Wednesday, June 10, 1998:
Todd McCormick's Hearing (Ann McCormick, Mother Of The Bel Air, California, Medical Marijuana Patient Charged By The Feds With Cultivation In Spite Of Proposition 215, Indicates Judge McMahon Decided Today That The Longterm Cancer Patient Did Not Patient Did Not Use Marijuana In Violation Of The Terms Of His Pretrial Release - To Keep Using The Marinol Lawfully Prescribed By His Doctor, However, McCormick Must Set Up A Special Drug Testing Program Costing $17,500 And Pay For It Himself)
Prosecutors, McCormick Hammer Out Deal (MSNBC Version)
Inhale This (Excerpt From A Column In 'The San Francisco Chronicle' Notes Dennis Peron Beat Multizillionaire Al Checchi In Six San Francisco Neighborhoods In The Recent California Republican Gubernatorial Primary Race)
San Francisco Cops' Version Of Killing Disputed ('The San Francisco Examiner' Says A Witness Has Come Forward To Say San Francisco Police Lied When They Claimed They Shot And Killed A 17-Year-Old Girl Because Her Boyfriend Was Trying To Run Them Over)
City Tries To Clear Air Over Pot Use - But Council Split On Handling Prop. 215 ('The Sacramento Bee' Says Sacramento City Officials Are Divided Over Medical Marijuana Issues And Heading In Opposite Directions - One Councilman Wants To Restrict Use, But Two Others Say The City Should Consider Helping To Get It Into More Patients' Hands)
Eighteen School Children Sickened By Pep Pills ('The Associated Press' Says The 11- And 12-Year-Old Students In Sacramento, California, Were Taken To Hospitals For Treatment And Observation After Ingesting Caffeine Equivalent To 16 Cups Of Coffee - Or An Unspecified Number Of Cola Soft Drinks)
DEA Confiscates Hemp Wear And Accessories (A List Subscriber Says The Drug Enforcement Administration Stole Thousands Of Dollars Of Hemp Clothing From Shop Therapy's Freak Street Hempwear In Provincetown, Massachusetts - If The Item Had A Pot Leaf On It, It Was Seized)
Test Of `Heroin Maintenance' May Be Launched In Baltimore ('The Baltimore Sun' Says Johns Hopkins University Drug Abuse Experts And The Baltimore Public Health Commissioner Are Discussing The Possibility Of A Research Study In Which Heroin Would Be Distributed To Addicts Who Have Refused Or Failed Traditional Drug Treatment, In An Effort To Reduce Crime, AIDS And Other Fallout From Prohibition)
Issues Of Modern Living (Two Items In A United Press International Roundup Repeat The Government's Recent Claim That Attitudes About The Harmfulness Of Marijuana Cause Teens To Partake Or Abstain, And A Report In 'The Journal Of The American Medical Association' That Researchers At New York's Cornell University Medical College Found About One-Third More Cocaine Overdose Deaths On Days When The Temperature Rose Above 88 Degrees)
A Sordid History - The CIA And The 'War Against Drugs' (ANTIFA, An Anti-Fascist Group, Posts A Collection Of Four Documents - The Article, 'Colombia's Blowback - Former CIA-Backed Paramilitaries Are Major Drug Traffickers Now,' By Frank Smyth; 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' By Martha Honey From 'In These Times'; 1982 Correspondence Between US Attorney General William French Smith And CIA Director William Casey; And 'A Tangled Web - A History Of CIA Complicity In Drug International Trafficking,' From The Institute For Policy Studies)
The Smoking Gun - CIA Drug Trafficking (Michael Levine, A Former DEA Agent, Publicizes His 'Expert Witness' Radio Show Tomorrow Night Featuring An Interview With Gary Webb, Author Of 'The San Jose Mercury News' Expose On The CIA-Contra Connection, Discussing Levine's Books, Which He Asserts Contain More Than Enough Evidence To Indict And Convict The CIA In Any Federal Court In The Land)
FDA Can Control Tobacco, Justice Department Asserts In Court ('The Los Angeles Times' Notes Attorneys For Tobacco Companies, Retailers And Advertisers - But Not Consumers - Urged A Three-Judge Panel Of The US Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals Tuesday In Charleston, West Virginia, To Overrule A Lower Court Ruling Giving The US Food And Drug Administration Authority To Regulate Tobacco, Arguing That The FDA Is Attempting To Exert Powers Congress Never Intended)
Senate Adopts Anti-Drug Proposal (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Los Angeles Times' Notes Several Amendments Were Proposed In An Attempt To Save The McCain Tobacco Bill, Including A Republican Anti-Drug Proposal Sponsored By Senators Paul Coverdell And Larry Craig)
FDA Posts Web Site On Viagra Deaths - Up To 16, But Cause Unclear ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Prints The URL Where The US Food And Drug Administration Is Making Regular Updates - No Word On How The Agency Is Skirting Regulations Preventing It From Tracking Adverse Reactions)
'Drug War' Still Just A Huff And A Puff ('USA Today' Columnist Walter Shapiro Examines The Words Used By President Clinton At The United Nations' Special Session On Drugs, And Finds They Illustrate The Contradictions At The Heart Of The War On Some Drug Users)
Colombia, Myanmar Urge Alternative Crops ('The Orange County Register' Notes The Potential Beneficiaries Of The United Nations' Proposed Crop Substitution Program Are All For It)
UN - Drugs - Defense (Transcript Of Today's 'Voice Of America' Broadcast Focuses On UN Officials' Response To An Unfavorable Editorial In 'The New York Times' About The General Assembly Special Session To Expand The Global Drug War)
Re - Cheerleaders Against Drugs (Letter To The Editor Of 'The New York Times' By A Psychiatrist Who Specializes In Addiction Praises The Newspaper's Editorial Denouncing The United Nations' Expansion Of The War On Some Drug Users)
Wrong About Drugs (Staff Editorial In 'The International Herald-Tribune' About This Week's United Nations Conference On Drugs Says That, With Drugs More Plentiful And Cheaper Than Ever, World Leaders Are Mostly Extolling Failed And Counterproductive Strategies To Combat The Problem)
UN Drug Conference Ends ('The Los Angeles Times' Says The Three-Day United Nations Special Session On Expanding The Global War On Some Drug Users Ended Wednesday With Delegates From About 150 Countries Divided Over How To Wage The War)
500 Drug Geniuses (Staff Editorial In 'The Wall Street Journal' Responds To The Letter Signed By 500 World Leaders Calling For An End To The Global War On Drugs, Written On The Occasion Of The United Nations General Assembly Special Session On Drugs In New York June 8-10, Saying, 'If The War On Drugs Isn't Working, The Answer Is Not To Abandon The Fight')
Big Names Sign Letter Criticizing War On Drugs ('New York Times' Version In 'The International Herald-Tribune')
War On Drugs A Bust, Canada Says - Prevention, Rehabilitation As Important As Enforcement, Minister Says ('The Ottawa Citizen' Covers The Speech By Revenue Minister Herb Dhaliwal, The Head Of Canada's Delegation To The United Nations Special Session On Expanding The Global War Against Some Drug Users)
War On Drugs A Bust, Author Argues ('The Ottawa Citizen' Reviews 'Drug Crazy,' The Outstanding New Book By American Mike Gray, Who Also Wrote The Screenplay For 'The China Syndrome')
Drug Crazy - How We Got Into This Mess And How We Can Get Out ('Salon' Magazine Reviews Mike Gray's New Book, Calling It A 'Voltaire-Level Refutation Of The Church Of Drug Enforcement')
US Proved 'War On Drugs' Is Insane (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Ottawa Citizen' Finds Clinton's Talk About 'Expressions Of Individual Liberty' At The UN Special Session On Drugs Ring Hollow In View Of How The Drug War Has Limited Americans' Freedoms)
Global War Being Fought The Wrong Way, US Told ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Notes 22 Australians Were Among The 500 World Leaders Who Signed The Two-Page Open Letter Opposing The Global Drug War, Circulated By The Lindesmith Center And Addressed To UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan)
Panel To Seek Ways To Fight Organized Crime In British Columbia ('The Vancouver Sun' Says British Columbia's Attorney-General, Ujjal Dosanjh, Appointed A Blue-Ribbon Panel Tuesday To Improve The Way Police Combat Modern, Sophisticated Criminals - Senior Police Officers And Provincial And Federal Prosecutors Have Expressed Concern That The Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit, Or CLEU, Has Failed To Fulfill Its Mandate To Charge And Convict Organized Crime Figures)
Scotsman Scours The Jungles For Stress Cure (The Aberdeen, Scotland, 'Press And Journal' Says Professor Alan Harvey Of Strathclyde University And His Colleagues In Argentina Hope A South American Herb, Salvia Gaurantica, Might Replace Valium As A Treatment For Anxiety That Doesn't Cause Drowsiness Or Dependency)
South African Government Planned To Use Drug On Rioters (According To 'The Calgary Herald,' In The Dying Days Of Apartheid South Africa Ordered Its Chemists To Make One Tonne Of Ecstasy For Riot Control)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 50 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, From DrugSense)
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