DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, JAN. 16, 2004 #333

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http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n333.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Feds To Revamp Drug Testing (2) Couple Faces Federal Pot Charges (3)
Worthing's Cannabis Champion Jailed (4) Lawsuit Filed After Swat Raids High
School

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Miami Federal Court Has 'Secret Docket' To Keep Cases Hidden (6) 9
Officers Cited for Contempt in Pot Case (7) Benefit Ends With 10 Arrests
(8) Herald-Tribune Analyzes '02 Teen Drug Use Survey

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(9) Protest Of Fatal Police Shooting Turns Violent (10) Police Corruption
Lawsuits Could Cost Louisville Millions (11) Sheriff Loses 'Knock' Ruling
(12) New D.A. Promises to Be 'Smart on Crime'

Cannabis & Hemp-

(13) The Massive Secret Inside Barrie's Former Brewery (14) Weed Watch:
Democrats On Drugs, Part II (15) Hayward Hempery Is Facing Eviction (16)
Study: Marijuana Buzz Linked To 'Runner's High' (17) RCMP Arrest Pro-Pot Puffer

International News-

(18) President Stands Pat On Death Penalty (19) 443 Drug-Free Barangays In
100 Days (20) Victim's Kin Can Claim Compensation (21) MPs Urged To
Reconsider The Dangers Of Cannabis

* Hot Off The 'Net

Venezuela Decriminalizes Drug Possession

Candidates Support Repeal Of HEA Drug Provision

The CBC On Brewery Grow Operation

Montel Williams On MS And MJ

Drug Truth Special Panel - Racial Bias In The Drug War

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Medical Marijuana Patients In California Top 75,000

* Letter Of The Week

Editor: Re: We'll Prove You Wrong / By Jose Melendez

* Letter Writer Of The Month - December

Sandy Cote

* Feature Article

Excerpts From Dissent In Canadian Supreme Court Decision

* Quote of the Week

Bertrand Russell

HOT OFF THE 'NET

VENEZUELA DECRIMINALIZES DRUG POSSESSION

By Al Giordano at Bigleftoutside.com

http://www.bigleftoutside.com/archives/000313.php

CANDIDATES SUPPORT REPEAL OF HEA DRUG PROVISION

Manchester, NH - Six Presidential candidates support the repeal of the 1998
Drug Provision of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Wesley Clark, Howard
Dean, Joseph Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, Richard Gephardt, and Dennis
Kucinich announced their support after listening to concerns from members
of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at the SSDP national
conference. Photos and video footage from the conference are online at:

http://nh2004.ssdp.org/

THE CBC ON BREWERY GROW OPERATION

The CBC's Avril Benoit talks to Rosie Rowbotham about the record-breaking
cannabis growing operation found in an old brewery in Ontario. (Runs 8:03
| Jan. 12, 2004)

Audio: http://www.cbc.ca/MRL//clips/rm-audio/rowbotha_w6040113.rm

MONTEL WILLIAMS ON MS AND MJ

In a heart wrenching episode popular daytime talkshow host Montel Williams
talks about living with the depression and pain caused by the MS from which
he suffers, and then explains that natural cannabis medicine is the only
thing that works for him.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2416.html

DRUG TRUTH SPECIAL PANEL - RACIAL BIAS IN THE DRUG WAR

Recorded Tuesday, 01/13/04 Now

Participants include Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation, Roger Goodman of the King County Bar Association, Sanho Tree of
the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and Deborah
Small of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Real: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/torb011304.ram

CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Last: 01/13/04, Valierie Coral, Director of WAMM, http://www.wamm.org, the
medical marijuana co-op in Santa Cruz, California.

(Todd McCormick postponed his visit.)

MP3: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/Audio/FDBCB_011304.mp3

Real: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/tocb011304.ram

MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS IN CALIFORNIA TOP 75,000

January 15, 2004 - San Francisco, CA, USA

The number of patients in California using marijuana medicinally under a
doctor's supervision is rising dramatically and now tops 75,000, according
to estimates released this week by California NORML.

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5906