DrugSense Weekly - July 4, 2008 #556The DrugSense Weekly Newsletter for July 4, 2008 #556DrugSense Weekly - Domestic News- Policy - July 4, 2008 556- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The Los Angeles Daily News ran several stories last week about newborn babies being taken from mothers due to false positives on drug tests. The stories are so important that we excerpt three of the stories here, and strongly recommend the full stories to anyone with time to read them. In addition to the overview and a shocking look at the high numbers of false positives, there is a heartbreaking story of one family who paid the ultimate price for this cruel...http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2008/ds08.n556.html#com5 DrugSense Weekly - Law Enforcement and Prisons - July 4, 2008 556- (Found July 5, 2008 ) At least some former law and order conservatives are seeing the folly of the drug war, according to a story in the New York Times. But in Ohio, at least one law and order judge still doesn't get it at all. A different judge in Indiana is trying to sort out the mess made by police who appear to have used money confiscated from alleged drug deals as a general slush fund. And, finally, mark my words, when semi-subs are outlawed, only outlaws will have semi-subs.http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2008/ds08.n556.html#com10 DrugSense Weekly - Cannabis and Hemp- - July 4, 2008 556- (Found July 5, 2008 ) As noted in the last issue of this newsletter, a recent drug war surge in California has caused at least one columnist to question federal priorities. Yet another cannabis consumer has fallen victim to a grossly disproportional paramilitary police raid. The depiction of "cannabis culture" in the popular media is a double- edged sword, normalizing cannabis and humanizing growers, sellers and consumers on the one hand, while fostering and perpetuating ...http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2008/ds08.n556.html#com14 DrugSense Weekly - International News - July 4, 2008 556- (Found July 5, 2008 ) To demonstrate their drug-fighting zeal, communist officials in China had six "drug dealers" executed last week. While China regularly executes ostensible drug "dealers," the executions have little effect. "The number of drug-related cases have been growing," admitted Supreme People's Court spokesman Ni Shouming. With China's growing economic prowess comes a growing smorgasbord of drugs: "The quantity and new types of drugs are increasing." The Mexican ...http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2008/ds08.n556.html#com18 |