Pubdate: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET UN DRUG AGENCY REPORTS "SIGNIFICANT AND POSITIVE CHANGES" Countries urged to provide greater health care to drug addicts. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/world_drug_report.html - ------------------------------- BONG HITS AND AD RUNS Two Supreme Court cases show the perils of making excuses for censorship. By Jacob Sullum, June 27, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/121073.html - ------------------------------- STUDENTS FREE SPEECH RIGHTS GO UP IN SMOKE By Anthony Papa, June 25, 2007 On June 25th student free speech joined the panoply of endangered fundamental rights ready to be stripped away from us due to the tragedy of the drug war. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-papa - ------------------------------- THE PURPLE BRAIN - AMERICA'S NEW REEFER MADNESS By Marsha Rosenbaum and Paul Armentano, AlterNet, June 23, 2007 The ONDCP's latest fearmongering ant-marijuana campaign, "The Purple Brain," makes absurd and unsubstantiated claims of "brain damage." http://alternet.org/drugreporter/54977/ - ------------------------------- CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW Tonight: 06/29/07 - Presidential Candidate Ron Paul discusses the drug war (2003 rebroadcast) plus Drug War Facts Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_062907.mp3 Last: 06/22/07 - Nora Callahan of November Coalition, Terry Evans and Bruce Mirken of MPP, Tinfoil Hat Award Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_062207.mp3 - ------------------------------- DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES MENTION DRUG POLICY IN DEBATE "And if I'm president, I will do away with the war on drugs, which does nothing but savage our inner cities and put our children at risk." -- Former Senator Mike Gravel (D-Ak) "We need to make sure that we do deal with the distinction between crack and powder cocaine." -- Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) "But it requires some political courage, because oftentimes you are accused of being soft on crime when you deal with these issues." -- Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Transcript of the Third Democratic Primary Presidential Debate http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/us/politics/29transcript.html *********************************************************************** WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK URGE THE DEA TO LICENSE MEDICAL MARIJUANA PRODUCTION Reps. John Olver (D-MA) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) are co-sponsoring a Congressional Sign-On Letter urging the DEA to accept DEA Administrative Law Judge Bittner's Recommended Ruling to license Prof. Lyle Craker's proposed MAPS-sponsored medical marijuana production facility. MAPS needs you to help by contacting your Congressional Representative. http://www.maps.org/ - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake