DrugSense Weekly, Sept. 19, 2003 #318

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Comparing Cannabis With Tobacco-Again (2) Drug Squads 'Hiking Up Value
Of Hauls' (3) Patients Testify For Mikuriya (4) Millions Have Driven On
Drugs, U.S. Says

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Retracted Ecstasy Paper "An Outrageous Scandal" (6) Second Ecstasy
Study Retracted (7) Report: States Back Off Tough Drug Rules (8) Foundation
Will Close Drug-Abuse Program (9) Chong Jailed For Selling Drug Accessories

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(10) State Won't Arrest For Personal Pot (11) Law Enforcement Contends With
Decision On Pot (12) Hege Faces 15 Charges (13) Hege Urged Use Of
Ethnicity, Race In Deciding On Stops, Officer Says (14) Official: Crowded,
Understaffed Prisons Put Public At Safety Risk

Cannabis & Hemp-

(15) Seattle Voters Favor Measure on Marijuana (16) Drug Czar Calls Seattle
Pot Initiative A 'Con' (17) First Tokers Of Feds' Pot Want Money Back (18)
Bitter Pill To Swallow (19) Is Dope Law Reffer Madness?

International News-

(20) Drug Injection Site A Reality (21) WA Snub To Driver Drug Test (22)
Coca Spraying War Pays Off (23) Guatemala Becomes Major Cocaine Pipeline

* Hot Off The 'Net

Cheryl Miller Memorial And Phone Slam

Cannabis Debate In The UK: Decrim Vs. Legalisation

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Jack Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Cannabis Legal In British Columbia?

Lucas And Elrod On The Air

States Back Off Tough Drug Laws

Forum Announced: The Truth About Medical Marijuana

Conference: And Justice For All?

* Letter Of The Week

Drug War Is A Failure / By Jeff Miller

* Feature Article

An Exceptional Occasion to Help DrugSense Help You / By Mark Greer

* Quote of the Week

John Walters