DRUGSENSE WEEKLY from 5/25/2007

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DrugSense Weekly, May 25, 2007 #500

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* This Just In

(1) Study Backs Safe-Injection Site's Work
(2) Mexico To Boost Tapping Of Phones And E-Mail With U.S. Aid
(3) Researchers Press DEA To Let Them Grow Marijuana
(4) Medical Marijuana Bill Passed

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(5) Drug Rumors Spur National Alert
(6) Put To The Test
(7) No Help For Needle-Exchange Legislation
(8) Governor Undecided On Medical Marijuana

Law Enforcement & Prisons-

(9) Declining Revenue From Drug Seizures May Ground Hawkins
(10) 2 Of Fired Deputies Won't Be Charged
(11) K-9 Drug Sweep Sparks Debate
(12) 3,800 Gallons Of Liquid Cocaine Seized From Vessel
(13) Teddy Bear Search Ruled Illegal

Cannabis & Hemp-

(14) Tod Mikuriya -- Psychiatrist, Medical Marijuana Advocate
(15) The Doctor Of Last Resort
(16) Medical Marijuana Use Initiative Launches In Mich.
(17) Pot Challenge Gets High-Profile Help

International News-

(18) Call To Declare War On Afghan Poppy Fields
(19) Record Poppy Crop A Harvest Of Misery
(20) Escalating Drug War Grips Mexico
(21) Tories To Launch Crackdown On Grow-Ops, Drug Dealers

* Hot Off The 'Net

NPR On Industrial Hemp
Spiritual Highs And Legal Blows / By Jacob Sullum
How Much For All That Heroin? / By Michelle Tsai
Cultural Baggage Radio Show
Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies News
Women On Weed

* What You Can Do This Week

Donate To DrugSense
MPP Seeks Web Administrator

* Letter Of The Week

Drug Testing Shows Irony Of The 'Problem' / Brian C. Bennett

* Feature Article

Chipping Away At The Drug War For 500 Weeks / Stephen Young

* Quote of the Week

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THIS JUST IN
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(1) STUDY BACKS SAFE-INJECTION SITE'S WORK

Pubdate: Fri, 25 May 2007
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Author: Rod Mickleburgh
Cited: http://www.cfenet.ubc.ca/

Use of Centre Increases Rate of Addicts Entering Detox 30%, London-
Based Medical Journal Finds

VANCOUVER -- On the eve of the expected unveiling next week of the
federal Conservatives' long-waited anti-drug strategy, a significant
new study has endorsed the benefits of Vancouver's controversial safe-
injection site for heroin addicts, a pilot project many fear Ottawa
will end.

The study, published today in the London-based medical journal
Addiction, found that use of the city's supervised injection facility
known as Insite increased the rate of addicts entering detox by 30 per
cent.

As well, the study determined users of North America's only safe-
injection site were more likely to reduce their heroin intake and
pursue formal treatment programs such as methadone once they left
detox.

The dramatic findings appear to echo precisely what the ultimate
arbiter of the facility's fate, federal Health Minister Tony Clement,
has said Insite needs to demonstrate to prove its worth: lower drug
use and success in fighting addiction.

They also fly in the face of an earlier RCMP report critical of the
site, asserting there is "considerable evidence" that allowing addicts
to shoot up safely increases the use of illegal drugs.

Despite the study, however, Insite backers continue to worry that the
distaste of many Conservatives for harm-reduction programs, which
treat drug addiction as a health problem rather than a criminal
matter, will result in the centre's demise by the end of the year.

[snip]

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(2) MEXICO TO BOOST TAPPING OF PHONES AND E-MAIL WITH U.S. AID

Pubdate: Fri, 25 May 2007
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Times
Author: Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer

Calderon Is Seeking to Expand Monitoring of Drug Gangs; Washington
Also May Have Access to the Data.

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls
and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, a move that
underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly
willing to cooperate with the United States on law enforcement.

The expansion comes as President Felipe Calderon is pushing to amend
the Mexican Constitution to allow officials to tap phones without a
judge's approval in some cases. Calderon argues that the government
needs the authority to combat drug gangs, which have killed hundreds
of people this year.

Mexican authorities for years have been able to wiretap most telephone
conversations and tap into e-mail, but the new $3-million
Communications Intercept System being installed by Mexico's Federal
Investigative Agency will expand their reach.

The system will allow authorities to track cellphone users as they
travel, according to contract specifications. It includes extensive
storage capacity and will allow authorities to identify callers by
voice. The system, scheduled to begin operation this month, was paid
for by the U.S. State Department and sold by Verint Systems Inc., a
politically well-connected firm based in Melville, N.Y., that
specializes in electronic surveillance.

[snip]

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(3) RESEARCHERS PRESS DEA TO LET THEM GROW MARIJUANA

Pubdate: Thu, 24 May 2007
Source: Washington Post (DC)
Copyright: 2007 The Washington Post Company
Author: Marc Kaufman, Washington Post Staff Writer

Armed with a legal decision in their favor, scientists and advocates
of medical research on marijuana pressed the Drug Enforcement
Administration yesterday to allow them to grow their own, saying that
pot supplied by the government is too hard to get and that its poor
quality limits their research.

The proponents said a DEA administrative law judge's recent ruling
that it would be in "the public interest" to have additional marijuana
grown -- and to break the government's monopoly on growing it -- had
put them closer to their goal than ever before.

"The DEA has an opportunity here to live up to its rhetoric, which has
been that marijuana advocates should work on conducting research
rather than filing lawsuits," said Richard Doblin, president of the
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which has
fought for years for access to government-controlled supplies to test
possible medical uses of marijuana.

"It's become more and more obvious that the DEA has been obstructing
potentially beneficial medical research, and now is the time for them
to change," he said.

[snip]

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(4) MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL PASSED

Pubdate: Thu, 24 May 2007
Source: Providence Journal, The (RI)
Copyright: 2007 The Providence Journal Company
Author: Steve Peoples, Journal State House Bureau

PROVIDENCE -- Pamela Bailey sat quietly on the wooden bench inside
State House Room 212 as the politicians approved the bill named for
her son.

She would say later that she was grateful, but that she didn't need a
state law to remember her firstborn.

"We didn't have to have it in the limelight. He'll always be with me,"
she said of Edward O. Hawkins, whose name will forever appear on the
title of the state's medical marijuana law. It was Bailey's sister,
Sen. Rhoda E. Perry, D-Providence, who suggested the name.

Hawkins, who spent the last months of his life in Rhode Island
hospitals and a nursing home, died from complications related to AIDS
in 2003. He was 41.

"It was a terrible, terrible death. Absolutely horrible," said his
mother. "He was skin and bones. Nobody could even realize."

While the bill to permanently extend the medical marijuana law passed
the House and Senate earlier in the month, the legislation cleared its
final procedural hurdle yesterday after the full House passed the
identical Senate version. The Senate Health and Human Services
Committee also voted yesterday to approve the House version of the
bill, although the House vote makes subsequent Senate action
unnecessary.

The Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act is
now headed to the governor's desk, where it will be vetoed, according
to the governor's spokesman, Jeff Neal. But there is sufficient
support in the House to override the governor -- 51 of 75 members
endorsed the measure yesterday. Forty-five votes, or three-fifths, are
required to overturn a veto.

[snip]

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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW
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Domestic News- Policy
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COMMENT: (5-8)

After media all over the nation hyped the scariest aspects of the
absurd "flavored meth" story in recent weeks, finally a reporter
tried to uncover the truth behind the story. And, in reality, not
much truth was found by Bobbi Mlynar of the Kansas Emporia Gazette,
just a lot of rumor, innuendo and assumptions. If there was only
more prohibition-related journalism like this. Another fairly
balanced story about student drug testing was published in the Los
Angeles Times. Also last week, politicians from around the country
show their weakness on no-brainer drug reforms, again.

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(5) DRUG RUMORS SPUR NATIONAL ALERT

Pubdate: Fri, 18 May 2007
Source: Emporia Gazette, The (KS)
Copyright: 2007 The Emporia Gazette
Author: Bobbi Mlynar

Rumors circulating nationwide about flavored methamphetamines have
not yet been confirmed by lab tests. Until they know with certainty,
however, law enforcement, school officials and anti-drug groups
across the country are taking it seriously.

The Carson City, Nev., Sheriff's Office is credited with the initial
seizure of flavored meth known as "strawberry quick."

Sgt. Darrin Sloan, who leads the Special Enforcement Team in Carson
City, said that the new meth came to light during a buy set up with
an informant who had worked with sheriff's officers on about 10
cases. The informant said that he could buy what he called "pink
meth" from one of the suspects the SET was investigating.

"He purchased it. He brought it back to us and said the guy called
it 'strawberry meth,'" Sloan said in an interview Wednesday night.
"When I looked at it, I'd never seen anything like it. I don't know
how they did it."

Sloan said the pink-colored meth was alleged to have come from
Sacramento.

"It's actually been the only case here," he said.

The crime laboratory has not yet confirmed the presence of flavoring
in the seized meth. The lab will have the report ready when the case
goes to trial.

"They have a machine they can put it in and they can break it all
down," he said.

Sloan said the "strawberry quick" did not have the scent of
strawberry.

"To me, it just smelled like meth. ... It's got to be bad, no matter
what they put in it," he said.

Ephedrine, anhydrous ammonia and battery acid are among the
ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamines.

[snip]

Harrison said the lab has been doing surveys regularly to check for
the presence of flavored meth.

"Nobody's seeing it," he said. "We've had a couple of colored drugs
but nothing that really seems to be flavored."

Meth may be colored with food coloring and if it's purple, he said,
it may have been colored by a pH imbalance from improper "cooking."

[snip]

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(6) PUT TO THE TEST

Pubdate: Mon, 21 May 2007
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Times
Author: Shari Roan, Times Staff Writer

More Schools Are Asking Students to Take Drug Tests, Saying It Gives
Them a Reason to 'Say No.' Addiction Experts Contend Results Are
Unreliable.

ONCE a year or so, Roy Tialavea is summoned from his classes at
Oceanside High School to report to the athletic director's office
bathroom. He receives a urine specimen cup and heads for a stall.

The 17-year-old is unruffled. Random drug testing has been going on
for two years at the school. He's used to it. "I don't use drugs so
I don't have to worry about getting caught," he says.

His mother, Robyn, thinks her son steers clear of drugs and alcohol.
But, she says, no parent can know for sure what a teenager is up to.

"If he doesn't like testing, I really don't care," she says. "I
think it's a wonderful tool. It creates the fear that they could be
tested."

Call it the 2007 version of "just say no."

Concerned with high rates of adolescent substance abuse, hundreds of
middle schools and high schools nationwide have quietly begun
testing some or all students for drugs -- to the dismay of some
health and addiction experts.

Although less than 5% of all high schools have such programs,
testing is now common in schools throughout Texas, Florida, Kentucky
and parts of California. In Southern California, many private high
schools have implemented drug testing, as have several public school
districts in Orange County and San Diego. Nationwide, as many as
1,000 schools have established programs, according to the White
House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

[snip]

But health officials, by and large, oppose school-based drug
testing. NAADAC, the Assn. for Addiction Professionals, has released
a statement critical of such programs. And in March, the American
Academy of Pediatrics cautioned against random school-based drug
testing until more research is completed. The two groups are among
those who say testing is not reliable enough, violates trust between
adults and teens and is not set up to deal effectively with students
who have positive results.

Though adults debate testing's merits, students at some high schools
hand over urine specimen cups as comfortably as they turn in late
library books.

[snip]

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(7) NO HELP FOR NEEDLE-EXCHANGE LEGISLATION

Pubdate: Thu, 17 May 2007
Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Copyright: 2007 Houston Chronicle Publishing Company Division, Hearst Newspaper

AUSTIN -- A bill creating a needle-exchange program for drug users
appears dead this session.

House Public Health Chairwoman Dianne White Delisi, R-Temple, said
Wednesday that she won't bring the Senate-passed bill to a vote.

"I have not been persuaded that the public health benefits outweigh
the concerns of many members, myself included, of providing needles
for those that are using illegal drugs," she said.

Texas is the only state in the country that does not allow a
needle-exchange program for drug users.

The House sponsor of the bill said she believes it would have passed
the committee if put to a vote. "It's a sad day in the state of
Texas that we do not have the opportunity in this Legislature to
save lives," said Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon, D-San Antonio.

[snip]

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(8) GOVERNOR UNDECIDED ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Pubdate: Thu, 17 May 2007
Source: Times Argus (Barre, VT)
Copyright: 2007 Times Argus
Author: Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau

MONTPELIER - Medical marijuana advocates are waiting to see what
Gov. James Douglas does with a proposed new law expanding the
state's program, with many hopeful he will allow it to become law
without his signature.

Douglas, a Republican, took a similar stance three years ago when
the Vermont Legislature passed the medical marijuana law allowing
some patients with extremely serious illnesses to legally use and
obtain the drug as a medication.

The new proposal would expand the law to include illnesses that are
chronic, progressive or debilitating, such as severe arthritis or
shingles.

Max Schlueter, the director of the Vermont Crime Information Center,
the Public Safety Department division that overseas the program,
said there are 35 people and six caregivers registered with the
state to use marijuana.

[snip]

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COMMENT: (9-13)

While the drug war is sometimes perceived as a steady source of
revenue for police, there is a point of diminishing returns. Just
ask the Tennessee sheriff who is considering selling his
department's helicopter, used primarily for marijuana spotting,
because of declining drug seizure-related revenue.

A pair of North Carolina police accused of corruption are losing
their jobs, but they won't be prosecuted, and their case seems to
screw up a larger federal corruption case. In Pennsylvania, police
are pressing some schools to allow drug dogs to perform searches
during school hours, but at least some school officials are wisely
holding out. Also last week, law enforcement officials don't even
understand why someone would be transporting 3,800 gallons of liquid
cocaine, and a court rules that police can't just slice open a teddy
bear without a proper warrant.

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(9) DECLINING REVENUE FROM DRUG SEIZURES MAY GROUND HAWKINS COUNTY
SHERIFF'S HELICOPTER

Pubdate: Tue, 22 May 2007
Source: Kingsport Times-News (TN)
Copyright: 2007 Kingsport Publishing Corporation
Author: Jeff Bobo

With revenue from the seizure of drug-related property on the
decline, Hawkins County Sheriff Roger Christian said Monday he may
have to chop the department's marijuana eradication helicopter from
the 2007-08 fiscal year budget to avoid ending up in the red.

Between insurance, storage and maintenance, the helicopter costs the
Hawkins County Sheriff's Office about $20,000 annually simply to
possess before it even gets off the ground. Insurance is $9,300 per
year alone.

During the current fiscal year, the sheriff's department was
anticipating $75,000 in revenue from drug fines, court costs and
seizures based on previous years. But instead that figure will come
in at barely over $41,000 this year.

The biggest revenue difference is in property seizures. Two years
ago, the HCSO netted 138,906 in seized property. Last year, that
figure dropped to $49,147. In this current fiscal year with a little
more than a month left to go, the department has netted only $15,000
in seized property.

Seizures, fines and court costs are all deposited in the
department's drug fund. That overall revenue figure will have
dropped from $175,565 in 2004-05 to about $41,000 in 2006-07.

Just a couple of years ago, there was more than $300,000 in the
HCSO's drug fund. In recent years, however, the department has
chipped away at the drug fund to balance its budget and meet rising
operation costs, and Christian said it's currently down to almost
nothing.

[snip]

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(10) 2 OF FIRED DEPUTIES WON'T BE CHARGED

Pubdate: Thu, 17 May 2007
Source: Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
Copyright: 2007 The Herald-Sun
Author: Brianne Dopart

DURHAM -- Two former Durham County sheriff's deputies fired in the
aftermath of a drug-related sting at a Durham nightclub last October
are not being held criminally responsible, but a third former deputy
- -- the then-owner of the club -- has pleaded guilty to drug
charges and will be sentenced Aug. 10. Former deputy Michael Paul
Owens pleaded guilty last month to maintaining the La Zona nightclub
at 2825 North Roxboro Road as an establishment for the sale of drugs
and conspiracy to traffic cocaine, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra
Hairston said Wednesday. Hairston said Owens could be sentenced to
up to 20 years in federal prison.

Owens and six other men were arrested in an Oct. 13 raid at La Zona.
Five ounces of cocaine were confiscated during the raid.

Owens is the only person to date to have been charged in connection
with the alleged trafficking conspiracy. Hairston declined to say
whether charges against more people will be filed.

The two former deputies who lost their jobs -- William "Keith"
Dodson and Brad King -- had moonlighted as security guards at La
Zona. They were fired after the raid for violating the Sheriff's
Office secondary employment policy, Sheriff's Office Captain Paul
Martin said Wednesday. Martin said the October raid cut short an
undercover probe of alleged criminal activity at the club. That
investigation was believed to be much more wide-ranging than the
eventual drug case built against Owens and any possible unnamed
co-conspirators.

Law enforcement reportedly made its move after evidence surfaced
that Owens and perhaps some others were planning an armed robbery.
Search warrants linked to the La Zona raid alleged that vehicles and
people seen frequenting the club were known to be involved in a wide
array of criminal activities, including "drug trafficking, armed
robberies, murder ( for hire ), prostitution and human trafficking."

[snip]

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(11) K-9 DRUG SWEEP SPARKS DEBATE

Pubdate: Thu, 17 May 2007
Source: Colonial, The (PA)
Copyright: 2007 Montgomery Newspapers
Author: Keith Phucas

In recent years, K-9 sweeps of schools by police have raised
concerns that these searches may violate students' constitutional
rights. While some area school districts have allowed sweeps, others
have not embraced the practice.

In the past year, the Colonial Board of School Directors has
resisted requests by local police to perform K-9 searches of hallway
lockers in district schools.

A letter from the school board's attorney claims that merely having
a suspicion and not hard evidence of student drug use on campus is
an insufficient reason to let the police dogs routinely search
school lockers.

While fear of unreasonable searches is a legitimate concern when the
animals are used to randomly sniff a student's body, clothing or
book bag, the same expectation of privacy does not apply to school
lockers, which are school property, according to an analysis of a
1998 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling involving a former
Harborcreek High School student in Erie County.

The former student, Vincent Cass, was arrested in 1994 after a K-9
sweep of his school found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in his
locker. Cass filed a lawsuit claiming the police action constituted
an unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and
Article 1, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Though the trial court granted a motion to suppress the seized
evidence, and the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the ruling,
the state Supreme Court ultimately reversed the decision.

The justices ruled students' measure of privacy was limited
regarding school lockers, and concluded from case law that dogs
sniffing lockers was not even considered a search under the Fourth
Amendment, according to a case summary by legal expert Mark
Strezelecki.

In other words, K-9 sweeps of school lockers are legally
permissible. However, the decision to allow the practice is up to
each individual school district.

Plymouth Township police Chief Carmen Pettine has said random,
unannounced sweeps with trained dogs would deter students from
bringing drugs to local schools, but the Colonial School Board's
strict guidelines make carrying out routine sweeps nearly
impossible.

"The school [district] shut the door on me," Pettine said.

[snip]

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(12) 3,800 GALLONS OF LIQUID COCAINE SEIZED FROM VESSEL

Pubdate: Tue, 15 May 2007
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
Copyright: 2007 The Tribune Co.
Author: Elaine Silvestrini

TAMPA - The investigators of "Operation Panama Express" have seized
an unprecedented shipment of 3,800 gallons of cocaine in liquid form
aboard an Ecuadorian fishing vessel in the Eastern Pacific.

The milky-white syrup was in the fish hold of a vessel named the
Emperador that was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard on April 25,
according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph K. Ruddy, who oversees
the Tampa-based international investigation of Colombian drug
trafficking.

Ruddy said authorities have seen liquid cocaine before, but always
in smaller quantities - smuggled in rum bottles, for instance. This,
he said, was the largest seizure of the liquid form of cocaine by
far. He said the substance has a strong odor similar to ammonia.

Ruddy said he did not know the purpose behind the liquid form, other
than possibly to avoid detection by law enforcement. A chemist
calculated that a gallon of the substance would make roughly 2
kilograms of powdered cocaine. Ruddy said authorities think the
liquid was to have been processed into powder in Mexico before being
shipped to the United States or another country.

[snip]

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(13) TEDDY BEAR SEARCH RULED ILLEGAL

Pubdate: Wed, 16 May 2007
Source: Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA)
Copyright: 2007 The Press Democrat

Rohnert Park police should have obtained a search warrant before
splitting open a teddy bear found to contain a half-pound of
marijuana, a state appeals court ruled.

The bear was turned over to police in August 2005 by the owner of a
mailing business who became suspicious after a man sent several
overnight packages to different addresses in Wisconsin.

Gilberto Perez Pereira was arrested after calling to ask about the
shipment.

Police found methamphetamine, shotgun shells and drug paraphernalia
when they searched his home.

The charges were dismissed by Sonoma County Superior Court Judge
Cerena Wong, who ruled that police should have obtained a search
warrant before looking inside the bear.

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Cannabis & Hemp-
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COMMENT: (14-17)

Your commentator was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of an
activist for the regulated use of marijuana, and friend, Dr. Tod
Mikuriya. I remember working closely with him on the California
Marijuana Initiative of 1972 effort, visiting his home with the
basement silk-screen factory where his East Bay crew made posters
and t-shirts for the initiative. Then a few years later running into
him at the 4th of July event across from the White House, where he
was dressed in an Uncle Sam suit. We delivered boxes of legalization
petitions Tod had gathered to the White House gate. Of the two
obituaries below, the second more closely reflects his life.

Thursday saw the launch of a new statewide medical marijuana
initiative in the heartland. And in Canada a Charter of Rights and
Freedoms case continues at the lowest court level in B.C., but which
has the potential to eventually change not only Canada's medical
marijuana laws, but also the marijuana laws.

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(14) TOD MIKURIYA -- PSYCHIATRIST, MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE

Pubdate: Tue, 22 May 2007
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Copyright: 2007 Hearst Communications Inc.
Author: Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tod H. Mikuriya, a Berkeley psychiatrist who helped draft
California's medical marijuana law, died at his home Sunday of
complications of cancer. He was 73.

Dr. Mikuriya was a well-known medical marijuana advocate whose
practice made him the physician of last resort for patients
throughout California who said marijuana eases their suffering.

He was the founder of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and an
architect of Proposition 215, the initiative approved in 1996 by
state voters that legalized growing and using marijuana for medical
purposes with a doctor's recommendation.

In 2003, Dr. Mikuriya was investigated by the Medical Board of
California on allegations of unprofessional conduct and negligence
in his handling of 16 cases since 1998. Supporters said the case was
politically motivated and payback for his vocal support of medical
marijuana.

The state placed him on probation, but Dr. Mikuriya appealed and
continued to practice. "If his health hadn't failed, he would have
appealed ( to a state appeals court )," friend Fred Gardner said
Monday.

"It didn't affect his practice, it just affected his pride," Gardner
said of the Medical Board's ruling. "It hurt him that he was
considered anything but a great doctor going by the book."

Dr. Mikuriya was born in Pennsylvania in 1933 to Anna Schwenk, a
German immigrant and practicing Baha'i, and Tadafumi Mikuriya, a
Japanese samurai who converted to Christianity. He received a Quaker
education at George School and Haverford College before graduating
from Reed College and serving as a medic in the Army. He attended
Temple University School of Medicine, where he saw a reference in a
pharmacology text to the medical uses of marijuana.

[snip]

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(15) THE DOCTOR OF LAST RESORT

Pubdate: Wed, 23 May 2007
Source: Anderson Valley Advertiser (CA)
Copyright: 2007 Anderson Valley Advertiser
Author: Fred Gardner

When the Medical Marijuana Patients Union held a symposium in Fort
Bragg in August, 2004, Sheriff Tony Craver asked an organizer to
please introduce him to Dr. Tod Mikuriya. It turned out that
Mikuriya had left after participating in a morning panel. "That's
one man I've always wanted to meet," said Craver, looking down in
disappointment. The sheriff knew there was something unique about
Mikuriya, and so did half the cops and prosecutors in California,
who, unlike Tony Craver, fiercely resented him for legitimizing
people previously considered criminals.

Mikuriya died Sunday at his home in the Berkeley Hills. He was 73.
The cause was complications of cancer.

In the final days he'd been in the care of his sisters, Beverly, an
MD from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Mary Jane of San Francisco,
and his longtime assistant, John Trapp. Cancer had been diagnosed
originally in his lungs, and as of last March it had been detected
in his liver, too. Dennis Peron and Dale Gieringer threw farewell
parties for him. He canceled a trip to Hungary where he was to
present a paper at the International Cannabinoid Research Society
meeting.

His office began steering patients to other doctors.

And then his condition improved.

In late May 2006 Mikuriya attended his 50th reunion at Reed College
and sang rounds with his old madrigal group.

His office geared up again.

He wrote the lead section of an article recounting what California
doctors had learned in the 10 years since the passage of Prop 215 (
"Medical Marijuana in California, 1996-2006," O'Shaughnessy's,
Winter/Spring 2007). He met with a publisher about reissuing
"Marijuana Medical Papers," his 1973 anthology of pre-prohibition
medical literature -the new edition to include a CD containing eight
more articles that had come to his attention over the years.

He had many visits from his 12-year-old daughter, Hero, the apple of
his eye; they even went cross-country skiing one weekend.

As recently as March Mikuriya played a key role organizing a
symposium at which retired colonel James Ketchum, MD, discussed the
Army's secret search for a cannabinoid-based incapacitating agent.
Mikuriya had begun assembling the contents for a new anthology,
"Cannabis Clinical Papers," that would include studies by colleagues
and three major papers of his own: "Cannabis as a Substitute for
Alcohol;" "Cannabis as a First-Line Treatment for Mental Disorders;"
and "Cannabis Eases Post-Traumatic Stress." ( The titles alone
reflect the relevance of Mikuriya's concerns. )

Even his historical studies related to our present time and place.

For example: "An 1873 survey by British tax officials in India
elicited a range of views on cannabis that seems strikingly
contemporary... 'the general opinion seems to be that the evil
effects of ganja have been exaggerated.'" )

[snip]

Tod Hiro Mikuriya was born in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1933 to Anna (
Schwenk ) and Tadafumi Mikuriya. His father was a Japanese Samurai
who converted to Christianity, his mother a German immigrant and
practicing Baha'i. Tod and his two younger sisters went to Quaker
schools. "The Quakers were proprietors of the underground railway,"
Tod noted. "The cannabis prohibition has the same dynamics as the
bigotry and racism my family and I experienced starting on December
7, 1941, when we were transformed from normal-but-different people
into war-criminal surrogates."

He graduated from Reed College in 1956, served as a medic in the
U.S. Army, and then attended Temple University School of Medicine.
It was at Temple that a reference in a pharmacology text to the
medical utility of marijuana triggered the interest that would
define Mikuriya's career.

After getting his medical degree, Mikuriya served an internship at
Southern Pacific General Hospital in San Francisco, specialized in
psychiatry at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, and completed his
training at Mendocino State Hospital. In 1967 he became director of
non-classified marijuana research for the National Institute of
Mental Health Center for Narcotics and Drug Abuse. He left the
position after several months, he said, "When it became clear they
only wanted research into damaging effects, not helpful ones."

Mikuriya moved to Berkeley in 1970 and entered private practice.

He was active in Amorphia, a West Coast reform group that eventually
folded into NORML, and helped organize a 1972 marijuana legalization
initiative, working alongside Michael and Michelle Aldrich, Pebbles
Trippet, and others who stayed with the struggle through the ensuing
decades of cultural and political rollback.

[snip]

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n636/a01.html

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(16) MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE INITIATIVE LAUNCHES IN MICH.

Pubdate: Thu, 24 May 2007
Source: Detroit News (MI)
Copyright: 2007 The Detroit News
Author: Kim Kozlowski, The Detroit News

An initiative that would allow seriously ill Michigan residents to
use marijuana as a pain reliever without repercussions will be
launched this week, The Coalition for Compassionate Care announced
Wednesday.

The Ferndale-based, grassroots group plans to collect 550,000
signatures within six months for a citizen's initiative known as the
Michigan Medicinal Marijuana Act. It would allow patients to grow
and use small amounts of marijuana for relief from pain associated
with cancer, multiple sclerosis and other diseases.

If 304,101 signatures are validated, the initiative would go to the
Michigan Legislature, according to Coalition for Compassionate Care
Spokeswoman Dianne Byrum. The act would appear on the November 2008
ballot if lawmakers reject or chose not to vote on it.

[snip]

Residents interested in volunteering for the campaign can go to the
coalition's Web site, http://stoparrestingpatients.org

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n642/a03.html

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(17) POT CHALLENGE GETS HIGH-PROFILE HELP

Pubdate: Thu, 24 May 2007
Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 Times Colonist
Author: Richard Watts, Times Colonist

Philippe Lucas, founder of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society,
is flying high.

As a supplier of medical marijuana and political activist bent on
reforming Canada's pot laws, Lucas has a supportive MP in Vancouver
East New Democrat Libby Davies.

He has what he called "an interested and engaged judge" in Justice
Robert Edwards, now hearing the society's Charter of Rights
challenge arising from a raid on the compassion society's
grow-operation near Sooke. And he has a Tory Senator, Pierre Claude
Nolin, to testify for the society when the trial resumes on June 11.

Lucas also has word from Davies that Canada's Auditor General Sheila
Fraser has begun the preliminary stages of checking into certain
user fees attached to Canada's current medical marijuana program.

[snip]

Lucas has hepatitis C and has Health Canada permission to grow and
possess marijuana. But he has said in interviews and in court that
he found it nearly impossible to comply with Health Canada
regulations.

Lucas said regulations required signatures from two medical
specialists, and he had to fill out a 33-page application.

"It was nearly impossible for me to comply," said Lucas in court.
"I'm not sure what somebody in a smaller community would do."

Meanwhile, Davies said yesterday she would like to see the auditor
general take a close look at Health Canada's medical marijuana
regulations. The MP said she believes the federal government is only
satisfying previous court rulings that have called it
unconstitutional to prevent sick people from resorting to marijuana
as medicine.

Government is complying, said Davies, but only just, and only
reluctantly.

"It's like the government doesn't really want it to work," she said.

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n642/a07.html

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International News
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COMMENT: (18-21)

Summer approaches, and in Afghanistan, the poppies are blooming. And
are they ever blooming, with some estimates saying that the crop
this year could be 20% bigger than last year's bumper crop. The
rhetoric is heating up too, as the US state department proclaimed,
"Counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism are effectively the same
thing," in preparation for using "counter-terror" tactics against
drug users and sellers. Involvement with opium creates profits which
"are thought to reach the Taleban". Asserts the U.S. state
department: "everybody recognizes that... the Taleban" gets "funding
from narcotics." Ardent prohibitionists back in Washington have had
enough of the disobedience of Afghani farmers, and are ready to
search and destroy and spray defoliant on what's left, hoping that
will compel obedience. Others like the Senlis Council urge western
governments to instead buy the opium from Afghani farmers, as is
done in Australia, India, Turkey and elsewhere.

While Afghani opium supplies "90% of the world's demand", the
Canadian National Post newspaper reports, the opium and heroin cause
problems for users in Afghanistan, as well. There are a million
"drug addicts" there, according to a 2005 U.N. study. 50,000 of them
use heroin; 150,000 use opium. And the biggest single category of
Afghan "addicts" according to the U.N.? Some 500,000 are "addicts"
to "hashish".

In Mexico, president Felipe Calderon ordered some 30,000 "troops and
police" to go "across the country" to try to suppress
prohibition-related violence as drug cartels jockey for access to
the lucrative U.S. illegal drug market in a series of bloody turf
battles. While the Mexican government tries to spin this in a
favorable direction, critics say the violence and killings aren't
from government pressure so much as turf battles for market share.
Cartels "act completely autonomous of the government; the government
does not affect their operations nor their plans for business," said
Jose Arturo Yanez of the Professional Police Training Institute in
Mexico City.

And we leave you this week with disappointing news from the north,
as Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper is said to axe
the budget for Insite, North America's first and only supervised
injection center, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Harper has
been a staunch supporter of the war in Afghanistan, but with
Canadian casualties mounting up there, Harper needs to divert
attention away from that quagmire, and what could be better than to
ramp up the "war on drugs" at home? Sold as a crackdown on "grow
ops" (i.e., anyone growing any number of cannabis plants) and "drug
dealers", harm reduction budgets were cut as police budgets are set
to swell. "There is no money for harm reduction, which is quite
ominous for what will be," said Leon Mar of the Canadian HIV-AIDS
Legal Network. Other critics of the PM's plan denounced the
"U.S.-style war on drugs, an approach that has proven time and time
again to be counter-productive and a tragic waste of public funds."

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(18) CALL TO DECLARE WAR ON AFGHAN POPPY FIELDS

Pubdate: Tue, 22 May 2007
Source: Scotsman (UK)
Copyright: 2007 The Scotsman Publications Ltd
Author: Tanya Thompson

Afghanistan's opium crop appears set to rise by up to 20 per cent in
the wake of last year's record haul, prompting calls for NATO and
United States forces to play a bigger role in the war on drugs.

With growing drug profits flowing to the Taleban,
western governments are being urged to use a
two-pronged approach: combining their efforts on
anti-narcotics and anti-terrorism.

Thomas Schweich, a senior U.S. state department official, has
briefed NATO ambassadors in Brussels and General Dan McNeill, the
top NATO general in Afghanistan, on the need for increased military
co-operation on the drug front.

"Counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism are effectively the same
thing," said Mr Schweich. "I think everybody recognises that with
the Taleban receiving funding from narcotics, much more so than in
the past, that there has to be a co-ordinated effort."

Afghanistan accounts for more than 90 per cent of the world's heroin
supply, and a significant portion of the profits from the AUKP1.57
billion trade are thought to reach the Taleban, who tax and protect
poppy farmers and drug-runners.

[snip]

Use It For Medicine

[snip]

A poppy-for-medicine model, where village-cultivated plants would be
transformed into codeine and morphine tablets, could help
Afghanistan diversify its economy and become an international trade
partner.

By controlling the entire production process - from seed to tablet
in the villages, farmers and their communities would be given the
financial incentive necessary to sever links with the insurgency.

As the revenues from all medicine sales would remain in the
villages, communities would be given an economic opportunity they
would want to protect - particularly against drug traffickers, and
alternative development would be possible.

- -- Emmanuel Reinert is the executive director of the Senlis
Council.

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n634.a05.html

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(19) RECORD POPPY CROP A HARVEST OF MISERY

Pubdate: Tue, 22 May 2007
Source: National Post (Canada)
Copyright: 2007 Southam Inc.
Author: Tom Blackwell

[snip]

Although it is a strict Muslim country, held in the grip of a
fundamentalist regime for five years until 2001, Afghanistan is
suffering from a boom in heroin addiction.

The international community has sought to crack down on the warweary
nation's record poppy crops, now serving 90% of the world's demand,
but the abundant supply of heroin's main raw ingredient has taken a
terrible toll at home.

An influx of Afghan refugees who became addicted in Iran and in
Pakistan, the trauma and physical ravages of nearly 30 years of war,
and grinding poverty are also blamed.

"It is not only the rest of the world that is suffering. We are
suffering; it is a big problem for us as well," says Dr. Tariq
Suliman, who heads the Nejat centre, a local rehab clinic.

He says the international community, so focused on curbing poppy
production, has paid little heed to Afghanistan's domestic drug
epidemic.

[snip]

A United Nations study in 2005 estimated there are a million Afghan
drug addicts: 50,000 using heroin, 150,000 opium, 500,000 hashish
and about 400,000 using other illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals. The
number of heroin addicts doubled in Kabul between 2003 and 2005.

And their ranks have undoubtedly swollen since then, says Dr.
Suliman.

[snip]

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n632.a01.html

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(20) ESCALATING DRUG WAR GRIPS MEXICO

Pubdate: Wed, 23 May 2007
Source: Christian Science Monitor (US)
Copyright: 2007 The Christian Science Publishing Society
Author: Sara Miller Llana

President Calderon's Popularity Has Soared As He Takes On The
Increasingly Brutal Drug Cartels.

Mexico City - Faced with assassinations of top police
officials, death tolls at historic highs, and
beheadings in the most innocuous public spaces,
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon sent an
unprecedented 30,000 troops and police across the
country to tackle drug-related violence after taking
office in December.

But nearly six months later the terror has only gotten worse, as
drug cartels battle for smuggling routes into the US. Officials are
now even comparing the violence to the drug wars that plagued
Colombia for more than a decade.

[snip]

Jose Arturo Yanez, a drug expert at Mexico City's Professional
Police Training Institute, says that some 200 police officers have
been killed in the past 16 months - the highest number ever.

[snip]

Troop Deployments Questioned

But some, like Mr. Yanez , dismiss the government line - that
violence will get worse as the government clamps down on deeply
rooted organized crime networks.

"The government says that the violence and executions
are the result of government pressure," he says. "[The
drug gangs] act completely autonomous of the
government; the government does not affect their
operations nor their plans for business."

And the national Human Rights Commission recently condemned the
military for human rights abuse claims in Michoacan, Calderon's home
state and the starting point for the military anti-drug initiatives.

"I don't want the military here," says Elias Sheinberg, a Mexican
architect, reacting to calls for troops to be deployed to the
capital. "I fear the troops. It reminds me too much of war, and the
last thing I want is to be in war."

[snip]

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n639.a07.html

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(21) TORIES TO LAUNCH CRACKDOWN ON GROW-OPS, DRUG DEALERS

Pubdate: Wed, 23 May 2007
Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 Times Colonist
Author: Janice Tibbetts, CanWest News Service

The Harper government's new anti-drug strategy is expected to take a
tough approach to illicit drugs, including cracking down on grow-ops
and pushers and retreating from "harm reduction" measures such as
safe injection sites for addicts.

The new strategy, slated to be announced next week, is also
understood to include more money for treatment and a national
drug-use prevention campaign.

The federal budget last March offered a glimpse of the strategy by
allocating an additional $64 million over two years for enforcement,
treatment, and prevention. But the budget figures did not mention
harm-reduction measures, which aim to limit the spread of infectious
diseases through substance abuse.

"They haven't explicitly said they are getting rid of harm
reduction, but the budget numbers speak for themselves," said Leon
Mar, spokesman for the Canadian HIV-AIDS Legal Network. "There is no
money for harm reduction, which is quite ominous for what will be."

Joanne Csete, the network's executive director,
recently wrote in a letter to parliamentarians that the
Conservatives are contemplating "a U.S.-style war on
drugs, an approach that has proven time and time again
to be counter-productive and a tragic waste of public
funds."

[snip]

The new Conservative strategy is also expected to endorse
drug-treatment courts, which already exist in Vancouver, Edmonton,
Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto and Ottawa. Instead of criminal sanctions,
drug addicts can be ordered into treatment programs.

Canada is currently operating under a 20-year-old national drug
strategy that has been criticized for a lack of direction, targets,
and measurable results. The government spends $385 million a year
under the strategy, most of it on law-enforcement measures such as
police investigations, prosecutions and border controls.

[snip]

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n637.a09.html

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HOT OFF THE 'NET
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NPR ON INDUSTRIAL HEMP

NPR did an excellent story on industrial hemp today. You can go to
the following link and listen to the audio.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10395113

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SPIRITUAL HIGHS AND LEGAL BLOWS

The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition.

By Jacob Sullum

http://www.reason.com/news/show/119721.html

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HOW MUCH FOR ALL THAT HEROIN?

The Art And Science Of The DEA's Drug Valuations

By Michelle Tsai

http://www.slate.com/id/2166980/?nav=fix

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CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW

Tonight: 05/25/07 - Celebration of the life of Dr. Tod Mikuriya with
interview segments from the good doctor as well as thoughts and
remembrances of his sister Beverly and his friends Michael and
Michelle Aldrich and DrugSense's Richard Lake.

Audio: http://drugtruth.net/007DTNaudio/FDBCB_052507.mp3

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES NEWS

May 2007

http://www.maps.org/news/

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WOMEN ON WEED

Six pot smoking women agreed to come on camera to express their
viewpoint. Take a look at what they said.

http://www.chikii.com/womenonweed.php

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The Marijuana Policy Project is hiring a Web Administrator, to be
based in MPP's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

MPP is a heavily Apple-based organization, so extensive experience
with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server is a huge plus. Ideally, the
candidate will be comfortable working with and supporting Mac OS X
systems, servers and applications.

Please visit http://www.mpp.org/jobs for a full job description,
salary information, and instructions on how to apply.

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LETTER OF THE WEEK
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DRUG TESTING SHOWS IRONY OF THE 'PROBLEM'

By Brian C. Bennett

Rich Figel's column did a great job of synopsizing the situation
with regard to our nation's drug war. The one thing he didn't do,
though, was to define the nature of the "drug problem" itself. The
nature of the problem is this: These drug users are so crafty,
stealthy and having such a minimal impact on society that we can't
even tell who the vast majority of them are. But if we have to
resort to testing their waste fluid ( on pain of unemployment ) just
to determine who they are, then exactly how much of a "problem" can
they possibly be?

Brian C. Bennett
North Garden, Va.

Editor's note: Brian C. Bennett does statistical analysis and
research for the organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

Pubdate: Wed, 16 May 2007
Author: Brian C. Bennett
Source: Honolulu Weekly (HI)
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n593/a08.html

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Chipping Away At The Drug War For 500 Weeks

By Stephen Young

Roughly ten years ago, DrugSense Weekly distributed its first issue.
Today, we release issue number 500.

Our goal has been to present a comprehensive summary of essential
news and details from the drug war in a weekly capsule. We continue
to try and fulfill that goal, while attempting to keep our approach
current, so you may have already noticed a somewhat different look
with this issue. I will discuss those changes in more detail
shortly.

We've published a history of DrugSense ( see
http://www.drugsense.org/pages/history ) and details about how
DrugSense Weekly evolved ( see
http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2003/ds03.n300.html#sec5) in this space
before and you can consult them if you are interested in the early
days.

In fact, we've published a little bit of everything that exposes the
grim failures of the drug war. Not only coverage and commentary on
every major prohibition-related story in the world for the past
decade in our news sections, but we've also highlighted hundreds of
independent, individual voices through the links at Hot Off The Net,
the Letter Of The Week and the Feature Article.

Some may view our perspectives as biased against the drug war, but
it's impossible to sift through thousands of articles and pieces of
personal writing to see prohibition as anything but a monumental,
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not the fantasy of a drug-free world as presented by professional
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Through the creation and distribution of this newsletter we hope to
have raised others' consciousness on the issues.

In an effort to continue to do that, we have streamlined the
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We'll keep at it, and with you're help now, maybe there won't be a
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