* New study reveals marijuana is number one drug of choice for teen
addicts

"This is not the pot of the Woodstock generation," said Claudia
Blackburn, Caron Foundation director of program
development and research and columnist for Professional
Counselor magazine. [Business Wire, BASIC, 977 words]

Clinton/ Warn Kids About Drugs

Dismissing babyboomer guilt over past drug use as ``the biggest load
of hooey,'' President Clinton said Wednesday that he confessed
his own experiment with marijuana to daughter Chelsea when she
was just 6 or 7. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 437 words]

Thailand To Investigate Judge

The judge who granted bail to the chief suspect in the biggest heroin
shipment ever seized in the United States will be removed from
his post, the chief justice of Thailand's criminal court said
today. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 505 words]

Lebanese farmers threaten to grow hashish if no aid

Angry tobacco farmers in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley have delivered an
unusual threat to the government: buy our crops or we will grow
hashish. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 274 words]

Cali leader confesses to funding political campaigns

A leader of the world's largest drug syndicate has admitted that he
funded political campaigns, testimony that could strengthen
cases against several lawmakers, a top prosecutor said
Wednesday. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 332 words]

Spaniard arrested carrying drugs in his cargo of potatoes

Police have arrested a 50yearold Spaniard caught transporting a ton
and ahalf of marijuana hidden in a load of potatoes, judicial
sources said Wednesday. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 141 words]

Colombian police seize two tons of cocaine

Police seized two tons of cocaine on Wednesday in a raid on a huge
clandestine drug laboratory in a remote junglecovered region
of the country's southeast, authorities said. [Reuters, PAY PER
VIEW, 123 words, $1.00]

Colombia police track suspicious drug money trail

A huge cache of drug money linked to a Cali cartel kingpin may provide
the hardest evidence yet for longstanding U.S. charges that
drug lords are trafficking narcotics from inside Colombia's
prisons. [Reuters, PAY PER VIEW, 582 words, $1.00]

DRUG REFORM COORDINATION NETWORK/ Drug control strategy perpetuates
failed policies

The Clinton Administration's 1997 Drug Control Strategy, due to be
released on Feb. 25, has come under criticism for continuing
the same failed policies essentially unaltered. [M2 PRESSWIRE,
PREMIUM, 415 words]

Senate divided on Mexico drug issue; House to vote

Key senators tried on Wednesday to head off a potential confrontation
with Mexico on its antidrug efforts as administration
officials argued that its record had improved. [Reuters, PAY
PER VIEW, 476 words, $1.00]