Pubdate: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET THEY CAN HEAR YOU NOW Congress protects America from privacy By Jacob Sullum, August 8, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/121806.html - ------------------------------- AFTER THE WAR ON DRUGS: TOOLS FOR THE DEBATE Transform's latest publication is now available to download in PDF format. After the War on Drugs: Tools for the debate is a 76 page guide to making the case for drug policy reform. http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2007/08/after-war-on-drugs-tools-for-debate.html - ------------------------------- STARS AND BARS By Daniel Lazare How can you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for "people like us" (in Woody Allen's marvelous phrase) but for the others, the troublemakers, the ones you can tell are guilty merely by the color of their skin, the shape of their nose or their social class? http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/lazare - ------------------------------- HOUSE OF DEATH CONTINUES TO HAUNT BUSH ADMINISTRATION By Bill Conroy, Aug 6th, 2007 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/8/6/191324/0505 - ------------------------------- FBI CHANGES POLICY ON HIRING FORMER DRUG USERS What if Past Drug Use Barred You From Running for President? By Bill Piper and Tony Newman, August 8, 2007 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-piper-and-tony-newman/ - ------------------------------- CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW Tonight: 08/10/07 - Thomas Schweich, State Dept Counter-Narcotics official's "plan" for Afghanistan. Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_081007.mp3 Last: 08/03/07 - Valerie Corral, director of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, plus Bruce Mirken of Marijuana Policy Project Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_080307.mp3 - ------------------------------- TEXAS ARTIST PREACHES FREEDOM PHILOSOPHY Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist who lives deep in the heart of Texas. She recently finished her two yearly awarded portraits dedicated to the freedom philosophy or the American dream.This work and many others can be viewed on her website: http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm - ------------------------------- SHAMANS OF THE AMAZON Excellent documentary by Dean Jefferys about the Amazonian Shamans and their use of the sacred Ayahuasca vine to communicate with the Spirits of the Forest. http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com/ Includes footage of peaceful drug-prohibition protests, an interview with Terence Mckenna, criticism of the so called "war on drugs" (essentially a form of cultural genocide), the corruption within large oil companies and governments, many civil rights issues, etc. Video: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid'02586310701634296 - ------------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK COMMON SENSE FOR DRUG POLICY PUBLIC SERVICE ADS Common Sense for Drug Policy has just printed up another 20,000 tabloids containing over 40 of their public service advertisements. See http://www.csdp.org/ads/ CSDP is are offering the tabloids free without charge to organizations willing to provide a few words about how they would put them to use. For more information contact CSDP at - ------------------------------- APPLY FOR A DRUG POLICY REFORM JOB The Marijuana Policy Project has one full-time job opening in Washington, D.C., as well as several contract positions around the country. http://www.mpp.org/site/c.glKZLeMQIsG/b.1086577/k.C059/Jobs.htm - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake