Sunday Reading

DRCNet's newsletter is full as usual of good reading. From a good editorial on former pot smoker, Republican Mitch Daniels, now governor-elect of Indiana, to a story on a jury in South Carolina who acquitted an addicted defendant caught with a pound of opium, the whole thing is well worth reading. While you're there, check out their coverage on the defeat of the three strikes referendum and the happy victory in Albany where drug policy reform candidate, David Soares handily won election as the new DA.

Lastly, they announce that DrugWarMarket.com, a new website set to launch in December that will follow the economy of the drug war, is seeking web sites for affiliations and link exchanges. Contact them drugwarmarket@hotmail.com.

Meanwhile, Drug Sense Weekly offers its fine weekly assortment of breaking news. Don't miss the story on a detective who turned his son into a drug dealer and an offer of hope that the defeated "three strikes law" initiative that sought to abolish the dunderheaded policy in CA will still produce some modifications to the law so a kid who steals a piece of pizza doesn't end up in jail for life. Meanwhile, that kid and thousands like him continue to fester behind bars instead of contributing to society.