Recurso: La página web de la DRCNet ofrece una gran cantidad de feeds RSS a su lector
Ahora hay una nueva manera de recibir los artÃculos de la DRCNet â la <em>Crónica de la Guerra Contra las Drogas</em> y más.
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Recurso: Se puede acceder al Calendario del Reformador a través de la página web de la DRCNet
Visite nuestra página web todos los dÃas para ver una cuenta atrás de los eventos que sucederán prontamente y más.
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Familias: Corte Suprema de Utah decide que la mera presencia de drogas en un hogar no es maltrato y abuso infantil
La mera presencia de drogas ilegales en un hogar no es lo suficiente para justificar acusaciones de maltrato y abuso infantil contra los padres, ha decidido la Corte Suprema de Utah.
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Marihuana: Candidatos demócratas renuncian a oportunidad de apoyar la despenalización durante debate del martes por la noche
Cuando los presidenciables demócratas tuvieron la oportunidad de apoyar la despenalización de la marihuana durante el debate televisado del martes por la noche, apenas dos de los siete lo hicieron.
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Reducción de daños: Medida para prohibir fondos federales para ciudades con inyectorios es aprobada por el Senado
Los congresistas antidrogas han logrado aprobar una enmienda que prohibirÃa fondos federales para ciudades que instauren inyectorios. La medida está en el comité de conferencia y necesita ser estrangulada ya.
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Policial: Las historias de policÃas corruptos de esta semana
Un agente de alto rango admite que era corrupto, un subcomandante de una brigada antidroga de la frontera es preso, un subjefe de policÃa está siendo investigado y, sÃ, pillan a otra guardia de prisión.
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Estudiantes: ¡Haga sus prácticas en la DRCNet y ayude a detener la guerra a las drogas!
¡Postule a prácticas en la DRCNet para este otoño (o primavera) y usted puede pasar el semestre luchando por una buena causa!
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Semanal: Blogueando en el Bar Clandestino
âArrestar a usuarios de marihuana pasa una idea equivocada a los niñosâ, âA Drew Carey le importa la marihuana medicinalâ, âCobardes: Favoritos demócratas rechazan reforma de la ley sobre la marihuanaâ, âBill O'Reilly no quiere que te flipesâ, â¿Qué motiva a los lÃderes de la guerra a las drogas?â, âBloguear es más adictivo que la marihuanaâ.
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Reportaje: ¿La marihuana medicinal puede hacer que pierdas a tu hijo? En California, sÃ
Ronnie Naulls creÃa que sabÃa lo que debÃa esperar si la DEA persiguiera a su dispensario, pero él nunca llegó a pensar que le iban a quitar a sus hijos. Ãl tampoco es el único paciente o proveedor de marihuana medicinal de California que se encuentra en apuros con los servicios de protección al menor o los juzgados de familia.
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Reportaje: Entran en vigor nuevas directrices federales de condenación menos rigurosa para la piedra de cocaÃna, pero ¿será que van a ser retroactivas?
Esta semana, entraron en vigor nuevas directrices federales de condenación menos rigurosa para los delitos de piedra de cocaÃna, que posiblemente van a afectar 4.000 casos federales al año. Pero ¿será que la Comisión de Penas de los EE.UU. volverá esos cambios retroactivos, trayendo esperanza a cerca de 20.000 infractores federales por crack actualmente presos? Esté atento.
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Editorial: Avance informativo - Gobiernos están destruyendo vidas con violencia en la guerra a las drogas
Miles de vidas son perjudicadas o destruidas en la guerra a las drogas todos los dÃas, pero en vano. Hay que terminar con la prohibición.
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Oregon Green Free Meeting
Patients, caregivers, growers, please join us. Everyone is invited -- this is open to the public!
Get there early and have some pizza and refreshments.
Door prizes, info, & more!
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Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Meeting
Please join us at our next meeting!
Some Agenda Items:
- Latest Patient and DPC (Caregivers) related News and Announcements
- Current Happenings â within the Program, with the Legislature, with Advocates
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ASAâs Media Summary for the Week Ending 11/2/07
- ASA IN THE NEWS: Drew Carey Video Features ASA Executive Director
- FEDERAL: Hayward DEA Raid Leads to Arrests
- DOCTORS: Cannabis Specialists Provide Insights
- MONTANA: Suicide of Patient-Activist Draws Recriminations
- OREGON: Patientâs Case to Test Lawâs Limits
- DISPENSARIES: Land Use Planning the Question for California
- ASA BLOG: Comments from ASA Staff and Guests
ASA IN THE NEWS: Drew Carey Video Features ASA Executive Director
In addition to speaking with a Los Angeles police officer and a Vietnam veteran who uses medical cannabis, comedian, actor and now game-show-host Drew Carey interviews ASA Executive Director Steph Sherer, who tells Carey how federal raids on medical cannabis collectives in the San Francisco Bay Area led to the founding of Americans for Safe Access. To view this episode of the Drew Carey Project, please visit www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/DrewCarey.
Drew Carey defends medical marijuana in new online video
by Sandy Cohen, Associated Press
Bob Barker famously closed each episode of "The Price Is Right" with a pitch to spay and neuter pets. His successor is taking a stand on a more controversial subject: marijuana. Drew Carey won't tout toking up on "Price," but he defends the use of medical marijuana in a video posted online Thursday on Reason.tv.
Drew Carey Defends Medical Marijuana
eMax Health
"I think it's clear by now that the federal government needs to reclassify marijuana. People who need it should be able to get it -- safely and easily," says The Price Is Right and Power of 10 host Drew Carey in a new Reason.tv video examining medical marijuana and the war on drugs.
FEDERAL: Hayward DEA Raid Leads to Arrests
DEA spokespeople have made much of the revenues they claim a Hayward medical cannabis collective enjoyed. They fail to note that the reason for an increase in revenue has been the systematic closing of the other dispensaries in the area, forcing the countyâs many patients to one location. The increased revenue reflects an increased volume of patients more than profiteering. ASA's rapid response program again meant that the media was alerted immediately, helping ensure full coverage, and patients and activists were notified by text messages and emails so they could protest at the main dispensary location.
Feds raid seven East Bay medical pot sites
Bay Area News Group
Federal officials raided seven locations in the East Bay this morning that were connected to a medical marijuana dispensary in Hayward, officials said.
Medical-pot brothers held on drug charges
by Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle
Two East Bay brothers were arrested Tuesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they ran a large-scale drug operation from a Hayward medical marijuana club from which proceeds were delivered to a bank by armored car, authorities said.
Two brothers arrested, accused of drug dealing
by Jason Sweeney, Paul Thissen and Scott Marshall, Mercury News (San Jose)
Federal agents arrested two brothers early Tuesday and seized a Lafayette house after they were indicted on charges that they ran a multimillion-dollar drug operation out of a Hayward-area medical-marijuana collective.
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Study: College Educated People are More Likely to Support Marijuana Legalization
Supporters of marijuana policy reform have long been viciously mischaracterized and stereotyped by our opposition. We are called druggies and losers. Our views are dismissed as unserious and irresponsible, fueled perhaps by excessive consumption of the drugs we want legalized. But according to Gallup Poll data, we are more likely to be college educated:
By contrast, there are many ways in which a lack of education may contribute to a belief that it is wise to criminalize vast portions of the population and attempt to uproot America's #1 cash crop. But let's not forget that the architects of the war on marijuana users are, themselves, very cunning and deliberate in their actions. They've been effective in stigmatizing their opposition as hacks and weirdos, while fostering a false belief among politicians that reform is political suicide.
The future of marijuana policy reform lies in breaking free from the stereotypes imposed on us by our oppressors and revealing our movement as the compassionate, intellectual brain trust that it has blossomed into. This may be inevitable, but in the meantime, let's all try to use proper spelling and punctuation in our blog comments (like the smart, serious people this Gallup Poll reveals us to be).
Americans with some college education -- from those who have attended at least one college course to those who have postgraduate degrees -- are somewhat more likely than those without a college degree to say marijuana should be legal in the country. Thirty-seven percent of adults with a college education support legalization, compared with 31% of those with no college education.This makes perfect sense if one understands that opposition to the war on marijuana users emerges from a thousand perspectives: economics, public health, human rights, civil liberties, and on and on. Of course, one needn't attend college to recognize the absurdity of this massive war against otherwise law-abiding Americans, but it is important to dispel the notion that marijuana reformers are foolish or naïve. We are not. And we have degrees to prove it.
By contrast, there are many ways in which a lack of education may contribute to a belief that it is wise to criminalize vast portions of the population and attempt to uproot America's #1 cash crop. But let's not forget that the architects of the war on marijuana users are, themselves, very cunning and deliberate in their actions. They've been effective in stigmatizing their opposition as hacks and weirdos, while fostering a false belief among politicians that reform is political suicide.
The future of marijuana policy reform lies in breaking free from the stereotypes imposed on us by our oppressors and revealing our movement as the compassionate, intellectual brain trust that it has blossomed into. This may be inevitable, but in the meantime, let's all try to use proper spelling and punctuation in our blog comments (like the smart, serious people this Gallup Poll reveals us to be).
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Harm Reduction Therapy: An Integrated Treatment for Trauma, Substance Abuse, and Mental Illness
This event is sponsored by Drug Policy Alliance. It is presented by the Association for Harm Reduction Therapy in partnership with the Harm Reduction Therapy Center and the Harm Reduction Therapy and Training Associates.
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Pay the Printer Party for O'Shaughnessy's
This event is presented by MedicalBoardWatch & Society of Cannabis Clinicians. It is a benefit for O'Shaughnessy's, the journal of record for the clinical use of cannabis, recording both the science, and the news. Come Support O'Shaughnessy's, and honor Dr. Tod who passed away May 20, 2007.