DrugSense Weekly, Oct. 8, 2004 #370

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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

(1) Deputy Drug Czar Opposes Legalizing Marijuana (2) Pot Limit - 3 Pounds
Per Year (3) UK: Tories Pledge To Fight Drugs 'Epidemic' (4) Area Activists
Arrested In D.C.

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

Drug Policy

(5) Are Anti-Drug Ads A Big Waste? (6) Open Secrets - How the Government
Lost The Drug War In Cyberspace (7) Anti-terrorism Was Post-Sept. 11
Priority (8) Church's Drug Program Flunks S.F. Test

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) U.S. Agents May Face Charges In Killing (10) Ex-Detective Acquitted In
Shooting (11) Cumberland County Pays Burned Woman $10,000 (12) Sentences
For Drug Offenders Criticized

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Activists Challenge Feds On Marijuana (14) Fine, Not Confine,
Marijuana Users? (15) Illinois House Committee To Hear Testimony On Medical
Pot (16) Oregon Measure Calls For Marijuana Dispensaries (17) U.S. Supreme
Court To Consider Federal Sentencing Guidelines

International News

(18) PM's Warning To Drug Dealers (19) Thaksin Issues Warning To Police
(20) U.S. Grants USD 4.5 Million Assistance To Thailand (21) Crack-Cocaine
Use Increases Thanks To Jail - Police Chief (22) Drug Abuse Soars

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

MAP Search Screen Documentation Upgraded

Bolivian Drug War Myths Fall Apart

Jurassic Narcs By Stephen Young

Nadelmann Challenges The Language Of The Drug War

New "Open Letter To Parents" Highlights Negative Impact Of Marijuana

Is The US Playing Politics With Pot Research?

Commercial Potential - How Marijuana And Wine Can Improve Our Balance

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

End Drug Prohibition / By James E. Gierach

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

Supremacy, Taboos, and the Drug War / By Robert Rapplean

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm#sec6

William Blake