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WikiLeaks to Target Drugs

WikiLeaks, a whistleblowing online site, obtained 8,324 documents related to drugs, an area of great interest to the border region. However, the public will have to wait to learn what most of those cables contain because WikiLeaks does not plan to release all 251,287 of its leaked documents at once. As of Monday, only 272 diplomatic cables had been released.

'Cannabiz: The Explosive Rise of the Medical Marijuana Industry' — Author Interview

Veteran Bay Area investigative reporter John Geluardi released his first book, Cannabiz: The Explosive Rise of the Medical Marijuana Industry this October. A former staff writer for the SF Weekly, Geluardi saw so much momentum building behind medical pot, he researched and reported a 200-page non-fiction paperback. Geluardi talks about investing in pot, economies of scale, and new fissures in the field in this two-part Q&A edited for length and clarity.

London Exhibit Examines Centuries of Drug History

"High Society," an exhibition opening today at London's Wellcome Collection museum, examines the history of opium, from pre-biblical practices to today's entire prohibitionist drug market, which is worth an estimated $320 billion per year, according to the United Nations. One of the aims of the exhibit is to de-stigmatize today's illegal drugs and show there is more to the subject than visitors may have thought. After all, substances that many people ingest freely today — alcohol, caffeine and tobacco — have all been criminalized in years past or are still illegal in some parts of the world.

Drug Truth 11/08/10

Cultural Baggage * Century of Lies * 4:20 Drug War NEWS  *  Time 4 Hemp PLEASE sign petition to drug czars to appear on our programs:  http://www.petitiononline.com/dtn/

Cultural Baggage for  11/07/10 29:00 Jerry Epstein of Drug Policy Forum of Texas re Lancet report on alcohol as most dangerous drug + Ethan Nadelmann on Prop 19 & Mary Jane Borden: "US Prison Population" & DTN Editorial & "Time to Lock Up Willie"LINK:   http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3143

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Century of Lies for  11/07/10  29:00  Dale Jones spokesperson for Yes on 19 press conf following election with Judge Jim Gray, Robert Downing, former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, Dan Rush of United Food Worker Union & Dr. Ethan Nadelmann, Dir of Drug Policy AllianceLINK:   http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3137

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4:20 Drug War NEWS, 11/08 to 11/14/10  Link at www.drugtruth.net on the right margin -

Sun - Norm Stamper, former police chief of Seattle speaks regarding failure of drug prohibition Sat - Jerry Epstein of Drug Policy Forum of Texas re Lancet report on alcohol as most dangerous drug Fri - Dr. Ethan Nadelmann, Dir of Drug Policy Alliance re future of cannabis reform Thu - Robert Downing former Asst LA police chief on failure of marijuana law + "Time to lock up Willie"

Wed - Superior Court Judge James Gray (ret) regarding No vote on legalizing cannabis Tue - Mary Jane Borden of Drug War Facts: "How large is US prison population?"

Mon - DTN Editorial: "No on 19 = No on Reality"

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Cops Used Fake Patient IDs to Buy Medical Pot; Was It Entrapment?

Oakland County Sheriff's deputies used phony Michigan medical marijuana cards -- created on a county computer -- to trick state-approved medical marijuana providers into selling the drug to the police. Days after the drug buys, county narcotics agents raided two medical marijuana dispensaries. Defense attorneys for more than two dozen people arrested in the raids are crying foul, saying their clients were trapped into lawbreaking while trying to stay within the state law.
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