Wednesday, March 4, 1998:
Medical Marijuana Supporters Learn From California - The Measure's Authors Don't Want Oregon To Endure Legal Battles (Salem 'Statesman Journal' Article About Oregon Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative Filed By Oregonians For Medical Rights)
An Imperfect Poster Boy ('Willamette Week' Suggests Portland NORML Is Uncomfortable About Standing Up For Target Of Warrantless Break-In By Marijuana Task Force Who Killed One Cop, Wounded Two Others Before Dying In Police Custody - With Clarification)
Police Get Broader Leeway In Searches ('Associated Press' Notes US Supreme Court Uses 1994 Case Of Search For Escaped Prisoner That Led To Warrant And No-Knock Entry Of Another Man's Home In Boring, Oregon)
Protest And Letter Writing Alert (Bulletin From Rapid Response Team At Drug Reform Coordination Network About Protest Rally Opposing Federal Lawsuit Against Six Northern California Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Noon Tuesday, March 24, At Federal Building In San Francisco, Plus All The Information You Need To Ask California Legislators To Support SB 1887 And SB 535 And To Oppose SB 2113)
Teen Survives First Brush With 'Zero Tolerance' Policy ('Orange County Register' Notes Orange County Superior Court Judge Has Allowed An 18-Year-Old Student To Stay At Corona Del Mar High School Until A March 17 Court Hearing On Whether His Due Process Rights Were Violated After He Was Suspended When Cannabis Traces May Or May Not Have Been Found In His Glove Box In Transit From School)
Operation Hotspot ('Palo Alto Weekly' Sends A Reporter Out On Saturday Night Patrol With The Police Of East Palo Alto, California)
The Trial Of Frank Turney (List Subscriber Forwards Update On Prosecution Of Alaskan Jury Rights Activist Charged With Jury Tampering)
Judge Shelters Jury In Tampering Trial ('The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner' Covers The Second Day Of Testimony In The Trial Of Alaskan Jury-Rights Activist Frank Turney)
Bad Idea (Staff Editorial In 'The Houston Chronicle' Opposes The Clinton Administration's Endorsement This Week Of A National Standard On Blood-Alcohol Levels For Drunk Drivers As A Federalized Solution To A State Problem)
Court Doesn't Buy Couple's Defense ('Topeka Capital-Journal' Says The Kansas Court Of Appeals Has Ruled That A Rastafarian Couple Who Sought To Defend Their Cultivation Of Marijuana Under The Religious Freedom Act Don't Have The Same Legal Standing As Native Americans Who Legally Use Peyote)
Mom Turns In Video Showing Teen-Agers Buying, Smoking Marijuana ('Associated Press' Item Suggests Some Parents Do Indeed Support Prohibition - New Hampshire Mom Sets Police On Her Own Daughter, Other Teens, After Her Prescription Drugs Get Swiped)
Wrong-Door Raid Victim Threatens Suit ('United Press International' Notes New York City Police Wouldn't Announce Themselves Before Firing 24 Rounds, Breaking Down Man's Door, Inflicting Customary Violence And Indignities Reserved For Suspected Drug Offenders)
Bronx Man Recounts Abuse By Police In Mistaken Raid ('New York Times' Version)
No Charges In Candy Bar Shooting ('United Press International' Notes New York City Grand Jury Has Ruled It's Now OK For US Marshals On Drug Stakeouts To Shoot Innocent Black Teenagers Carrying Three Musketeers Candy Bars In Aluminized Silver Wrappers)
Real Drug Statistics (According To Government Statistics Cited By Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, Nationwide, Alcohol Is Involved In 50 Percent Of All Traffic Fatalities, 50 Percent Of All Spousal Abuse, 49 Percent Of All Murders, 68 Percent Of All Manslaughter Charges, 20 Percent To 35 Percent Of All Suicides, 62 Percent Of All Assaults, 52 Percent Of All Rapes, And 38 Percent Of All Child Abuse Fatalities)
Ex-Drug Czar Of Mexico Gets 13-Year Prison Term ('Orange County Register' Notes Mexico's Former Top Drug Warrior, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, Has Been Convicted Of Weapons Crimes But Still Faces Charges For Drug Trafficking, Abuse Of Power And Other Violations)
Mexico's Ex-Drug Czar Sentenced To Jail (Longer 'Orange County Register' Version Says Gutierrez Rebollo Was Indeed Sentenced For Abuse Of Authority - Still Charged With Being On Payroll Of Mexico's Alleged Top Cocaine Smuggler)
Mexico's Ex-Drug Czar Sentenced ('Houston Chronicle' Version)
Arrest Prompts Call For Snowboarding Rules (Toronto's 'Globe and Mail' Quotes Canada's Top Snowboarding Official, Michael Wood, Administrative Director Of The Canadian Snowboarding Federation, Saying He Is 'Shocked' To Learn A Danish Olympian And A Former Canadian National Team Member Had Been Arrested With Two Grams Of Marijuana While Driving Through Nevada)
Re - Arrest Prompts Call For Snowboarding Rules (Letter Sent To Editor Of Toronto's 'Globe and Mail' Finds Hypocrisy In Snowboarding Official's Comments)
Re - Arrest Prompts Call For Snowboarding Rules (Another Letter Sent To Editor Of 'Globe And Mail')
Re - 'Comical' Pot Grower Fined (Letter To Editor Of Ontario's 'Bracebridge Examiner' Whole Judicial System Is 'Comical' When People Are Fined $300 For Growing 91 Cannabis Plants Or Catching One Too Many Fish, But The Fine For Assaulting A Police Officer While Drunk Is $200)
Re - 'Comical' Pot Grower Fined (Another Letter To Editor Of 'Bracebridge Examiner' Says The Unsuccessfulness Of An Illegal Act Should Not Be The Issue - If The Next Marijuana Farmer Who Is Caught Is Not An Amateur, But Has Only 50 Plants, How Will The Court Balance Out 91 Unsuccessful Plants Against 50 Successful Ones?)
Prisons Plan To Sterilise Needles For Drug Users (Britain's 'Times' Says Joyce Quin, Prisons Minister, Is Considering A Pilot Scheme In Which Sterilising Equipment Would Be Used On Prison Wings To Cut The Risk Of Spreading Disease - Need For Cleaning Equipment To Be Made Available In Jails Is Highlighted Today In A Report By Sir David Ramsbotham, Chief Inspector Of Prisons, Who Found Up To 30 Prisoners Sharing One Syringe And Needle At Erlestoke House Prison, Near Devizes, Wiltshire)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 36 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, Including Original Commentary And Articles Such As What History Teaches Us About Drug Prohibition, By Jerry Epstein)
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