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November 2005
 CCLE Co-Sponsors Conference
at Stanford
Call for Papers on Human Enhancement Technologies & Human Rights
The CCLE is pleased to join the Institute
for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, together with the Stanford Center for
Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University, in
an exploration of the contours of human enhancement at an upcoming (May
26-28, 2006) conference devoted to the rigorous treatment of this
topic.
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September 2005
CCLE
Awarded Official Consultative Status
with the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council
Following a year-long application process, (itself an
education in large-scale bureaucracy) the CCLE has been awarded official
status as a consulting organization to the United Nations’ Economic and
Social Council. We strongly believe in the strength and efficacy of smaller
organizations to address and help resolve issues of global importance. This
UN endorsement gives greater visibility and strength to the CCLE’s
positions on global drug policy, technology issues, and other international human rights issues
that we may bring before the United Nations in this capacity.
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Summer 2005
 NOW AVAILABLE:
CCLE article in
The American Journal of Bioethics
Volume 5 Number 2 | March-April 2005
The current issue of the American Journal of Bioethics is focused on the
important topic of "neuroethics." There are many great articles, including
one by Richard Glen Boire that argues that the Fourth Amendment ought to
protect the insides of our heads as much as the insides of our homes. We
believe that neuroethics will completely reframe the future of
neuropharmacology and psychotropic drugs. This issue of the American Journal
of Bioethics is a great place to get up-to-date on the importance of this
emerging field of study which is already beginning to influence law and
policy.
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 International Conference on Drugs in the Future
Jun 17, 2005 - London, England
The CCLE's Dr. Wrye Sententia will Chair the International Conference on
Drugs in the Future, to be held June 17, 2005, in London. Join Dr.
Sententia, the Erowid Librarians, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and other
special visionary guests to supercharge your thinking about the future of
drug use, drug information and drug policy. Sponsored by DTL, and supported
by Release and the Beckley Foundation. >>
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April 2005
U.S.
Supreme Court to Review Ayahuasca Case:
Freedom of Religion Pitted Against Drug War Symbolism
On Friday April 15, the US Supreme Court
agreed to review an important case involving US members of the ayahuasca-using Uniao Do
Vegetal (UDV) church. The CCLE's Richard Glen Boire is an expert on the
legal issues concerning ayahuasca use and spoke about them live on the BBC
Radio 5 on April 18, 2005, noting that the case pits Freedom of Religion
against the symbolism of the War on Drugs. Ayahuasca is not a drug of abuse,
and has zero impact on the "drug war," whereas freedom of religion is one of
the most cherished freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. During alcohol
prohibition, religious users of wine (a drug far more habituating) than
ayahuasca were exempted, and the CCLE maintains that a similar exemption
ought to be recognized for the members of the UDV. Indeed, the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act mandates such an accommodation.
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March 2005
 AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS
CONSIDER ANTI-DRUG VACCINATIONS
The newspaper The Australian reports that “a group of Queensland politicians want the federal Government to
investigate giving an anti-junkie vaccination to babies. The
vaccination, being considered by British MPs, would render
children immune to becoming smokers or drug users.” Our
50-page Pharmacotherapy Report foresaw
this trend last year and we have been working hard to
forestall government efforts to enforce social policy by
altering the very architecture of the human body. >>
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February 2005
 UN
Considers CCLE Suggestions
for Protecting Freedom of Thought
In late-January, the UN’s Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC) and
International Bioethics Commission (IBC) met to review written comments to
guide the draft of an International Declaration on Universal Norms on
Bioethics. The CCLE recommended incorporating clear freedom of thought
protections and stressed the need to incorporate clear wording and
protections for brain privacy, autonomy and choice. We are still awaiting to
see if our suggestions are incorporated in the final draft. >>
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 Now
Available:
"Connecting Brains and Society"
Last year, Dr. Wrye Sententia was one of 25 experts who met
in Amsterdam to discuss the ways that neuroscience will make
it possible to improve the ways our brains function. At the
same time, some potential applications of neurotech will
pose a slew of legal and ethical issues for the newly formed
European Union. Wrye generated lots of discussion about the
need to respect and protect freedom of thought in existing
and new European laws. >>
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