YET ANOTHER TERROR ALERT ENDS WITH RAIDS AND ARRESTS AGAINST CANNABIS COMMUNITYU.S. RAIDS FIRMS SELLING PARAPHERNALIAWASHINGTON -- "People selling drug paraphernalia are in essence no different than drug dealers," said John Brown, acting DEA chief. "They are as much a part of drug trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide."

br>DATELINE INTERVIEWS ED AND JURORSHIGH CRIMES?TELEVISION -- NBC's Dateline featured Ed Rosenthal, his jurors and even California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, all protesting Ed's conviction. MEASURE WOULD ADD MEDICAL POT DEFENSECALIFORNIA -- Medical marijuana growers and suppliers could avoid federal prison under legislation proposed by a California congressman in the wake of a wave of raids and prosecutions.

LORETTA NALL INTERVIEW -- "Why I fled my home with my kids" LORETTA NALL AND FAMILY IN HIDINGU.S. Marijuana Party president, Loretta Nall had to flee home after a rogue cop obtained a search warrant -- based on a letter to the editor -- and tried to grab her kids. 'RICH UNCLE' BANKROLLS STUDENTSNY Company provides student loans for a price; no drug test or questions involved.

QUESTION AUTHORITY . . . THINK FOR YOURSELF!NEW DATABASE CLOSES BORDERS TO ANYONE WITH POT ARREST RECORDCANADA/USA -- New "anti-terror" databases, shared between the US and Canada, are being used to close the border to anyone involved with cannabis, based on any contact with law enforcement for the past ten years. MISGUIDED COPS TARGETING CANNABIS DRIVERS

SPECIAL REPORT: BUBBLE HASHMEDPOT PATIENTS: NO REFUGE FROM FEDS"Anyone who is growing marijuana and is vocal shouldn't be surprised if we pay them a visit." -- Richard Meyer, DEA spokesmanKRIEGER TRIAL DELAYED FOR 2 MONTHS

CBC NATIONAL NEWS FILMS RCMP RETURNING POT AND EQUIPMENT TO KUBBYSCNN EXPERTS SIDE WITH ED ROSENTHALCNN/FindLaw -- Top legal authorities are now backing Ed Rosenthal and blasting the judge in his trial. SCHMIDT ANSWERS TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY

HEALTH CANADA FORCED TO DISTRIBUTE MEDPOTOTTAWA APPEALS AS COURT FORCES CANADA TO DISTRIBUTE MEDPOTOTTAWA -- The Canadian government will go to court to save its muddled marijuana laws even as it is promising to liberalize them and as a court forces them to distribute the government-sanctioned marijuana growing in Manitoba for "open" clinical trials.

MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN ROOTING CLONES!WHITE HOUSE SAYS DEA FAILING TO REDUCE ILLEGAL DRUGSNew York Times: In an unusually harsh critique of an agency with a strong global reputation, the White House has questioned the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration to stem the flow of narcotics and is threatening to give the agency its smallest budget increase in 15 years.

MEDIA FRENZY OVER ROSENTHAL CONVICTION!JUDGE BREYER EXPOSEDIn 1968 Charles Breyer, then a 26-year-old assistant district attorney in San Francisco, wrote in a Harvard College alumni publication, "I am fearlessly prosecuting flower children and other insidious threats to our way of life." Today Breyer, 61, a bow-tie-wearing U.S. Judge, is still in the business of sending flower children to prison,ED ROSENTHAL INTERVIEW

ED ROSENTHAL CONVICTION CREATES NATIONAL FURORJURORS DENOUNCE THEIR OWN VERDICTSAN FRANCISCO (AP): Jurors who convicted marijuana guru Ed Rosenthal of cultivation and other drug charges said Monday they would have acquitted him had they been told he was growing medical marijuana for the city of Oakland.NY TIMES EDITORIAL: MISGUIDED MARIJUANA WAR