Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 Subject: #414 How Pot Became Legal HOW POT BECAME LEGAL ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #414 – Friday, 18 September 2009 Marijuana specific magazines have been around, and come and gone, since Michael R. Aldrich, Ph.D., published the first magazine “The Marijuana Review” in the early […]
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#413 Prohibition’s Failed – Time For A New Drugs Policy
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 Subject: #413 Prohibition’s Failed – Time For A New Drugs Policy PROHIBITION’S FAILED – TIME FOR A NEW DRUGS POLICY ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #413 – Sunday, 6 September 2009 One of the top ten British Sunday newspapers, The Observer, published four items of interest […]
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#412 Decriminalization – A Better Approach?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 Subject: #412 Decriminalization – A Better Approach? DECRIMINALIZATION – A BETTER APPROACH? ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #412 – Sunday, 30 August 2009 Alan Bock in today’s column discusses the impact of decriminalization of drugs in Mexico and Portugal. He then shows the United States failing […]
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#411 Tide Turns In Favour Of Drug Reform
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 Subject: #411 Tide Turns In Favour Of Drug Reform TIDE TURNS IN FAVOUR OF DRUG REFORM ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #411 – Thursday, 27 August 2009 Some DrugSense FOCUS Alerts are produced because of targets worthy of letters to the editor. Others because a news […]
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#410 Why It’s Time To End The War On Drugs
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 Subject: #410 Why It’s Time To End The War On Drugs WHY IT’S TIME TO END THE WAR ON DRUGS ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #410 – Tuesday, 3 August 2009 There are many good books available about various aspects of the War on Drugs. Short […]
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#409 Marijuana … Has No Medicinal Benefit – Kerlikowske
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 Subject: #409 Marijuana … Has No Medicinal Benefit – Kerlikowske MARIJUANA … HAS NO MEDICINAL BENEFIT – KERLIKOWSKE ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #409 – Sunday, 2 August 2009 On the 23rd of July The Fresno Bee http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n000/a144.html quoted our drug czar: “Marijuana is dangerous and […]
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#408 Mendocino County Marijuana
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 Subject: #408 Mendocino County Marijuana MENDOCINO COUNTY MARIJUANA ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #408 – Monday, 27 July 2009 Last week we distributed an alert about the Wall Street Journal front page article “With ‘Med Pot’ Raids Halted, Selling Grass Grows Greener” http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n731/a02.html Today readers of […]
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#407 California Marijuana In The News
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 Subject: #407 California Marijuana In The News CALIFORNIA MARIJUANA IN THE NEWS ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #407 – Friday, 24 July 2009 Thursday’s front page article in the Wall Street Journal is a worthy target for your letters to the editor. The newspaper is know […]
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#406 A Syndicated Columnist Supports Legalization
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 Subject: #406 A Syndicated Columnist Supports Legalization A SYNDICATED COLUMNIST SUPPORTS LEGALIZATION ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #406 – Wednesday, 1 July 2009 You may not agree with everything syndicated columnist George Monbiot wrote below. The point he makes that is worthy of this FOCUS Alert […]