DRUGSENSE HOSTS MARIJUANANEWS.COM

DrugSense is proud to announce that it has become the host of and now
provides the web resources for MarijuanaNews.com at
http://www.marijuananews.com/

This important site, created and run by Richard Cowan, provides a
great resource for marijuana news, issues and comment. We are
delighted to be able to offer this support.

With the above announcement in the DrugSense Weekly yesterday a
close relationship between Richard Cowen's MarijuanaNews.Com and the
news clipping service of The Media Awareness Project (MAP) of
DrugSense begins. The Weekly is on-line at:
http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/1999/ds99.n93.html

MarijuanaNews contains news and analysis in topical sections including
Business, Features, Important Cases, Hemp Analysis, Medical Cannabis,
Go Dutch!, NORML News, "Drug" Testing, Uh Oh - Canada, Media
Criticism, Cannabis Quotes, and others. Editor and Publisher Richard
Cowen updates Marijuananews Is once a day, Sunday Through Friday.

While the news clipping service of the MAP provides its clippings from
media worldwide without comment, DrugSense provides comment and
analysis in it's Weekly newsletter. Readers seeking more analysis and
media criticism are encouraged to check out and bookmark
MarijuanaNews.

Plus MarijuanaNews frequently provides breaking stories before they
reach the mainstream media and the clipping service of MAP. For
example, on Thursday, 8 April, MarijuanaNews posted a press release
"Illinois Bill Criminalizes Marijuana Information On The Internet --
NORML Executive Director calls the proposal one of the "dumbest" he’d
ever heard." -- before MAP's newshawks could find stories on the bill.

Those seeking information and ideas needed to write Letters to the
Editor in response to newspaper and magazine articles and editorials
may wish to check the comments of Richard Cowen at
http://www.marijuananews.com/

While both timing and time may not make it easy to accomplish, we are
encouraging MAP's editors and newshawks to provide a link to appropriate
MarijuanaNews commentary with news items. Thus, when possible, you may see
news clippings with links like this:
See: Related commentary at: followed by a MarijuanaNews URL linked to
specific comments related to the story.

Richard Lake
Senior Editor
MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest
email: rlake@mapinc.org
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/ 20,686 articles on-line!
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