DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, FEB. 29, 2008 #538

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Initiatives Could Boost Incarcerations In State

(2) New High in U.S. Prison Numbers

(3) Editorial: Safe From Searches

(4) William F. Buckley, 1925 - 2008

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy

(5) Treatment Center Being Sued By Recovering Drug Addicts

(6) Strategies To Control Bupe Abuse Outlined

(7) Crime Bill Gets Tough On Drug Traffickers ( 8) OPED: Don't Tax
Drugs, Legalize Them

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Justices Weigh if Cash Hidden Is Cash Laundered

(10) Justices Take Vehicle-Search Case

(11) Border Agents Increasingly Targeted

(12) Complaints About Agent Date to Start of His Career

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Eight Years Of Reefer Madness

(14) Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Banned

(15) Ray Farmer Fighting To Grow Hemp Product

(16) John P. Morgan, 68, 'Pharmaco-Ethnomusicologist'

International News

(17) In Juarez, Drug War Gets Even Bloodier

(18) Echoes Of 'Black List' In Renewed Thai Drug War

(19) Thailand Promises A Deadly Toll During New 'War On Drugs'

(20) Bihar's Naxal-Affected Villages Grow Poppy

(21) Changing Times Require More Police, Senate Panel Told

* Hot Off The 'Net

Drug Dog Brutality Caught On Tape / WKRN-TV in Nashville

Policy Narcosis / By Steve Rolles

Drug Truth Network

Peter Christ Of LEAP On WHAM Rochester, New York

Pew Report Finds More Than One In 100 Adults Are Behind Bars

* What You Can Do This Week

Crack The Disparity: Call The U.S. Senate Now

* Letter Of The Week

Reduce Penalties For Marijuana / Jack Ricker

* Feature Article

Reefer Madness / By William F. Buckley, Jr.

* Quote of the Week

Clarence Darrow

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