Source: BBS News
March 17 2008
Author: Michael Hess
A grower of cannabis for personal medical use was found not guilty by a judge
HANDS OF OUR COCA
[New Statesman (UK)
>http://info.newstatesman.com/?jlnk=lsl0010]
11 March 2008
By: Hugh O’Shaughnessy
COCA COLA’S OWN REPORT IMPLICATES COMPANY FOR ABUSES IN INDIA
Source: [India Resource Center
>http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2008/cokeimplicatedteri.html]
March 13, 2008
by Amit Srivastava
The Coca-Cola company is up to its old tricks again.
NL: MAYORS WANT EFFECTIVE, NOT IDEOLOGICAL, DRUG POLICY
Source: NRC Handelsblad
March 4, 2008
By: Ruud Vreeman, mayor of Tilburg; Gerd Leers, mayor of Maastricht; Job Cohen , mayor of Amsterdam; Boris van der Ham, MP for D66 (left liberals); Krista van Velzen, MP for SP (left socialist party).
As far as drug policy goes: effect is what counts, not the ideology.
VICTORY (FOR NOW) FOR COLOMBIAN COCA GROWERS
Source: The Narco News Bulletin
March 10, 2008
By Dan Feder
Weeks of Intense Protest End with an Agreement to Switch to Legal Crops in Return for Government Support
UN DRUG AGENCY CALLED ‘STOOGES’ OVER CRITICAL REPORT
9 March 2008
By: Christina Montgomery
Safe Injection Site Violates Treaties, World Body Says
