DROLEG: DRUG LEGALIZATION REFERENDUM - NOTE TO READERS AND NEWSHAWKS

29 Nov 1998 the Swiss will hold a referendum called Droleg which could
legalize and regulate the drug market, ending their U.S. style prohibition.

Thanks to newshawk Boris Ryser we will be posting some translated articles
from the Swiss press. Please forgive us if the translations are a little
rough. We will use DROLEG: in the subject line for those who wish to
search/sort the news for these stories.

Newshawks: If you are interested in obtaining and translating other
articles on DROLOG (or from the non-English press in general) please
contact me first. We sometimes have problems with translated text going
thru editor@mapinc.org

Links to a number of Swiss newspapers are at:
http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/switzerl.htm

Basic newshawking instructions are at:
http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm

A new web page now shows and links to all the newspapers in our roboeditor
database that have a home page URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/media.htm

Thanks to all you newshawks for sending in items! 1,275 were posted last
month!

If any newshawks or readers are interested in helping the editing/posting
team please drop me a note!

Team volunteers average about an hour a day spread out over a week editing
and posting what the newshawks send.

Team members have both superb documentation of the process to go by and
complete control over the flow of items to edit (going on or off duty at
will, and controlling the percent of the articles they receive). We have
our own friendly private email list.

Our roboeditor and roboauditor provide great assistance. But there is a
learning curve, and it takes a bit of a commitment and dedication.

Richard Lake
Senior Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-Digest
email: rlake@mapinc.org
http://www.DrugSense.org/drugnews/
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Checked-by: Richard Lake