NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS July 1993
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• FORFEITURE
  • Supreme Court Further Limits Scope of Asset Seizure in Major Ruling
  • Conservative Rep. Henry Hyde Sponsors Legislation Limiting Forfeiture
     
• DRUG TREATMENT
  • University Group Urges Treatment, Not Punishment, for Pregnant Addicts
  • For Alcoholics, This Could Be Their Cup of Tea
     
• HALLUCINOGENS
  • Studies May Lay Groundwork for Future Therapeutic Use of Hallucinogens
     
• URINE TESTING
  • Costs of Drug Testing Hurting Financially Troubled Airline Industry
  • Federal Court Upholds $250,001 Award to Worker Fired for Positive Drug Test
     
• WAR ON DRUGS
  • 10 Years and 5,000 Miles for 3 Ounce Cocaine Conviction
  • Mexico Pleads With U.N. to Change Course by Focusing on Demand, Not Supply
  • Narcotics Detective Gunned Down in Courthouse While Waiting to Testify
     
• DRUG-RELATED CORRUPTION
  • Mexican Corruption Condoned at Highest Level, World Policy Institute Says
  • 'Rookie of the Year,' Suspended for Cocaine Use, Testifies to Police Board
     
• PRISONS AND CORRECTIONS
  • Evidence Grows That Prison Boom Is Failing to Slow Crime Rate
     
• THE COURTS
  • Supreme Court Rules Drugs May Be Seized in Weapons Frisk
  • Texas Court Rules Drug Seizure at Roadblock Illegal
  • Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Ritual Animal Sacrifice
  • New York Appeals Court Reduces Drug Sentence as "Unduly Harsh"
  • Universality of Cocaine-Tainted Cash Means Presence of Cocaine on Cash in Your Wallet Is Not Probable Cause
  • More Judges Conclude Drug War Is Lost Cause
     
• TRENDS
  • Illicit Drug Use Declines Except in Those 35 and Older
  • Discovery of Cross Border Drug Tunnel in Mexico May Be Just the First
  • Alcohol, Tobacco Still Main Gateway Drugs for Adolescents
  • New York Assembly Hears Testimony Critical of Rockefeller Laws
     
• OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
  • Lee Brown Sworn In as New ONDCP Chief
     
• AIDS AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE
  • New Federal AIDS Program Coordinator Backs Needle Exchange
     
• DARE
  • Uh-Oh: Lazy Parental Beer-Drinking Promotes "Positive Attitude" Toward Drugs
  • Former Junk Bond King Milken Now Confronts Different Types of Bonding
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • Swiss Experiment to Obtain Data for Making Drug Policy
  • Russia and Former Soviet Union
  • Iran Arrests Eight Thousand Addicts in Five Days
  • Drug Trade on Pakistani Frontier May Fuel Radical Islamic Terrorism
     
• VIEWS
  • Former New Jersey Bar Judge Martin Haines: Drug War Is War of Deception
  • Baltimore Columnist Blasts Long Sentences for Minor Marijuana Crimes
     
• MARIJUANA AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • Hunger Strikers Protest Marijuana Laws
  • European Activists Join Americans at French International Cannabis Conference
  • Oklahoma Wheat Crop Flags but Marijuana Harvest Booms
  • DPF, AMFAR, Lymphoma Foundation Challenge Marijuana Policy
  • Marijuana Activist Acquitted of Charges Stemming From Seed Sales
     
• MEDIA NOTES
  • Andean Commission of Jurists' Drug Trafficking Update Provides Regional Perspective on Drug War