DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, DEC. 15, 2006 #479

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n479.html#sec1

(1) Pot Is Called Biggest Cash Crop (2) Drug-Driving Test Fails
Public Exam (3) Sobering Vacation (4) Bongs Set For National Ban

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n479.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Column: Drugs: Why We Should Medicalise, Not Criminalise (6)
Column: The Other War We Can't Win (7) N.J. Legislature Approves
Pilot Needle-Exchange Plan (8) OPED: Who Got Trans Fat In My Water Bong?

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) OPED: The Feminization Of Prison (10) Editorial: Incarceration
Nation (11) Column: Time Is Ripe To Overhaul City's Drug War (12)
Column: If We Want To Reduce Jail Populations, We Must Be Smart (13)
Editorial: Take Action On Prisons

Cannabis & Hemp

(14) Judge Tosses County's Medical Marijuana Challenge (15) Supes
Vote To Persist With Medical Marijuana Challenge (16) MS Sufferer
Tells Of Pleas For Cannabis Bars (17) RCMP Put Spin On Grow Op Busts
(18) Anti-Marijuana, Pro-Illegalization

International News

(19) U.S. Shows Us What Not To Do (20) RCMP Takes Heat Over Insite
(21) Judge Insite On Science, Not Police Anecdotes (22) Thousands Of
Mexican Troops Prepare For Drug Operation

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n479.html#sec3

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Take 32 Grams Of Tylenol And Call Me In 25 Years / By Jacob Sullum

Does Prohibition Of Marijuana For Adults Curb Use By Adolescents?

News Coverage Of Dutch Prospective Ecstasy User Studies

Jack Cole Of LEAP On Vancouver Radio Show

Stephen Colbert Interviews Author Daniel Pinchbeck

* What You Can Do This Week
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Volunteer For NIDA-Sponsored Medical Marijuana Safety Study

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n479.html#sec5

Waging War on Marijuana a Waste of Tax Money / Tina Hoffman

* Letter Writer of the Month - November
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Wayne Phillips

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n479.html#sec7

Drug Peace in 2007 / Philippe Lucas

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n479.html#sec8

Samuel Adams

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