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Article: Open secrets: how the government lost the drug war in cyberspace.(Culture and Reviews)(Microgram)
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- Reason
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- October 1, 2004
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FOR 36 YEARS the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) quietly published a quirky monthly newsletter called Microgram for a small audience of forensic chemists. It was "law enforcement restricted," which meant you could obtain it only if you were a law enforcement official, a government investigator, or a forensic scientist. As far as the public was concerned, it was a secret. In January 2003 DEA officials started to make Microgram publicly available via the Web (at www.usdoj.gov/dea/ programs/forensicsci/microgram/ bulletins_index.html), where it joined a vast sea of information about illicit drugs: how to get them, how to use them, why to avoid them, why laws ...