NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS August 1994
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• IN THE COURTS
  • Judge Rules That DEA Agent Unfairly Manipulated Cocaine Case to Obtain Harsher Prison Sentence
  • Crack Cocaine Sentences Invalidated by Federal Court in Georgia: There Is No Difference Between Cocaine Base and Cocaine
     
• FORFEITURE
  • New Model State Law Proposed for Asset Forfeitures
  • Justice Department Considers Forfeiture Reform
  • Double Jeopardy Applied in Texas Asset Forfeiture Case
     
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • Clinton Administration Sticks With Bush Policy; Won't Return to Ford-Carter-Reagan Policy
     
• NEEDLE EXCHANGE
  • Maryland Citizens Support Clean Needle Exchange
  • Consumer Reports on AIDS and the Needle Exchange
     
• WITNESS INTIMIDATION
  • D.C. Homicide Investigations Hampered by Witnesses' Fears
     
• IS NICOTINE ADDICTIVE?
  • Study Compares Nicotine to Other Drugs
  • Nicotine Nasal Spray an Alternative to the Nicotine Patch and Gum
  • Nicotine Patches
     
• WOMEN IN PRISON FOR DRUG OFFENSES
  • Female Prison Population Grew 75% -- 1986 to 1991
     
• OKLAHOMA HAS HIGHEST INCARCERATION RATE OF ALL STATES
  District of Columbia's Is More Than Triple Oklahoma's
   
• INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
  • U.S. Continues to Withhold Real-Time Information on Suspected Andean Drug Flights
  • Nigeria Ranked as a Pariah State for Drug Dealing
  • Criminal Groups Internationalize Their Operations
     
• SHOULD MARIJUANA BE LEGAL?
  Parade Magazine Asks Its Readers
   
• QUICK UPDATES
  • Kevin Elders Found Guilty, Sentenced to 10 Years
  • U.S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun Supports Marijuana Decriminalization
  • Follow-Up to Toad Prohibition (NewsBriefs, July 1994)
     
• CRIME BILL