Wednesday, February 18, 1998:
Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (Salem 'Statesman Journal' Says Ballot Initiative To Be Filed Today By Rick Bayer, Former Lake Oswego Doctor Who Anticipates Funding From George Soros - Stringent Language Would Require Patients To Register With State, Limit Patients To Three Flowering Plants, Four Vegetative Plants - Got Cancer? Sorry, No Market For Buyers - Happy Gardening - If You Can Find A Legal Source Of Seeds Or Clones)
Not Just for Hippies Anymore ('Willamette Week' Comments On Oregon Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative Expected To Be Filed This Week By Oregonians For Medical Rights - Campaign To Be Run With Soros Money By Sugerman Group, Silverton-Based Consulting Firm That Successfully Organized Last Year's Death With Dignity Initiative Effort)
Just Say No To Knock And Talk (Two Letters To Editor Of 'Willamette Week' In Response To Its 'Knock And Walk' Editorial Give Other Side To Story - First Letter, From Lawyer, Says Police Use Knock And Talks And Then Lie About Receiving Consent - Many Judges Willing To Believe Police Lies And Not Enforce Constitutional Protections - 'I Advise My Clients Not To Open The Door For The Police Unless The Police Have A Warrant And Show It' - But That's What Last Victim Of Portland Marijuana Task Force Warrantless Break-In Did, And State Means To Kill Him For It - Maybe Wife Of 'Willamette Week' Publisher, Judge Ellen Rosenblum, Will Announce The Sentence?)
Dons Arraigned On Additional Charges - Child Neglect And Drug Possession Charges Pile On (Newscast By KOIN, Portland's CBS Affiliate, On Target Of Marijuana Task Force Who Was Shot And Paralyzed By Portland Police During Warrantless Break-In)
Moose Seeks Job As Chief In Capital ('Oregonian' Article About Portland Police Chief Whose Son Was Arrested With Crack Cocaine Recently)
Drugs A Health Problem, Not Criminal Problem (Letter To Editor Of 'The Oregonian' By Dr. Richard Bayer, A Chief Petitioner For Oregonians For Medical Rights' New Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative)
Lawyer Grilled On Pot Ring ('The Herald' Says Attorney Mark Mestel Of Everett, Washington, Took The Witness Stand In US District Court Tuesday, And Was Questioned For 90 Minutes Regarding His Knowledge Of A Large Marijuana-Growing Ring - Defendants Allege Federal Prosecutors Stepped Over Line When They Recruited Dale Fairbanks, Mestel's Private Investigator And 'Alter Ego' To Become A Government Informant, Supplying Investigators With Evidence)
Ammiano Calls For Coordinated Policy In San Francisco On Implementing California Compassionate Use Act (Excerpt From 'San Francisco Examiner' On Push By Member Of San Francisco City And County Board Of Supervisors)
Medical Marijuana - Legal, But How Long? ('USA Today' Notes State, Federal Governments Around The Country, Even In California, Are Still Doing All They Can To Keep Medicine Away From Sick People)
Feds Say Arrests Break Green Bay Drug Ring - Nine Indicted On Charges Of Selling Cocaine As Gang Expanded From Chicago ('Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' On Federal Bust In Wisconsin)
Tavern League Rejects Proposal On License Fee ('Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Says Tavern League Of Wisconsin Rejects Compromise Over New Law Requiring Municipalities To Charge $10,000 Fee For New Tavern Licenses)
Owner Facing Trial Keeps Liquor License ('Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Says Utilities And Licenses Committee Recommends Milwaukee Grocer Keep Liquor License Pending Outcome Of Trial For 42 Cases Of Stolen Whiskey Found In Basement)
Johnnie Mae Brown - Update (Adam J. Smith Of Drug Reform Coordination Network Asks Activists To Take 10 Minutes To Write Letter To Parole Board About Incarceration Of Woman In New Jersey For Fleeing Drug Treatment In 1972)
Alternative To Drug Tip-Line (Letter To Editor Of 'The Aegis,' In Bel Air, Maryland, In Response To '1-888 To Help Bust Your Friends' Suggests Offering Middle And High School Students $1,000 For Each Friend They Turn In For Illegal Drugs Is Likely To Have Harmful Social Consequences)
WHO Suppressed Report On Cannabis - Magazine ('Reuters' Quotes 'New Scientist' Saying US National Institute On Drug Abuse And UN International Drug Control Programme Suppressed Report Confirming Marijuana Less Harmful Than Tobacco, Alcohol, Saying It Would Play Into Hands Of Groups Campaigning To Legalise Marijuana)
Going To Pot ('Cityview,' In Des Moines Says New Law Proposed By Republican Iowa State Representatives Jeff Lamberti, Joseph Kremer And G. Willard Jenkins Would Make A Third Conviction For Marijuana Possession A Crime Equivalent To Serious Assault Or Pedophilia)
DrugWar! (Live Call-In World Wide Web Netcast Via RealAudio 5-6 PM Friday, February 20, Features Author Peter McWilliams)
Second Athlete Tests Positive For Marijuana In Nagano ('Reuters' Says Unnamed Olympic Athlete Won't Face Sanctions - IOC's De Merode Says There Is Evidence Of Widespread Marijuana Use By Athletes - Four Positive Tests At Summer Olympics, One In Seoul In 1988, One In Barcelona In 1992 And Two In Atlanta In 1996, Though No Marijuana Positives At Previous Winter Games)
IOC Divided Over Marijuana Issue ('Reuters' Quotes International Olympic Committee Leaders In Nagano, Japan, Saying They Are Determined To Push For Bans On 'Social' Drugs Such As Marijuana Despite Fears It Might Hamper Progress Of International Campaign Against Performance-Enhancing 'Doping')
Rebagliati Warns Kids Against Marijuana ('Vancouver Sun' Quotes 26-Year-Old British Columbian Snowboarder Who Nearly Lost His Olympic Gold Medal After Traces Of Marijuana Were Found In His Urine, Saying He Won't Smoke Pot Again And Warning Children Against Same - Will Leave Issue Of Legalizing Pot Up To Politicians And Won't Tell Adults - Such As His Friends - Whether To Smoke Or Not)
Re - Rebagliati Disgraces Medal (Letter To Editor Of 'Ottawa Sun' Expresses Disgust At Narrow-Minded, Ignorant Columnist Deeming Olympic Snowboarder Who Tested Positive For Pot A 'Shameless Yobbo In A Joke Sport')
My Favourite Letter (List Subscriber Passes Along Letter From Ninth-Grade Student To 'Toronto Sun' Regarding Olympic Snowboarder And Cannabis Consumer Who Won Gold Medal)
Rebagliati On Jay Leno (List Subscriber Posts Synopsis Of Appearances On 'Jay Leno' And "Conan O'Brien' Television Talk Shows By Olympic Snowboarder Whose Gold Medal Was Almost Stripped Due To Positive Urine Test For Cannabis)
Howard Under Fire Over Plans For Police ('Canberra Times' Says Australian Prime Minister John Howard's Promise To Review Funding For Federal Police Is Too Slow For Critics, Who Want Immediate Action, Saying Federal Government Cut Funding For Law Enforcement By $110 Million, $44 Million In Last Budget, Reducing Spending On Drug Interdiction To Extent That Some Ports Have No Customs Presence At Night)
Prime Minister's 'Expert' Plan Of Action For War On Drugs ('Sydney Morning Herald' Says Howard Announced Yesterday An 'Independent Expert' Will Examine Cash-Strapped Australian Federal Police - AFP - And Develop Plan To Equip It To Fight Booming Drug Trafficking And Global Crime Networks - Customs Will Not Be Part Of Review, Due To Large Funding Increases Last Year)
Cannabis Campaign - Report Boost For Cannabis (Britain's 'Independent' Notes Battle To Reform Cannabis Laws Carried On By "Independent On Sunday' Has Been Helped By Latest Dutch Usage-Rates Statistics From Centre For Drug Research At The University Of Amsterdam, Showing Decriminalising Marijuana Does Not Lead To Use Of Harder Drugs And That Teenagers And Children Are More Likely To Experiment With Alcohol, Tobacco)
Iranian Police Kill 35 Drug Smugglers ('Reuters' Notes Death Penalty For Drugs Gets Results - One In Sixty To 120 Iranians Said To Be An 'Addict')
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