DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, FEB. 16, 2007 #487

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n487.html#sec1

(1) School Administrators Meet With Students After Lockdown (2) Teens
Pop Pills As Use Of Pot Falls: U.S. Survey (3) 'Safest City' Now Has
Drug War (4) Mired In Violence At Ramona Gardens

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n487.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Warlord or Druglord? (6) Tribe To Banish Drug Dealers (7) House
Opts Against Making Meth Pregnancies A Felony (8) Deadly Abuse Of
Methadone Tops Other Prescription Drugs

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) 2nd-Grader Faces Drug Charge (10) Report Concludes Convicted
Agents Lied, Covered Up Shooting (11) Anti-Drug Bill Could Confuse
Privacy, Secrecy (12) Aiming For Course Corrections On Prison Priorities

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Smoking Pot Reduces Pain, Study Shows (14) Judge Sides With
Botanist On Pot Supply (15) Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion A
Year (16) Starting To Prepare Your Returns? Don't Forget Those
Marijuana Tax Stamps (17) B.C. 'Exports' Marijuana Expertise Worldwide

International News

(18) Yes, I Took Drugs, Says Cameron (19) Mayor Pushes Drug Plan (20)
Mexico Proposes New Drug Bill (21) Clark Snuffs Out Dope Law Hope

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n487.html#sec3

Did "Bogota Connection" Embassy Leaks Doom U.S. Spy Plane In Colombia?

Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind. Defends ONDCP Media Campaign

Addressing Key Criminal Justice Issues In The 21St Century

"Industrial Hemp Farming Act" Reintroduced In Congress

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

California's Prison-Transfer Plan Angers Critics

The War Within, Killing Ourselves / By Lou Dobbs

A Tribute To Eddie Ellison / Transform Drug Policy Foundation

* What You Can Do This Week
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Write A Letter To Increase Medical Marijuana Research

Support Medical Cannabis Inmates

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n487.html#sec5

End Federal Intervention / Mark Hughes

* Letter Writer Of The Month - January
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George Kosinski

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n487.html#sec7

'Progress' In A Glacial Debate / Dr. Tom O'Connell

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n487.html#sec8

Gene Roddenberry

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