Rope a Dope
17 Oct 2004
by
Paul Heller
Gee, what might be the key to salvaging the U.S. economy -- besides ridding the government of conservatives, I mean?
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Proposition 63 on the Nov. Ballot
15 Oct 2004
(Updated)
by
Peter Demma
Mental health care is important, and a good idea, but this initiative has problems.
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How the government lost the drug war in cyberspace.
from October 2004 Reason OnLine
Open Secrets
How the government lost the drug war in cyberspace.
Michael Erard
For 36 years the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) quietly published a quirky monthly newsletter called Microgram for a small audience of forensic chemists. It was "law enforcement restricted," which meant you could obtain it only if you were a law enforcement official, a government investigator, or a forensic scientist. As far as the public was concerned, it was a secret. In January 2003 DEA officials started to make Microgram publicly available via the Web (at
www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/bulletins_index.html), where it joined a vast sea of information about illicit drugs: how to get them, how to use them, why to avoid them, why laws controlling them should be either tightened or reformed...
more:
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Ralph Nader vs Washington Post on Israel
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Announcement :: Government & Elections : Health & Drugs
Beyond Voting: Healthcare not Warfare
Go Beyond Voting on November 3rd. Join Code Blue, a group of Bay Area health care activists, in actions highlighting healthcare not warfare.
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