DrugSense Weekly, June 6, 2003 #303

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Officers: It's Ok To Snitch About Drugs (2) Police Backing Off On Pot
(3) Needle-Exchange Program In Federal Prisons Backed (4) 13 To Receive
Bond On June 16

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Drug Treatment Initiative Announced (6) Ban Tobacco, Says Surgeon
General (7) GAO Says Colombia Won't Meet Target For Drug-Spray Plan (8)
Editorial: Justice Takes a Beating (9) Misdemeanor Work Puts Further Strain
on Defenders (10) P. Diddy: Drug Law Reform

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(11) House Refuses To Release Nonviolent State Inmates (12) More Inmates
Than Cell Space (13) Options Wither As State Prisons Fill (14) $480,000
Compo to Police Addicts (15) Chief Wants To Sell Seized Goods On Internet

Cannabis & Hemp-

(16) Marijuana Guru Ed Rosenthal Freed After One-Day Sentence (17)
Democratic Candidate Backs Medical Marijuana (18) San Francisco Weeds Out
Prison Time For Pot Arrests (19) Liberal MPs Keep Up Pressure On Bill (20)
Up In Smoke: The U.S. Bucks A Trend On Marijuana Laws

International News-

(21) Copenhagen's Hippies Under Siege (22) Drugs War: 'Media Has Failed'
(23) N. Korea Linked To Drug Seizure (24) The Drug Laws Don't Work

* Hot Off The 'Net

Congress Prohibits Drug Czar From Running Ads Against Ballot Measures

Unequal Injustice / Analysis by Richard Cowan

Canada's Cannabis Confusion / by Dana Larsen

DEA Uses RAVE Act Threats to Block Montana NORML/SSDP Benefit

Drug Control: Management and Financial Challenges Continue in Colombia

* Letter Of The Week

This War Is Wasteful And Doomed To Failure / By Mett Ausley Jr. M.D

* Letter Writer Of The Month - May

Larry Seguin

* Feature Article

Ed Rosenthal Decision: Victoruy Or Set Back? / by Mikki Norris

* Quote of the Week

W. Somerset Maugham