Smoke Signals

• Choco Canna Bliss Chocolate contains anandamide, a syergizing THC-like chemical.
  
  
• Ganja Beer, Imported and Domestic New beer brewed from hemp plants, "the beer does taste like slightly sweetened hash"
  
  
• Peeing into a cup Ontario Human Rights Commission decided that random drug tests and screening as a condition of employment was illegal.
  
  
• Cheating in Chile The Chilean Congress agreed to take a urine drug test as "a gesture of loyalty"
  
  
• Cannabis in Quebec The Parti Québec has been asking all the right questions but seems satisfied to ignore the answers.
  
  
• He Sues, You Lose Nahas has been busy in France for the past few years, whispering his prohibitionist delusions into the ears of the French Government.
  
  
• Just Say "Non" On June 24, France's only cannabis culture magazine, l'Elephant Rose, officially went out of business.
  
  
• Cannabis Intoxication Warp Factor 10 German traffic cops are testing a new way to measure just how stoned you really are.
  
  
• The Scoop on Holland What the heck is going on in Holland? At CC we've been hearing persistent rumours that they're cracking down on coffeeshops and shutting down grow rooms, yet the actual situation is a little more complex.
  
  
• BC's NDP Ignored Drug Deaths What is euphemistically known as "drug overdose" became the leading cause of death among British Columbians aged 30 to 45 in 1993.
  
  
• The Grasstown Police Riot Remembered. . . On August 7, 1996 over a thousand people gathered in Maple Tree Square, at the intersection of Water, Carrall and Powell Streets in Vancouver's Gastown.
  
  
• Open Marijuana Sales in Vancouver David Malmo-Levine has been a busy guy these past few months, and he's going to be much busier over the coming year if he keeps up his aggressive campaign of drugpeace activism.
  
  
• Coo Coo Cocaine Corruption Throughout the Americas and around the world, coca-bucks have become an important part of any politician's warchest.
  
  
• Mass Executions in China The People's Republic of China celebrated the June 28 UN International Day Against Drugs by executing 231 people.
  
  
• The War on Drugs Comes HomeTwo military helicopters swooped into the domestic drug war on August 4, called in by Kamloops RCMP to assist in spotting hidden fields of Kootenay Gold.
  
  
• European Cities Promoting Harm Reduction In Europe it is the city governments which have taken the lead and are dragging their federal counterparts into ending the war on their citizens.
  
  
• Look Who's Growing Hemp Now Leaps and bounds worldwide on the path to a hemp economy from Ireland, England, Jamaica, South Africa, and, screaming and kicking, the US.

Compiled by Dana Larsen muggles@hempbc.com, with contributions from Dr Alexander Sumach, Bianca Sind and Alain Noel, and with assistance from all of the following: Chris Donald ai256@ccn.cs.dal.ca, Matt Elrod mattalk@islandnet.com, Drug Reform Coalition, drctalk@drcnet.org, NORML News, distributed by Carl Olsen carl@dsmnet.com, the Transnational Antiprohibitionist Radical Party, Cora.Belgique@agora.stm.it.