DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, AUG. 11, 2006 #461

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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(1) Psychedelics Could Help Addicts, Say B.C. Drug Officials (2)
Program To Supply Addicts With Heroin Antidote Proposed (3) In This
War, Technology Is Key (4) Column: The Government's Sick War On Marijuana

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n461.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) What's Wrong With This Picture? (6) Editorial: Don't Drug Test
Students (7) Plinton Family Sues UA, Sheriff (8) Program To Supply
Addicts With Heroin Antidote Proposed

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Just Say Yes To Drugs (10) Prosecutor To Appeal Dismissal Of Meth
Cases (11) Former Deputy Pleads Guilty (12) Chief Of DOC Cuts Costs Of Prison

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) NYPD Busts For Pot Puffing Show Racism, Study Asserts (14)
Marijuana Initiative Fails To Make The Ballot (15) Judge Allows
Medical Marijuana Advocates To Oppose San Diego Suit (16) Supes Panel
OKs A Grace Period For Pot Clubs (17) Reefer Is Worth Getting Mad About

International News

(18) U.S. Defends Opium Policy Despite Afghanistan Violence (19) War
On Drugs 'Has Failed' (20) Grow Ops An Unsafe Burden (21) Cultivating
Cannabis? It's Like Growing Tomatoes, Says Judge (22) Drugs And Prohibition

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Monitoring Drug Policy Outcomes

How Much Does Australia Spend On Illicit Drugs?

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Get Off The Pot, George!

Time To Deliver

AFSCME Endorses Medical Marijuana Access At Chicago National Convention

Smoking Marijuana In Public / Andrew Golub, Bruce D. Johnson And Eloise Dunlap

Nevada Conservatives Against The War On Drugs / By Sasha Abramsky

Drug Addiction Treatment Sees Drop In Success Rate

* What You Can Do This Week
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Narco News Seeks Webmaster

Help Counter John Walters In The UK

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n461.html#sec5

If Corporate Regulation Is So Wrong, Then Why Is Regulating Our Lives
OK? / By Geoff Kennedy

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n461.html#sec6

DEA Exhibit Ignores Costs of Prohibition

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n461.html#sec7

Jacques Ellul

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