DRUGSENSE WEEKLY, MARCH 23, 2007 #491

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n491.html#sec1

(1) Development Of A Rational Scale To Assess The Harm Of Drugs Of
Potential Misuse (2) Perils Grow In Battle For Medical Pot (3) Give
It Away Now? (4) Licence To Kill

* Weekly News in Review http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n491.html#sec2

Drug Policy

(5) Court Probes Student Free Speech Limits (6) Richardson To
Legalize Medical Marijuana (7) Senate Panel Wants To Give Sheriffs
Access To Pharmacy (8) Robbery Suspect Says the D.E.A. Made Him Do It

Law Enforcement & Prisons

(9) Officer Won't Be Charged In Killing (10) Pot Smoker Jailed For
Life Is Free (11) Officer Bungled 4 Cases, Police Say (12) New Haven
Will Scrutinize Pension Request Of Arrested Lieutenant

Cannabis & Hemp

(13) Applaud Lawmakers For Medical Pot Bill (14) The Case Of Angel
Raich (15) Cannabis: A Retraction (16) N.D. Farmers Apply For Hemp Permits

International News

(17) Duo To Be Hanged After Losing Their Final Appeals (18)
Bolivians: Coca-Cola Should Drop 'Coca' (19) Ban It And Watch It
Flourish (20) Sensationalism No Way To Fight Drug Addiction

* Hot Off The 'Net http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n491.html#sec3

Will The Supreme Court Separate "Drug Speech" From Free Speech?

It's Been An 'All Out War' On Pot Smokers For 35 Years

MP Libby Davies Addresses Canadian Students For Sensible Drug Policy

Bongwater Into Whine / By Jacob Sullum

Richard Nixon On Pot

Cultural Baggage Radio Show

How The Independent On Sunday Got It Horribly Wrong On Cannabis

* What You Can Do This Week
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Write A Letter

* Letter Of The Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n491.html#sec5

Prohibition Increases Drug Use: Teacher / Dan Banov

* Letter Writer Of The Month - February
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Moe Brondum

* Feature Article http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n491.html#sec7

War On Drugs Is A War On Our Own People / Ellen Taylor

* Quote of the Week http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2007/ds07.n491.html#sec8

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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