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• Dangers of Dusting
  A Calgary Police Office tells of his teenage son's death from a new fad called "dusting" which has been getting popular with experimenting teens.



• Email initiative to education Stephen Harper
  Every week throughout 2008 drug policy researcher Dr. Susan Boyd will be sending an informative email to Canada's Prime Minister. You can view the emails (or send your own) at Educating Harper.



• February 4th Lobbying MPs on Parliament Hill
  There will be a mass effort to lobby MPs for a more sensible drug policy. This effort is being organized by Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Following a day of lobbying, a public forum on drug policy will be held on Parliament Hill in the evening.



• NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs Online Survey
  Fill in the online survey and help contribute to a worldwide effort to provide a unique and important platform on which civil society can contribute to the reflection on the 1998-2008 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on illicit drugs. This effort is being spearheaded by the Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs (website which is an organization that provides a vital link between NGO's, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).



• International Drug Users Day - November 1
  On International Drug Users Day 2007, ‘just say no’ to treating people who use illicit drugs as second class citizens. Events organized around the world. CounterFit Harm Reduction in Toronto organized a celebration. International observations took place in many cities around the world. LINK



• World Drug Report 2007 from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has been released. Very worthwhile overview of global situation. Download the 282 page report here



• INSITE, Vancouver's safer injection site, needs public support in order for it to remain operating past December 2007. Please take a little time to send a letter of support



• Anti-harm reduction troops are challenging the results of research that demonstrates Vancouver's inSITE safer injection site is having a positive impact. View a brief chronological outline of the research debate.