December 2006 Newsletter
TIME TO REGISTER FOR THE MARCH CONFERENCE
Register now for the March 23-25, 2007 International G=
HB
& Chemical Drug Conference in Arlington (Dallas) Texas!! Registration is only $190 through
February 15. After that date,=
it is
$220. Register online at
www.projectghb.org.
Limited hotel rooms are set aside so make reservations=
at
the Arlington Wyndham early!
A GREAT “ANY-TIME” GIFT FOR A LOVED ONE=
Give a gift of love and concern to your son or daughte=
r or
niece or nephew or brother or sister……..or whomever….. any time of the year by purchasing a packet of our Pro=
ject
GHB brochures on GHB. Give it=
to
your loved one to distribute to their friends or donate them to their
fraternity or sorority or office or local library!
Check out our store for other items too, posters (grea=
t for
the locker room at your gym), t-shirts, polo shirts, baseball style caps,
etc.
Have a relative who works with young people? Or, teaches about drugs? Or, is a police officer or fireman=
? Buy one of our training Power Poin=
t CDs
or the online download Power Point (available in English and Spanish) for t=
hem
so that they can educate others about the dangers of GHB and other current
drugs of abuse.
Your purchases (and donations) help us to help others =
and
save lives. Project GHB depen=
ds
solely on your purchases and donations.&nb=
sp;
We need to be able to continue helping others, especially through our
GHB Addiction Helpline that has helped more than 1800 individuals in at lea=
st
18 countries.
THINK THOSE LITTLE ROSES IN THE GLASS TUBES ARE CUT=
E?
Those little “Love Roses”—little roses packages in glass tubes—sold in convenience
stores are not as cute as you think.
Cops have long known that the glass pipes are really intended to be =
used
as crack pipes, not symbols of affection.&=
nbsp;
The roses are just a cover up. In North Carolina a lawmaker is planning =
to
introduce legislation to ban them. <=
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The Durham
Herald-Sun reported Nov. 20 that after the city of Durham
banned convenience stores from selling the roses, advocates like the Rev.
Melvin Whitley -- founder of D=
urham's
"Operation Pipe Dream" -- turned their sights on a statewide ban.=
State Rep. Larry Hall (D) has now agreed to file legis=
lation
that imposes civil penalties for selling the glass-tube roses anywhere in t=
he
state. In Durham, the City Council called =
for
$500 fines for anyone selling the love roses; Charlot=
te
has a ban with a $50 fine, while Greensboro's
ordinance sets a $100 fine.
Meanwhile, in=
Kentucky, a Lexington
storeowner says police were wrong to accuse him of aiding drug users by sel=
ling
products like glass vials, scouring pads, and lighters, the Lexington
Herald-Leader reported May 16.
Police in many communities across the U.S. ha=
ve tried
to crack down on so-called "brown-bag specials" -- grouping toget=
her
for sale seemingly innocuous items that can be used to fashion crack pipes.=
But
Walter Faulkner, owner of Faulkner's Central Food Mart, says the placement =
of
items like cigars packaged in glass vials, lighters, and Chore Boy scrubbing
pads in proximity to each other had nothing to do with drugs.
Faulkner was among 34 Lexington
store owners who were either arrested or cited on drug paraphernalia charge=
s.
"They lumped me in with everyone else,"=
; said
Faulkner, 71. "It has hurt my name. You work hard all your life for yo=
ur
character and what you're made of. You just don't take it lightly when=
people
tear it down." Pol=
ice
sent investigators into 40 stores asking to purchase a kit or paper bag. In=
31
stores, informants were sold the grouped items.
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p;
Keep up to date on information like this by signing up=
for
emails from Join Together, an anti-drug abuse nonprofit at www.jointogether.=
org.
NEW FEATURES COMING SOON TO PROJECT GHB
Project GHB will soon be featuring a monthly posting o=
f news
re GHB, MDMA, ketamine, meth, DXM and other drug
issues. Click
here for the first current news posting.
Website revision, including expansion of the drug rape=
page,
will be coming soon too.