POT REFUGEES

Canada has a reputation as a safe haven for all kinds of refugees. In
the 60's, thousands of those refugees were U.S. draft dodgers fleeing
forced service in Vietnam.

Now there's another group of Americans seeking sanctuary here, though
they're dodging a different kind of war: the war on drugs.

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Health Canada:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/magazine/2000_08/marijuana.htm Medicinal
Marijuana - outlines the federal government's stance on medicinal marijuana.

Medicinal Marijuana - http://law.about.com/cs/medicalmarijuana1/ About
com's directory of links to articles and other resources.

America's Lonely Drug War -
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/walters.html
special web feature/commentary from Mother Jones. "With the
confirmation of John Walters as the new drug czar, the US is
committing itself to a punishment-based War on Drugs -- even as most
of its allies are declaring cease-fires." [also archived at
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n2081/a06.html ]

PBS Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/ The War
on Drugs - "From both sides of the battleground, a 30-year history of
America's war on drugs." [The interview transcripts are archived at
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1551/a01.html ]

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, http://ccsa.ca/ CCSA, addictions,
drugs, alcohol

Advocacy:

NORML - http://www.norml.org/ wants to reform marijuana laws in the
U.S.

StopDrugs.org - http://www.stopdrugs.org/ a pro-drug war
site.

Drug Policy:

Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy - http://www.cfdp.ca/ the site has
a special section on medicinal marijuana http://www.cfdp.ca/mar399hc.htm
and another on the Canadian Senate's Special Committee on Illegal
Drugs Canada. http://www.cfdp.ca/sen2000.htm

Common Sense for Drug Policy http://www.csdp.org/

Drug Sense http://www.drugsense.org/

The Drug Reform Coordination Network http://www.drcnet.org/

The Rand Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center
http://www.rand.org/multi/dprc/

Drug Policy Alliance (formerly the Lindesmith Center Drug Policy
Foundation) http://www.lindesmith.org/

Institute for Policy Studies: Drug Policy Project
http://www.ips-dc.org/projects/drugpolicy.htm