DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, MAR. 2, 2007 #489

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec1

(1) Killing Highlights Risk Of Selling Marijuana, Even Legally (2)
OPED: Marijuana As Wonder Drug (3) Legalize Afghan Opium: Report (4)
UN Scolds Canada's Injection Havens

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) WCPS To Begin Use Of Drug-Detecting Kits (6) Column: Drug War
Overhaul (7) Column: Leave My Cold Medicine Alone (8) Teacher
Arrested After Text Messages Mistakenly Sent To Trooper

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Editorial: Don't Let Politicians Fool You With Prison Spin (10)
83 Convicted Felons Freed In King County As State Exceeds Jail Limit
(11) OPED: Getting Tough On Crime Carries A Heavy Burden (12) OPED:
Freeing Prison Ideas

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Man Disputes Law, Marijuana Conviction (14) Medical Marijuana
(15) Barre Mayor Wants Death Penalty For Drug Dealers (16) Local
Potheads Put Down Fritos, Pick Up A Cause (17) Editorial: Grow-Ops
And Our Castles

International News

(18) Column: Turkey Did It, Can Afghanistan? (19) Heroin On The NHS
And A Document Too Hot To Handle (20) OPED: Don't Let U.S. Drug
Policy Into Canada (21) Calderon's Plan For Drug War Has Mixed Success

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec3

Ronn Mann's Cannabis Clip Contest Winners

Who's Your Nanny? / By Jacob Sullum

Flint Becomes Fifth Michigan City To Pass Medical Pot Law

Report Of The International Narcotics Control Board For 2006

Cultural Baggage Radio Show / With Dean Becker

Canada In Afghanistan: Is It Working? / By Gordon Smith

Bong Hits 4 Jesus - Supreme Court Case

Private Prisons: Commerce In Souls? / A documentary by Silja Talvi

Chronic Addiction Substitution Treatment Trial (CAST)

Encore Broadcast Of Damage Done: A Drug War Odyssey

* What You Can Do This Week
http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec4

Join The Virtual Medical Marijuana March On Ottawa

Party With Tommy Chong!

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec5

Fight The Power / Misty Novitch

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec6

Cannabis Studies By Condition / Mary Jane Borden

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n489.html#sec7

Thomas Jefferson

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