DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, JULY 15, 2005 #408

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n408.html#sec1

(1) Filing Propels Dispute Over Medical Pot (2) Former Ogilvy
Executives Sentenced For Overbilling (3) 'Pleasure Drugs' Boom On
Way, Says Think-Tank (4) Let A Thousand Licensed Poppies Bloom

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n408.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Lawmaker Prods Court, Raises Brows (6) Deputy Drug Czar Says
Agency May Shift More Focus To Meth (7) U.S. Beer Maker In Camera
Brouhaha (8) Abuse Of Prescription Drugs Widespread (9) Grand Jury
Lobbies For Needle Exchange

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(10) Officers Seek Court's Mercy (11) Ex-Campbell Deputy Gets Six
Years For Beating (12) New Tax On Illegal Drugs Nets $600,000 In
First 6 Months (13) Lab Tech Flushed In Test Scam

Cannabis & Hemp

(14) California Stops Issuing Drug ID Cards (15) Pot Raids Draining
Resources, Police Say (16) Australians Riled Over Indonesian Case
(17) Backlash Against Hemp Lollipops Is Misguided

International News

(18) Summary Executioners Remain Unidentified (19) Drug War Customs
Officials 'Out Of Control' (20) Pot Raids Draining Resources, Police
Say (21) Pilots Asked To Spot Pot

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n408.html#sec3

Richard Cowan On The Death Of Steve McWilliams

Ogilvy & Mather's Fraudster Sentenced

Wal-Mart Just Says "No" (Kinda Sorta)

Mycoherbicide Redux

NPR - Justice Talking: Medical Marijuana

A Fifteen Year Old Paper / By Dr. Thomas O'Connell

Medical Marijuana On The Scott Sloan Radio Show

Marijuana News World Report / with Richard Cowan

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

NDIC National Drug Threat Assessment

* What You Can Do This Week
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DrugSense Virtual Conference

Join Us In Memoriam Of A Life-Long Activist And Patient

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n408.html#sec5

Real Problem / By Clifford Schaffer

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n408.html#sec6

Cannabis No Stronger, British Medical Journal Says

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n408.html#sec7

Leon Blum