DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, APRIL 2, 2004 #344

Read This Publication On-line at: http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n344.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) America Accuses Britain Of Failing In War On Drugs

(2) Activists Have High Hopes For Tomorrow's Hash Bash

(3) Police In Canada, U.S. Crack Major Drug Ring

(4) Cannabis 'Damages Male Fertility'

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy

(5) Drug's Proponents Find Proposal Hard To Swallow

(6) Group Wants Painkiller Case Thrown Out

(7) Bills Back Drug Testing In Middle, High Schools

(8) High Court Backs Customs Power To Conduct Searches At Borders

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Editorial: Court Ruling Attacks Basic Liberties

(10) Texas Scandal Throws Doubt on Anti-Drug Task Forces

(11) State Cutting Ranks Of Inmates Held Elsewhere

(12) OPED: We Must Stop Locking Up So Many Women

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Legalizing Marijuana May Not Change Much, Researcher Says

(14) 'Prince Of Pot' Released After Paying Bail

(15) Airline Not Fined For Barring Medicinal Pot User

(16) Calif. Home Power Bill Prompts Pot Probe

(17) Hemp Growers Send Cannabis To Educate Politicians

International News

(18) Kabul 'Needs Aid In War On Drugs'

(19) Ecstasy Smuggler - British Teenager Given Life Sentence ...

(20) Officer Charged In $2.9M Drug Bust

(21) Safe-Injection Site In Victoria Fine With B.C.'s Top Doctor

(22) NT Politicians Push To Outlaw Petrol Sniffing

* Hot Off The 'Net [see below]

* Letter Of The Week

Prohibition Has Failed Again / By Steven Charles

* Feature Article

Take 2 Joints and Call Me in the Morning / By Philippe Lucas

* Quote of the Week

Confucius

HOT OFF THE 'NET

COLLEGE REHABILITATES

A DrugSense Focus Alert

http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0287.html

AUDIO FROM MEDICAL CANNABIS DEBATE

Philippe Lucas of the VICS and DrugSense along with Jim Miller debate
prohibitionists on "It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle"

http://drugpolicycentral.com/real/audio/cn8.rm

ECSTASY RISING

Federal Campaign to Curb Club Drug's Use Hasn't Dimmed Its Popularity

World News Tonight With Peter Jennings

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Primetime/ecstasy_040401-1.html

THE TROUBLE WITH MARIJUANA AND LEGISLATORS

By Bruce Mirken, AlterNet, April 1, 2004

For a long time many of us have puzzled over why overwhelming public
support for legal access to medical marijuana has not translated into
legislative action. A new Zogby poll conducted in Vermont and Rhode
Island, released March 29, may have solved the mystery.

Continues: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18305

CANNABIS POLICY, IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOMES

A review of the scientific literature on cannabis policy and its
consequences.

You can download a copy from RAND at

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1805/MR1805.pdf

CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Last: 03/30/04, Cliff Thornton

As a member of efficacy-online.org, Cliff has been requested to speak
to hundreds of organizations about the harms of the drug war. Last
month, Cliff returned from a several weeks journey to New Zealand,
where he spoke before their Parliament and elected officials.

MPEG: http://cultural-baggage.com/Audio/FDBCB_033004.mp3

REAL: http://cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to033004.ram

Next: 4/06/04, Breaking The Chains Conference on Racial Bias

Join us as we recap the events of the Breaking the Chains Conference,
being held at Texas Southern University, in Houston, Texas. Guests
will include Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and many others.

7:30 to 8 PM EDT, 6:30 to 7 PM CDT and 4:30 to 5 PM PDT.

Listen Live Online at http://www.kpft.org

BATTLE FOR CANADA PART 21

With Richard Cowan

It Is April Fool's Day, So Let's Talk About Canadian Police

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2602.html

POLICING PREGNANCY

By Lynn M. Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for
Pregnant Women

After the Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act last week,
President George W. Bush - the same man who supports relaxing rules
for fetus-poisoning mercury - wasted no time signing it into law. Most
of those opposing the Act, from pro-choice leaders to The New York
Times editorial board, charge that it will undermine the right to
choose abortion. In fact, while this fear is indeed warranted, those
who are most likely to be harmed by this law are not women seeking
abortions, but women who want to continue their pregnancies to term.

Continues: http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10189

THE HILARY BLACK SHOW #8

Hilary interviews Marc Emery and discusses his arrest in Saskatoon,
and invites Compassion Club members Flash and Crash to share the
reasons behind their need for medical marijuana and how the club
improves their life.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2595.html