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10 RULES FOR DEALING WITH THE POLICE AVAILABLE ONLINE

Flex Your Rights has made their new film, 10 Rules for Dealing with
Police, available for free on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrbNLt7Om8

For more information see:

http://flexyourrights.org/10_Rules/

WILL CALIFORNIA LEGALIZE MARIJUANA?

Q&A With Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, Who Wants to do Just That.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/13/reasontv-will-california-legal

MAJORITY OF CANADIANS WOULD LEGALIZE MARIJUANA, BUT NOT OTHER DRUGS

In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,010
Canadian adults, two-in-five respondents (42%, -2 since May 2008)
believe Canada has a serious drug abuse problem that affects the whole country.

http://mapinc.org/url/PzeE79bH

HOW LOS ANGELES BECAME THE "WILD WEST" OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA

By Brian Doherty

How Los Angeles became the medical marijuana capital of America
thanks to a combination of entrepreneurial energy and benign
political neglect.

http://mapinc.org/url/pfH1YKYf

SMOKE A JOINT, LOSE YOUR COUNTRY

Rigid deportation rules make a mockery of justice.

By Jacob Sullum

http://mapinc.org/url/F7MIvfkf

ETHAN NADELMANN TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS

DPA Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann testified before Congress this
week about the future of the ONDCP. His recommendations for the
agency included adding a focus on harm reduction and establishing a
mechanism to independently evaluate effectiveness. Read his written testimony.

Watch a webcast of the hearing here:

http://mapinc.org/url/e9MZUoVC

Read Ethan Nadelmann's written testimony here:

http://drugsense.org/url/wM4Kw1xp

'JUST SAY NO' JUST DOESN'T WORK: YOUTH

National Student Organization Forms New Anti-Drug Website

A national youth and student drug reform organization says young
Canadians don't put much stock in the federal government's anti-drug
approach, so it has created a new website it says may better educate
young people about the risks they take by using drugs.

Canadian Students for a Sensible Drug Policy designed www.not4me.org
which it says moves away from the government's "just say no"
approach, which it calls ineffective.

http://www.not4me.org/

HOW STANISLAV GROF HELPED LAUNCH A NEW PSYCHEDELIC RESEARCH ERA

By Alexander Zaitchik

The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with
psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.

http://mapinc.org/url/0NsMCa4a

PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE

MAPS' role in the psychedelic renaissance is featured in Playboy
magazine, including a lengthy and detailed interview with Rick Doblin, Ph.D.

http://drugsense.org/url/paSUoksn

DRUG TRUTH NETWORK

Century of Lies - 04/11/10 - Jeff Blackburn

Jeff Blackburn, Dir of Innocence Project of Texas + Loretta Nall of
Alabamians for Compassionate Care

http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/2861

Cultural Baggage Radio Show - 04/11/10 - Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn

Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn, Dir of Clergy Against Prohibition + DEA bust of
16 year old, Chris Hermes of Americans for Safe Access

http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/2860

NORML REMEMBERS 'THE HEMPEROR' JACK HERER

By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director

http://mapinc.org/url/VmhPNrrx

WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK

WRITE A LETTER

Whiffs Of Change

A DrugSense Focus Alert

http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0437.html

DON'T JUST SMOKE A JOINT ON 4/20

Take Action Against Marijuana Prohibition

By Bill Piper

Stand up today with other Americans and get the word out there. This
war will end; how soon depends, in part, on you.

http://mapinc.org/url/T7qc4b4o