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Citing "Dangerous Precedent," Federal Judge Blocks MI's Plan to Drug Test Welfare Recipients (09/05/2000)
DETROIT, MI -- A federal district judge today blocked the country's first-ever law requiring welfare recipients to undergo drug testing, saying that the policy, enacted by Michigan last year, sets a "dangerous precedent" under the Constitution.

ACLU Challenge Ends Student Drug Testing in Maryland Schools (08/17/2000)
EASTON, MD -- In a national first, Maryland school officials who removed 18 high school students from final exam review classes and forced them to have their urine tested on the stage of their school auditorium agreed last night to cease all student drug testing in county schools and pay damages to the students, effectively conceding that the harms of school drug testing outweigh the benefits.

With ACLU Help, Parents and Students Fight Drug Testing Policies at NJ High School (08/14/2000)
NEWARK, NJ -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today filed a lawsuit challenging Hunterdon Central High School's expanded drug testing policy, which requires that students participating in athletics, extracurricular activities and those parking on campus submit to random drug tests.

ACLU Urges Federal Court to End Government Persecution Of Doctors Over Medical Marijuana (08/03/2000)
SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Civil Liberties Union today urged a federal court to permanently block the federal government from censoring or criminally prosecuting California doctors who recommend medical marijuana to their patients.

ACLU Sharply Criticizes White House Drug War (07/11/2000)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded Congress for investigating the federal government's insertion of propaganda into popular television sit-coms and dramas.

In a National First, Governor of Hawaii Signs First Legislative Medical Marijuana Bill (06/14/2000)
HONOLULU--The American Civil Liberties Union was one of the groups applauding today as Governor Ben Cayetano signed into law a measure that removes state-level criminal penalties for seriously ill people who grow, possess, and use marijuana with their doctors' approval.

ACLU Urges High Court to Void South Carolina Policy That Strips Pregnant Women of Their Rights (06/09/2000)

Latest Drug War Tactic An Attack on All Americans (05/24/2000)
"This is not your garden variety expansion of the so-called war on drugs," said Marvin Johnson, a Legislative Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington National Office. "The legislation would vastly expand the government's power to search private homes and would shut down a vital source of information about topics like medical marijuana and hemp production by threatening web site and book publishers with jail time." 

Students and Parents Challenge "Rumor Mill" Drug Testing at Maryland High School (05/02/2000)
BALTIMORE, MD -- In what is believed to be the first legal challenge to student drug testing in the state, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and a private law firm filed suit here today in federal district court on behalf of a group of Easton High School students and their parents.

Court Rejects Michigan's Attempt to End ACLU Challenge to Urine Testing of Welfare Recipients (04/18/2000)
DETROIT, MI -- Rejecting Michigan's attempt to end a lawsuit challenging drug testing of welfare recipients, a court today ruled that the action brought by the American Civil Liberties Union must go forward.