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VENEZUELA DECRIMINALIZES DRUG POSSESSION

By Al Giordano at Bigleftoutside.com

http://www.bigleftoutside.com/archives/000313.php

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CANDIDATES SUPPORT REPEAL OF HEA DRUG PROVISION

Manchester, NH - Six Presidential candidates support the repeal of the 98 Drug Provision of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, Joseph Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, Richard Gephardt, and Dennis Kucinich announced their support after listening to concerns from members
of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at the SSDP national
conference. Photos and video footage from the conference are online at:

http://nh2004.ssdp.org/

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THE CBC ON BREWERY GROW OPERATION

The CBC's Avril Benoit talks to Rosie Rowbotham about the
record-breaking cannabis growing operation found in an old brewery in Ontario. (Runs 8:03 | Jan. 12, 2004)

Audio: http://www.cbc.ca/MRL//clips/rm-audi...ha_w6040113.rm

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MONTEL WILLIAMS ON MS AND MJ

In a heart wrenching episode popular daytime talkshow host Montel Williams talks about living with the depression and pain caused by the MS from which he suffers, and then explains that natural cannabis medicine is the only thing that works for him.

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/...owse-2416.html

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DRUG TRUTH SPECIAL PANEL - RACIAL BIAS IN THE DRUG WAR

Recorded Tuesday, 01/13/04 Now

Participants include Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation, Roger Goodman of the King County Bar Association, Sanho Tree of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and Deborah Small of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Real: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/torb011304.ram

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CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Last: 01/13/04, Valierie Coral, Director of WAMM, http://www.wamm.org, the medical marijuana co-op in Santa Cruz, California.

(Todd McCormick postponed his visit.)

MP3: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/Audio/FDBCB_011304.mp3

Real: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/tocb011304.ram

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS IN CALIFORNIA TOP 75,000

January 15, 2004 - San Francisco, CA, USA

The number of patients in California using marijuana medicinally under a doctor's supervision is rising dramatically and now tops 75,000, according to estimates released this week by California NORML.

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5906