11.   Because Robinette was stopped for speeding, the Ohio court said, an officer had no reason to suspect that Robinette had violated drug laws.

12.   Both men have been influential in quashing challenges to the Rockefeller drug laws.

13.   Advocates generally prefer the Assembly reform plan, even though it does not fully repeal the drug laws and return total sentencing discretion to judges.

14.   Advocates of change in the drug laws complained that Pataki has ignored the underlying issue.

15.   Advocates of changing the drug laws, in the Legislature and elsewhere, pronounced it a promising start for negotiations.

16.   Advocates seeking the repeal of the drug laws invariably hold these cases up as examples of their unfairness.

17.   Although Belgium has taken a similar liberalizing step, the same is not the case in Germany where drugs laws are much tougher.

18.   British drug laws are strict, and the police spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with minor drug offenses, the government says.

19.   But Hendon, a Chicago Democrat, who is black, said the law might help Illinois legislators understand the racial disparities of drug laws.

20.   But he took issue with the suggestion that blacks are more likely to be prosecuted under federal drug laws than whites accused of the same offense.