DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, APRIL, 14, 2006 #445

NOTE TO READERS: Some DrugSense Weekly staff will be at the NORML
Conference in San Francisco next week, so we will not publish a new
issue next Friday. We will resume our regular publication schedule
on April 28. In the meantime, stay up-to-date at www.drugnews.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n445.html#sec1

(1) Tougher Marijuana Restrictions Advance (2) Lancet Calls For LSD
In Labs (3) Drug Treatment Program Lowers Jail Population (4)
Colombia The Real Victim In Failed War On Drugs

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n445.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Firms Battle FAA Over Drug Testing (6) Drug War Termed A Failure
(7) OPED: Are We Losing the War? (8) Hyde Says War On Drugs 'Adrift'

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Van Search Exceeded Legal Limits (10) A Fake Rose in a Glass Tube
Gives Root to Illegal (11) Officer Posing As High Schooler Leads Drug
Sting (12) Officers in Corruption Case Guilty of Gun, Drug Charges

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Continuing Medical Education (14) Legalization Initiative:
Marijuana Measure Opposed (15) New Hydro Law On Grow Ops Debated (16)
City Settles Case Of Seized, Stolen Medical Marijuana

International News

(17) U.S. Cop Brings Campaign To Legalize Drugs To City Hall (18)
U.S. Drug War A Bust: Ex-Cop (19) Humala Facing Runoff In Tight Peru
Presidential Vote (20) Ban On Drugs 'Is Big Part Of The Problem' (21)
'Tantamount To Torture'

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n445.html#sec3

Two Years In Jail For A Joint? / By Anthony Papa

Watch Loretta Nall On WAKA Channel 8's "Talk Back"

Marc Emery Interviews Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper

The Mind-Body Connection / Drug Truth Network

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Just Check No? / By Ryan Grim

Taking The "Drug War"... Seriously / By John Fugelsang

* What You Can Do This Week
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Be A Newshawk For MAP/DrugSense

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n445.html#sec5

War On Drugs' Side Effects Make Effort Ineffective / By Daniel Insdorf

* Letter Writer Of The Month - March
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Jack A. Cole

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n445.html#sec7

Is Addiction Real? / By M. Simon

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2006/ds06.n445.html#sec8

George Carlin

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