DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, FEB. 15, 2008 #536

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* This Just In

(1) Physicians Group Urges Easing Of Ban On Medical Marijuana

(2) Steves, ACLU Join Forces For Pot Law Reform

(3) Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle To Find A Vanishing, Holy Crop

(4) OPED: Hell-Bent On Shutting Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy

(5) Legal Drug Craze Is New Killer

(6) Editorial: The War on Drugs Starts Here

(7) Efficacy Of Random Drug Testing Programs Questioned

(8) 'Got Drugs?' Program To Inform Youths

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) AG's Effort to Revise Sentencing Rule Foiled

(10) Lawmaker Would Give Drug, Alcohol Tests to Minors

(11) Pot Raid Leads To $5m Claim

(12) Feds Drop Charges Against Ex-Cop, 4 Others

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Pot Smell Not Grounds For Search, Court Rules

(14) Hemp Foods Turn Healthy Profit

(15) Pot Proposal Simply Acknowledges Reality

(16) Medical Marijuana Advocates Cry Foul

17) L.A. Pot Shops See Budding Success Go Up In Smoke

International News

(18) Police Drug Squad Case

(19) Drug Laws Rooted In Class Control

(20) Third Raid On Lancing 'Cannabis' Cafe

(21) GPs Have Got Britain 'Hooked On Painkillers'

* Hot Off The 'Net

Mexican Cop, Now In El Paso Hospital, As A Marked Man / Bill Conroy

Making Pot Legal: We Can Do It -- Here's How / By Paul Armentano

Drug Truth Network

Plans To Reclassify Cannabis Obscure Real Debate / By Steve Rolles

Why Is Marijuana Illegal? / Marijuana Policy Posse

Students Lobby For A Sensible Drug Policy / By Tara Lyons

Blogging Heads

* What You Can Do This Week

Enough Is Enough: Petition To Stop The Reckless Drug Raids

* Letter Of The Week

Arguments Draw Line: Criminals Vs. Patients / John Sajo

* Letter Writer Of The Month - January

Howard J. Wooldridge

* Feature Article

Scoring Some Drugs / Pete Guither

* Quote of the Week

William Faulkner

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