DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, JAN. 2, 2004 #331 & HOT OFF THE 'NET

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http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2004/ds04.n331.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Chief Justice Attacks A Law As Infringing On Judges (2) Punishment
Sought In Medical-pot Case (3) SB-420 On Hold (4) Strip-search Ruled
Illegal In Drug Arrest

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) U.S. Will Ban Ephedra Early Next Year (6) General Roadblock Violated
Fourth Amendment Rights (7) Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions (8)
Parent Upset Over Undercover Drug Sweep (9) Fired State Worker Sues Over
Random Drug Tests

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(10) Drugs War Filling Virginia's Prisons (11) Major Parole Moves on the
Table (12) How a Cop Hid $560,000 in This Office (13) Fake-Drug Informants
May Get Lenience

Cannabis & Hemp-

(14) In Canada's Marijuana Debate, Supreme Court Backs Criminal Penalties
(15) Alaskans to Vote on Pot Legalization in '04 Election (16) AL Gore
Keeps Silent After Son's Marijuana Arrest (17) Senator Hooser's Son
Arrested for Possession of Marijuana (18) Crusader for Pot Dies After MS Fight

International News-

(19) Human Rights Alarm Over Bloody Drugs Crackdown (20) Opium 'Threatens
Afghan Growth' (21) Drug Test For Candidates Pursuant To Law: Comelec (22)
PM's Drug Report Shifts Focus To 'High Harm' Users

* Hot Off The 'Net

Footage of South Carolina School Drug Raid

The Canadian Supreme Court Cannabis Law Challenge with Pot-TV

Dick Cowan and John Conroy on the Canadian Supreme Court Decision

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Cannabis Health

Narco News Reborn

* Letter Of The Week

Police Tactics Hurt Schools / By Tom Angell

* Published Letter To The Editor Writer Of The Year

Kirk Muse

* Feature Article

Comcast Censors Medical Marijuana Group / By MPP

* Quote of the Week

Henry Bessemer

HOT OFF THE 'NET

FOOTAGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DRUG RAID

Goose Creek, SC: Stratford High School; November 5, 2003. This copy of
Stratford High School's surveillance videotape, narrated by Principal
McCrackin, shows students as young as 14 being terrorized by police with
guns and drug-sniffing dogs in an early-morning SWAT raid.

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/cms/aclu/20031205_ACLU_DrugBust.rm

The Canadian Supreme Court Cannabis Law Challenge with Pot-TV

Recorded from a Live Pot TV broadcast. In a devastating decision the
prohibitionist core of the Canadian Justice System Rules in Favor of
criminalizing millions of Canadians for using cannabis.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2384.html

Battle For Canada #8: John Conroy on the Canadian Supreme Court Decision

Richard Cowan interviews John Conroy, attorney for Caine in Supreme Court
case. Did the Court say that jail is not justified?

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2387.html

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

12/23/03: Commander Brian Paddick

UK Police Officer Who Introduced 'Softly Softly' Policy on Cannabis

Audio: http://cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to122303.ram

12/30/03: "Triple Felon" Ed Rosenthal

Ed Rosenthal, the guru of ganja, the poster boy for medical marijuana and
now "a triple felon, thanks to the Federal Government.

Audio: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to123003.ram

01/06/04: Judge James P. Gray

Running for US senate seat in the state of California. Author of "Why Our
Drug Laws Have Failed, and What We Can Do About It - A Judicial Indictment
of the War on Drugs."

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

Cannabis Health

Issue #8 January / February 2004

http://www.cannabishealth.com/issue08/index.html

Narco News Reborn

Narco News will begin publishing again - "reporting on the drug war and
democracy from Latin America" - in a matter of weeks.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article888.html