DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, SEPT. 12, 2003 #317

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Medicinal-pot Raid To Be Remembered (2) Panel Rejects Pleas To Curb
Sales Of A Widely Abused Painkiller (3) Calls To Close Injecting Room (4)
Your Brain On Bad Science

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Labeling Error Blows Drug Study (6) Court Says Church Can Use
Hallucinogenic Tea (7) New Textbook Teaches Pain Management (8) Bill Would
Look Closely At Doctors

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(9) Meth Labs Defying New Laws (10) Business Behind Bars (11) Plea Deals
Questioned (12) Widow Terrified By Cops' Mistake (13) Police Accused of
Interfering With Needle-Exchange Efforts

Cannabis & Hemp-

(14) Dutch Make Pot A Prescription Drug (15) Canadian Federal Pot Gets
Not-So-High Marks (16) Testing Time For U.K. Cannabis Users (17) Cannabis
And Pain Management

International News-

(18) Downtown Eastside's Safe-Injection Site To Open 'In Next Week Or So,'
(19) Pot Religion Earns Legal Merit (20) 400 Drug Pushers, Users Surrender
(21) Final Drive To 'Drug Free' State Begins Oct 2

* Hot Off The 'Net

Bad Science Drives Drug War Hysteria

War Of Eternity Drug Policy Panel

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

Cal NORML Marijuana Legalization Could Yield $1.5-$2.5 Billion Per Year

Marijuana And Motivation

* Letter Of The Week

U.S. Drug War Is An Abysmal Failure / By Gene Tinelli

* Letter Writer Of The Month - August

Stephen Heath

* Feature Article

Tandy's New Drug-War Strategy Is Old News / By Jacob C. Hornberger

* Quote of the Week

Ralph Waldo Emerson