HOT OFF THE 'NET

SPLIFF SPLIT

Why don't more Republicans oppose the DEA's medical marijuana raids?

By Jacob Sullum, August 1, 2007

http://www.reason.com/news/show/121689.html

GETTING BUSTED FOR POT CAN COST YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE

By Silja J.A. Talvi, In These Times, July 31, 2007.

Once you've been arrested for the harsh anti-marijuana laws on the
books, you can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights
to the right to adopt a child.

http://alternet.org/drugreporter/58346/

CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Tonight: 08/03/07 - Valerie Corral, director of Women's Alliance for
Medical Marijuana

Listen Live Fridays 8:00 PM, ET, 7:00 CT, 6:00 MT & 5:00 PT at
http://www.kpft.org/

Last: 07/27/07 - Eric Sterling, President Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation and LEAP member, Drug War Facts, Poppygate, Dr. Mitch
Earleywine on MJ plus Psychosis and Bruce Mirken of Marijuana Policy Project

Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_072707.mp3

RETURN WITH ME NOW TO THE THRILLING DAYS WHEN MARIJUANA WAS SPELLED WITH AN H

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Marihuana Tax Act, which
Franklin Roosevelt signed into law on August 2, 1937.

By Jacob Sullum, August 2, 2007

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/121724.html

DRUG TREATMENT ISN'T A SILVER BULLET

Memo to Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Al Gore III

By Anthony Papa, AlterNet, August 3, 2007.

It is time to treat addiction for what it is, a medical problem, not
a criminal one -- even for celebrities who rely on rehab clinics to
bail them out and continue driving down that road to oblivion.

http://www.alternet.org/story/58672/

MORE SHODDY REEFER MADNESS REPORTING OF CANNABIS RISKS

By Steve Rolles, Transform Drug Policy Foundation

http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-shoddy-reefer-madness-reporting-of.html

A QUESTION FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Dean Becker of Houston Texas has a question to the Republican
Candidates: The drug war has cost our nation more than $11 Trillion
dollars thus far, is it not time to tax, regulate and actually
control the distribution of these drugs to adults?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6TaJ_WQ89M

WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK

PLEASE REFUTE REEFER MANIA

A DrugSense Focus Alert

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