NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS November 1995
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• IN THE COURTS
  • Supreme Court Preview: LSD Sentencing, Innocent Owner Forfeiture, Liquor Advertising Scheduled in Current Term
  • Supreme Court to Rule in Drug Paraphernalia Case
  • Court Rules Baltimore Can Ban Cigarette and Alcohol Billboards
  • Second Circuit Rules LSD 0.4 mg/dose Formula Inapplicable to Mandatory Sentencing
  • Iowa Court Finds Driver's License Cannot Be Revoked Ex Post Facto
     
• AIDS AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE
  • Government Report Supports Lifting Ban on Federal Funding for Needle Exchange
     
• SENTENCING
  • Congress Moves Closer to Blocking Crack Amendments
     
• DRUG USE TRENDS
  • National Household Survey Finds Drug Use Remained Steady
  • Drug Arrests Rising on College Campuses
  • Animal Doping Common at Youth Livestock Competitions
     
• PUBLIC FIGURES AND DRUGS
  • Senior U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner Advocates Marijuana Legalization
  • Conservative Author Reports That Ex-Arkansas State Trooper Believed Clinton Knew About Drug Flights From Central America to Arkansas
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • Colombia Update: Relations With U.S. Strained, Political Fallout Continues, Another Arrest Made
  • Morocco Remains Foremost Supplier of Marijuana to Europe
     
• POLICE PRACTICES
  • Oakland Schools Discontinue DARE Program
  • New Mexico Couple Still Seeking Apology After Police Raid
  • Recovering Drug Addict Says Fuhrman is No Exception -- Police Routinely Lie in Drug Cases
     
• DRUG POLICY STUDIES
  • CASA Debates Legalization in First White Paper
  • Washington Monthly Analysis Calls for "Middle Ground" Drug Policy
  • Bob Curley Criticizes National Drug Control Policy
  • Tikkun Article Advocates Reexamination of Psychedelics, Religion, and Drug Policy
     
• DRUG POLICY REFORM ACTIVISTS
  • Marijuana Activist Launches Canadian Constitutional Challenge
  • Petition to Repeal Marijuana Prohibition Filed By Jon Gettman
     
• CAFFEINE
  • Coca-Cola Changes Corporate Philosophy to Capture Overseas, Growth Markets
     
• TOBACCO
  • Researchers Find Tobacco Company Publications "Powerful Tool" to Mobilize Smokers' Support
     
• TREATMENT
  • NIDA Panel Makes Recommendations on Marijuana Treatment
     
• GUEST COLUMN
  • "Redefining the Goals of National Drug Policy: Recommendations from a Working Group," by Peter Reuter, PhD and Jonathan P. Caulkins, PhD (continued from October's issue)