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#396 Obama’s Take On The Drug War

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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 Subject: #396 Obama’s Take On The Drug War OBAMA’S TAKE ON THE DRUG WAR ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #396 – Sunday, 22 February 2009 Today the Denver Post printed the column below Hopefully the syndicated column will be printed in many more newspapers. Please contact […]

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#395 Three B.C. Newspapers Call For The Legalization Of Drugs

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 Subject: #395 Three B.C. Newspapers Call For The Legalization Of Drugs THREE B.C. NEWSPAPERS CALL FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #395 – Tuesday, 10 February 2009 Three major British Colombia newspapers have called for Canada to at least consider legalizing drugs. […]

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#394 Kellogg’s Gets Stupid Over A Bong

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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 Subject: #394 Kellogg’s Gets Stupid Over A Bong KELLOGG’S GETS STUPID OVER A BONG ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #394 – Monday, 9 February 2009 By now just about everybody who may read this Alert is aware of the photo of Michael Phelps inhaling from a […]

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#393 Please Keep The Pressure Up

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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 Subject: #393 Please Keep The Pressure Up PLEASE KEEP THE PRESSURE UP ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #393 – Thursday, 5 February 2009 Today the Washington Times published the article below announcing that the Obama administration would eventually end the Drug Enforcement Administration’s medicinal marijuana raids. […]

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#392 Take Action Please – Time Lag In Vienna?

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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 Subject: #392 Take Action Please – Time Lag In Vienna? TAKE ACTION PLEASE – TIME LAG IN VIENNA? ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #392 – Saturday, 31 January 2009 Today the New York Times published the editorial below. If the Obama administration was paying attention to […]

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#391 2008 – A Retrospective

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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 Subject: #391 2008 – A Retrospective 2008 – A RETROSPECTIVE ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #391 – Sunday, 11 January 2009 2008 saw 11,442 new news clippings added to the Media Awareness Project http://www.mapinc.org/ archives. Of these about six thousand were about marijuana or hemp. Over […]

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#390 ‘It’s A War’

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 Subject: #390 ‘It’s A War’ ‘IT’S A WAR’ ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #390 – Monday, 29 December 2008 ‘It’s A War’ – Mexican President Felipe Calderon 6,847 – Mexico’s estimated Drug War related deaths since January 2007 – more than the U.S. fatalities in the […]

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#389 The Pentagon Is Muscling In Everywhere

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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 Subject: #389 The Pentagon Is Muscling In Everywhere THE PENTAGON IS MUSCLING IN EVERYWHERE ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #389 – Sunday, 21 December 2008 Sometime an OPED catches our attention because it pulls together information which may have been below the radar for many of […]

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#388 Repealing Today’s Failed Prohibition

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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 Subject: #388 Repealing Today’s Failed Prohibition REPEALING TODAY’S FAILED PROHIBITION ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #388 – Sunday, 7 December 2008 Syndicated columnist Froma Harrop wrote the column, below, which ties the ended Prohibition 75 years ago this past week to the modern version – the […]