DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, MAY 14, 2004 #349

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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(1) House Says Very Sick Can Use Marijuana (2) Sri Lanka To Legalise Cannabis (3) Drug Test Results May Determine Workers' Benefits (4) Injecting Reason

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n349.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) House Committee Raises Meth Penalties (6) Sweeps Planned To Find Banned Meth Ingredient (7) Methadone Abuse Hits State Hard (8) Tackling Our Drug Problem (9) Avenues for Treating Addictions

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(10) Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S. (11) Trying to Make Sense of Inmate Increases (12) Not the Usual Suspects (13) Ehrlich Set To Sign Bill To Expand Prisoner Drug Treatment

Cannabis & Hemp

(14) Pot Decriminalization Bill Is About to Go Up in Smoke (15) Marijuana Tax Pitched By Mayor Of Vancouver (16) Approval For Cannabis Spray Sought In Canada (17) Marijuana May Be Putting Teens Into Treatment (18) Police Snuff Out "Marijuana Day" in Tel Aviv

International News

(19) U.N.: Colombia Is Humanitarian Catastrophe (20) Heroin Trade Booms In Afghanistan (21) Top Cop Calls For Fed Help (22) Police: Drug Market Down Dramatically

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Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Beyond Prohibition - Pre-Conference Radio Interview

No Increased Risk For Drivers Exposed To Cannabis, Study Says

Victory For Alliance As FEC Votes Against Free-Speech Restrictions

Contra-Intelligence On Oliver L. North

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n349.html#sec4

Law Damages Families / By Meril Draper

* Letter Writer Of The Month - April http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n349.html#sec5

Chris Buors

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n349.html#sec6

Book Review: "Drug War Crimes" / Reviewed by Stephen Young

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n349.html#sec7

Dan Quayle