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SHOULD WE SUBJECT TEENS TO VIRGINITY TESTS SO THEY CAN "JUST SAY NO?"

The Bush administration is pushing high schools across the country to
implement random, suspicion-less student drug testing. The logic is
that we need to rid our schools of drugs and give students more ways
to "Just Say No."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/

CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Last: 05/11/07 - Gabriel Sayegh of Drug Policy Alliance re
Rockefeller drug laws, Eric Sterling of Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation on US drug laws.

Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_051107.mp3

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MORE REPORTS FROM WARSAW

Allan Clear continues his reporting from the International Harm
Reduction Association conference in Warsaw, this time covering days
two and three.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy_main/2007/may/18/more_reports_from_warsaw

DRUG VIOLENCE RAMPANT IN MEXICO

By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Vowing to topple drug cartels in Mexico, President Felipe Calderon
has deployed thousands of troops to fight deadly drug gangs. The
bloodiest gunfight recently occurred along the border with Arizona
when armed assailants killed 22 people, including five policemen, in
a five-hour gun battle. More than 900 people were killed in
drug-related incidents in Mexico this year.

Audio: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10253844

THE COLOMBIA EXPERIMENT

By Dan Gardner

On Wednesday, a feature story in the New York Times began with an
unusual scene. In a compound outside Kabul, a group of raw Afghan
recruits was being instructed in the basics of enforcing drug laws.
"It's Narcotics 101," one of the instructors, a U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration agent, told the reporter. "We are at a stage now of
telling these recruits, 'this is a handgun, this is a bullet.' "

http://www.dangardner.ca/Colmay1807.html

ESEQUIEL HERNANDEZ, JR. MEMORIAL GALLERY

On May 20, 1997, Esequiel Hernandez, Jr. was herding his family's
goats 100 yards from his home on the US-Mexican border in Redford,
Texas as he did every day.

Unknown to Esequiel or any of the other residents of Redford, a group
of four Marines led by 22-year old Corporal Clemente Banuelos had
been encamped just outside the small village along the Rio Grande
River for three days. After watering his small flock of goats in the
river, Esequiel started on his way back home when the Marines began
stalking him from a distance of 200 yards.

Gallery: http://www.mapinc.org/hernandez/

Related: http://mapinc.org/people/Esequiel+Hernandez