A low-volume e-mail list that alerts subscribers to interesting drug policy-related items from around the world, the ReconsiDer Tidbits have proven to be one of our most popular endeavors. A fairly complete collection of Tidbits from the last few years appears below. Click on any you'd like to see.

  Date Subject
Oct 11 2004 Larger American role in the 40-year-old, drug-fueled conflict in Bolivia
Sep 21 2004 __ Hope for the Democrats_
Sep 14 2004 _Walters vs_ Nadelmann
Sep 13 2004 Gaudeamus igitur!
Sep 08 2004 ONDCP vs_ DOJ
Aug 07 2004 _ Why leave the profits to those who perpetuate violent culture_
Aug 06 2004 America admits drug war has failed
Jul 29 2004 _ The fraud of pot decriminalization
Jul 28 2004 Gang Violence
Jul 22 2004 _Science and the war on drugs
Jul 15 2004 A Republican Sheriff's new book
Jun 30 2004 _William F_ Buckley, Jr_on marijuana
Jun 16 2004 Portuguese Police say _IT'S OK TO SMOKE DOPE_
Jun 09 2004 Coming soon___ to a school near you___
Jun 08 2004 _ Make up your mind!
Jun 03 2004 We still have a First Amendment!
May 27 2004 Wake up! They're destrying your children_
May 24 2004 Rodney Dangerfield___ exposes himself
May 15 2004 This moose wears sunglasses and carries a nightstick_
May 12 2004 Why not ban aspirin_
May 11 2004 prohibition's consequences threaten the basis of democracy, economy and the rule of law says Senator Nolin
Apr 24 2004 Ottawa Editorial_ Blinded by drugs
Apr 22 2004 Chocolate, BBQ addiction may be real
Apr 20 2004 The perils of catching too many drug users
Apr 12 2004 Pain management, DEA style
Apr 04 2004 DRUG BUSTS ARE FUTILE
Mar 28 2004 Singapore- _Shame on you, drug user____
Mar 22 2004 _ For some, _addiction_ may be the only cure_
Mar 20 2004 __UN DRUG POLICIES HELP TERRORISTS
Mar 14 2004 _What if a Martian came to the U_S__
Mar 09 2004 _ European Drugs Policy on the brink of change
Mar 08 2004 _Athletes Find a Way
Mar 06 2004 U_ N_ AGENCY BACKS A FAILED APPROACH ON DRUG ABUSE
Feb 25 2004 Top Medical Doctors and Scientists Urge Major Media Outlets to Stop Perpetuating _Crack Baby_ Myth
Feb 23 2004 Ecstasy Agonistes
Feb 17 2004 NEW DESIGNER DRUGS ARE JUST A CLICK AWAY
Feb 15 2004 Police chief says legalise heroin
Feb 14 2004 How tough can you get_
Feb 04 2004 Dutch decriminalize hard drug smuggling
Feb 02 2004 FREE JUNK FOR JUNKIES
Jan 31 2004 _ Kerry's Drug War Zealot
Jan 29 2004 Urban vs_ Suburban Public Schools
Jan 23 2004 Comcast Condones Okie's Antics
Jan 09 2004 drug education___ what works_
Jan 03 2004 ___Starting 2004 right
Dec 18 2003 _A Landmark Victory___ for now anyway_
Dec 10 2003 ITALY MARCHES BRAVELY INTO 20TH CENTURY
Nov 29 2003 83 year old Italian former PM admits using cocaine
Nov 22 2003 The new Bob Barr_
Nov 12 2003 Blackboard Jungle
Nov 09 2003 _a marijuana smoker is arrested every 45 seconds
Nov 03 2003 The UK DOWNGRADES CANNABIS
Oct 23 2003 Whack-a-Mole in Latin America
Oct 22 2003 _ a collective, bipartisan hallucination_
Oct 20 2003 The clash over the use of opioids to treat patients intensifies
Oct 15 2003 _Poor marks for the DEA
Oct 13 2003 _USING YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS
Sep 29 2003 _ Administration Declares War on Doctors
Sep 26 2003 A WHIFF OF FREEDOM
Sep 24 2003 Turning a blind eye
Sep 09 2003 America Takes A Hit
Sep 06 2003 _ Another successful pot smoker
Sep 06 2003 Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted
Aug 27 2003 civil disobedience
Aug 20 2003 Someone needs to batten-down this Hatch
Aug 09 2003 A Month in the life of the Drug War
Jul 28 2003 _ Mainstream Media- Drug War Shills
Jul 27 2003 America's drug policy at work___
Jul 25 2003 _Mind your own business
Jul 15 2003 _Eighty years of failed drug prohibition have destroyed swaths of urban America_
Jul 10 2003 Justice Argues Pot's not so Bad
Jun 27 2003 _ 41% of Americans say _LEGALIZE_
Jun 26 2003 Walters thumbs his nose at the science yet again_
Jun 20 2003 RDL update
Jun 16 2003 Crop substitution in Colombia- Mary Barr takes a look_
Jun 10 2003 _On the Right with William F_ Buckley
Jun 04 2003 Ecstasy damages the brain; or does it_
Jun 03 2003 Walter's worst fears are coming true
May 26 2003 Democracy in America- 2003_ PART 2
May 25 2003 _Democracy in America- 2003
May 12 2003 Is Marijuana Medicine_
May 05 2003 Time To Get Off The Pot, Canada
Apr 29 2003 Prohibition, mark two
Apr 24 2003 Should conservatives support the legalization of marijuana_
Apr 22 2003 Drug Czar says terrorism is bad but marijuana is worse_
Apr 10 2003 Tulia's Legacy
Apr 08 2003 Get out of the way UN
Apr 07 2003 Prison Rates Among Blacks Reach a Peak
Apr 03 2003 shackled while giving birth
Mar 30 2003 Prohibition as Scripture
Mar 24 2003 Thailand- racing backward to the dark ages_
Mar 23 2003 North of the Border
Mar 17 2003 More violence in Mexico
Mar 10 2003 the heavy toll that results from criminalisation remains evident across the world
Mar 10 2003 _Ollie's Contra-band_
Mar 02 2003 the bongs are coming!
Feb 23 2003 First Latin American Anti-Prohibition Summit
Feb 16 2003 Government grades their own prohibition programs -_F_
Feb 11 2003 Sterling talks about war on drugs
Feb 07 2003 Government working hard to stimulate crime
Feb 04 2003 JURORS DENOUNCE THEIR OWN VERDICT
Feb 02 2003 Swing Kids
Jan 31 2003 Michigan repeals strict drug law____The law was a joke__
Jan 22 2003 Another (big) nail in the Coffin
Jan 21 2003 _Who's in charge here_
Jan 19 2003 _Ayear in the Life
Jan 14 2003 Drugged driving
Jan 10 2003 guns & drugs in the UK
Jan 08 2003 Self-styled drug reformers complicate the _drug problem_
Jan 06 2003 Drug Testing Teens; A Quick Fix_
Jan 03 2003 DA's on the Warpath.
Dec 30 2002 _ Abstinence can kill you_
Dec 22 2002 _ DRINKERS FACE DRUG TEST AS THEY ENTER THE PUB
Dec 20 2002 Treatment Works___ or does it_
Dec 19 2002 108 MEPs ASK FOR LEGAL CONTROL
Dec 18 2002 Urine -- or You're Out
Dec 14 2002 Drug Legalization considered on Capitol Hill !!!
Dec 14 2002 O, Canada!
Dec 04 2002 Teach teens to 'just say no' to drugs
Dec 04 2002 Locked Away to Die
Nov 30 2002 The deadly nexus
Nov 21 2002 Drug war's strategy fatally flawed, ex-cop says
Nov 18 2002 talking to cement
Nov 17 2002 Costly, counterproductive, crazy
Nov 15 2002 The former Colombian Attorney General gives us some good advice
Nov 04 2002 Is it medicine_ Is there any doubt_
Oct 29 2002 _Is Addiction really a disease_
Oct 17 2002 Justice for all
Oct 14 2002 schism over pot
Oct 12 2002 Wake up black America
Oct 06 2002 a different standard of justice for the First Family_
Oct 04 2002 _Ecstasy Study Full of Holes
Sep 29 2002 Plan Colombia
Sep 27 2002 _New Ecstasy scare
Sep 24 2002 A voice of reason from the midwest
Sep 23 2002 a letter from Eric Sterling
Sep 22 2002 Former British Drug Czar's anti-terrorist tactic_ legalize drugs!
Sep 18 2002 Billion dollar _anti- drug_ ads, are they really_ anti-drug war_ ads_
Sep 17 2002 _ Pot raid angers state, patients
Sep 12 2002 Calif_ City Plans Marijuana Giveaway
Sep 10 2002 _Drugs Found on Jeb Bush's Daughter
Sep 05 2002 Hempfests, Raves, and Bridge Tournaments
Sep 05 2002 The Canadian Senate Committee's Marijuana report_ Will the rest of senate really read it_
Sep 04 2002 _ Canadian Senate reccomends legalization of marijuana
Sep 01 2002 _ Let's look at what Dionne Warwick's case says about the _war on drugs_
Aug 28 2002 Feds seizing a college dorm building_
Aug 23 2002 How'd we get here_
Aug 19 2002 _Heroin and History
Aug 16 2002 A Nevada columnist doesn't like being lied to_
Aug 16 2002 The drug war heats up in Colombia
Aug 08 2002 Big doings in Nevada !
Aug 05 2002 _A drug-free workplace
Aug 02 2002 U_S_ prohibitionists reward Taliban
Jul 26 2002 _A PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE ON HIGH-RISK YOUTH BEHAVIOR
Jul 24 2002 Is the DEA out of control_
Jul 18 2002 Reform the Rockefeller Drug Laws_
Jul 17 2002 Trade the kids for votes
Jul 12 2002 _Employers___ should not be testing employees___ for drugs,_ Canadian Human Rights Commission rules
Jul 11 2002 Meaningful drug policy reform in UK is not to be___
Jul 10 2002 MILTON FRIEDMAN'S 30-YEAR-OLD ADVICE
Jul 03 2002 Sept_ 11 Had No Impact on Drug Trafficking
Jun 27 2002 Supreme court ruling endangers our children_
Jun 26 2002 our government instrumental in funding terrorists
Jun 21 2002 The 18th-Century Gin Craze
Jun 20 2002 Prohibitionists are doing the exact opposite of what Jesus taught_
Jun 15 2002 No more drug users in the Phillipines_
Jun 11 2002 Legalize or prohibit_ Is there a third path_
Jun 09 2002 The official, on the books cost of this war is $609 a second_
Jun 06 2002 Zeese Arrested in D_C_
Jun 03 2002 DEA Forges Alliance With Women Legislators Group
May 31 2002 Financial Times calls drug war _Immoral And Stupid_
May 30 2002 Taft Administration Subverts Election in Ohio
May 30 2002 Trade sanctions against Canada_
May 23 2002 _Honey, let's torture the kids into not using drugs_
May 22 2002 UK takes a big step
May 21 2002 Supporting the Drug War Supports Terrorists_
May 15 2002 Your tax dollars at work
May 13 2002 Former NYS senator regrets his _lack of foresight three decades ago_
May 09 2002 It's Time for Tough Questions About Drug Law
May 04 2002 drug czar getting desperate_
Apr 30 2002 A federal judge judges our drug policy
Apr 29 2002 What's going on in merry olde England_
Apr 26 2002 Bush Violates His Own Drug War Strategy
Apr 22 2002 Ecstasy link to damage of the brain 'misleading' the public
Apr 16 2002 The confused message of TV ads
Apr 15 2002 The presumption of innocence
Apr 11 2002 Baker Institute Conference
Apr 11 2002 PROHIBITION TURNED HELSINKI INTO A WET CITY
Apr 09 2002 Hypocrisy in New York City
Apr 06 2002 North Korea; Evil Axis foe or partner in the drug war_
Apr 02 2002 SCANDAL !!! Austrailian Drug Czar linked with zero-tolerence group!
Mar 31 2002 You'll give up your morals, your conscience, your heart
Mar 27 2002 A plain-spoken British police chief asks __Are these things actually that bad__
Mar 25 2002 Hitherto secret Nixon Tapes revealed_
Mar 20 2002 Pro & Con (_)
Mar 18 2002 Bet you never thought you'd read an art___ You'll be glad you read this one_
Mar 17 2002 rise of illegal drug use is one of the most corrosive changes in our society
Mar 15 2002 federal drug war juggernaut continues rolling
Mar 11 2002 Portugal_ we are trying to reduce the risks
Mar 09 2002 why should we trust musicians_
Mar 06 2002 Harvard Law School professor___ a successful drug user
Mar 02 2002 LIES, DAMN LIES
Mar 01 2002 SAMHSA REFUTES CASA SENSATIONALISM
Feb 27 2002 Sweden has sought to create a _drug-free society_
Feb 24 2002 Two countries took the drugs test_ Who passed_
Feb 23 2002 ONDCP's New Budget Uses ENRON-style Accounting
Feb 18 2002 Washington's War___ On the Sick_
Feb 17 2002 A Sound Basis For A Drug Policy
Feb 07 2002 The War on Terror's Newest Target_ America's Kids
Feb 05 2002 U_S_ Press and DARE
Jan 31 2002 Ashcroft finds statues in DOJ immoral !
Jan 30 2002 Doctors leery of U_S_ Crackdown on Pain Drugs
Jan 29 2002 Bush's Niece Arrested
Jan 25 2002 -French Justice Minister Calls for Pot Decriminalization Debate-
Jan 18 2002 Are you a TV addict_
Jan 18 2002 Reform Drug Laws For Our Children's Sake
Jan 10 2002 Sheriff Pinckney a victim of the failed war on drugs
Jan 06 2002 How much longer we talkin' here____
Jan 03 2002 Divert Drug-Bust Money to War on Terrorism
Jan 03 2002 The Public Is Saying _No More Drug War!_
Dec 15 2001 Now they're after grandma
Dec 14 2001 Hemp Hysteria
Dec 07 2001 Zogby Poll on Marijuana
Dec 06 2001 Can't catch a terrorist_ Get the next most dangerous thing_
Nov 30 2001 Breast cancer, state's rights, and compassion, clash_
Nov 30 2001 SF to Feds_ _POT OK IN THE CITY_
Nov 25 2001 Assisted Suicide Is Bootleg Suicide
Nov 22 2001 Terrorism means that taxpayers will have to hand over additional billions to the ERs ! Why _
Nov 18 2001 Britain's Drug War Continues to Crumble
Nov 14 2001 Either quit or die, smokers are told
Nov 07 2001 Can't win war on terror fighting a war on drugs
Nov 05 2001 Science Magazine_ _The concept of addiction is changing_
Nov 04 2001 Terence Hallinan_Time for the U_S_ to honor Prop_ 215_
Nov 04 2001 Great Britain- Scientific Tests Of 'Wonder Drug' Give Patients New Hope_
Nov 01 2001 _Never mind the terrorists, there are sick people smoking marijuana in LA !_
Oct 31 2001 U_S_ CRACKS DOWN ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN CALIFORNIA
Oct 27 2001 UK Cannabis laws eased in drug policy shakeup
Oct 19 2001 MONEY SPENT ON DRUG WAR COULD BE PUT TO BETTER USE
Oct 17 2001 FBI probe targeted drugs, not terrorism
Oct 15 2001 US government agencies have been crucial in escalating the supply of heroin to West
Oct 08 2001 SAFETY TEST FOR SPANISH DRUG USERS
Oct 08 2001 U_S_ NURTURED RADICAL ISLAM, IGNORED DRUG DEALING
Oct 02 2001 Big Drug's Nicotine War
Oct 02 2001 DID THE WHITE HOUSE GIVE THE TALIBAN $43 MILLION_
Sep 29 2001 ----Changing the Signs on the Doors
Sep 24 2001 The price of opium is ____
Sep 22 2001 A MAJOR RISK OF HASTY ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION IS INEFFECTIVENESS
Sep 21 2001 THE WAR OUR LEADERS ARE HAPPY TO FORGET
Sep 18 2001 BUSH'S FAUSTIAN DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN
Sep 14 2001 Terrorists get cash from drug trade
Sep 11 2001 Governor and DEA chief battle it out in Albuquerque
Sep 10 2001 Catastrophe in Columbia
Sep 08 2001 Canadian Medical Association Journal on Marijuana
Sep 03 2001 COLOMBIA FACES STRONG PUSH TO LEGALISE
Sep 02 2001 IS ASA HUTCHINSON QUALIFIED _
Aug 30 2001 COLOMBIANS BACK DECRIMINALIZATION
Aug 27 2001 THE ROOTS OF RACIAL PROFILING
Aug 23 2001 America is on a Lonely Road
Aug 20 2001 Australia_ Top Cops Propose _Heroin Bank,_
Aug 15 2001 Europe Goes To Pot___TIME
Aug 04 2001 National Review- Weed Whackers___and why they're wrong_
Aug 02 2001 Personal Use of Drugs to be De-criminalized in Ukraine
Jul 30 2001 even highly developed nations feel the long arm of U_S_ drug policies_
Jul 27 2001 The case for legalisation-The Economist
Jul 26 2001 New Trends Released for Drug Related Emergency Department Visits
Jul 16 2001 Cincinnati ___the story the press missed_
Jul 12 2001 Universities Unconcerned Over Undergraduate Drinking
Jul 09 2001 Financial Times on MJ reform in the UK_
Jul 06 2001 Abstinence only_
Jul 02 2001 Portugal Goes All the Way !
Jun 27 2001 WORLD'S MOST POPULAR DRUG-Caffeine
Jun 23 2001 News from the World
Jun 14 2001 Drug War creates the very problem which it claims to solve!
Jun 12 2001 addiction_ as an excuse
Jun 11 2001 Court Rules on Heat-Sensor Searches
Jun 06 2001 JAMAICA CONSIDERS LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
May 24 2001 Ignorance, stupidity,and cruelty flourish in South Carolina courts_
May 22 2001 Is pleasure why marijuana is illegal_
May 18 2001 ReconsiDer quoted in MSNBC story on new Drug Czar
May 18 2001 Canadian docs call for marijuana decrim
May 10 2001 Prohibition to increase with new Bush appointees
May 06 2001 Harry Browne on Strawberry and Downey
May 05 2001 War on Drugs_ U_S_ Has No 'Exit Strategy'
May 04 2001 U_S_Loses_Seat_on_U.N._Narcotics_Board
May 04 2001 U.S._loses_seat_on_U.N._narcotic_board
Apr 29 2001 Judge Gray in Houston
Apr 25 2001 Private Companies Fight Drug War
Apr 24 2001 Thailand executes drug dealers, US troops to help
Apr 23 2001 Just collateral damage_
Apr 15 2001 Medical Marijuana___What next_
Apr 11 2001 AMTRAK & the DEA
Apr 08 2001 effects of in-utero cocaine use_
Apr 02 2001 It's those inner-city black kids or is it
Mar 29 2001 Government has no idea if prohibition is working !
Mar 24 2001 Three-fourths of Americans think the nation is losing the war on drugs
Mar 20 2001 Fox Talks Drug Legalization
Mar 20 2001 new Swiss marijuana policy
Mar 16 2001 Changes in New York _
Mar 15 2001 Latin America is heating up_
Mar 14 2001 National Drug Control Strategy_ The Results are in_
Mar 14 2001 Britan's Guardian calls drug war an _Unwinnable Contest _
Mar 09 2001 Swiss move toward marijuana legalization
Mar 05 2001 Youth with High Self-Esteem More Likely to Use Drugs
Mar 02 2001 US in SE Asia
Mar 02 2001 US pressures Canadian government to support drug war
Feb 22 2001 Europe's Parliamentary Assembly says legal sanctions against drug possession and use have no effect_
Feb 16 2001 3 Tidbits- 2 from Latin America, 1 from the UK_
Feb 14 2001 Global move toward legalization_