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DdC · 11-21-2003, 03:05 AM

Casualties of the War on Drugs by marc schanz
You can murder, maim and molest and still get federal financial aid for college.
But get caught smoking a joint, and you have to pay your own way;
if you can afford it, that is.

No Loans for Stoners

Students Vs. The Drug War
Now That Washington Has Turned Its Repressive Drug Policies Against Students,
A Growing Campus Network Is Fighting Back by Phil Zabriskie
Rolling Stone March 15, 2001
When Shawn Heller and Brian Gralnick joined Students for Sensible Drug Policy in 1998, as sophomores at George Washington University, SSDP was just a handful of students from Rochester Institute of Technology. One of them, Kris Lotlikar, was working in Washington, D.C. at the Drug Reform Coordination Network. Heller met Lotlikar and started the second SSDP chapter, which soon included Gralnick. Their focus was decriminalizing marijuana for medical purposes - until Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind,) decided to target college students with drug convictions who were seeking federal loans. In October 1998, a law was passed as part of the Higher Education Act that prohibits any applicant with an adult drug conviction from receiving federal financial aid. No other group, including convicted murders, was similarly excluded. The Drug War had just hit college campuses.

Police Terrorize Students in Ill-Conceived Drug Raid

National Student Group Condemns Heavy-Handed Tactics

Excerpt: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, fourteen Goose Creek police officers occupied Stratford High School in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Police stormed the school and detained 107 students at gunpoint, demanding they lie on the ground and submit to an extensive search involving drug-sniffing dogs. No drugs were found.

Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
No More Gramm Crackers!

Drug Ruling Worries Some in Public Housing
Justices Rule Drug-Eviction Law Is Fair
It Was Not the Drug, but the Criminalisation

Collateral Consequences: Denial of Basic Social Services Based Upon Drug Use
Prepared by Robin Levi & Judith Appel,
Office of Legal Affairs,Drug Policy Alliance June 13, 2003
Excerpt: Ineligibility applies to all forms of federal financial aid, including grants, student loans, and work-study. According to the bill‚Äôs author, Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN), the bill was intended to apply only to students who are convicted while they are in college, not students who were convicted before they got to school. Nonetheless, all students with drug convictions, regardless of when they occurred, have lost benefits under this provision.

Drug Warpor Rep. Mark Souder Takes Questions on Radio Netherlands
The chairman of the US senate committee in charge of tackling drugs - Mark Souder - has called the Netherlands "the Colombia for synthetic drugs" and has threatened to call for economic sanctions unless the Dutch authorities do more to tackle the problem.

Our panellists will include:- US Representative Mark Souder. Congressman Souder says: "If they [in the Netherlands] want to have regulated free drugs and free prostitution and gambling and porn videos all over the place, that's their business, but when the Netherlands' internal policies start affecting the United States, that's another matter. I believe they are trying to do the right thing, but there is a huge difference in how we approach issues. We have a more moral base; they don't have a moral base. For example, less than 20 percent of the Dutch population attends church regularly."

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
Bennito Mussolini

Just Say NO! Nancy Rayguns

Ecstasy: Are 'Scare Tactics' Valid? March 18, 2002
This is your brain. This is your brain after Ecstasy. The healthy brain fills the skull. It's all there. The Ecstasy brain is clearly damaged -shrunken, chunks of it missing, like the brain of an Alzheimer's victim. It is a disturbing image now being broadcast nationwide to warn young people tempted by the wildly popular "club drug" known as Ecstasy, by far the drug of choice today with fans of the big party scene. But it has set off a firestorm of argument among doctors and drug experts over how real the dangers of Ecstasy - a psychedelic stimulant sometimes called "the love drug" - actually are. Critics are calling the federal government's current anti-Ecstasy campaign overhyped "scare tactics" based on faulty science.

Sentencing Guidelines Toughened for Ecstasy
Ecstasy For Agony
Scientists Oppose Punishing 'Ecstasy' More Harshly

Guidlines toughened, what a shocker... Whats Science have to do with Medicine or Addiction? Achcroft Just Us Cop Science Jailing for Geeeeeeeeezus, Legislating Morality...

Drug labelling error forces retraction...After RAVE Ax Passes
Excerpt: WASHINGTON (AP) - A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a study about the effects of the drug Ecstasy on the brain because the animals used in the research were given a different drug. The researchers blamed the error on a labelling mix-up. Previous studies had reported on the brain hazards of Ecstasy, and the researchers said the problems with their study did not call into question the earlier ones.

Dance Safe!

Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted
It'll kill you -- wait, no it won't
Results Retracted On Ecstasy Study
Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks

SECOND ECSTASY STUDY RETRACTED Mon, 15 Sep 2003
Excerpt: Johns Hopkins scientists find new error involving vial mislabeled in the first experiment. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have retracted a second study linking the drug Ecstasy to a certain type of brain damage because once again the wrong drug was given to lab animals. Dr. Una D. McCann, a neuroscientist involved in both experiments, said a letter of retraction was sent Thursday to a medical journal, which she declined to identify until editors there decide how to handle the matter.

Scientists discovered the mistake after they checked lab records to see if methamphetamine from a mislabeled vial used in the first experiment had been used elsewhere. "As you might imagine, we systematically went through the books to find out which, if any, of our published studies involved the same [vial]," she said Thursday. "We did find one, and a letter of retraction was sent out to the journal today."

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DdC Old School Status: Offline Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 1,669 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 349 Times in 237 Posts	Casualties of the War on Drugs by marc schanz You can murder, maim and molest and still get federal financial aid for college. But get caught smoking a joint, and you have to pay your own way; if you can afford it, that is. No Loans for Stoners Students Vs. The Drug War Now That Washington Has Turned Its Repressive Drug Policies Against Students, A Growing Campus Network Is Fighting Back by Phil Zabriskie Rolling Stone March 15, 2001 When Shawn Heller and Brian Gralnick joined Students for Sensible Drug Policy in 1998, as sophomores at George Washington University, SSDP was just a handful of students from Rochester Institute of Technology. One of them, Kris Lotlikar, was working in Washington, D.C. at the Drug Reform Coordination Network. Heller met Lotlikar and started the second SSDP chapter, which soon included Gralnick. Their focus was decriminalizing marijuana for medical purposes - until Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind,) decided to target college students with drug convictions who were seeking federal loans. In October 1998, a law was passed as part of the Higher Education Act that prohibits any applicant with an adult drug conviction from receiving federal financial aid. No other group, including convicted murders, was similarly excluded. The Drug War had just hit college campuses. Police Terrorize Students in Ill-Conceived Drug Raid National Student Group Condemns Heavy-Handed Tactics Excerpt: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, fourteen Goose Creek police officers occupied Stratford High School in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Police stormed the school and detained 107 students at gunpoint, demanding they lie on the ground and submit to an extensive search involving drug-sniffing dogs. No drugs were found. Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs No More Gramm Crackers! Drug Ruling Worries Some in Public Housing Justices Rule Drug-Eviction Law Is Fair It Was Not the Drug, but the Criminalisation Collateral Consequences: Denial of Basic Social Services Based Upon Drug Use Prepared by Robin Levi & Judith Appel, Office of Legal Affairs,Drug Policy Alliance June 13, 2003 Excerpt: Ineligibility applies to all forms of federal financial aid, including grants, student loans, and work-study. According to the bill‚Äôs author, Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN), the bill was intended to apply only to students who are convicted while they are in college, not students who were convicted before they got to school. Nonetheless, all students with drug convictions, regardless of when they occurred, have lost benefits under this provision. Drug Warpor Rep. Mark Souder Takes Questions on Radio Netherlands The chairman of the US senate committee in charge of tackling drugs - Mark Souder - has called the Netherlands "the Colombia for synthetic drugs" and has threatened to call for economic sanctions unless the Dutch authorities do more to tackle the problem. Our panellists will include:- US Representative Mark Souder. Congressman Souder says: "If they [in the Netherlands] want to have regulated free drugs and free prostitution and gambling and porn videos all over the place, that's their business, but when the Netherlands' internal policies start affecting the United States, that's another matter. I believe they are trying to do the right thing, but there is a huge difference in how we approach issues. We have a more moral base; they don't have a moral base. For example, less than 20 percent of the Dutch population attends church regularly." "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it." Bennito Mussolini Just Say NO! Nancy Rayguns Ecstasy: Are 'Scare Tactics' Valid? March 18, 2002 This is your brain. This is your brain after Ecstasy. The healthy brain fills the skull. It's all there. The Ecstasy brain is clearly damaged -shrunken, chunks of it missing, like the brain of an Alzheimer's victim. It is a disturbing image now being broadcast nationwide to warn young people tempted by the wildly popular "club drug" known as Ecstasy, by far the drug of choice today with fans of the big party scene. But it has set off a firestorm of argument among doctors and drug experts over how real the dangers of Ecstasy - a psychedelic stimulant sometimes called "the love drug" - actually are. Critics are calling the federal government's current anti-Ecstasy campaign overhyped "scare tactics" based on faulty science. Sentencing Guidelines Toughened for Ecstasy Ecstasy For Agony Scientists Oppose Punishing 'Ecstasy' More Harshly Guidlines toughened, what a shocker... Whats Science have to do with Medicine or Addiction? Achcroft Just Us Cop Science Jailing for Geeeeeeeeezus, Legislating Morality... Drug labelling error forces retraction...After RAVE Ax Passes Excerpt: WASHINGTON (AP) - A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a study about the effects of the drug Ecstasy on the brain because the animals used in the research were given a different drug. The researchers blamed the error on a labelling mix-up. Previous studies had reported on the brain hazards of Ecstasy, and the researchers said the problems with their study did not call into question the earlier ones. Dance Safe! Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted It'll kill you -- wait, no it won't Results Retracted On Ecstasy Study Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks SECOND ECSTASY STUDY RETRACTED Mon, 15 Sep 2003 Excerpt: Johns Hopkins scientists find new error involving vial mislabeled in the first experiment. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have retracted a second study linking the drug Ecstasy to a certain type of brain damage because once again the wrong drug was given to lab animals. Dr. Una D. McCann, a neuroscientist involved in both experiments, said a letter of retraction was sent Thursday to a medical journal, which she declined to identify until editors there decide how to handle the matter. Scientists discovered the mistake after they checked lab records to see if methamphetamine from a mislabeled vial used in the first experiment had been used elsewhere. "As you might imagine, we systematically went through the books to find out which, if any, of our published studies involved the same [vial]," she said Thursday. "We did find one, and a letter of retraction was sent out to the journal today."