DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, MARCH 19, 2004 #342

Read This Publication On-line at: http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n342.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Rural Meth Labs Grow, Report Says

(2) UN Drug Policies Allow Money To Flow To Terrorists - Think Tank

(3) Legal Party Drugs Facing Ban

(4) Legal Drugs Pose Greatest Health Threat - WHO

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Random Drug, Alcohol Tests Now Required In Seabrook

(6) House OKs Student 'Keep Clean' Bill

(7) U.S. Crafts Anti-Drug Message

(8) Anti-pot Campaign Not Propaganda, Says GAO

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(9) Prosecutors Swap Places To Combat Drug Runners

(10) Dogs To Sniff Out Drugs In Jail

(11) Judges Say U.S. Courts Are Swamped

(12) Merrimack Police To Let Criminals Do Heavy Lifting

(13) Tulia Drug Sting Ruins PRNTF

Cannabis & Hemp-

(14) Connecticut Pot Cultivation Bill For The Sick Advances

(15) Beebe OKs Wording Of 'Pot' Act 64,456 Signatures Needed By July 2

(16) Drug Czar Critical Of Marijuana Initiative

(17) Pot Law Not Cheap

(18) Oakland's 'Ganja Guru' Sues For Green

International News-

(19) Publisher Condemns Attempted Drug Book Seizures

(20) Colombian Rebels Call U.S. Hostages CIA Agents

(21) Danish Police Arrest 53 In Drugs Raid On Christiania

(22) Outrage At Plan To Pay Drug Mums To Take Pill

* Hot Off The 'Net [see below]

* Letter Of The Week

Drug Lobby / By Suzanne Wills

* Feature Article

Student Drug Testing Summit: Urine Trouble With The Follicle Follies
/ By Stephen Young

* Quote of the Week

Ron Paul

HOT OFF THE 'NET

WHAT GOOD CAN A DRUG CZAR DO?

by Doug McVay, for DrugWar com

Will Czar Walters finally do some good?

Sometimes, getting a federal official to take a good stand and get
involved in a policy debate is simple. It can be about being at the
right place, at the right time, to ask the right question.

Continues: http://www.drugwar.com/mcvaywaltersmethadone.shtm

RANDOM TESTING, DISAPPOINTING RESULTS

Today Fresno hosts the second of four Office of National Drug Control
Policy-sponsored summits on student drug testing.

In January, in his State of the Union address, President Bush credited
recent declines in illegal drug use among teenagers to random drug
testing. He then proposed $23 million go to schools opting to use what
national drug czar John Walters touts a "silver bullet" and Mayor Alan
Autry has vigorously supported.

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Pubdate: Thu, 18 Mar 2004

Source: AlterNet (US Web)

Author: Marsha Rosenbaum,

Cited: http://www.safety1st.org/

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n454.a10.html

COCA DECRIMINALIZATION IN DEBATE

The U.S. Pressures Bolivia While the Government and Coca Growers
Hold Talks

By Alex Contreras Baspineiro, Narco News South American Bureau Chief

http://narconews.com/Issue32/article929.html

CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

"Mea Culpa"

Host Dean Becker and guests from 4 of Houston's top musical
groups share drug war stories.

Real: http://cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to031604.ram

Mpeg: http://cultural-baggage.com/Audio/FDBCB_030904.MP3

Next: Tuesday Evening 6:30 PM CDT, 03/23/04

The Chosen Cartel of Haiti

US Congressman John Conyers is scheduled to join us, to discuss
his recent travels to Jamaica to discuss the situation in Haiti
with exiled President Aristede.

http://cultural-baggage.com/kpft.htm

THE HILARY BLACK SHOW

Interviews with Mishka, a French cannabis author and the founder
of the Smoker's Museum in Paris, as well Sandra Karpetas of the
Iboga Therapy House talks about her work curing drug addicts with
a shamanic plant.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2564.html

TELL CONGRESS TO IDENTIFY IMPAIRED DRIVERS, NOT MARIJUANA SMOKERS

Urge Your Congressman To Reject H.R. 3907 And H.R. 3922

NORML needs your help convincing Congress to reject a pair of bills that would criminally punish marijuana smokers for "drugged driving" simply if inactive marijuana metabolites are detected in their bodily fluids - even if the individual is neither under the influence nor impaired to drive.

Continues: http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=5384696