NEWSBRIEFS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
March 1995
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SENTENCING
U.S. Sentencing Commission Releases Long-Awaited Report on Crack/Powder Sentences
Downward Departure Allowed for Low-Level Drug Organization Employees
Court Strikes Down Guideline Reform; Rules That LSD Weight Plus Weight of Carrier Used Should Decide Sentence
Court Rules Prior Convictions Count Individually Toward "Three-Time Loser Law" Even If Incidents Were Part of the Same Operation
AIDS AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE
Drug Policy Foundation Releases Secret Internal Administration Reports on Needle Exchange
Legal Problems for Oakland's Needle Exchange Continue; Five Needle Exchange Workers Acquitted
CDC Report Finds Spread of AIDS Epidemic Increasingly Tied to Drug Addiction, Prompts Examination of Current AIDS Prevention Policies
IN THE COURTS
Supreme Court Rules in Exclusionary Rule Case
Court Makes Strong Statement About Racial Bias/Crack Cocaine Cases
DRUG POLICY
Baltimore Grand Jury Advocates Decriminalization, Medicalization
Drug Strategies Releases Report on Federal Drug Control Spending
MARIJUANA
Medical Marijuana Legislation Introduced in Three States
HEMP
Colorado Hemp Bill Dies
DRUG USE AND DRUG ABUSE
Substance Abuse Problems a Major Part of Federal Entitlement Budget
Almost Half of Top City Officials Say Drug Problem Worsening
SOAR Seeks to End the Stigma of "Abuse"
DRUG TESTING
FDA Allows Sweat Patch
Federal Transit Administration Proposes Changes in Federal Drug Testing Rules
INTERNATIONAL
1994 Review Released by U.N. International Narcotics Control Board
U.S. Struggles With Policy to Squelch Flow of Heroin From Burma
European Conference Targets Drug Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe
United Nations and European Commission To Hold Forums on Demand Reduction
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coast Guard Reemphasizing Drug Interdiction Mission
ONDCP Pledges More Money for Border Crackdown
Plain View Rule Applies to Drug Stashed in Hole in House
Another Court Rules that Thermal Imaging is Not a Search
DRUG TRAFFICKING
British Columbia-U.S. Border New Popular Point of Entry for Drug Shipments
GUNS
Group Finds Increase in Manufacture of Low-Cost Pistols
TOBACCO
Study Finds Patch Effective in Quitting Smoking
ALCOHOL
Survey Finds College Drinking Down
Coors' Zima Raises Rumors Among Teens
CITIZEN EFFORTS
Dead Serious, Inc. Founder Talks About Drugs
COFFEE
In Northwest, A Coffee Backlash
DRUG EDUCATION
HBO and Robert Wood Johnson to Produce Video Drug Education Series
PUBLIC FIGURES AND DRUGS
Dexter Manley Arrested Again
MEDIA
Drug Warriors Bennett and Walters Attack Clinton for Inaction on Drug Problem
New York Times Magazine
Describes Marijuana Gardening
Tort Reform Will Hurt Women Harmed By Prescription Drugs or Medical Devices
GUEST COLUMN
Teen Substance Abuse: Guiding Families to New Horizons, by Alicia R. Bush, MSW