DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, SEPT. 10, 2004 #366

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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(1) US NV: Ruling Sounds Petitions' Death Knell (2) CN BC: Compassion Club
Operator Sees Pot Charges Stayed By Judge (3) CN BC: Police Raid Cafe That
Sold Pot, Arrest Six People (4) DEA, Doctors Issue Guidelines On USe Of
Powerful Painkillers

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Drug Policy

(5) Ever Wonder If Those Promising Propositions Ever Deliver? (6)
Editorial: It's Time to Rethink and Reform Drug Laws (7) Drugs Meant For
Medicinal Use Finding Their Way Into Schools (8) Recalling Rainbow

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) OPED: Census' Cell Count Steals Voting Power (10) Drug Task Force
Funding Shrinks State Treatment, Education (11) Bayou Shrimp Boat Caught Up
In Net Set For Drug Smugglers (12) Woman Guilty Of Delivering Crack To Her
Unborn Son

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Sacramento Medical Pot Shop Shut Down (14) Nevada Marijuana Referendum
May Get New Life (15) Unlikely Pair Of State Assemblymen Seeks To Legalize
Medicinal Marijuana (16) City Of Vancouver Considers Options As Store Sells
Pot Again (17) A Marijuana Salesman Seems To Lose Another Round

International News

(18) President Upholds Death Sentence For Drug Dealers (19) Colombia Makes
Case To Keep U.S. Aid (20) Katsav: No Reduced Sentences For Drug Dealers
(21) Police Botch Drug Case (22) Top Court Asked To Revisit Key Pot Ruling

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n366.html#sec3

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Chew On This: A Documentary

Decision Time In Vancouver / By Richard Cowan, Marijuananews com

A Live Chat With Nadelmann and Piper About Election 2004

NORML Canada Launches New Website

'Crack Babies' Talk Back / Mariah Blake, Columbia Journalism Review

Marijuana Reform To Tap Grassroots / Paul Armentano, AlterNet

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n366.html#sec4

Pot Laws Do More Harm Than Good / By Sarah J. Christensen-Schmidt

* Letter Writer Of The Month - August
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William Bradley

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n366.html#sec6

The State Of The African American Male In Chicago / By Bryan Brickner

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n366.html#sec7

Lou Reed