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Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
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Appeal: A Victory is In the Works, With Your Help
Our multi-year campaign to repeal an infamous law that denies financial aid to students because of drug convictions may soon ride to a successful conclusion.
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Job Opportunities: Marijuana Policy Project, Washington
MPP is hiring a Director of Federal Policies and a Web Developer for its DC headquarters.
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Job Opportunity: Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland
The Harm Reduction Coalition hiring Syringe Exchange Program Specialist for its Oakland, California office.
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Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Web Scan
PBS on Lakota hemp, marijuana and religion, SSDP Voice, Heroin Times, NPR on DC needle exchange, Exodus Transitional Community, Cannabinoid Chronicles, LEAP web site relaunched
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Barry Beyerstein: We Have Lost One of the Best
Memorial for academic and pioneering drug reformer Barry Beyerstein, by long-time friend Arnold Trebach.
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Drug Testing: Tennessee Supreme Court Holds Off-Duty Marijuana Use No Reason to Deny Workman's Comp Claim
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that merely because a worker admitted to smoking marijuana the night before he suffered a workplace injury was no reason to deny him workman's compensation.
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Marijuana: California Superior Court Upholds Santa Barbara's "Lowest Enforcement Priority" Law
A California Superior Court judge has thrown out an effort by the city of Santa Barbara to undo the city's voter-mandated policy making adult marijuana possession offenses the lowest law enforcement priority.
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The Drug Debate: American Mayors Urge "A New Bottom Line" and a Public Health Approach for Drug Policy
The US Conference of Mayors last month adopted a resolution calling the war on drugs a failure and urging "a new bottom line" on drug policy.
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Medical Marijuana: Rudy Giuliani Just Says No
Republican presidential nomination contender Rudy Giuliani has rejected medical marijuana, claiming it is a a stalking horse for legalization.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
The allure of Oxycontin (and its profits) snags two cops, a deputy can't keep his paws off the meth, and a South Carolina cop gets charged with drug dealing. Just another week in the drug war.
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A better mayor, on drug policy at least...
Vancouver's former mayor, Larry Campbell (now a member of Canada's Senate) has an editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press criticizing both the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada for the increase in marijuana convictions -- the former for not introducing the decrim bill soon enough -- the latter for being, well, just wrong (Sen. Nolin excepted, of course.)
Campbell writes:
It's about time that we get over the stigma associated with many of the false assumptions that dominate this debate, and pragmatically move forward on eliminating pot prohibition. As someone who has both walked the streets as a member of the RCMP's drug squad and examined legislation for passage into law as a Senator, I have a sharp understanding of what constitutes a criminal. Those that use pot just don't fit the profile.Campbell's rational call for change stands in stark contrast to the strong anti-marijuana stance of another former mayor, New York City's Rudy Giuliani, who radically increased marijuana arrests and even opposes medical marijuana use. Campbell's actually for legalization across the board -- according to our 2003 interview with him, though not optimistic of it. Keep up with Canada drug policy news through our topics page here (or the RSS feed for it here). Or just read our newsletter...
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Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It," by Joseph Califano (2007, Public Affairs Press, 270 pp., $26.95 HB)
Joe Califano's "High Society" is a strange brew of legitimate concerns, hype, distortions, and what look to us to be misguided policy pronouncements. We review it this issue.