Newshawk: MAP OnAir http://www.mapinc.org/onair/
Pubdate: 13 Sep 2002
Source: Cultural Baggage
Station: Pacifica Radio: KPFT, Houston, 90.1 FM http://www.kpft.org/
Contact: dean@cultural-baggage.com
Website: http://www.cultural-baggage.com/kpft.htm
Host: Dean Becker
Guests: Senator Nolin, Eugene Oscapella, Valerie Corral, call in listeners
Note: This is a MAP OnAir special announcement. The one hour radio show is
on line in low bandwidth (16kbps) realaudio format at the URL or directly
at http://www.cultural-baggage.com/cb0913B.rm

Friday night's Cultural Baggage Radio Show, featuring Canadian Senator
Pierre Claude Nolin and Eugene Oscapella, along with an interview with
Valerie Corral of WAMM is now online.

http://www.cultural-baggage.com/kpft.htm

Click the "Listen" link on the left side for 9/13/02

The Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, chaired by Senator
Nolin, in a 600 page report has strongly recommended legalizing cannabis.
You can read the actual report on line at
http://www.parl.gc.ca/illegal-drugs.asp - click on reports. There is also a
good set of info, links, etc. at http://cannabislink.ca/gov/senatesumm.htm

Barrister and Solicitor Eugene Oscapella leads the Canadian Foundation for
Drug Policy http://www.cfdp.ca/ The Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy
(CFDP) is a non-profit organization founded in 1993 by several of Canada's
leading specialists in drug policy. Its founding members include
psychologists, pharmacologists, lawyers, health policy advocates and public
policy researchers. News items that mention Eugene Oscapella may be found
at http://www.mapinc.org/people/Oscapella

Senator Nolin and Eugene Oscapella discuss the report, the science and
common sense behind it, and the reactions of the media and the U.S.
government. Also discussed are the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/ cases before the Supreme Court of
Canada, with oral arguments being made December 13th, 2002 - the cases of
Christopher Clay, David Malmo-Levine and Victor Eugene Cain (links to court
documents may be found at
http://www.cannabislink.ca/legal/index.htm#legalcases ).

News items about the above may be found at http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm

The DEA raid September 5 against the Santa Cruz Wo/Men's Alliance for
Medical Marijuana ( http://www.wamm.org ) - and resulting protest actions -
is the subject of an interview, recorded earlier, with WAMM director
Valerie Corral. Besides much information on the WAMM website news items may
be found at http://www.mapinc.org/people/Corral and an analysis at
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n1717.a09.html