DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, OCT. 22, 2004 #372

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec1

(1) Growing Danger: Drugged Driving (2) Elementary Students Face Charges
After Bags Of Marijuana Found (3) Group Promotes Drug Policy Change (4)
Singapore Upholds Death Sentence For Australian

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Marijuana Measure Backers Sue Over Opposition Account (7) Councilors
Look for Better Way to Fight Drugs (8) Panel: 'Scare Tactics' Don't Cut
Teen Crime (9) DEA Sparks Uproar In Battle Over Regulation Of Painkillers

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(10) Police Changes Vowed (11) Judge: Officers May Lie About Traffic-Stop
Reasons (12) DA, Team Named in More Suits (13) Officers Liable in Shooting;
City to Be Tried Next

Cannabis & Hemp

(14) 'Prince Of Pot' Gets Out Of Jail (15) State's Medical Marijuana Law Is
Unevenly Applied (16) Judge Orders Retrial In Medical Pot Case (17) Hashing
It Out (18) Measure Z Would Ease Pot Use Laws

International News

(19) Russian Official Says Beslan Rebels Were Addicts (20) Aussie Gets 12
Years For Marijuana (21) Debates Mount Over Marijuana Ban (22) Drugs, Guns
On Table For Ashcroft's Canadian Visit

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec3

The Doper Vote/ By Jules Siegel, AlterNet

Welcome Home Marc!

Jonathan Magbie Tragedy

MTV - Choose Or Lose - Drug Laws

The Epidemic On Aisle 6 / By Mark Schone, legalaffairs.org

National African American Drug Policy Coalition On NPR

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec4

The Wrong Approach / By Tom Angell

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec5

Black Coalition To Target Effects Of Drug Policy

* Quote of the Week

George Eliot http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec6