DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, MARCH 4, 2005 #390

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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(1) Washington State Groups Offer 'Exit Strategy' For The War On Drugs (2)
Grow-op Maniac Kills 4 Mounties (3) Senate Approves Medical Marijuana
Measures (4) UK Attempt To Eradicate Afghan Opium Fails

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Drug Policy

(5) Editorial: Deadly Ignorance (6) HIV Infection Rate Among Blacks Doubles
(7) Afghans Accuse U.S. Of Secret Spraying To Kill (8) Drug Czar Visit
Leads To Complaint (9) Making The Case To Legalize Drugs In Washington State

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(10) Texas Police Searches Suggest Profiling (11) D.A. Hill Admits Action
Too Slow On Fake-Drugs Scandal (12) City Closer To Banning Small Glass
Tubes (13) Drug Deal Caught On Camera By 911 Center Monitor

Cannabis & Hemp

(14) Police Group Seeks To Alter City's Pot Law (15) It's Just A Book (16)
Chong's 'Marijuana-Logues' Tour Goes Up In Smoke (17) Marijuana Party Head
Joins Liberals (18) Bush Dodges As Addicts Rot In Jail

International News

(19) City, Mayor Cited In U.S. Report On Human Rights (20) PNP Worst
Abuser, Says U.S. Report (21) Wendel Downplays U.S. Report On 'Vigilante'
Killings (22) Spray Painting Of Houses Of Drug Lords Proposed (23) Legal
Team Flies To Defend Corby

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Will We See You At A Drug Conference?

Meth And Marijuana

Narco-Scandal Rocks Argentina: Kirchner Confronts The Military

Prohibitionists Practice Fortunetelling

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Michelle Kubby vs Canadian Marijuana Law

GW Appoints Senior US Experts to Support U.S. Market Entry

Trends in Marijuana Treatment Admissions by State: 1992-2002

America's Hundred Years War On Drugs

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Cease-Fire Needed In Drug War / By Dr. Simon McClure

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2005/ds05.n390.html#sec5

U.S. Wins Drug War! / By Dean Becker

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Bill McClellan