NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS February 1997
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• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • California Doctors and Patients Sue McCaffrey, Reno, Shalala: Ban on Recommendation of Medical Marijuana Violates First Amendment
  • New England Journal of Medicine Endorses Medical Marijuana; San Francisco Medical Society Releases Study; New York Times Editorial Welcomes Debate
  • Massachusetts to Implement Medical Marijuana Law
  • Medical Marijuana Club in San Francisco Reopens Under Protection of Proposition 215
     
• GUEST COLUMN by Thomas Szasz, M.D.
  • The Marijuana Referendums: Bolstering the Therapeutic State
     
• DRUG TESTING
  • FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Home Drug Testing Kit
  • Drug Testing Authorized for House of Representatives, Staff
  • Workplace Drug Test Positives Continue to Drop, SmithKline Beecham Reports
  • Continental Airlines Sues Pilot's Vengeful Ex-Wife for Baking Him Bread Laced with Marijuana
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • U.S. to Aid Peru in Coca and</B> <B>Cocaine Interdiction on Jungle Rivers
  • U.S-Caribbean Relations Grow Tense Over Anti-Drug Treaty with Jamaica
     
• LAW ENFORCEMENT MISCONDUCT & IRREGULARITIES
  • Murderer Agrees to Be DEA Informant, Serves 16-Month Sentence
  • Louisiana Law Enforcement Stops Innocent Motorists and Seizes Their Property, Reports NBC's "Dateline"
  • Philadelphia Police Officers Admit Robbing Drug Suspects
  • U.S. Attorney Who Promoted Quadro Tracker® Resigns, Pays Civil Fine; Makers of the Device Are Acquitted
  • Investigate CIA-Crack Allegations, Says National Black Caucus of State Legislators
     
• SPECIAL REPORT
  • Industrial Hemp Movement Growing
     
• HARM REDUCTION
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan Mayor Proposes Needle Exchange Program
     
• DRUG TREATMENT
  • Methadone Harder to Obtain Than Heroin, Addicts Report
     
• ANTI-DRUG PROMOTIONS
  • ABC Pledges Month of March for Anti-Drug Campaign, Public Groups Call on ABC to Be Comprehensive and Honest
     
• JUSTICE STATISTICS
  • BJS Study of Felons, 1994: One Third are Drug Offenders
  • Growth in U.S. Incarceration Rate Slowed in 1995-1996 for the First Time in a Decade, According to Justice Department
     
• PUBLIC FIGURES AND DRUGS
  • U.S. Rep. Cunningham's Son Charged With Drug Trafficking