Wednesday, March 18, 1998:
Student Deferral ('Willamette Week' Article About A Portland Man Sentenced To The Federal Prison In Sheridan, Oregon, After Being Arrested Last November During A Protest Against The School Of The Americas At Fort Benning In Columbus, Georgia, Fails To Mention The Primary Mission Of The 'School Of Assassins' Is Providing Counter-Drug Operations Training)
California Mayors Ask Clinton - Spare Marijuana Clubs ('Reuters' Notes The Mayors Of San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz And West Hollywood Have Asked The President To Call Off Enforcement Of Federal Drug Laws That Interfere With The Clubs' Daily Operations)
California Mayors Push For Marijuana Clubs ('Associated Press' Version)
Ban On Medical Pot In Public - Violators Could Face Jail, County Decides ('Sacramento Bee' Notes Sacramento County Board Of Supervisors Has Voted To Nullify Proposition 215 And Recriminalize Possession Of Marijuana In One Fell Swoop)
Jailed Rapper Has 90 Days Added To Term ('San Francisco Chronicle' Says Sacramento, California, Rap Musician C-BO Is Being Kept In Jail Not Because He Tested Positive For Cannabis, But Because 'Lyrics On His New Album . . . Violated An Unusual Parole Condition')
Three Months Added To Rapper's Jail Term ('Orange County Register' Version Says It Was The Drug Test, Not The Lyrics)
Guards' Union Impeding Prison Probe, Critics Say - Strong Political Presence In Sacramento ('San Francisco Chronicle' Looks At How The Most Powerful Prison Guard Lobby In The World Is Fighting The Federal Indictment Of Guards At California's Corcoran Prison - Includes List Of Politicians Who Get The Most Contributions)
San Francisco DEA Chief - From Tough Streets To Top Agent ('Associated Press' Profiles Michele Leonhart, The Highest-Ranking Woman In The US Drug Enforcement Administration, Chief Of 130 Agents In Northern California)
'Black Tar' Heroin Addicts Prone To Botulism ('San Francisco Chronicle' Reports A Study In Today's 'Journal Of The American Medical Association' Says California Health Specialists Have Found That People Who Inject The Black, Resinous Form Of Heroin Beneath Their Skin Or Into Their Muscles Run A Major Risk Of Contracting Severe Botulism - Of 35 Victims Studied By Doctors With The California Department Of Health Services, All But Two Required Long Hospital Stays)
Wound Botulism Associated With Black Tar Heroin Among Injecting Drug Users (Text Of Report In 'The Journal Of The American Medical Association')
Son Of Zoo Official Faces Drug Charges ('Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Says The 18-Year-Old Man From Racine, Wisconsin, Has Been Charged With Selling A Half-Ounce Of Cocaine For $725 To An Undercover Cop)
Truth In Sentencing Examined ('Tulsa World' Says An Oklahoma Legislative Committee Has Been Meeting Twice A Week To Examine Revisions To Last Year's Truth-In-Sentencing Law And Whether They Are Keeping Violent And Habitual Offenders Behind Bars Longer - Critics Say Opposite Has Happened - House Of Representatives Passed A Bill Last Week That Would Greatly Increase Many Sentences)
Plano Arrests - Drug Roundup Provides A Strong Warning ('Dallas Morning News' Staff Editorial Endorses Arrest Of 14 Students At Two High Schools In Plano, Texas, Resulting From Seven-Month Undercover Investigation)
Branstad Signs Bill On Drug Testing ('Associated Press' Notes Iowa Governor Terry Branstad On Tuesday Signed A Bill Allowing Private Businesses To Test Workers' Urine Randomly Or With 'Reasonable Suspicion')
Alert - Medical Marijuana Vote In Congress Next Week (Drug Reform Coordination Network Asks You To Write A Letter And Make A Phone Call To Your US Representative Asking Him Or Her To Oppose The House's Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution, 372)
Rogan Now Backs Resolution Against Medical Marijuana (According To 'The Glendale News-Press Leader,' US Representative James Rogan, A First-Term Republican, Says He Will Vote In Favor Of The House's Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution, 372, Despite Having Supported Medical Cannabis In The California Assembly - He Says His Position Is Unchanged)
Dissenting Views On US House Resolution 372 (Text Of Congressional Record Shows Some People Are Reasonable About The Medical Marijuana Issue)
DRCNet Needs Your Help (Drug Reform Coordination Network Has More Than 4,500 E-Mail Subscribers, But More Of Them Need To Contribute Money)
Orlando Protest March 19 (Florida Medical Marijuana Reformers Are Asked To Show Up At Noon Thursday Outside The Office Of Florida Representative Bill McCollum To Protest His Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution, 372)
Americans Say Drug War Should Continue, Polls Show ('Reuters' Account Of Summary In 'The Journal Of The American Medical Association' Of 47 National Surveys Conducted Over The Past 20 Years, Reports 60 Percent Of Public Supports Physicians' Right To Prescribe Medical Cannabis - Americans Also Hold Some Nonsensical Views Ripe For Political Exploitation - For Example, 78 Percent Believe Anti-Drug Efforts Have Failed, But 66 Percent Would Pay More Taxes To Expand Failed Policies)
Despite Little Success, Public Still Supports War On Drugs - Surveys Find Opposition To Drug Legalization, Support For Medical Use Of Marijuana (AMA Web Site Synopsis Of Report In Today's 'Journal Of The American Medical Association,' Summarizing 47 National Polls Conducted Over The Past 20 Years, Notes 'Illicit Drugs Lead To Approximately 11,000 Deaths Each Year' In The United States)
Book Review - 'Crack In America - Demon Drugs And Social Justice' ('The Journal Of The American Medical Association' Says The Well-Coordinated Collection Of 17 Essays By An Expert Panel Of Social Scientists Notes The Media In 1986 First Exaggerated The Health Risks Of Crack Cocaine And Then Created A Public Perception That Illicit Drugs Were The Nation's Preeminent Problem At A Time When The Government Was Defunding Social Programs)
DARE Doesn't Work, Study Finds - Students In Program Used Same Amount Of Drugs As Others (Actually, This NBC News Broadcast Says Suburban DARE Students Used More 'Drugs' Than Their Non-DARE Peers, According To New Study By Dennis Rosenbaum, Head Of The Criminal Justice Department At The University Of Illinois)
Health Experts - Treat, Don't Jail, Drug Abusers ('Dallas Morning News' Says New Research From The Physician Leadership On National Drug Policy, A Bipartisan Group Of Prominent Physicians And Public Health Leaders From The Clinton, Bush And Reagan Administrations, Shows That Abuse Of Alcohol And Other Drugs Is A Medical Problem That Respond Much Better To Medical Treatment Than To Jail - Long-Term Drug Treatment Is As Effective As Long-Term Treatment For Some Chronic Diseases Such As Diabetes, Asthma And Hypertension)
Drug Treatment Pays, Study Finds ('San Jose Mercury News' Version)
Study - Treatment, Not Jail, Best Response To Drug Addiction ('Associated Press' Version In Massachusetts' 'Standard-Times')
Drug Treatment Programs Save Money, Study Finds ('Associated Press' Version As Edited By 'The Oregonian')
Doctors Want Addicts Cured, Not Jailed ('USA Today' Version)
It's Not A War Against Drugs (Transcript Of ABC 'Nightline' Program On Treatment Versus Prisons)
Clinton's AIDS Team Rips Needles Policy ('Associated Press' Article In 'San Diego Union Tribune' Notes Yesterday's Unanimous Vote Of No Confidence By President Clinton's AIDS Advisers In The Administration's Commitment To Reducing The Spread Of AIDS Due To Its Inaction On Needle Exchange)
Prisoner Adoption ('San Francisco Examiner' Notes Lawmakers For The Nation With The Highest Incarceration Rate In The History Of The World Are Expressing Solidarity With Chinese Prisoners Of Conscience)
Smoking Is An Informed, Pleasurable Choice (Excellent Op-Ed In 'San Jose Mercury News' Says Congress's Settlement With Tobacco Industry Isn't A Public Health Issue, It's A Private Behavior Modification Regimen - The Settlement Is Founded On The Idea That Individuals Aren't Responsible For Their Own Actions - In Fact, As Kip Viscusi Of Harvard Meticulously Shows In His Book, 'Smoking - Making The Risky Decision,' Americans, Including Smokers, Have Been Brainwashed Into Thinking It's Worse Than It Really Is - It's Easier To Quit Smoking Than To Lose Weight - 'Smokers Save Society 32 Cents A Pack,' Mainly Through Reduced Nursing Home And Social Security Costs, Plus Another 53 Cents In Taxes - Lifetime Risks Of Getting Lung Cancer From Smoking Are Roughly One In 10, But Smokers See Them As 3.7 In 10 - The Risk Of Dying Prematurely From Smoking Is Between 18 Percent And 36 Percent, But Survey Respondents Put It At 54 Percent)
Perspective On Justice - What's A Fair Price For A Fair Trial? (Law Professor's Letter To Editor Of 'Los Angeles Times' Notes That, 35 Years After The US Supreme Court Ruled In Gideon That Defendants Are Entitled To A Legal Defense At Public Expense, Defendants Are Often No Better Off Because Lawmakers Have Cut Funding To The Point That A Vigorous, Competent Defense Is Often Impossible)
Study Faults Aid Sent To Mexico's Anti-Drug Effort ('New York Times' Says That After Years Of US Officials Bitterly Criticizing Mexico's Cooperation In The War On Some Drug Users, The GAO Suggested Wednesday That The United States May Bear A Greater Share Of The Blame)
Mexican Government Violates Rights Of Its Indigenous Citizens (A Group Of Seven Huichol Indians Returning From Their Peyote Pilgrimage To The Sacred Land Of Wirikuta In The Mexican State Of San Luis Potosi Have Been Arrested By The Military And May Soon Be Sentenced In Guadalajara, Despite Legal And Constitutional Protections)
Grass Is Greener In Wide-Open Ridge Meadows ('Vancouver Sun' In British Columbia Says The Larger Building Lots And Spaces Between Houses In Suburban Vancouver Lure Marijuana Growers There)
Arrested Near Court ('London Free Press' In Ontario Notes Two Nervy 17-Year-Olds Killing Time Outside A London Court Before One Was To Face A Drug Charge Were Busted With 3.6 Kilograms Of Cannabis)
Narcan The Panacea Only To Heroin Junkies (Column By Police Officer In 'Vancouver Province' Suggests Police And Paramedics In Vancouver, British Columbia, Have Recently Begun Using Naloxone Hydrochloride, Or Narcan, An Opiate Blocker That Can Revive Overdose Victims In Seconds)
'Prison System Working' - Canadians Will Get Chance To Voice Concerns Says Solicitor General ('Kingston-Whig Standard' Says Andy Scott, Canada's Solicitor General, Last Night Told Delegates At The 'Beyond Prisons' International Symposium The Country Incarcerates 133 Of Every 100,000 Citizens, More Than Most Other Western Democratic Countries - The Average Cost Of Keeping An Offender In Federal Jail Is $50,000 A Year, $32,000 At A Community Correctional Centre And $9,000 To Supervise An Inmate On Parole - 'A Lot Of Money, When There Is No Clear Evidence That Putting More People In Prison Results In Safer Communities' - Voice Your Opinion Electronically At The Ministry's Web Site)
Is It Time To Legalise Cannabis? (Britain's 'Evening News' Lets The Drug Warriors' Specious Claims About The Dangers Of Cannabis Go Unchallenged)
Top Schools Expel Three Over Drugs (Britain's 'Independent' Notes The Most Serious Danger Of Cannabis - Three Boys Expelled From Eton, Charterhouse, Their Prospects Likely Damaged)
Medien Bewusstseins Projekt (The Media Awareness Project Now Has A European Counterpart - German Spoken Here, Italian, French Participation Sought For Multilingual News Service Monitoring European Drug Policy Developments)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 38 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, Including Original Commentary)
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