NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS December 1994
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• ON CAPITOL HILL
  • House Crime Subcommittee Assignments After House of Representatives Gets Organized
     
• ANTI-CRIME STRATEGIES
  • Anti-Crime Strategies for the 1990s: A Report on the Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy Conference
     
• FORFEITURE
  • Drug Dog's "Alert" to Cash Not Grounds for Forfeiture When Up to 75 percent of Currency Tainted With Drugs
  • Justice Department Closes Forfeiture Office
  • Civil Forfeiture Post-Seizure Hearing Required to Protect Due Process Right, Court Rules
     
• MEDIA
  • New York Times Columnist Max Frankel Calls on Journalists to Bring Attention to "War On Drugs"
     
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • At Least 42% of Police-Sold Crack Gets to Users; Santa Ana, California Police Programs to Make and Sell Crack Under Attack
  • Florida-Bahamas Day Cruises Used By Drug Gangs, Says Border Patrol
  • Racial Bias in Airport Detainment and Search Alleged in ACLU Lawsuit
  • DEA to Send Agents to Help Combat Gang Violence
  • Kevin Elders May Have Been Set Up
  • "Smoke a Joint, Lose Your License" Law Goes Into Effect in California
     
• COURTS
  • Report Shows One-Third Violate Pretrial Release
     
• TOBACCO
  • The Return of the Smokeless Cigarette
  • Cigarette Packaging Following the Candy Bar: Reduce the Quantity, Keep the Price Down
     
• DRUG USE
  • PRIDE Finds Drug Use Among Schoolchildren Rising
  • International Employment Drug Testing Guide
     
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • Australian State Assembly Allows Medical Marijuana
     
• ALCOHOL
  • Televised Liquor Advertising Triggers Protest Against Telemundo Network
  • Anti-Drunk Driving Politician Arrested for D.U.I.
     
• GUEST COLUMN
  • Marijuana Smoke Constituents and Hazard Reduction Methods to be Studied: The MAPS/California NORML Water Pipe/Vaporizer Study, by Rick Doblin