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Volume I     Edition 12,     December, 2002

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Quick Hits (News)


Judges Throw out Odor-Based Drug Bust

By: Janet Elliott (Houston Chronicle)

Where there's smoke, there may not be fire, the Court of Criminal Appeals concluded in ruling that the odor of marijuana didn't give Abilene police officers probable cause to enter a home.

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Marijuana Backers to do Battle Again

By: Martha Mendoza (AP)

Stung by the defeat of marijuana law reform measures in three states, proponents of decriminalizing the drug are preparing for a new round of political and legal battles.

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Who couldn't love COPS?

By: Norml

The federal Community Oriented Policing Services program, to be more specific.

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Medicinal-Pot Advocate Lights Up

By: Keith Fraser (The Province)

American medicinal-pot advocate Steve Kubby and his wife Michelle are "terribly excited" to learn they'll be getting their grow-op back after marijuana charges against them were stayed.

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Growin' Our Own (Feature stories)


A Merry Special Interview

By: Elmore Stone

The silly season is almost upon us. And what better way to be silly -- I thought -- than to do an interview with the most secretive, yet most public man on earth(?), Santa Claus.

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Delivery Boy

By: Pugsley

There are times in a person's life when being at the right place at the right time can really pay off. It happened to me back in 1970 and lasted through 1972. If, by chance, my former employer is reading this allow me to say thank you. The money was great.

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America in a Fix

By: John L. Kane

Our present War on Drugs began in 1972 when pot-smoking demonstrators against the Vietnam War mocked all authority, ridiculed President Nixon and challenged the very assumption of his authority. His response has resulted in a society subjected to draconian remedies. The War on Drugs - through stringent, puritanical measures - attempts to set the public right. Not only is justice not done, it is threatened and derided.

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Busted Nuts (final part)

By: General Lee Doofy

(The 'Nuts' characters are a fictional creation by Rodger Beasly. No living intelligent individuals are represented in this writing)

0013 hrs Communique

(Click here for part two) I crawled from the comfort of my worn black leather bean bag, made my way, on hands and knees, to my olive drab multi purpose foot locker, trunk, coffee table, pulled a key from my belt, unlocked the small master lock, lifted the lid, stuck my hand down into another small box and removed the leather pouch that contained a brass pipe and my best bud.

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Pipeline (Other stuff)


Information Awareness Office Makes us a Nation of Suspects

By: Charles Pena (CATO Institute)

Embedded in the nearly 500 pages of the current House version of the Homeland Security Act is language that could give the federal government sweeping powers to secretly monitor . . .

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Drug Busts Gone Awry

By: Concerned

In traditional wars, collateral damage is often caused by dumb bombs. In the war on drugs, collateral damage is often caused by dumb police.

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Big Brother on Steroids

By: The Libertarian Party (Press release)

A lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. Senate to block the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program came up short -- but the Libertarian Party has vowed to continue to try to kill the massive surveillance system.

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If You Aren't Guilty, What are You Afraid of?

By: Harry Browne

The Homeland Security bill is now law, following in the footsteps of all the new government intrusions of the past 14 months.

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