WHAT DO JUDGE JAMES P. GRAY, KEVIN ZEESE, KAY LEE, DR. JOE MCNAMARA, DR.
TOM O'CONNELL, ERIC STERLING, SCOTT IMLER AND LYNN PALTROW HAVE IN COMMON?

During the next seven days all will participate in forums being held online
in the New York Times Drug Policy Forum and/or the DrugSense Chat Room.

Here Is The Schedule So That You May Mark Your Calendar:

MONDAY, 5 NOV. at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific in the New York Times Drug
Policy Forum at http://forums.nytimes.com/comment/index-national.html Click
on Drug Policy under National Forums. If you are not registered with the
New York Times website you will need to do so by following their easy
instructions.

Special Panel - Superior Court Judge, James P. Gray; Former Police Chief of
San Jose, Dr. Joe McNamara; President of Common Sense for Drug Policy,
Kevin Zeese; medical marijuana and prison rights activist, Kay Lee; and
DrugSense Vice President and author, Dr. Tom O'Connell. All have been
guests in previous forums - transcripts of which may be found at the links
below.

Please submit questions in the forum beforehand for this Special Panel.

Judge JAMES GRAY is the author of "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What
We Can Do About It." which is reviewed at his website at
http://www.judgejimgray.com/ This is Judge Gray's second visit to these
forums. Items by or about Judge Gray are at
http://www.mapinc.org/people/James+Gray

Hoover Institution scholar and former police chief of San Jose and Kansas
City JOSEPH MCNAMARA is the author of the forthcoming book 'Gangster Cops:
The Hidden Cost of America's War on Drugs.' Items by or about Chief
McNamara are at http://www.mapinc.org/people/Joseph+McNamara

KEVIN ZEESE has worked on a wide array of drug policy related issues as
shown here: http://www.csdp.org/kz/ Common Sense for Drug Policy has three
websites: http://www.csdp.org/ http://www.drugwarfacts.org/ and
http://www.narcoterror.org/ Items by or about Mr. Zeese are at
http://www.mapinc.org/people/Kevin+Zeese

KAY LEE's activism has included leading four Journey for Justice treks
across the states of Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida and Texas. For details visit
her website at http://www.journeyforjustice.org/ A number of news articles
about these treks may be found at this link http://www.mapinc.org/journey.htm

THOMAS O'CONNELL, MD, retired recently as the news and comments editor of
the DrugSense Weekly http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm Dr. O'Connell's
latest writing is a history of DrugSense and the Media Awareness Project
which is at http://www.drugsense.org/history.htm

TUESDAY, 6 NOV. chat with ERIC STERLING when he visits the DrugSense Chat
Room http://www.drugsense.org/chat at 9:30 p.m. Eastern, 6:30 p.m. Pacific.
Mr. Sterling is the President of The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
http://www.cjpf.org/ Over 150 news items about or by our guest are at
http://www.mapinc.org/people/Eric+Sterling including the transcript of his
visit to the NYT Drug Policy Forum.

WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV. at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific SCOTT IMLER, director
of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center http://www.lacbc.org/ visits
the New York Times Drug Policy Forum (link above) to discuss the DEA raid.
On October 25th, 2001 George W. Bush's Drug Enforcement Administration
invaded West Hollywood and destroyed the Cannabis Center leaving 960
patients without the medical marijuana they need to live! Many articles
about the center and Mr. Imler's efforts may be found at
http://www.mapinc.org/people/Scott+Imler

SATURDAY, 10 NOV. at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific SCOTT IMLER continues
his discussion in the DrugSense Chat Room http://www.drugsense.org/chat

SUNDAY, 11 NOV. at 9:30 p.m. Eastern, 6:30 p.m. Pacific chat with LYNN
PALTROW of The National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)
http://www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/ in the DrugSense Chat Room. NAPW
seeks to ensure that women are not punished for pregnancy and addiction and
that families are not needlessly separated based on medical and public
health misinformation.

More information on the above -- and future discussion guests Chris Conrad,
Ethan Nadelmann, Lester Grinspoon, and Governor Gary Johnson is at --
http://www.cultural-baggage.com/schedule.htm