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DRUG WAR MAYHEM IN MEXICO -- THE PUBLIC IS SICK OF IT

By Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. Posted December 11, 2008.

With Drug-trafficking deaths skyrocketing by more than 117 percent in
2008, the Mexican president's drug policies are extremely unpopular.

http://drugsense.org/url/wCrhFiLK

OBAMA'S SMOKING DRAMA

By Tony Newman, AlterNet

It is no fun having to explain to people, in person or on national
television, how you came to start cigarettes again once they "catch" you.

http://drugsense.org/url/gHY91Cah

DRUG TRUTH NETWORK

Century of Lies - 12/09/08 - Barry Cooper

Dr. Jim Ketchum, author of "Chemical Warware-Secrets Almost
Forgotten" which lifts the veil of LSD tests in US Army + Barry
Cooper, former narcotics officer, producer of KopBusters video and
Never Get Busted DVD

http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2167

Cultural Baggage Radio Show - 12/10/08 - Ethan Nadelmann

Martin Lee, author "Acid Dreams - The Complete Social History of LSD"
+ Ethan Nadelmann, dir of Drug Policy Alliance re Wall Street Op-Ed
vs Czar Johan Walters

http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2168

WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT MAKES TEENAGERS WANT TO
DROP ACID?

By Jacob Sullum

The Office of National Drug Control Policy brags that the latest
Monitoring the Future Study, the results of which were released
today, "shows that in 2008, illicit drug use among youth continued to decline."

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130519.html

OBAMA'S "OPEN FOR QUESTIONS" REVEALS CLAMOR FOR DRUG POLICY REFORM

By Al Giordano

President-elect Obama - fulfilling multiple campaign promises to more
deeply involve the public in setting priorities for his
administration - opened up his Change.Gov website to questions from
citizens, and asked the people to then rate the questions up or down.

http://drugsense.org/url/E1jVF3HM

IN HOLLAND, CANNABIS POLITICS HEATS UP

Drug War Chronicle, Issue #564, 12/12/08

For more than 30 years under the policy of "gedoogbeleid," which
could best be translated as "pragmatic tolerance," the Dutch have
allowed the sale of personal amounts of marijuana through the coffee
house system, even though doing so is technically illegal.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/564/holland_cannabis_coffee_shops

MAPS MDMA/PTSD TREATMENT MANUAL

MAPS researchers Michael Mithoefer MD, Annie Mithoefer BSN, and June
May Ruse PhD, have created a revised version of MAPS MDMA/PTSD
treatment manual. The new version of the manual builds on a previous
manual from 2005, and includes lessons learned from our recently
completed US MDMA/PTSD pilot study.

http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/mdma_assisted_therapy_manual_11_24_08.pdf

AYAHUASCA HEALING BEYOND THE AMAZON

The globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice

By Kenneth W. Tupper

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121558489/abstract

WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK

SUPPORT ETHAN NADELMANN FOR DRUG CZAR

We have had cops, doctors and soldiers. It's time for a Drug Czar who
understands the full breadth, depth and importance of this issue.
Sign the Petition to make Dr. Nadelmann Obama's Drug Czar.

http://nadelmannfordrugczar.com/

WRITE A LETTER

Repealing Today's Failed Prohibition - A DrugSense Focus Alert.

http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0388.html