DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, JULY 16, 2004 #358

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec1

(1) US CA: Supervisors Pass Medical Pot Ordinance (2) China Defends Death
Penalty For Traffickers (3) US SC: 3 Doctors Fight Jail Time Amid Appeals
(4) US: Ineffective, Expensive Drug War Rages On

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) California Bill Calls For Physician Review Of Prescribing Patterns (6)
Bush's Deputy Drug Czar Eyes Ryan's Spot (7) Do You Puff, Daddy? (8) Probe
Confirms Dealing Of Drugs Near DC Clinics

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Black Residents Don't Want War On Drugs To Get Out Of Hand (10)
Leaders: Jails Are Most Pressing Budget Concern (11) Recent Local Cases
Show Agencies' Flexibility On Drugs Officers Find (12) 80 Pounds Of Cocaine
Wash Up

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Medical Users Spurn New Batch Of Health Canada Pot (14) Campaign To
Legalize Medical 'Pot' Not Over (15) Medical Pot On Detroit, Ann Arbor
Ballots (16) Young Pot Smokers At Risk From Drug Dealers (17) Cannabis
Users Targeted Despite Change In Law

International News

(18) Officers Battered And Disheartened Over OPP Investigation (19)
Catechism Returning To Public Schools (20) WPD Drug Buster Busted (21)
Death Sentence Won't Stop Drug Dealers

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec3

Letter Of The Week Database

Professional Prohibitionist Considers Run For U.S. Senate

DARE To Kill Families

The Third Annual Toker's Bowl 2004

Tommy Chong Out Of Jail!

How To Drink Absinthe

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec4

Apply Laws Equally / By Loretta Nall

* Letter Writer Of The Month - June
http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec5

Larry Seguin

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec6

Medical Marijuana / By Montel Williams

[note: Also MAP archived at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1003/a11.html ]

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n358.html#sec7

James Russell Lowell