DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, MAY 13, 2005 #399

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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(1) Drug Czar Blasted Over Pot Story (2) Sides Agree On Crack Pipe Plan (3)
Making Push For Legalized Pot (4) House Moves To Make Crack, Cocaine Equal

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Drug Policy

(5) Congress Rekindles Battle on Mandatory Sentences (6) Pot Bill Is Out Of
Time (7) Lockdown, Dog Search Scare Some (8) Landlords, City Reclaim Drug
Houses

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Shady Cash Fattens Towns' Coffers Along Drug Routes (10) SLED Starts To
Investigate Ex-Colleton County Sheriff (11) Ex-Police Property Manager
Fined (12) Reprieve Sought For Popular Programs

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Pot Club Called For At Fairmont Hospital (14) Downtown Pot Rally
Brings Whiff Of The '60s (15) Elderly, Ailing Speak Out As Pot Ruling Nears
(16) B.C. Marijuana Party Shut Out Of Schools (17) Rick Steves: A Voice Of
Sanity

International News

(18) New Approach Vs. Drugs Soon (19) Drugs Back In "Little Pasil" (20)
Colombians Arrest Two U.S. Soldiers (21) "Change The Law"

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Tell Congress To Oppose HR 1528

MAP Media Activism Training Schedule Updated

Marijuana And Me

Up in Smoke: ONDCP's Wasted Efforts in the War on Drugs

The Andes: Institutionalizing Success

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

MarijuanaNews World Report for May 12, 2005 With Richard Cowan

The Link Between Marijuana Use and Mental Illness

Montel's Mission

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Costs For The Drug War Intolerable / By Jerry Epstein

* Letter Writer Of The Month - April
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Kirk Muse

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Book Review: Kids, Cannabinoids And Our Bodies

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Dorothy Thompson