Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980429123557.00837c00@hella.stm.it>

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:35:57 +0200

From: Peter Webster

Subject: Research Request

Readers,

I've a possible commission from an important U.S. publication to write a piece on events and methods by which the U.S. has bullied or otherwise coerced other nations to squelch moves toward drug policy reform, such as the recent events in Australia leading up to the publication in the Sydney Morning Herald I mentioned in my online article, "Rethinking Drug Prohibition: Don't Look for Us Government Leadership" (at the URL:) http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/pw1.htm

Any hints, rumors, leads, testimony, published articles, or even some rock solid proof (!) of what we all know to be true would be most helpful, and I believe I could shape several such instances as the threat hurled at Australia (to disqualify Tasmania from the right to produce legal opium, among other niceties) into an essay that would quite shock most Americans having the least sensibility about the excesses of American pushiness around the world.

Thanks,

Peter Webster email: vignes@monaco.mc

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