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AMERICA, INTOXICATED: CONFERENCE TACKLES DISASTERS OF THE DRUG WAR

By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. Posted December 11, 2007.

1,200 activists and experts converged on New Orleans for the Drug
Policy Alliance conference, where AlterNet won a prize for its drug
war coverage.

http://alternet.org/drugreporter/70195/

ANALYSIS OF "PLAN MEXICO"

Laura Carlsen - Director, Americas Program Center for International Policy

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=16387

DUTCH GOVERNMENT URGED TO OPEN DEBATE ABOUT UN DRUG CONVENTIONS

Transform Drug Policy Foundation

http://drugsense.org/url/13dsJM33

DRUG TRUTH NETWORK

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

12/12/07 - NEW ORLEANS: DPA drug conference panel (2/2) with Norris
Henderson, Else Pederson-Wasson, Judge Calvin Johnson + Nora Callahan
re Sentencing & remembrance of Michael Paul Phillips

Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_121207.mp3

UNODC DIRECTOR (LAMB) ADDRESSES THE DPA (SLAUGHTER)

Transform Drug Policy Foundation

http://drugsense.org/url/179W12AF

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES BULLETIN

Winter 2007

Portable Document Format (PDF)

http://drugsense.org/url/25hYzkvg

99 PERCENT SAY THEY WOULDN'T USE HARD DRUGS IF LEGALIZED

Washington, DC -- Marking the 74th anniversary of the repeal of
national Alcohol Prohibition, StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) on Tuesday
released polling results suggesting that drug prohibition's main
supporting argument may be simply wrong. Drug policy reformers point
to a wide range of demonstrated social harms created by the drug laws
- -- crime and violence, spread of infectious diseases, official
corruption, easy funding for terrorist groups, to name a few -- while
prohibitionists argue that use and addiction would explode if drugs
were legalized. But is the prohibitionist assumption well-founded?

http://drugsense.org/url/29Ee3c8Q

MPP TO GIULIANI, MCCAIN, ROMNEY: PROVE IT, OR STOP LYING

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE -- At a press conference in front of Rudy
Giuliani's Manchester headquarters this morning with a massive mobile
truck billboard in tow, a representative of the Marijuana Policy
Project joined two New Hampshire patients to challenge presidential
candidates Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney to back up
their statements regarding medical marijuana with scientific
evidence, offering the legal maximum $10,000 campaign contribution to
any of the three who can prove that their statements are true.

http://www.mpp.org/news/mpp-to-giuliani-mccain.html

WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK

START HEARINGS ON SENTENCING REFORM NOW

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of reducing the
crack/cocaine sentencing disparity, urge your members of Congress to
support legislation and hold hearings on the issue.

http://drugsense.org/url/31UwmgpI