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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-3) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
In a week devoid of blockbuster policy news, there were some
thoughtful columns challenging the central assumption drug war
orthodoxy has always been able to take for granted: "drugs" are
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(1) NEW VIEWS PROMPT CALLS TO CHANGE DRUG LAWS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Given its rather self-evident nature, "self-medication" is not exactly a new concept. Public-health researchers have long been studying how people use alcohol to reduce stress or sexual inhibitions. But a new appreciation of the notion that illegal drug users may be "self-medicating," for good or ill, is changing minds... | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) COLUMN: DRUGS 'R' US, IF WE'RE HONEST (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Deep in the hearts of Americans there lurks an almost religious belief
that drug use is not just illegal, but inherently evil and immoral...
our society's attitude about (certain) psychoactive substances is
oblivious to rational critique; our demonization of drugs has fanatical
and cult like dimensions. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The cold reality is that we'll never be free of these drugs. Indeed,
drugs are us. Serotonin, endorphins, Adrenaline, dopamine,
norepinephrine, etc. are mind-altering chemicals produced by our own
bodies... | ||||||||||||||||||||
Perhaps if we better understood our biological connection to drugs,
we'd realize the need to avoid punitive social policies that command us
to terminate our intimate relationship with drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) REVIEW: PSYCHOTROPIC DELIGHTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sadie Plant On Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde And The Drug Jones In All Of Us | ||||||||||||||||||||
Beginning in Europe before the Middle Ages, the semi-nomadic tribes of Siberia and Lapland discovered that their native reindeer had a voracious appetite for a certain kind of mushroom, Amanita muscaria. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Yes, Virginia, Santa was a mushroom head. | ||||||||||||||||||||
This is just one of many enlightening anecdotes Sadie Plant introduces
in Writing on Drugs, a simple and remarkably sober account of the ways
in which drugs have infiltrated nearly every world culture, religion
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COMMENT: (4-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
A measure of the success of reform is the respect accorded George Soros and his ideas by a conservative California newspaper. | ||||||||||||||||||||
That those ideas are better received than ever is confirmed by a
California column poking fun at PDFA and a Wisconsin editorial urging
sanity towards raves. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) PHILANTHROPIST CRUSADES AGAINST NATION'S DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 29th-richest man in the world is putting up hundreds of thousands
of dollars to make California a prime battleground in the war on drugs,
taking on an enemy he considers far worse than the ravages of
addiction: totalitarianism. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) COLUMN: HARROWING WEED TURMOIL EXPOSED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
SO HERE WE have a full-page newspaper advertisement. Photograph of a
middle-aged man, rimless glasses, heavy coat, staring mournfully into
the camera. Behind him, an old brick building looms. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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These ads represent the establishment talking to itself. The cognitive
disconnect grows ever larger -- look at the real content of the
advertisement versus the scare headline. What's the bottom line? The
War on Some Drugs is for the children. We will do anything for the
children. Even distasteful campaigns in far-off countries are justified
if they are for the children. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) EDITORIAL: RAVES AREN'T THE PROBLEM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Following the tragic death early this week of Brett Zweifel, a
16-year-old West High School student who had reportedly attended a
Saturday night rave at the Barrymore Theatre, there is already pressure
for regulation of these all-night dance parties. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The desire to crack down on raves is understandable, but misguided. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, Zweifel's death may have resulted from drug use. And yes, drugs such as Ecstasy are used by some young people who attend raves. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But that does not justify stirring up the 1960s-style scare stories and drug war rhetoric in order to restrict or actually ban raves. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7-8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nevertheless, those controlling policy (and government purse strings)
determine what happens in today's world- and those results aren't
pretty: more lives sacrificed and more public resources squandered in
pursuit of an impossible goal. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(7) OVERDOSE DEATHS EXCEED SLAYINGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Experts blame rise on purity of heroin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Drug overdoses killed more Baltimoreans than homicide for the first
time last year, part of a disturbing trend that has seen overdose
deaths in Maryland nearly triple in a decade. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Drug abuse experts blamed the trend on a steady rise in the purity of
heroin in recent years as South American suppliers have flooded the
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(8) GUARD'S F-16S TO SCOPE DRUG TRAFFIC (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
60 VA airmen to start mission in December | ||||||||||||||||||||
The Virginia Air National Guard will be sending airmen and F-16 jet fighters to the Caribbean to chase drug traffickers this winter. | ||||||||||||||||||||
More than 60 airmen - all volunteers - from the Air Guard's 192nd
Fighter Wing and six F-16 fighter-bombers will be in Curacao Dec. 1-29
for the anti-drug mission, said Col. Steve Hicks, commander of the wing
based at Richmond International Airport. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (9-12) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Felony drug arrests are now the body count of the drug war; even
though prisons and jails have expanded to keep pace, there is evidence
that the compliance of the system (and public patience) may be nearing
an end. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Be that as it may, there is also considerable evidence that ever
increasing numbers of arrests have little real effect on the thriving
criminal markets they are intended to "control." | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(9) RECORD NUMBER OF DRUG ARRESTS CLOGGING KING COUNTY COURT SYSTEM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Attorneys and judges at the King County Courthouse say they've read
about the decline in murder and other violent crimes but haven't had
much time to celebrate. The criminal calendar has never been so busy,
choked by record numbers of felony drug cases. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) DRUG PROSECUTION HITS AN IMPASSE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Texas district attorneys are again threatening to ignore federal drug
busts along the U.S.-Mexico border unless Washington pays to prosecute
and jail the small-time smugglers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The boycott likely would start next month when the new fiscal year
begins unless federal officials ante up, El Paso County District
Attorney Jaime Esparza said Thursday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) COMMISSIONER TO REVIEW FLOOD OF MINOR NARCOTICS ARRESTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik is conducting an intensive review
of the Police Department's anti drug efforts, focusing on how tens of
millions of dollars in overtime are being spent and on the high
percentage of minor arrests being made by narcotics detectives,
according to several senior law enforcement officials. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) POLICE TRY, BUT GANGS THRIVE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Arrests And Crackdowns Seem To Have Little Effect On Wily Street
`Families' | ||||||||||||||||||||
Flashing cash, spiky "500 Block" tattoos, Stanford baseball caps and the hint of handguns in their sweatshirt pockets, the new generation shouts out in Spanglish that this is their street now, this dusty dead-end destination that has no sign, needs none, to announce itself. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (13-14) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Proposition 36 is a California ballot initiative intended to
capitalize on the public's perceived distress over incarceration
rates; its fate is still up in the air as incarceration beneficiaries
argue for their meal ticket. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Another mechanism with the potential to reduce at least the federal
prison population depends on how broadly a recent Supreme Court ruling
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(13) PROP 36 MESSAGE - DRUG-LAW REFORM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
For the past four years, Bill Zimmerman has been busy pounding holes
into the country's failing drug policies. | ||||||||||||||||||||
It was Zimmerman, a Santa Monica-based liberal activist, who ran the
successful campaign for California's Proposition 215 and similar
initiatives in six other states legalizing the medical use of
marijuana. This fall, he's running medical marijuana measures in two
more states and initiatives reforming asset-forfeiture laws in three
others. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But the big one on the menu is California's Proposition 36, which would
require that in most cases, anyone convicted of a "nonviolent drug
possession offense" be sentenced to probation and treatment rather than
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(14) PRISON TIME CUT BY COURT RULING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Terms Beyond Maximum Must Be Determined By Juries | ||||||||||||||||||||
The first ripples of the U.S. Supreme Court's new ruling on sentencing
have reached San Francisco and washed away five years of a Northern
California man's 10-year marijuana sentence. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Defense lawyers say the ruling will become even more momentous if the high court decides to apply it to all sentence increases imposed by judges, and not just those that exceed the legal maximum for the crime. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (15) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Finally, The killing of an 11 year old schoolboy- during a no-knock
raid in California- made headlines across the country. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) CALIFORNIA POLICE KILL 11-YEAR-OLD BOY DURING DRUG RAID (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
MODESTO, Calif. - Authorities said a veteran SWAT team member with a
"star record" accidentally shot and killed an 11-year-old boy during a
drug raid at his parents' home. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alberto Sepulveda, a seventh-grader, was shot in the back Wednesday
when an officer accidentally fired his shotgun, Police Chief Roy Wasden
said. Alberto died on the floor of his bedroom. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (16) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Although the Parker decision signalled a momentous change in Canada's drug laws; initial government response was cautious and US newspaper response non-existent. That may all change; apparently Canadian MPs were reading Dan Gardner's series in the Citizen during their recess. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) CN ON: DAY SEEKS FREE VOTE ON DRUG LEGALIZATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
MPs from all parties back controversial proposal | ||||||||||||||||||||
Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day has called for a Commons debate
over the legalization of drugs followed by a free vote for all MPs on
the controversial issue. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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MPs from other parties, reacting in part to a series of Citizen stories
exploring the cost and effect of the war on drugs led primarily by the
United States, agreed it is time Canadian lawmakers debated what only a
few years ago might have been considered unthinkable by mainstream
politicians. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (17) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sure to be officially ignored by ONDCP- though it may cause some
gnashing of teeth- is a British Medical Journal report that fewer
Dutch teens are using cannabis. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) NETHERLANDS: BMJ: CANNABIS USE FALLS AMONG DUTCH YOUTH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Cannabis use among Dutch schoolchildren aged 10-18 years has fallen for
the first time in 16 years, a national survey of risk behaviour among
10000 young people has shown. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The school survey, carried out by Trimbos, the Netherlands Institute
for Mental Health and Addiction (www.trimbos.nl), showed that about
one in five young people had used cannabis at some time in their lives
but less than a tenth had used it in the previous four weeks ("current
users"). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (18-19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Early polls showed comfortable leads for medical use in the two states
which- for different reasons- are forced to repeat votes they
conducted in 1998. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(18) NV: LIKELY VOTERS ASKED - MEASURES SUPPORTED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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CARSON CITY -- Two controversial statewide questions on the November
ballot -- one to ban gay marriage and the other to legalize the medical
use of marijuana -- have strong support among voters, but a well
organized attack against either measure could make a difference by
Election Day, according to one analyst. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(19) CO: MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL USE HAS STRONG SUPPORT IN POLLS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medical marijuana is seen either as a compassionate concession to the
pain of the chronically ill or a stalking horse in the national
campaign to legalize drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The battleground this year is Colorado, where a multi-million dollar
national movement to legalize the use of marijuana by people with
cancer, glaucoma, AIDS or other chronically painful illnesses goes
before voters on Nov. 7. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Last week, a Denver Rocky Mountain News-News4 poll showed the medical
marijuana initiative supported by 71 percent of registered voters, and
opposed by 23 percent. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (20) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Shades of the Kubby bust: the relentless antipathy of California
sheriffs toward medical use is strongly implied in this account. Those
interested in how newspapers reveal their bias should compare it with
the pusillanimous LA Times coverage (URL appended). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(20) CA: CASE COULD SET PRECEDENT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The helicopter hovered over the remote Lockwood Valley ranch of Lynn
and Judy Osburn for nearly an hour on the morning of Aug. 4, finally
landing in the spacious front yard. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The co-op, the last surviving medicinal marijuana club in Southern California, has garnered a reputation for strict adherence to guidelines set by Proposition 215, which legalized use of pot for medical purposes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
More than 840 patients, 80 percent of them HIV-positive, are registered
with the cooperative. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (21-22) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
At least one Briton, Peter Preston by name, attended a Shadow Convention- he turns out to be a journalist who took notes! | ||||||||||||||||||||
Another UK report carried McCzar's latest (lame) excuse for drug war
shortcomings: blame it on the Dutch. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(21) UK: ADMIT IT: THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A FAILURE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Prohibition Creates The Link Between Drugs And Crime | ||||||||||||||||||||
It's a funny thing, perspective. Another $65m pours into the Millennium
Dome and the world shakes with fury. But pour another couple of billion
into a war gone bad, a war of obvious futility, and nobody says a dicky
bird. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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I have two witnesses for you. They are both - please note -
Republicans, one a congressman running to be senator for California,
the other a hugely popular state governor. I was there recently when
they starred on Arianna Huffington's shadow convention circuit, and I
took detailed notes, because I have never heard an elected British
politician say anything so bold. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(22) US REPORTS BLAME EUROPE'S OPEN BORDERS FOR INCREASE IN DRUG TRADE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Europe is losing the war against drugs, according to intelligence
reports from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
obtained by the Guardian. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The reports reveal dramatic increases in drug production, and police forces stretched thin trying to cope with Europe's porous borders. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (23-25) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
From Colombia by way of Canada, delegates to the first meeting of a new Hemispheric organization (Inter-Parliamentary Forum) said they'll try- with Canadian backing- to add drug legalization to the agenda. | ||||||||||||||||||||
In other Colombian news, a detailed report on pipeline bombings
reminds us that more than drugs are being fought over; in fact, many
believe oil is the real reason for the American involvement in the
first place. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nevertheless, drugs are the official reason; sure enough, fighting
picked up once the aid package was delivered. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(23) LEGALIZE HARD DRUGS, COLOMBIANS TELL NEW ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
OTTAWA (CP) - Colombia wants to use the first meeting here of a newly
formed organization of parliamentarians from the Americas to propose
widespread legalization of hard drugs. Colombia will argue at the
Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas in the spring that
decriminalizing and regulating drugs like heroine and cocaine and
channelling profits into fighting addiction is the best way to
undermine organized crime. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(24) COLOMBIA: BOMBINGS CUT INTO COLOMBIAN OIL FLOW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA - When rebel dynamite blew a hole in Colombia's second-largest petroleum pipeline on July 23, oil officials here did not think much about it. After all, this was a typical rebel protest against what the insurgents regard as excessive multinational presence in the oil sector. | ||||||||||||||||||||
But that explosion turned out to be the beginning of the longest
sustained bombing blitz against the Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline since
it was built in 1986. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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(25) TWENTY-SIX REPORTED KILLED IN COLOMBIAN COMBAT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA (Reuters) - At least 19 soldiers and seven Marxist rebels have died in the latest round of fighting for control over one of Colombia's key arms and drug-smuggling routes, authorities said on Sunday. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Aside from the Olympics, nothing new from Down Under; heroin deaths
set a record, political paralysis reigns and the bitter debate drones
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(26) AUSTRALIA: HEROIN TOLL TO HIT NEW HIGH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
The war on heroin has stalled, now little more than a skirmish with
fatal overdoses on track to match or pass last year's total of about
370. | ||||||||||||||||||||
The high toll comes despite police claims that they have cleaned up
drug precincts, with drug deals taking a lower profile on many
streets. Behind the scenes, more people are overdosing: and they are
younger. Access to methadone, the most popular heroin treatment, is
still limited. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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CAMPBELL CHALLENGES FEINSTEIN TO DRUG POLICY DEBATE | ||||||||||||||||||||
He Purchases Radio Time - She Just Says No | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mark Simon, Chronicle Political Writer | ||||||||||||||||||||
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell yesterday invited
incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein to appear on his statewide Sunday
evening radio program to debate U.S. drug policy, saying it is time
Californians hear from her directly on the issue. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Pictures of the Shadow Conventions Sought | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tony Newman, TLC-DPF's communications guru, was recently contacted by a
reporter doing a story on the drug reform movement on college campuses
for Rolling Stone. The reporter is looking for pictures from the
"Failed Drug War" Day of the Los Angeles Shadow Convention of the
students who accompanied Van Jones. | ||||||||||||||||||||
If anyone has a lead for this reporter, please contact Tony at 212 548
0383 or | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The following link doesn't mention drug policy, but it does explain how
Reader's Digest makes up characters and quotes. If you've ever read any
of the publication's reefer madness stories, they might start to make
more sense now. Why rely on facts when they just slow the pace of a
good story? | ||||||||||||||||||||
http://www.brillscontent.com/October2000/readers_digest.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
Submitted by Steve Young | ||||||||||||||||||||
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"It was once a crime in Canada for a person to attempt to kill himself.
That law was scrapped. When the government legalized suicide, did it
'send the message' that it wanted Canadians to give suicide a try?"
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