The Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues

You'll see that the look of The Network CA site has changed a bit.  In fact, this represents a migration to a substantially more up-to-date version of the content management system I've been using.  With this upgrade, there will be some new features appearing soon.  So check back often and look closely for new features.

Please contact me if you are having trouble using the new page.  I'm sure some kinks are bound to appear.

• When?: April 18 and 19, 2013
• Where?: CSU Chico
• Why?: Because this is the one and only state-wide conference devoted to Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) prevention on college campuses in California.  Everyone interested in this topic is invited to attend.

Get your program proposals and travel requests ready!  More information to follow.

Colleges in Massachusetts now join us California schools in our legal limbo status between the state and federal government.  All of us must follow the Federal Drug Free Schools and Community Act requirement of maintaining strict policies against the use and possession of illegal drugs; illegal drugs includes, under Federal law, marijuana.  So as far as I know, all schools have interpreted the legal environment to mean that state laws allowing marijuana are irrelevant.  Students may think they can smoke pot because they have a medical excuse, but on campus they can't.  19 states and the District of Columbia now have medical use.

Washington and Colorado went a step further by legalizing non-medical use.  Presumably the legal opinions for campuses there will remain the same: Campuses will still need to forbid marijuana. 

If you have joined the Network Facebook group, then you could comment on my post there about some recent commentary regarding U.S. politics and the state of our drug policies.  Here's the post, and if you want to put your two cents in, join the group and have at it.  Happy Election Day!

If you have access through your university, an interesting commentary on drugs and politics . It's interesting because (a) it is amazing that as two states are poised to legalize marijuana, and 2 more than the existing 17 are possibly going to add medical marijuana, neither presidential candidate is proposing practical and public health centered approaches to managing this tide of state liberalization, and (b) the British spell "jail" "gaol"... Who knew?

Combine this with the CESAR fax of the dayand you've got the makings of a pro-drug conspiracy theory.