NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS February 1998
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• DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY
  • $17.1 Billion 1998 National Drug Control Strategy Claims Youth as Top Priority; McCaffrey Aims to Halve Drug Use in Ten Years; Gingrich Blasts Strategy, Calls For Its Withdrawal
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • Clinton Administration Recertifies Mexico, Grants Waiver to Colombia, as Partners in Anti-Drug Effort
     
• MARIJUANA
  • Canadian Snowboarder Retains Olympic Gold Medal After Testing Positive For Marijuana; Canadian Debate on Marijuana Decriminalization Prompted
  • World Health Organization Accused of Suppressing Finding That Marijuana Is Relatively Safe
  • Hawai'i Supreme Court Upholds Marijuana Prohibition
  • British House of Lords to Make Cannabis Inquiry
  • Mendocino County, CA Supervisors Call on Congress to Study Marijuana Issue, Support Proposition 215
  • NBA Debates Marijuana Policy
     
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • Medical Marijuana Support Fund Founded
  • California Supreme Court Refuses Cannabis Club Case; Authorities Expected to Close Marijuana Clubs
  • Medical Marijuana Bills and Initiatives Update
     
• DRUG USE TRENDS
  • College Students Using Ritalin® to Study, Get High
  • Illicit Steroid Use Doubled Among Teenage Girl Athletes Since 1991
  • Caffeine May Contribute to SIDS
     
• SENTENCING
  • Signing Drug Lifer Law Was a Mistake Says Former Michigan Governor
     
• ALCOHOL
  • College Administrators Combat Student Drinking
  • Alcohol Is the Most Common Drug of Rape Victims
     
• PRISONS
  • Nation's Inmate Population Reaches Record 1.7 Million
  • Texas Group Works to Help Inmates' Families
     
• THE HERNANDEZ KILLING
  • No Civil Rights Charges in Hernandez Border Shooting, Says Justice Department
     
• CIA-DRUG ALLEGATIONS
  • CIA Absolves Itself of Link to Crack Dealers
     
• CANADA-U.S. BORDER
  • Law Enforcement Studying Drug Smuggling at the Canada-U.S. Border
     
• DRUG TESTING
  • Dade County, FL Eases Student Drug Testing Rules
  • Drug Test High School Students, Says California Lieutenant Governor
     
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • Forty-Four Ohio Police Officers Arrested For Protecting Cocaine Traffickers
  • Drug Defendant Can Offer Clean Record As Evidence of Entrapment, Says 9th Circuit
     
• TOBACCO CONTROL UPDATE
  • Litigation
  • Legislation
  • Revelation
     
• RESOURCES
  • Directory of Federal Substance Abuse Information Resources
     
• BOOK REVIEW by Eric Sterling
  • Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess & How We Can Get Out, by Mike Gray