Announcement

Reports of a nationwide increase in violent crime—the largest in 15 years—may soon have lawmakers calling for tougher measures to protect the public. But putting more people in prison may not be the best way to cut crime rates. According to a new Vera report, Reconsidering Incarceration: New Directions for Reducing Crime, further increases in incarceration are subject to diminishing returns in effectiveness and come at substantial cost to taxpayers.

CMM-NJ Public Meetings are always held on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome. Light refreshments are served. For more information, call: Ken Wolski, RN, MPA [Executive Director Coalition for Medical Marijuana--New Jersey, Inc., 844 Spruce St., Trenton, NJ 08648] at 609.394.2137.

It is an honour and a pleasure to invite you to The First World Conference on Medication Assisted Treatment of Opiate Addiction with Inaugural Meeting – World Federation for the Associations for the Treatment of Opiod Dependence.

The International Association for Cannabis as Medicine in cooperation with the Institute for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Cologne would like to invite you to the 2007 Meeting of the IACM on October 5-6, 2007 at the Holiday Inn, Cologne.

Get involved! Please join fellow, concerned activists at one of our volunteer meetings. For more information, contact Laura Green at 785-841-8278 or [email protected].

Come to the Gallery for live music, prison poetry, and featured speaker Phillip Fornaci, director of D.C. Prisoners' Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. Mr. Fornaci will answer your questions about the rights of DC prisoners and what is being done by him and his top-notch legal team to fully secure those rights. You won't want to miss this event if you have a loved one in jail or prison, or care about the men and women there.

Presented by the U.R.I. Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Hempfest 2007 will be an all day outdoor festival held on the Quad of the U.R.I. campus. This event will feature music, including the Black Rebels, Sasquatch and the Sick-a-billys, the Fury 3, What Cheer? Brigade, and more.

Eric E. Sterling, J.D., President of The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation in Silver Spring, will be speaking on "The Morality of American Drug Policy" to the Unitarian - Universalist Group at Leisure World -- Rossmoor, in Aspen Hill, Maryland, at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in the Leisure World Chapel, 3680 South Leisure World Boulevard, Silver Spring, MD 20906. The event is free and open to the public.

Can the police search my house? What should I do if pulled over? Are the police allowed to lie? Answer these questions and more at two upcoming, free Know Your Rights trainings. Sensible Colorado is joining forces with national experts from the Midnight Special Law Collective to present an interactive role-playing presentation that teaches citizens how to survive common police encounters.

Houston Community College's Pandora's Box Hosts A Distinguished Panel of Experts on April 10 Panelists include: -Stan Furce, Director of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area for Houston. -Marcia Baker, director of Houston's Phoenix House.