"bobbie sellers" <blissNO@SPAMcalifornia.com> wrote in message news:1059667621724683.NC-1.56.blissNO@News.Individual.NET... | Drug War Chronicle, Issue #467 -- 1/5/07 | Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@drcnet.org | http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/467 | | A Publication of Stop the Drug War (DRCNet) | David Borden, Executive Director, borden@drcnet.org | "Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition" | | Please visit http://stopthedrugwar.org/donate to make a generous | donation for DRCNet's work in 2007! Visit | http://stopthedrugwar.org/twoyearplan to send us feedback on our | proposed two-year-plan! | | Table of Contents: | | 1. EDITORIAL: RAID VS. RAID | Our soldiers under insurgent threat in Baghdad seem more | clear-headed than our police serving routine search warrants | here at home. | http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/467/our_troops_in_iraq_are_more_careful_than_our_police _officers_here | | 2. FEATURE: AFGHAN OPIUM DILEMMA SPARKS NEW CALLS FOR | ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT, "NORMALIZING" THE POPPY CROP | While the US using tried-and-failed eradication schemes on the | Afghan opium trade, others including the UN and World Bank are | calling for smarter alternative development. Others are going | even further. | http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/467/afghan_opium_dilemma_sparks_calls_alternative_devel opment_normalize_poppy_crop Posted comment: Legalise Opium. Graham Green added an appendix to his novel "The Quiet American" praising opium and describing the smell as the most intelligent odor in the world. My experience with opium leads me to agree with him. It is absurd that I could score heroin (or crack) on the street within half an hour, but there is no raw opium out there, which is relatively harmless. Spindrift