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Drug Policy as a Health Issue (02/15/2001)

Department of Justice Guidelines Regarding the Use of Confidential Informants (01/08/2001)
U.S. Department of Justice guidelines regarding the use of confidential informants in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

ACLU Op-Ed Against Student Drug Testing (01/02/2001)

Democracy Held Hostage (12/31/2000)
How Marijuana Made Bob Barr So Paranoid He Canceled an Election.

Medical Marijuana: An Overview (11/15/2000)

U.S. v. Singleton - En Banc Reversal (07/10/1998)
A unanimous panel of the Tenth Circuit held that the government violated 18 U.S.C. § 201(c)(2), which punishes “[w]hoever . . . gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any person for or because of” that person’s testimony, by entering into a nonprosecution and leniency agreement with a cooperating coconspirator. The court en banc subsequently reversed the panel, holding that the word “whoever” in the statute does not include prosecutors acting as the “alter ego” of the United States exercising its sovereign power of prosecution.

Marijuana or Martinis? (06/15/1998)

Substantial Assistance: An Empirical Yardstick Gauging Equity in Current Federal Policy and Practice (01/01/1998)
A report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission analyzing the practice of substantial assistance under which prison sentences are decreased for offenders who assist in the investigation or prosecution of another crime, such as an informant.

Privacy in America: Workplace Drug Testing (12/31/1997)