NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS January 1996
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• DRUG CZAR
  • Drug Czar Lee Brown Resigns
     
• IN THE COURTS
  • Supreme Court Rules on Gun "Use" During Drug Offense, Hears Arguments in Sentencing, Forfeiture Issues
     
• MARIJUANA
  • Arizona Judge Finds Prosecution for Marijuana After Defendant Purchased Tax Stamps To Be Double Jeopardy
  • The Lancet Advocates Decriminalization and Regulation of Marijuana
     
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • American Public Health Association Endorses Medical Access to Marijuana
     
• DRUG USE TRENDS
  • Monitoring the Future Survey Shows Increasing Teen Drug Use, Changing Attitudes About Drugs
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • de Greiff Under Federal Investigation For Alleged Ties to Drug Cartels
  • European Union Pledges Cooperation in Stopping Drugs
  • Rensselaer Lee Warns of Growing Influence of Criminal Organizations and Drug Trafficking in Former Soviet Republics
     
• PRISONS
  • October Federal Prison "Disturbances" Blamed on Crack Law Unfairness
     
• SOCIOLOGY OF DRUGS
  • Comparing the Crack Economy and the "Legit" Economy in New York City
     
• FORFEITURE
  • Fifth Circuit Rules that Forfeiture is Punishment
  • Property Owner Entitled to Interest on Seized Cash When Forfeiture Is Not Sustained
     
• TOBACCO
  • Philip Morris Memo Describes Cigarettes as Nicotine "Delivery Devices," Nicotine as "Similar" to Cocaine
  • Widower Awarded Compensation in First Secondhand Smoke Fatality Case
     
• SENTENCING
  • Judge Reluctantly Follows Guidelines, Apologizes to Defendants
     
• ALCOHOL
  • Clinton Signs "Zero Tolerance" Teen Drinking and Driving Legislation
  • Alaska Town Ends Alcohol Ban
     
• PUBLIC HOUSING
  • Bill to Exclude Current and Former Drug and Alcohol Users From Elderly and Disabled Public Housing Passes House