DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, JULY 28, 2006 #459

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n459.html#sec1

(1) Wanted: Pot Growers (2) Cannabis Therapy 'May Be Harmful' (3)
Sessions Seeks To Adjust Sentences For Crack, Powder Cocaine Offenses
(4) Former Robeson Deputy Pleads Guilty

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n459.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) OPED: Legalize Drugs (6) OPED: A Ceasefire For The "War On Drugs"
(7) OPED: The State Should Target The Real Drug Kingpins (8) OPED:
Gateway To Nowhere?

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Inmate Drug Rehab Key To Less Crime (10) OPED: The Real Reason
Behind Overcrowding In Prisons (11) New Registry Will Identify
Decertified Police Officers (12) Fliers Heat Up Sheriff's Race

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Medical Marijuana Is Here To Stay (14) Nall Looks To Ride
Colorful Campaign (15) Greenfield Man Rolls Pro-Pot Ideas, Skills
Into Mock Pot Plants (16) Prince Of Pot Weds As Extradition Hearing Looms

International News

(17) Back Afghan Opium Legalisation, Tories Urge Cameron (18) Heroin
Deaths Tumble, But Stimulants A Problem (19) Safe Injection Site's
Fate Debated Anew (20) Needles Dumped In Street (21) Injecting Room
Syringe 'Stunt'

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n459.html#sec3

How Legalizing Drugs Will End The Violence / By Norm Stamper

DPA Files Brief In Medical Marijuana Job Discrimination Case

Cultural Baggage Radio Show / With Dean Becker

It's Time To Get Real About Opium In Afghanistan / By David Borden

* What You Can Do This Week
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Stop The Reefer Madness, Senator Hatch!

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n459.html#sec5

Benefits Of Research Outlasted Drug War / Mary Jane Borden

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n459.html#sec6

Book Review: Overkill / By Jo-D Harrison

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n459.html#sec7

Marian Wright Edelman