Wednesday, April 8, 1998:
Warrant Needed To Scan Home With Imager, Court Rules ('San Diego Union Tribune' Notes Ruling On Thermal Or Infrared Searches By Ninth US Circuit Court Of Appeals In A Case From Florence, Oregon, Would Vacate The Defendant's 1992 Guilty Plea, Allowing Him To Avoid Prison, Unless US Supreme Court Takes Up The Issue)
Ninth Circuit Tosses Pot Conviction Case ('San Francisco Chronicle' Version Says The Florence, Oregon, Defendant Will Still Have To Go Through A Retrial In Portland - Thermal Imaging Device Was Originally Borrowed By Cop From Oregon National Guard, Illustrating One Way The Military Is Used To Enforce Civil Laws In Oregon)
Urban Pulse - 'H' Is For Hawthorne ('Willamette Week' In Portland Notes Some Merchants Along Portland's Gentrified Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard Are Finding Heroin Prohibition Is Making Their Lives Increasingly Scary And Difficult - As A Consequence, The Young, Poor And Homeless Face More Suspicion, Hostility)
Deputies Find Drugs Sewn Into Boxer Shorts ('Associated Press' Doesn't Explain Why The Union County Jail Inmate In La Grande, Oregon, Didn't Just Buy His Methamphetamine From Guards Like Everyone Else - Since The Jail Is Located Between La Grande Middle School And Eastern Oregon University, The Inmate Was Also Charged With Delivery Of A Controlled Substance Within 1,000 Feet Of A School)
Don't Bar A Pain Killer OKd By Voters (Op-Ed By San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown In 'Los Angeles Times' Says Elected Representatives Should Work To Find A Middle Ground Between Local Discretion And Federal Supremacy So Californians With Life-Threatening Diseases Can Continue To Receive Medical Marijuana)
Santa Cruz CBC Closed (Press Release From Scott Imler Of The Los Angeles Cannabis Buyers Club Says The Santa Cruz Cannabis Buyers' Club Is Closed Permanently - Internal Conflicts And Nervous Doctors Cited)
GOP Senate Hopeful Slams Clinton, Boxer - Darrell Issa Criticizes Stand On Drugs ('San Francisco Chronicle' Notes The Conservative Republican Candidate For The US Senate, A Multimillionaire Who Is Putting Up His Own Money For The Primary Race, Forayed Into Northern California To Speak At A Lunch Meeting Of The Comstock Club In San Francisco)
Supporter's Cannabis Pitch Fails To Take Root With Council ('San Diego Union Tribune' Guide For Hempsters On How Not To Lobby Local Government Officials)
Jail Inmates Use Meditation To Overcome Anger, Cravings ('San Diego Union Tribune' Says Petty Criminals, Alcoholics And Drug Addicts At Seattle's North Rehabilitation Facility Sit Silently In A Dark Room For 10 Hours A Day Engaged In Vipassana, 'The Marine Corps Of Meditation')
Hemp.Net Presents - The Hemp Calendar (URL For Activist Event Listings Maintained By Washington State Cannabis-Law Reformers)
Arrest Warrant Issued For Hornets Guard Vernon Maxwell ('Associated Press' Notes A Texas Court Has Issued A Warrant For Basketball Player Vernon Maxwell After The US Supreme Court Refused To Hear His Appeal Of A Sentence For A 1995 Marijuana Possession Conviction)
House Votes To Approve $600,000 To Combat Use Of Meth In Iowa ('Des Moines Register' Says The Iowa House Of Representatives Voted Tuesday To Spend Some $350,000 Next Year On Programs To Educate The Public, Especially Schoolchildren, And $236,000 For The Iowa Department Of Public Safety To Make Undercover Drug Buys And Reward Informants)
Witness - Attorney Said Cops Would Drop Charges For $50,000 ('Associated Press' Article In 'Boston Globe' Says Boston Lawyer Joseph P. Murphy Went On Trial In US District Court Wednesday, Charged With Buying Off Police For His Clients Charged With Illegal Drug And Other Offenses - Two Boston Police Officers Have Already Admitted Pocketing More Than $200,000 From Murphy's Clients)
Extortion Trial Witness Tells Of Police Abuses ('Boston Globe' Version)
Boxer Slams GOP On Judiciary Process ('San Diego Union Tribune' Says US Senator Barbara Boxer, Speaking Yesterday To The National Association Of Women Lawyers Meeting At San Diego's US Grant Hotel, That A Bloc Of Conservative Senators Have So 'Warped And Distorted' The Process By Which Judges Are Approved That The Federal Judiciary Is In A State Of Crisis - Republican Opposition To 'Judicial Activists' Is Not An Attempt To Weed Out Liberals So Much As To Weed Out Independent Jurists)
Prescription Drugs - Danger Within the Cure (Op-Ed In 'Los Angeles Times' By Thomas J. Moore Of George Washington University Medical Center, Author Of 'Prescription For Disaster - The Hidden Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet,' Says It Is Estimated More Than 100,000 Americans Die Every Year From FDA-Approved Prescription Drugs, And Another One Million Are So Severely Injured They Require Hospitalization, Yet Just 54 Federal Employees With A Budget Of About $7 Million Are Responsible For Monitoring The Safety Of 5,000 Prescription And Over-The-Counter Drugs On The Market)
Exporting Disease ('Washington Post' Staff Editorial In 'International Herald-Tribune' Says The United States Congress Should Limit Tobacco Companies' 'Predatory' Behavior Overseas, Because A Recent Study By The World Health Organization And The World Bank Estimated That Diseases Caused By Smoking Would Increase Worldwide From 2.6 Percent In 1990 To 9 Percent By 2020)
Mexico Raps US Over Elusive Drug Barons ('Chicago Tribune' Notes US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey Was Embarrassed Yesterday When Mexican Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Criticized US Law-Enforcement Officials For Failing To Capture The Leaders Of One Of Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartels, The Tijuana Organization Headed By The Arellano-Felix Brothers)
Tired Of Criticism, Mexico Says US Hardly A Hero In Drug War (Different, Lengthier Version Of Same Story From 'Chicago Tribune')
Mexican Anti-Drug Leaders Slap US ('San Diego Union Tribune' Version)
New US Rules In Measuring Mexico's Anti-Drug Efforts ('San Jose Mercury News' Quotes US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey, After A Meeting With Top Mexican Officials, Saying The United States Would Begin Using 'Concrete Measurements' To Evaluate Mexico's Status As An Ally In The United States' War On Some Drugs, Which 'Over Time Will Make Irrelevant The US Process Of Certification)
New Standards Set For Mexico's Anti-Drug Effort (Different 'Associated Press' Version In 'Orange County Register')
War Against Drugs, Relations With Mexico And Life In US (Letter To Editor Of 'San Francisco Examiner' Says The Newspaper Is Correct To Say Mexico's Civil Disorder Is Caused By Demand For Drugs In America, But The Real Drug War Front Is Here At Home, As Shown By Mandatory Drug Testing, The Resulting Unemployment, And All Those New Prison Cells Being Built)
Chief Allays McLellan's Pot Fears ('Edmonton Sun' Says Edmonton Police Chief John Lindsay Has Disavowed Alarmist Statements His Department Made To The Newspaper Last Week That Caught The Attention Of Federal Justice Minister Anne McLellan, Who Is Also A Member Of Parliament For Edmonton West)
Legalized Drugs Would Help To Reduce Crime (Letter To Editor Of 'Toronto Star' Praises Columnist Rosie DiManno's Column, 'Waging War On Drugs Does Not Pay')
Let's Take Argument To Extremes (Another Letter To The Editor Of 'Toronto Star,' Responding To The Same Column, Willfully Ignores The Difference Between Real And Victimless Crimes - And Which Ones Taxpayers Can Afford To Prosecute)
Depression Also Has Strong Psychological Components (Another Letter To Editor Of 'Toronto Star' About Rosie DiManno's Column Alleges, Without Citing Any Real Evidence, That DiManno Was 'Wrong In Her Claim That New, Anti-Depressants Can Almost Immediately Accomplish What Therapy Could Not')
Applause For Columnist, But Not For Her Cure (Letter To Editor Of 'Toronto Star' Praises Rosie DiManno's Conclusion That 'Waging War On Drugs Does Not Pay,' But Criticizes Her Wish For A Pill To 'Cure' Addiction)
Jail Unit With Half Inmates On Drugs ('The Scotsman' Says More Than Half The 50 Inmates At The Maximum Security National Induction Centre, A Separate Unit Within Shotts Prison Which Takes Only Prisoners Serving Eight Years Or Longer, Are Showing Positive For Drugs In Random Mandatory Tests - Other Scottish Prisons Aren't Much Better - Full Details Of Drug Test Failure Rates At All Jails Will Be Published Next Month By The Scottish Prison Service)
Cannabis To Remain Off Limits ('Irish Independent' Says Proposals To Legalise The Use Of Cannabis Were Rejected Yesterday By Police In The Association Of Garda Sergeants And Inspectors Who Would Prefer Coerced Rehabilitation For Marijuana Addicts)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 41 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, Including Original And Excellent Commentary Such As The Feature Article, 'Thoughts Inspired By A Visit To San Francisco,' By Kevin Zeese, President, Common Sense For Drug Policy)
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