Pubdate: Fri, 30 Jul 2004
Source: DrugSense Weekly
Section: Feature Article
Website: http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm
Author: Doug Snead,  Doug Snead is an editor with DrugSense Weekly and author of a book 
about drug war propaganda.

A GREAT TOOL TO FIND DRUG NEWS

The DrugSense newsbot makes it easier to not miss important articles, and 
to share them with your fellow activists at DrugSense.

The newsbot is at: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/

If you don't know about this site already, please take a look. It sees 
about 400 drug-related articles a day.  New drug related articles appear 
every 15 minutes or so.  It uses news sites like Google news for input, so, 
for example, it sees all the cannabis-related articles Google news sees, 
plus much more. No other site brings you the latest raw breaking drug news 
faster than this site.

The newsbot is made to help newshawks who find articles for 
MAPInc/DrugSense ( for more about information about newshawks, what they 
do, and how you can be one too, see http://www.mapinc.org/hawk.htm ).  The 
newsbot has features just for newshawks, like flagging articles that appear 
to have already been hawked.

Another newshawk feature greatly speeds up the article cut/paste/re-format 
process.  If you register, then you can use the "one-click" feature to 
dramatically cut the steps you need to take when you hawk an item. One 
click, and the article is placed in a mail window, ready to send to  (and copied to your email address, if you like).

Registered users can also set up interest profiles and have articles URLs 
mailed back to them hourly or daily.

Did I mention that the site will output everything as RSS newsfeeds, too? 
(This lets you get breaking drug news in your favorite news reader, and on 
hand-helds, cell-phones, etc.)

This tool helps us not miss drug-related articles that might otherwise get 
by us. Please take a look at this Mapinc/Drugsense tool and tell us what 
you think of it!

http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake