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Media
and
Resources:
New
CSDP
Drug
Warrior
Distortions
Guide,
Jefferson
Fish
in
Newsday,
Reason
Magazine
1/4/02
Common Sense for Drug Policy,
the publishers of the extensive drug policy reference "Drug War Facts,"
has now released a companion publication, "Top Drug Warrior Distortions."
Readers are urged to check it out and use it in your writing and debates.
Visit http://www.csdp.org/research/dwdist.htm
for the new publication, and http://www.drugwarfacts.org
for the original.
Dr. Jefferson Fish, a psychology
professor and former department chairman at St. John's University, has
published an op-ed in the New York-area paper Newsday, titled "Divert Drug-Bust
Money to War on Terrorism." Fish is the editor of "Is Our Drug Policy
Effective? Are There Alternatives?" and "How to Legalize Drugs."
The op-ed can be read online at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpfis022532088jan02.story?coll=ny%2Dviewpoints%2Dheadlines
Reason magazine has posted
articles from its recent drugs issue and other articles of interest online:
Seized by Failure,
by Joel Miller,
http://www.reason.com/hod/jm010202.shtml
Sex, Drugs, & Techno
Music, by Jacob Sullum
http://www.reason.com/0201/fe.js.sex.shtml
Battlefield Conversions
http://www.reason.com/0201/fe.ml.battlefield.shtml
A Splendid Little Drug War,
by Glenn Garvin
http://www.reason.com/0201/cr.gg.a.shtml
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Issue #218, 1/4/02
Editorial: Worse Than Nothing | Mississippi Policeman Killed in Late December Drug Raid, Law Enforcement Dissidents Call for Better Way | Draconian New Ecstasy Law Now in Effect in Illinois | Interview: Kenneth Curtis, the South Carolina Urine Felon | Afghan Opium Production Set to Boom Again with Taliban Gone | Shining Path Reemerges in Peru, Maoist Guerrillas Profit from Prohibition in the Andes | London Police Extend Cannabis Decriminalization Experiment | New Hampshire Supreme Court: If Schools Want to Act as Police, They Must Follow Constitutional Standards | Media and Resources: New CSDP Drug Warrior Distortions Guide, Jefferson Fish in Newsday, Reason Magazine | Job Opening: Santa Monica | Internships at DRCNet | Alerts: Bolivia, HEA Drug Provision, DEA Hemp Ban, Ecstasy Bill, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana | The Reformer's Calendar
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