Pubdate: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org HOT OFF THE 'NET - ------------------ DRUG WAR MAYHEM IN MEXICO -- THE PUBLIC IS SICK OF IT By Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. Posted December 11, 2008. With Drug-trafficking deaths skyrocketing by more than 117 percent in 2008, the Mexican president's drug policies are extremely unpopular. http://drugsense.org/url/wCrhFiLK - ------------------ OBAMA'S SMOKING DRAMA By Tony Newman, AlterNet It is no fun having to explain to people, in person or on national television, how you came to start cigarettes again once they "catch" you. http://drugsense.org/url/gHY91Cah - ------------------ DRUG TRUTH NETWORK Century of Lies - 12/09/08 - Barry Cooper Dr. Jim Ketchum, author of "Chemical Warware-Secrets Almost Forgotten" which lifts the veil of LSD tests in US Army + Barry Cooper, former narcotics officer, producer of KopBusters video and Never Get Busted DVD http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2167 Cultural Baggage Radio Show - 12/10/08 - Ethan Nadelmann Martin Lee, author "Acid Dreams - The Complete Social History of LSD" + Ethan Nadelmann, dir of Drug Policy Alliance re Wall Street Op-Ed vs Czar Johan Walters http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2168 - ------------------ WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT MAKES TEENAGERS WANT TO DROP ACID? By Jacob Sullum The Office of National Drug Control Policy brags that the latest Monitoring the Future Study, the results of which were released today, "shows that in 2008, illicit drug use among youth continued to decline." http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130519.html - ------------------ OBAMA'S "OPEN FOR QUESTIONS" REVEALS CLAMOR FOR DRUG POLICY REFORM By Al Giordano President-elect Obama - fulfilling multiple campaign promises to more deeply involve the public in setting priorities for his administration - opened up his Change.Gov website to questions from citizens, and asked the people to then rate the questions up or down. http://drugsense.org/url/E1jVF3HM - ------------------ IN HOLLAND, CANNABIS POLITICS HEATS UP Drug War Chronicle, Issue #564, 12/12/08 For more than 30 years under the policy of "gedoogbeleid," which could best be translated as "pragmatic tolerance," the Dutch have allowed the sale of personal amounts of marijuana through the coffee house system, even though doing so is technically illegal. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/564/holland_cannabis_coffee_shops - ------------------ MAPS MDMA/PTSD TREATMENT MANUAL MAPS researchers Michael Mithoefer MD, Annie Mithoefer BSN, and June May Ruse PhD, have created a revised version of MAPS MDMA/PTSD treatment manual. The new version of the manual builds on a previous manual from 2005, and includes lessons learned from our recently completed US MDMA/PTSD pilot study. http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/mdma_assisted_therapy_manual_11_24_08.pdf - ------------------ AYAHUASCA HEALING BEYOND THE AMAZON The globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice By Kenneth W. Tupper http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121558489/abstract - ------------------ WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK - ------------------ SUPPORT ETHAN NADELMANN FOR DRUG CZAR We have had cops, doctors and soldiers. It's time for a Drug Czar who understands the full breadth, depth and importance of this issue. Sign the Petition to make Dr. Nadelmann Obama's Drug Czar. http://nadelmannfordrugczar.com/ - ------------------ WRITE A LETTER Repealing Today's Failed Prohibition - A DrugSense Focus Alert. http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0388.html - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake