the designated demon variant
of morphine and other therapeutically allowed opioids. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Any patients discomfited by this policy, even if denied life-preserving
therapy between now and development of a scientifically acceptable
cannabinoid delivery system are out of luck. They'd certainly better not
break the law- they will be thrown in jail. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tom O'Connell M.D. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Drug Policy- | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Last week US drug policy's historically bad press not only continued;
it intensified: McCaffrey was self-contradictory on Nightline and
pilloried for inconsistency by Derrick Z. Jackson in the Boston Globe.
By the end of the week, an IHT headline implied (erroneously) that he
was ready to concede defeat. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In other venues, the Customs service sought to repair a tarnished
image and the Senate was offered a band-aid solution to the annual
certification fiasco. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Finally, class action suits generated by the 1996 San Jose Mercury News revelations guarantee more bad press in the future. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(1) NIGHTLINE, GETTING STRAIGHT, PART I (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
COKIE ROBERTS This country's been waging a war on drugs for decades
now and so far we don't seem to be winning it. Over the next three
nights, Nightline will be examining the nation's drug policy based on
a critical assessment by Michael Massing..... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COKIE ROBERTS Well, then why are the numbers so lopsided? Why is it
two thirds money for enforcement, interdiction, etc., and one third
for treatment and treatment of demand? | ||||||||||||||||||||
GEN. BARRY MCCAFFREY Well, it's sort of a screwy way of counting it,
to be honest. The drug budget has gone from $13.5 billion in FY'96 to
$17.8 billion in the year 2000 and that has disproportionately been
invested in treatment and prevention. I think the bigger problem,
Cokie, is we simply lack health parity for drug treatment in the
private sector. And in addition, we've done an inadequate job of
providing drug treatment for those behind bars, ..... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) THE WRONG WAY TO FIGHT DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Drug czar Barry McCaffrey talks as if he gets it. This is what he is
saying about the so-called war on drugs: | ||||||||||||||||||||
''We have a failed social policy and it has to be re-evaluated.
Otherwise, we're going to bankrupt ourselves. Because we can't
incarcerate our way out of this problem.'' | ||||||||||||||||||||
''Demand must be the priority. People's desire for drugs is what sets
the drug abuse cycle in motion ... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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McCaffrey's failed budgets and plays to hysteria are generating
high-profile criticism. A series of statements where he denounced
needle exchange and medical marijuana and badly exaggerated drug crime
in Holland sparked a recent open letter that included signatures from
Harvard University professors Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alvin Poussaint,
Orlando Patterson and William Julius Wilson, and Boston University
professor Glenn Loury. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) THE DRUG WAR HAS FAILED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Almost 70 years after the failure of Prohibition, the much-trumpeted
"war on drugs," begun more than a decade ago, has itself hugely
misfired. "We have a failed social policy and it has to be
re-evaluated," says Barry R. McCaffrey, the four-star general in charge
of national drug control policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) CUSTOMS SERVICE REWORKS CONTROVERSIAL AIRPORT DRUG SEARCHES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Beset by investigations and lawsuits alleging abusive tactics, the
Customs Service is retraining officers who check airline passengers for
drugs and trying new technology to reduce the need for invasive body
searches. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The changes come as new statistics show the number of cocaine and
heroin smugglers caught at airports dropped by one-fourth in 1998.
That poses a two-pronged problem for Customs officials eager to reverse
the decline while tempering public anger over the way travelers are
searched. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) GRAMM AND BOXER SPONSOR LEGISLATION THAT WOULD ALTER THE U.S. DRUG-CERTIFICATION PROCESS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Washington-A political odd couple, conservative Sen. Phil Gramm of
Texas and liberal Sen. Babara Boxer of California, introduced
legislation Thursday that would overhaul the controversial process of
certifying other nations as drug-fighting allies. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The senators are heading a bipartisan drive to revamp the current
process that causes an annual rift between the United States, Mexico
and other countries battling narcotics cartels. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) SUIT BLAMES CIA FOR CRACK EPIDEMIC (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
OAKLAND - Two class action lawsuits filed Monday allege the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice played a major role
in the 1980s crack epidemic in California. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The suits seek billions in damages for poor inter-cities neighborhoods,
including several on Oakland, which suffered from both drug abuse and
the violence associated with it. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (7-10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The press, already aware of a huge US gulag from the spate of forceful
op-eds triggered by Eric Schlosser's December article in Atlantic,
reacted on cue to the last week's release of statistics from the DOJ.
Even so, it was an Irish newspaper that came up with the best
summation. | ||||||||||||||||||||
An academic criminologist who is also a drug war hawk tacitly admitted
that imprisonment for "drug crime" will eventually be the straw that
breaks drug war camel's back. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Drug-related imprisonment was assailed by two syndicated op-ed writers
who are also black; typically, their reasons are different. Older,
more conservative Carl Rowan is offended that prisons are built at the
expense of schools; younger, more liberal Sean Gonsalves is upset by
the overt racism. | ||||||||||||||||||||
(7) AMERICANS NOW THE MOST JAILED PEOPLE ON EARTH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
THE United States, which already has the largest prison population in
the world, may soon surpass Russia as the nation with the highest rate
of incarceration, a report showed yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit group that advocates sentencing reform, said the United States, with a record 1.8m inmates, was followed by China at an estimated 1.2m and Russia at one million. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) TWO MILLION PRISONERS ARE ENOUGH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Violent crime has dropped 21% since 1993, and property crime is at a
postl973 low. No one really knows which demographic economic or other
factors explain what fraction of the decrease in crime. But recent
studies confirm that increased incarceration has helped to cut crime.
Yet the same research also suggests that the nation has "maxed out" on
the public safety value of incarceration. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Until recently, increased incarceration has improved public safety.
But as America's incarcerated population approaches two million the
value of imprisonment is a portrait in the law of rapidly diminishing
returns. The Justice system is becoming less capable of distributing
sanctions and supervision rationally., especially where drug offenders
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(9) STOP THE PRISON MADNESS AND BUILD SCHOOLS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Every now and then the best of societies goes a little crazy and
embraces monstrous social policies that become almost impossible to
reverse. The United States has done that regarding crime, especially
drug abuse. | ||||||||||||||||||||
I doubt that one American out of 10 is aware that you and I are
spending $20,000 a year to keep in prison every single kid caught with
a couple of ounces of marijuana -- a per inmate expense equal to what
millions of people are paid for a whole year's work, or a cost well
beyond anything we taxpayers shell out to keep a child in public school
or a kid in college. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Are you aware that our states are now spending almost $30 billion every
year to keep locked up triple the number of inmates they had just 20
years ago? Or that we are incarcerating our people at a rate never
known in any civilized society? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) INCARCERATED BY ILLUSIONS? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
I think it was the great American philosopher and psychologist William James who said (and I'm paraphrasing): some people think they are thinking when really they are only re-arranging their prejudices. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Such "thinking" colors the popular "debate" on race and the American
criminal justice system. Whenever I write a column that highlights the
numerous studies, indicating that anti-black racism is part and parcel
of our criminal "Justice" system, some self-proclaimed "conservative"
writes me to point out the "obvious" reason there are a | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Imagine if a white South African, during Apartheid, said the reason
there were so many blacks in prison in their country is because the
custodians of their legal system were simply doing their job: locking
up criminals. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Any outside observer, with even a slight sense of history, would at
least raise a skeptical eyebrow, understanding that there is a high
probability that the numbers are skewed because of a thing called
white-skin privilege. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Medical Marijuana | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (11-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Southern California, a federal judge agreed that Peter McWilliams'
claim that marijuana is essential to his survival might be correct;
however, since it's also illegal McWilliams can't us it. So much for
compassion in our Department of "Justice." | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Northern California, the Libertarian Party continued its
unequivocal support of recent gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby and
his wife Michele. | ||||||||||||||||||||
As this is written, the IOM report on Medical marijuana is due. No one
familiar with the federal stance on marijuana research expects a
vigorous challenge to existing policy; for those interested in
language the wording should be an prime example of equivocation under
pressure. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The proximity on Minnesota and North Dakota to Canadian hemp
agriculture will make it increasingly difficult for DEA lobbyists to
lie to those state legislatures. Look for the first hemp challenge to
come from Minnesota. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) JUDGE DENIES AIDS PATIENT'S REQUEST FOR MARIJUANA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
While sympathetic to his medical plight, a federal judge has denied Peter McWilliams' request for permission to smoke pot while awaiting trial on marijuana conspiracy charges. McWilliams, a writer and publisher who has AIDS, says that he needs marijuana to keep from vomiting the powerful antiviral drugs he must take each day. Last year, a federal magistrate forbade him to smoke pot as a condition of his bail, an order that McWilliams calls a virtual death decree. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) LIBERTARIAN PARTY VOWS TO FIGHT MARIJUANA CASE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
SACRAMENTO, March 9 (UPI) - The Libertarian Party of California says it has "not yet begun to fight" in the case of 1998 gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby and his wife, Michele, who are charged with marijuana possession. The couple maintains that they were legitimate medical marijuana patients protected under the voter-approved Proposition 215 and that they grew the drug solely for personal medicinal use. Libertarian State Chairman Mark Hinkle says the case "either demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the law by the judge and prosecutors or a willingness to ignore the law." | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(13) FEDS REBUFF MARIJUANA RESEARCHERS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) - Researchers who want to conduct clinical
trials on the efficacy of medical marijuana say while the government
publicly invites such studies, privately it works to quash the
proposals. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(14) THE LATEST BUZZ ON HEMP (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. Farmers Want The Ban On Cultivating The Plant Lifted | ||||||||||||||||||||
Times sure are tough for North Dakota farmers like David Monson. First
there were floods, then heavy snow, pelting rains, and disease that
devastated the crops. Last summer, Monson grimly tended his wheat,
barley, and canola fields in Osnabrock and watched neighboring farms go
bust. In the fall, his profit was a paltry $25 an acre. Meanwhile, 20
miles away, across the border in Canada, Brian McElroy had cut back on
wheat and planted his first crop of industrial hemp. He earned $225 an
acre. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (15-18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Despite our policy's pummeling in the American press, it's holding the
line overseas. Canadian law enforcement is driving Canada into a short
term imitation of the US model- whether that can be sustained remains
to be seen. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Same story in New Zealand; the government refused to accept the diplomatically worded challenge of its own commission. Sound familiar? | ||||||||||||||||||||
A novel perspective on the financial dimensions of the monster created
by American policy was offered by the Independent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Meanwhile, in South America, Peru declined to become Panama's substitute as a site for a US air base, ostensibly to fight drugs. The remaining possibilities are as interesting as they are problematic. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) POT CHARGES ON THE RISE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Law professor wants to legalize cannabis use | ||||||||||||||||||||
Despite growing cries to decriminalize it, more young people continue
to be charged with marijuana offences. | ||||||||||||||||||||
More than seven out of every 10 drug offences in Canada were related to
marijuana in 1997 and two-thirds of them were for simple possession,
Statistics Canada said yesterday. Among those charged, 86 per cent were
under the age of 25. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) CABINET RULES OUT LEGALISING CANNABIS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Government has ruled out decriminalising cannabis, saying that making the drug legal would send confusing messages to young people. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parliament's health select committee conducted an inquiry last year
into the mental health effects of cannabis and recommended that the
Government review the legal status of the drug. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Government's response to the committee's report, tabled in
Parliament yesterday, says it does not intend to revisit the legal
status of cannabis. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) FINANCIAL NOTES - THE BUYING POWER OF ILLEGAL NARCOTICS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
IMAGINE A multi-national company so big and powerful that its annual
turnover is equal in size to China's gross national product, making
that company 11th in the world rankings ahead of the Netherlands,
Australia, Russia and India. A company whose gross turnover for just
one financial year is sufficient to buy at current market value the
world's three largest public companies, General Electric, Royal Dutch
Shell and Microsoft. A company that if it dipped into its petty cash
could in the same year buy Coca-Cola. A company where just 10 days
turnover is in excess of the combined assets of the world's top 50
banks. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Its current annual turn-over is $500bn. The cash mountain is derived from just three assets. People, paper and product - illegal drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) THE CHANGING FACE OF THE DRUG TRADE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
LIMA, Mar 5 (IPS) - The Peruvian government has officially notified
Washington that it will not allow the United States to set up an
anti-drug military airbase here, said Public Affairs Officer John
Dickson at the US embassy in Lima. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The IOM report is generating a massive amount of media coverage. While
this event really occurred after our weekly cut off for news, it's
simply too big an issue to ignore. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) has generated interviews from NBC,
MSNBC, CNN and numerous other nationally broadcast shows. Both Rob
Kampia and Chuck Thomas have been very busy at generating positive spin
off this important report. | ||||||||||||||||||||
MPP On-line coverage includes: | ||||||||||||||||||||
CNN - "Federal report reignites medical marijuana debate:
Panel finds therapeutic benefits" | ||||||||||||||||||||
MSNBC - "Federal report backs medical pot" | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Here's ABC's website & story on the IOM. Includes a link to AMR's new
medmjscience site as a resource, right under IOM! | ||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/medmj990317.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
AMR also announced a new web compilation of scientific and medical
information about the medical uses of marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||
And even notified us of a link to snazzy CNN graphic on MMJ initiative states at: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/17/medical.marijuana/us.west.jpg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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From the DrugNews archive we find the following articles just one day
after the release of the report: | ||||||||||||||||||||
Institute Of Medicine Issues Report Strongly Supporting Medical Use Of Marijuana http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n302.a03.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
Official U.S. Report Backs Medical Use Of Marijuana | ||||||||||||||||||||
Marijuana May Have Medical Uses | ||||||||||||||||||||
Feds Rebuff Medical Marijuana Researchers | ||||||||||||||||||||
Reefer Madness or Reefer Medicine? | ||||||||||||||||||||
Executive Summary, Marijuana And Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kevin Zeese Reports: | ||||||||||||||||||||
The full IOM report is available on line at: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Ashley H. Clements - DrugSense Volunteer of the Month | ||||||||||||||||||||
This month it gives us considerable pleasure to recognize a volunteer
who has worked with MAP/DrugSense since it's very earliest days,
contributing in many ways. Ashley was contributing to MAP when it was
simply a mailing list, contributing news and LTEs. He got the Published
Letters archive going on our website ( http://www.mapinc.org/lte/ ) as
well as the Drug Policy Forum of Texas website ( | ||||||||||||||||||||
Today Ashley helps by being the listmaster or backup listmaster for
many of the 40 some email lists that MAP/Drugsense hosts, one of those
not so fun tasks needs doing, and that he does so well. Many, but not
all, of the lists are shown at these two pages: | ||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.mapinc.org/lists/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
We asked Ashley a few questions: | ||||||||||||||||||||
DS: How did you get into being drug policy reform, and being a MAP
volunteer? What projects have you worked on? | ||||||||||||||||||||
I am a native Atlantan, went to GA Tech (information & computer science) and started NORML at GA Tech as an official campus "org" in '75-'76. At the same time, I also registered a large block of voters, mostly Tech students, eligible to vote through a Supreme Court decision. | ||||||||||||||||||||
I was an educational consultant for Honeywell Information Systems, inc. in Atlanta) 'till my retirement in '88 due to bone disease. | ||||||||||||||||||||
I discovered the 'net in 95, met Mark Greer through DRCTalk & was in the
initial crew formed on DRCTalk in '96. In fact, I had introduced Mark &
Matt. | ||||||||||||||||||||
MAP is helping Americans to speak out effectively against the War on Drugs,
and that is what will free the many prisoners of War on Drugs. To that end
I maintain the MAP mailing lists, giving y'all many easy targets for your
LTEs and all the DrugNews you ever wanted. | ||||||||||||||||||||
DS: What is your favorite website, besides the MAP/DrugSense sites? | ||||||||||||||||||||
The November Coalition website http://www.november.org/ and the FEAR
website at http://www.fear.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
DS: Thank you, Ashley, for all that you do! | ||||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
"In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux." - Rodney S. Quinn (Secretary of State of Maine for five terms and retired Air Force officer) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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