NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS July 1994
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• INTERNATIONAL
  • German High Court Legalizes Use and Possession of Small Amounts of Cannabis
  • Many Events Straining Relations Between U.S. and Columbia
  • Brief Void From Demise of Pablo Escobar and Medellin Cartel Being Filled by Cali Cartel
  • United States Surveillance Efforts Tracking Drug Flights in the Andes to Resume
  • Haitian Military Implicated in Drug Trade
  • FBI Expands Its Role in International Crime Fighting
  • Head of Interpol Calls for Decriminalization
  • New Liquor Laws in Delhi Restrict Alcohol Consumption
     
• PENDING IN CONGRESS
  • Drug Treatment
  • Crime Bill
     
• WHITE HOUSE REJECTS STUDY FINDINGS
  • White House Rejects RAND Study on Drug Treatment
     
• THE DRUG "CZAR" CRITIQUES LEGALIZATION
  • Dr. Lee P. Brown, Clinton's Drug "Czar," Identifies Eight Myths About Drugs in the Arguments of the Drug Legalizers
     
• DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION -- BIG CHANGES
  • Major Staff and Board Expansion; Major New Funding for Leading Organization for Drug Policy Reform; New Position of Director of Government Affairs Open; DPF to Start Giving Out Grants in Drug Policy
     
• NADELMANN STARTS DRUG POLICY RESEARCH GROUP
  • Ethan Nadelmann Leaves Princeton, Starts The Lindesmith Center, a Research Center for Drug-Related Issues in New York City
     
• DRUG TESTING
  • Drug and Alcohol Testing To Be Expanded for Transportation Workers
  • Drug Testing of High School Athletes
     
• SPEAKING OUT ON DECRIMINALIZATION
  • ABA President Elect Supports Decriminalizing Drugs
  • Advice From Dear Abby
     
• AIDS AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE
  • Studies Find That Addicts Will Use Needle Exchange Programs
     
• FDA STUDYING NICOTINE
  • FDA Moving to Declare Nicotine a Drug
     
• DRUG GANG ACTIVITY
  • Drug Gang Operated Highly Sophisticated Scheme to Charge Street Dealers Rent and to Control Their Drug Dealing Activities
     
• CHICAGO EFFORT TO DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA
  • Alderman Proposes Ending Jail Sentence for Possession
     
• TOAD PROHIBITION
  • Secretions From Colorado Toad Contain Powerful Psychedelic Compound
     
• NATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY NETWORK MEETING
  • Meetings of the National Drug Strategy Network Resume in Washington
     
• BOOK REVIEW
  • Shadows of Hope, by Sam Smith