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Thursday, June 11, 1998

NORML Weekly News (Senate Okays Massive Anti-Drug Package In Tobacco Bill; New Hampshire Judge Dismisses Farmers Request To Grow Hemp; Washington State Democrats Back Medical Marijuana Initiative)
Oregon Court Of Appeals (A List Subscriber Posts An Excerpt From Yesterday's Decision In State V. Powelson Saying Police Broke The Law Using Coercion During A 'Knock And Talk' Bust Of A Cannabis Cultivator)
WHEE Update (Steve Hagar Of 'High Times' Magazine Gives An Update On The Magazine's Second Annual Celebration Of Cannabis Culture Near Eugene, Oregon, In Mid-July)
Bail Reinstated For Cancer Patient In Marijuana Case ('Los Angeles Times' Version Of Yesterday's News About Todd McCormick)
Alcoholism `Cure' Ends In One Death ('The San Jose Mercury News' Says Four Members Of A Los Angeles Storefront 'Alcohol And Drug' Recovery Group Were Being Held Wednesday On Charges That They Killed A 32-Year-Old Man By Tying Him Up And Force-Feeding Him Alcohol In A Misguided Attempt At Aversion Therapy)
Fund cuts for DARE are sought - Program fails to stem drug abuse - Driscoll (The Houston Chronicle says Houston City Councilman Ray Driscoll called Wednesday for a 50 percent cut in funding for the Houston Police Department's DARE program, characterizing the popular nationwide effort as good public relations for police but ineffective in combating drug use among youth. Houston's DARE program costs $3.7 million a year for 63 officers to teach about 27,000 fifth-graders and 24,000 seventh-graders. Driscoll said the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program had been taught by police "in Houston for 12 years. Drug use among youth continues to rise. Something is wrong." Mayor Lee Brown, the former White House drug czar who began the DARE program when he was police chief, predicted the city council would spare the program.)
A NORML Contest Gets A Treatment ('The Mountain Eagle' In New York Says Rick Brightman, General Manager Of The Company That Owns 'My Shopper,' Refused To Accept An Advertisement From The Schoharie County Chapter Of NORML Announcing A High School Essay Contest On The Theme, 'How Does The War On Marijuana Threaten America's Constitutional Democracy?')
Free Heroin A Fix For Drug Problems? ('Baltimore Sun' Columnist Michael Olesker Interviews A Junkie About Yesterday's News That A Heroin Maintenance Program May Be Launched In Baltimore, And, Surveying The Damage Wreaked On The City By The War On Some Drug Users, Concludes Nobody Knows Whether Heroin Maintenance Will Work, But Everybody Knows 30 Years Of The War On Some Drug Users Has Failed Beyond Redemption)
Attitudes Affect Who Uses Marijuana, Survey Finds ('Dallas Morning News' Account Of A New Survey From University Of Michigan Perpetuating The Myth That High Rates Of Fear, Ignorance And Intolerance Among Teens Correlate With Low Rates Of Marijuana Use)
Fruit Flies Open New Understanding About Effects Of Alcohol ('The Associated Press' Describes Genetic Research By A Team Led By Dr. Ulrike Heberlein Of The Gallo Center At The University Of California At San Francisco, Published In Thursday's Issue Of The Journal 'Cell,' Giving The First Clear Evidence Of A Link Between A Substance Called Cyclic AMP And A Subject's Reaction To Alcohol)
Nations Agree To Cooperate In War On Drugs ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Summarizes The Just-Ended United Nations General Assembly Special Session On Expanding The Global Drug War By Noting That, In Fact, No Such Cooperation Was Actually Pledged Because The Delegates, From About 150 Countries, Were Divided About How To Wage The Drug War)
A Definitive Statement On Dutch Demand Reduction (A List Subscriber Posts The Statement Made By The Dutch Minister At The United Nations' Drug War Summit - Drug Users Should Not Be Criminalized For Habits But Should Be Provided With The Help They Need)
Drugs War Just 'An Exercise In Futility' (An Account In Britain's 'Guardian' About The United Nations Special Session On Drugs Focuses On The Speech Given Outside The General Assembly By Omayra Morales, A Member Of The Andean Council Of Coca Leaf Producers - Four Years Ago, She Said, The Columbian Government Vowed To End Coca Cultivation Within Two Years - Coca Was Then Being Grown On 100,000 Acres - Today's Figure Is 250,000 Acres)
The Drug War - A War On Poor, Lower Classes (Alexander Cockburn's Column In 'The Los Angeles Times,' Written On The Occasion Of The UN Special Session To Expand The Global War On Some Drug Users, Gives A Brief But Devastating History - According To HR Haldeman's Diary, Nixon Emphasized That 'You Have To Face The Fact The Whole Problem Is Really The Blacks - The Key Is To Devise A System That Recognizes This While Not Appearing To')
Expanding The Losing War On Drugs (An Op-Ed In 'The Chicago Tribune' By Syndicated Columnist Steve Chapman About This Week's United Nations Special Session On Drugs Notes The American Drug War Has Been A Failure, But That Doesn't Stop The US Government From Pressing Other Countries To Adopt Its Methods)
Failed 'Drug War' (Two Letters To The Editor Of 'The International Herald-Tribune' Oppose The United Nations' Expansion Of US Prohibition Policies)
The War On Drugs - Vietnam All Over Again (Text Of An Advertisement For The Book 'Drug Crazy,' By Mike Gray, Printed In Today's 'New York Times')
'The New York Times' Now Opposes The War On Drugs - And You? An Open Letter To My Media Brethren From An Old Media Whore, Peter McWilliams (The Best-Selling Author Responds To The Recent About-Face By One Of The Nation's Most Influential Newspapers, Noting Its Staff Editorial Tuesday Reverses An Unwritten Policy He Suggests Was Implemented In October 1990, When Many In The Media Gathered In Restin, Virginia)
DrugSense Focus Alert No. 67 - 'Wall Street Journal' (DrugSense Asks You To Write A Letter To The Newspaper In Opposition To Its '500 Drug Geniuses' Editorial And Ask It To Cut Its Intellectual Losses)
Re - Opiates For The Masses (Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The Wall Street Journal' By A Psychiatrist Who Specializes In Addiction Treatment Rebuts A Letter Opposing Heroin Maintenance By Prohibitionist Dr. Sally Satel)
Delamere Denounces Drug Hypocrisy ('The Dominion' In Wellington, New Zealand, Covers The Speech Presented By New Zealand Customs Minister And Associate Health Minister Tuariki Delamere At The United Nations Special Session On Expanding The Global Drug War - 'If We Are Going To Stand A Chance In Convincing Our Young People About The Risk Of Drug Use We Need To Address The Hypocrisy That Young People See When Adults, Including Politicians, Occasionally Openly And Legally Abuse Alcohol And Then Turn Around And Condemn Youth For Using Marijuana')
Mexico Protests Handling Of Money-Laundering Sting By US Agents ('New York Times' Update On The Diplomatic Uproar Over 'Operation Casablanca')
Red Tape Smothering Hemp Crop (The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Says The Canadian Government's Pledge To Allow Farmers To Grow Industrial Hemp This Summer Is Being Stymied By Ottawa's Concern About Imagined Abuses - New Regulations Require Each Farmer To Be Checked For A Criminal Record, For Example, And Each Application Also Requires Global Positioning Co-ordinates Of The Acreage To Be Planted So That Surveillance Satellites Can Keep An Eye On It)
Hemp Dreams Up In Smoke For Farmers ('Ottawa Citizen' Version)
Official - Flourishing, Potent Pot Turn Canada Into A Drug-Exporter ('The Associated Press' Notes Canadian Solicitor-General Andrew Scott Told Wednesday's Final Gathering Of The UN General Assembly Special Session On Drugs That Canada Has Become An Exporter Of Cannabis, Though He Apparently Failed To Give Credit To Prohibition's Role In Bringing That About)
Lack Of UN Resolution Gives Refugee Status To Drug Pushers (Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Editorial By Prohibitionist Jeffrey Simpson Notes The United Nations Special Session On Expanding The War On Some Drugs Wasn't Even Able To Pass A Resolution Saying Trafficking In Illegal Drugs Is 'Contrary To The Purposes And Principles Of The United Nations,' Upholding The Decision Last Week By Canada's Supreme Court To Allow Refugee Status To A Convicted Sri Lankan)
Downer Pledges $15M Drug Fight ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Says Australia's Foreign Minister Told The United Nations Drug Summit That Australia Had Allocated $15 Million For Drug-Control Programs In The Asia-Pacific Region)
Potential Health System Cost Savings From Medical Marijuana (A New Zealand Physician And List Subscriber Notes The New Zealand Drug Policy Forum Trust Is Embarking On An Analysis Of The Potential Cost Savings To The New Zealand Health Care System If Medicinal Cannabis Were Legal And Used To The Fullest Extent Appropriate)
Cannabis Farm Has Been Established ('The Associated Press' Says GW Pharmaceuticals Announced Today It Has Established Britain's First Government-Sanctioned Cannabis Farm To Grow Marijuana For Medical Research Purposes)
UK Sanctions Cannabis-Growing Farm For Research ('Reuters' Version)
Synod Puts Drugs On Church Agenda (Britain's 'Guardian' Says That, For The First Time In The 27-Year History Of The General Synod Of The Church Of England, Drug Policy Will Be On The Agenda At Next Month's Meeting, Including The Decriminalisation Of Cannabis)
Minister Says 40 Percent Of World's Drugs Seized In Turkey ('Reuters' Says Turkish Interior Minister Murat Basesgioglu, Speaking In Istanbul, Also Said Turkey Seized 60 Percent Of All Drugs Interdicted In Europe - And Notes The UN Special Session On Expanding The Global Drug War 'Revealed Broad Differences' Between Drug Producing And Consuming Nations)
Weekly Action Report On Drug Policies, Year 4, Number 15 (Summary For Activists Of International Drug Policy News, From CORA In Italy)
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Friday, June 12, 1998:
Marvin Chavez's Trial Date Decided (Orange County Correspondent Says The Former Director Of The Now-Defunct Orange County Cannabis Co-Op Begins His Jury Trial July 27th - David Herrick, Convicted For His Work With The Same Dispensary, To Be Sentenced June 26)
Majority Rule (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Los Angeles Times' By A Japanese-American Woman Whose Relatives Were Interned In American Concentration Camps During World War II Takes A Dim View Of Majority Rule)
Jury Activist Turney Faces 15 Years (Bulletin From The Jury Rights Project Seeks Your Letters Of Support For Frank Turney, Convicted On March 6 Of Three Counts Of Felony Jury Tampering For Distributing The Hotline Number Of The Fully-Informed Jury Association Outside A Fairbanks, Alaska, Courthouse In 1994)
Viagra Is A Boon For Business, Say Brothel Workers (According To A Knight Ridder News Service Item In 'The San Jose Mercury News,' Prostitutes At Two Legal Bordellos Near Carson City, Nevada, Say Pfizer's New Drug For Impotence Has A Lot Of Old Men Hobbling Through Their Front Doors On Canes And Wheelchairs 24 Hours A Day)
Court Tosses Pot Conviction Because Police Had No Warrant ('The Wisconsin State Journal' Says The Second District Court Of Appeals On Wednesday Threw Out The Conviction And Four-Year Sentence Against Jeffry Paterson Of Burlington, Wisconsin, For Growing Marijuana And Possessing Pipe Bombs, Saying Police Violated The Fourth Amendment In Entering His Home Without A Warrant And No Good Reason To Search)
Unity In Drug War ('The Orange County Register' Gives A Two-Sentence Summary Of The United Nations Special Session To Expand The Global War On Some Drug Users)
Drug War - UN Should Take Lead In Fighting This Scourge (Staff Editorial In 'The Dallas Morning News' Supports The United Nations Expanding The Global War On Some Drug Users)
Pointing The Finger (Zealous 'New York Times' Prohibitionist AM Rosenthal Says The Well-Laid Plans Of United Nations Drug Warriors Were Upset Last Week By 'Americans Who Devote Their Careers And Foundation Grants' To 'Legalizing' Drugs, Who 'Had Mobilized Their Network Of Web Sites')
Re - Pointing The Finger (Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The New York Times' Tries To Correct AM Rosenthal's Misinformation)
Uncivil War About The Drug War At 'The New York Times' (Best-Selling Author Peter McWilliams Dissects Recent Editorial Emanations From One Of The Nation's Most Influential Newspapers, Noting Prohibitionary Zealot AM Rosenthal Now Considers His Own Editorial Board To Be 'Legalizers')
Donohue, Like Pataki, Tried Pot ('The Associated Press' Says Republican New York Governor George Pataki's New Running Mate In His Re-Election Campaign, Former State Judge Mary Donohue, Smoked Cannabis At The College Of New Rochelle - He Consumed It Orally At Columbia Law School - No Word On Why They Now Endorse Sending Other People To Jail For Doing The Same Thing)
Heroin Maintenance Denounced By Officials ('The Baltimore Sun' Says A Proposal For A Research Trial In Which Doctors Would Provide Heroin To Some Baltimore Addicts Came Under Attack Yesterday From Elected Officials - Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke Said He Wanted 'To Make It Real Clear That This Administration Has No Intention Of Initiating A Heroin Maintenance Program,' Indicating Any Further Discussion About Heroin Maintenance Would Come Out Of John Hopkins University And Not Local Government)
Spiralling Violence In Chiapas And Guerrero Could Degenerate Into Human Rights Disaster (A List Subscriber Posts Part Of A News Release From Amnesty International Noting The War On Some Drugs In Mexico Is Playing An Integral Part In Its Civil War)
Mexico Stung In More Ways Than One (Writing About 'Operation Casablanca,' 'San Francisco Chronicle' Columnist Lewis Dolinsky Quotes Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, An Independent Mexican Legislator Whose Specialty Is Relations With North America, Saying, 'Mexico Has Permitted, Tolerated And At Times Cooperated With Undercover Operations That Violate Its Sovereignty,' And Will Again)
Albright Urges Mexico To Drop Threat In Drug Sting ('The Los Angeles Times' Says That, Despite Her Public Defense Of The US Agents Who Carried Out 'Operation Casablanca' In Mexico, US Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright Has Been Highly Critical Behind The Scenes Of The Treasury Department's Handling Of The Matter)
US May Not Extradite Drug Agents ('The Los Angeles Times' Quotes Secretary Of State Albright Saying Thursday 'We Will Be As Cooperative As We Can, But I Do Think That Prosecution And Extradition Would Be Counterproductive')
A Costly Sting In Mexico ('The New York Times' Says 'Operation Casablanca' Has Turned From A Law Enforcement Coup Into A Diplomatic Fiasco - Both Sides Agree That Mexico Never Gave The Approval That Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Legally Needed To Proceed)
On St. Vincent, Marijuana Grows Into A Campaign Issue ('The Los Angeles Times' Says US And Western European Prohibition Agents Think St. Vincent And The Grenadines, A 30-Island Chain In The Caribbean, Have Become As Strategic In The Global War On Some Drug Users As It Remains Obscure To Much Of The Western World)
Cannabis To Be Given Clinical Trials (Britain's 'Guardian' Says GW Pharmaceuticals, A Pioneering Biotechnology Company, Has Been Granted Two Licences From The Home Office To Build A High Security Greenhouse For Cultivating Cannabis Plants And Carrying Out The First Large-Scale Clinical Trials Of The Drug In Britain)
Medical Company Growing Cannabis (Version In Britain's 'Daily Telegraph')
Cannabis Country - In A Quiet Corner Of England, An Unlikely New Crop Emerges (Version In Britain's 'Daily Express')
Justified Despair Of Users (Letter To The Editor Of Britain's 'Evening News' Says It's Not Surprising Some People See A Link Between The Jews And Others Persecuted By The Nazis And Those Who Wish To Use Cannabis For Physical And Mental Health, Who Are Persecuted, Imprisoned And Ostracized)
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Saturday, June 13, 1998:
Signature Count (Paul Loney, An Attorney And Chief Petitioner For The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Initiative Petition, Says The Campaign Has Officially Collected 44,879 Signatures Of The 73,261 Needed By July)
Border Slaying (Staff Editorial In 'The Dallas Morning News' Says The Recent Shooting Death Of A 27-Year-Old Prohibition Agent Near Nogales, Arizona, Is 'Yet Another Reminder Of The High Cost Of Keeping Drugs Off America's Streets' - But Fails To Admit Prohibition Has Only Increased Such Drugs)
Tobacco Bill Survives Senate But Still Faces House ('Washington Post' Article In 'The Seattle Times' Says The McCain Tobacco Bill Survived A Series Of Near-Death Experiences And This Week Moved A Long Way Toward Approval In The Senate, But It Still Faces Hostile House Republicans And The Simple Passage Of Time, With The 105th Congress Adjourning This Fall)
Illegal Drug Scene Spurs Rise In Police Corruption ('The Los Angeles Times' Says Law Enforcement Corruption, Sparked Mostly By Drug Prohibition, Has Become Rampant In Big And Small Towns - The Number Of Federal, State And Local Officials Sentenced To Federal Prison Has Multiplied Five Times In Four Years, According To A New Study, 'Misconduct To Corruption,' Compiled By Officials From 15 Cities And The FBI, Which Will Be Reviewed This Weekend By Police From More Than 50 Major Cities Meeting In Sun Valley, Idaho)
Report Tracks Problem Of Corrupt Cops ('San Francisco Chronicle' Version)
DEA Extends Deadline For Public Comment (Bulletin From The Colorado Hemp Initiative Project And The Hawai'i Hemp Council Notes You Now Have Until June 30 To Protest The Drug Enforcement Administration's Plans To Spray Toxic Herbicides On Wild Hemp In The United States)
DrugSense Focus Alert Number 68 - Rosenthal Attacks DrugSense, MAP, And You! (DrugSense Gives You Ammunition To Help Fulfill Yesterday's Prediction By 'New York Times' Prohibitionist AM Rosenthal That 'Hours After Publication Of This Column, Masses Of Denunciatory E-Mail Letters To The Editor Will Arrive At The Times')
MAP Chat Room Open Tonight (The Media Awareness Project Sponsors An International Online Forum 9 PM Eastern Time Saturdays-Sundays - No Special Software Required)
Drug War Vets Say Don't Police Marijuana (An Op-Ed In 'The Vancouver Sun' By Neil Boyd, A Criminology Professor At Simon Fraser University, John Conroy, The Lawyer Who Defended Randy Caine In His Constitutional Challenge, And Gil Puder, A Vancouver Police Officer, Explains How One Letter From The Attorney-General Could Decriminalize Cannabis And Improve The Lives Of All British Columbians)
Hemp Farmers Still Await Go-Ahead From Ottawa ('New Brunswick Telegraph Journal' Version Of Recent News About The Canadian Government Reneging On Its Pledge To Allow Industrial Hemp Production)
The Hard Line (The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Prints An Op-Ed From 'The Wall Street Journal' By The Notorious American Drug-War Zealot, Dr. Sally Satel, Opposing Heroin Maintenance And Trying To Discredit Its Recent Success In Switzerland)
Rival Strategies Face Off At UN (The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Presents An Op-Ed By Ethan Nadelmann Of The Lindesmith Center, 'The Pragmatic Approach,' From 'Foreign Affairs')
A Plague On Both Their Houses (Letter Sent To The Editor Of The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Notes Both Ethan Nadelmann And Dr. Sally Satel Have Built Financially Rewarding Careers Out Of The Continuing War On Drugs, And Suggests Freedom Is A Better Alternative Than Either Harm Reduction Or The War On Some Drug Users)
Government Defies Court Order To Open Files On 'Illegal' Drug Sting ('The Ottawa Citizen' The Federal Government Is Blocking The Disclosure Of Legal Opinions And Other Documents Showing How RCMP Brass Approved Undercover Currency Exchange Operations In Montreal And Vancouver)
Harm Reduction And Needle Exchange Programmes (The British Medical Journal, 'Lancet,' Lets Notorious Portland, Oregon, Prohibitionist Sandra S Bennett Deflect One Letter To The Editor About Her March 14 Piece Opposing Needle Exchange Programmes, But Truth Wins Out In The Second Letter)
A Bolivian Legislator Who Just Says `Yes' To Coca ('The New York Times' Portrays Evo Morales, Who's Not Embarrassed To Be Photographed Caressing The Coca Bushes That Grow On His Property - During His Election Campaign In The Tropical Region Of Chapare, Which Produces 85 Percent Of The Refined Cocaine Produced In Bolivia, He Ran On The Slogan 'Vote For Coca!' And Won 70 Percent Of The Vote In A Field Of 10)
Drugs Fear On Greek Killings ('The Herald Sun' In Australia Says Greek Police Believe Two Melbourne Men Found Dead Off The Greek Coast May Have Been Innocent Victims Of The Local Trade In Illegal Drugs)
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Sunday, June 14, 1998:
Drug Hypocrisy (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Arizona Daily Star' Summarizes The Double Standard In Federal Policies Regarding Assisted Suicide In Oregon And Medical Marijuana In California And Arizona - 'It's OK To Give You Poison In Oregon If You Want To Die, But It's Not OK To Use A Plant In Arizona Or California To Make You Feel Better While You're Alive - Your Vote Counts, Unless The Government Disagrees')
When Hysteria Wins (Letter To The Editor Of 'The San Francisco Chronicle' By A Retired Chemical Engineer Derides 'The Stupidity And Unfounded Hysteria Surrounding Asbestos And Secondhand Cigarette Smoke' - A Person Walking Down A San Francisco Street Receives More Toxins From Truck And Car Exhaust Than A Person Sitting In A Closed Room With A Cigarette Smoker All Day)
A Prison For The Future ('The North County Times' Says California's First Privately Built Prison, To Begin Construction This Week In Kern County At A Cost Of $94 Million, Is Destined To Become A Battleground In A Big-Spending Political War In A State Where Politicians And Voters Have Consistently Embraced Enhanced-Sentencing Laws, But Have Shied Away From Nearly Every Recent Proposal To Build New Prisons)
If Initiative Drive Succeeds, Nevada May Emerge As Drug-War Battleground ('The Las Vegas Review-Journal' Talks To A Lot Of Cops And Others Who Make Their Livings Off Prohibition, But No Sick People Who Would Benefit From The Medical Marijuana Initiative Being Circulated By Americans For Medical Rights - The Initiative Faces Many Obstacles - In Nevada, Constitutional Amendments Must Be Approval By Voters Twice In Two Consecutive Elections)
The Fortunes Of Mary Jane ('The Las Vegas Review-Journal' Prints Some Facts And Figures About Marijuana, Not All Of Them Necessarily True, Though It's Worth Noting The ABC News/Discovery Channel Poll, Conducted By Chilton Research Services In May 1997, Which Found 69 Percent Of Americans Agree That Doctors Should Be Allowed To Prescribe Marijuana As They Do Any Other Controlled Drug)
Prohibition Brought Burglars To Lake Forest ('The Chicago Tribune' Notes That Edward Arpee's 1963 Book, 'Lake Forest, Illinois, History And Reminiscences 1861-1961,' Suggests That Alcohol Prohibition Led To A Rise In Burglaries As Thieves Sought 'The Good Stuff' In The Homes Of The Wealthy - Juries Nullified Such Cases, Reasoning That Since It Was Against The Law To Possess Liquor, They Couldn't Convict Anyone For Stealing It)
Year Later, Marine Killing Of Goatherd Remains In Dispute ('The Washington Post' Says Residents Of The Texas Border Town Of Redford Believe There Is No Good Explanation For The Death One Year Ago Of 18-Year-Old Esequiel Hernandez Jr., Killed By Four Camouflaged Marines On An Anti-Drug Mission, And They Believe The Federal Government Has Tried To Keep The Incident Quiet)
Report Shows More Cops Involved In Illegal Activities ('Seattle Times' Rewrite Of Yesterday's 'Los Angeles Times' Article)
DrugSense Focus Alert Number 69 - LA Times - Drug War Corrupts Cops (DrugSense Asks You To Respond To Yesterday's Article By Writing A Letter In Support Of 'The Los Angeles Times' And Protesting Drug War Corruption - Sample Letter Included)
This 10-Year War Can Be Won (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Washington Post' From A Self-Described Expert On Drugs And Drug Policy Praises The Clinton Administration's 10-Year-Plan For The War On Some Drugs, Saying Newt Gingrich's Complaint That The Civil War Took Only Four Years Ignores The Fact That The Civil War Marked The Culmination Of Many Decades Of Abolitionist Activism That Gradually Changed Americans' Attitude Toward Slavery - But Ignores The Fact Such Activism Was Carried Out By Private Individuals Against The Government, Not Vice Versa, As Is The Case With The War On Some Drug Users)
Tobacco Bill Excesses (A Staff Editorial In 'The Seattle Times' Says The US Senators Who Are Tacking On Ideological Decorations To The Once-Promising McCain Tobacco Bill Will Cause The Bill To Collapse Inevitably And Mercifully Of Its Own Weight - But Ignores The Possibility That The Bill Itself Is An Ideological Decoration)
Dope Fans Air Their Enthusiasm ('The Vancouver Province' In British Columbia Notes Protesters Smoked Pot Yesterday Outside The Vancouver Art Gallery While The Mayor And Police Chief Attended A Nearby International Conference For Prohibitionists)
High Priest Of Pot Loses His Licence ('The Vancouver Province' Says Ian Hunter Is The 'Biggest Marijuana Advocate' In Victoria, British Columbia, But That He Lost The Business Licence For His Downtown Store, The Sacred Herb, After The City Council Voted 6-3 To Pull It As A Result Of Several Acts Of Civil Disobedience)
Relax Marijuana Laws - Federal Study ('The Ottawa Citizen' Says The Canadian Centre On Substance Abuse, A Federally Funded Think Tank, Has Published A New Study, 'Cannabis Control In Canada,' Which Proposes Dropping Jail As A Possible Punishment For Marijuana Possession - Instead, The Offence Would Become A Civil Violation, Subject To A Fine Only)
Mounties Didn't Have Government's OK For Covert Drug Sting ('The Ottawa Citizen' Says Secret Federal Documents Show The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Operated An Undercover Currency Exchange In Montreal For Five Months In 1990 Before Getting The Required Legal Approval From The Solicitor General Of Canada)
Government Attacked For Defying Court Order ('The Ottawa Citizen' Says Canada's Reform Party Alleged The Federal Government And Royal Canadian Mounted Police Must Be 'Hiding Something' In Their Refusal To Release Documents On Covert Drug Operations)
PM Skirts RCMP Blunder ('The Calgary Sun' Says Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien Gave A Pep Talk Last Night In Montreal To Royal Canadian Mounted Police Brass As The Police Force Continued To Come Under Fire For An Undercover Operation That Ended Up Supporting The Cocaine Trade)
Bolivian Lawmaker Blocks Efforts Against Cocaine ('The Orange County Register' Says Evo Morales, The Leader Of The Coca Leaf Farmers Union Featured In A 'New York Times' Article Yesterday, Faces Expulsion From Congress For Urging Armed Resistance To A Government Plan To End Bolivia's Cocaine Trafficking)
Church Discusses 'Harmless' Drug, But The Arrests Go On (Britain's 'Independent On Sunday' Says The Campaign To Decriminalise Cannabis Use Made An Unparalleled Series Of Advances This Week As Members Of The Church Of England, The House Of Lords, And Senior Members Of Britain's Medical Community All Considered The Issue In A More Dispassionate Atmosphere Than Before)
Chickens Stuffed With Drugs, Court Hears (Britain's 'Edgware And Mill Hill Times' Doesn't Explain What Led Customs Officials To Arrest Two Men In December And Confiscate Frozen Chickens Stuffed With £2.2 Million Of Cannabis Resin At A London Warehouse)
New Treasure Along Ancient Silk Road ('The San Jose Mercury News' Notes Prohibition Has Boosted The Smuggling Of Opium And Heroin Through Kyrgyzstan To New Customers In Russia)
Qat Dealer Killed By Own Hand Grenade (Cautionary Tale In 'The Orange County Register' Says A 'Drug Dealer' Accidentally Pulled The Pin While Giving Change Saturday In A Southern Yemen Marketplace)
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Monday, June 15, 1998:
No Pot Citations ('The Sacramento Bee' Notes A Sacramento County Ordinance Recriminalizing Marijuana For Medical Marijuana Patients Hasn't Been Invoked Against Anyone Yet)
Medical Marijuana Stalemate A Disgrace (Staff Editorial In 'The San Mateo County Times' Laments That Sick Californians Who Can Be Helped By Cannabis Can't Obtain It Legally, And Says 'We've Got To Change That, And Change It Soon,' Suggesting Maybe Another Statewide Initiative Is In Order)
Rainbow Gathering (A List Subscriber Posts Information About This Year's Hemp-Friendly Festival, To Be Held At Canero Lake In The Apache National Forest In East Central Arizona - Internet Addresses Included For More Details)
Plan To Put US Troops On Border Draws Fire ('The Orange County Register' Says Arizona Governor Jane Hull And Other Officials Along Both Sides Of The US-Mexico Border Are Opposing A Bill Approved By The US House Of Representatives Last Month)
View Drug Dealing As Work, Study Says ('The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Describes A New Report, 'The Business Of Drug Dealing In Milwaukee,' By John Hagedorn, A Longtime Researcher Into Milwaukee's Gang Culture And Assistant Professor Of Criminal Science At The University Of Illinois At Chicago, Who Says Selling Illegal Drugs Is 'An Innovative, Entrepreneurial, Small Business Venture' That Employs More Than 10 Percent Of The Young Men In Many Central City Neighborhoods - 'Most Drug Entrepreneurs Are Hard Working, But Not Super-Rich,' Wrote Hagedorn In His Report, Prepared For The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute And Released Today - 'Most Drug Entrepreneurs Aren't Particularly Violent'- URL Included)
Shalala Doesn't Want To Be The US 'Nanny' ('The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Gives A Fawning, One-Sided, Pro-Government Interview With US Secretary Of Health And Human Services Donna Shalala, Whose Credentials As An Upholder Of 'The Nanny State' Were Established Long Ago When She Said It Was 'Wrong' For Grown Americans To Smoke Cannabis)
ACLU Complaints More Than Just Splitting Hairs ('The Chicago Tribune' Notes The American Civil Liberties Union Of Illinois Is Trying To Get Rank-And-File Chicago Police Officers To Fight A Plan To Implement Random Drug Testing Involving Hair Clipping Analysis Because, According To The National Institute On Drug Abuse, 'The Consensus Of Scientific Opinion Is That There Are Still Too Many Unanswered Questions For Hair Analysis To Be Used In Employment-Testing Situations' While The US Food And Drug Administration Says It Stands By A 1990 Policy Statement Calling Hair Analysis An 'Unproven . . . Unreliable' Procedure)
Chicago Cops Face Inaccurate, Discriminatory Drug Test (The ACLU News Release Version Says Psychemedics, The Company That Makes The Test, Refuses To Divulge Failure Rates And The Technology Is Considered So Unproven That No Objective Study Has Ever Determined How Well It Actually Works)
Heroin Maintenance - A Solution For Drugs Or Surrender To Them? (Two Letters To The Editor Of The Baltimore 'Sun' Comment On The Recent Proposal That John Hopkins University Conduct A Small Experimental Program)
Re - 500 Drug Geniuses The Online Version Of 'The Wall Street Journal' Prints 13 Letters To The Editor, All But One Opposing Its Childishly Petulant Diatribe Against The More Than 500 World Leaders Who Signed An Open Letter To The Secretary-General Opposing The United Nations' Plans To Expand The Global War On Some Drug Users)
UN Drug Conference - Riding A Dead Horse (Former DEA Agent Michael Levine Writes To 'The Expert Witness' Radio Show In New York To Explain What The Recent United Nations Special Session On Drugs Was All About)
Riding A Dead Horse (Someone Re-Posts A Satirical List Of Ways It's Like Prohibition)
The Master Hypocrite Speaks (Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The New York Times' Responds To AM Rosenthal's Pro-Drug-War Editorial, Noting Rosenthal Is Calling For The Continued Prohibition Of Those Drugs He Thinks His Family And Friends Do Not Use, And The Continued Approval Of Those Equally Dangerous Drugs They Do)
RCMP Sting Broke US Laws - Mounties Changed US Criminals' Cash For Months Without US Authorization ('The Ottawa Citizen' Says Royal Canadian Mounted Police Came 'Precariously Close' To Being Prosecuted For Money Laundering By US Authorities In The Course Of Facilitating Deals And Laundering Money On US Soil For 16 Months Without The Americans' Knowledge And Consent)
BC Investigator Leaves Twisted Trail (The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Digs Up What It Can On The Case Of Philip Tsang, The Cop Charged With Corruption Who Was A Member Of Vancouver, British Columbia's Elite Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit, Or CLEU, Whose Mission Is To Fight Organized Criminal Groups)
Cuban Officials - Openness May Increase Drug Traffic ('The Dallas Morning News' Notes Communist Dictator Fidel Castro's Regime Is Seriously Worried Increasing Tourism Will Spread The Scourge Of 'Drugs')
Addicts' Crime Rate Falls In UK Heroin Trial ('The Sydney Morning Herald' In Australia Notes A New Study Published In Today's Issue Of 'The Medical Journal Of Australia' Provides Further Evidence That Treating Addicts With Injectable Heroin Is Safe And Effective)
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Tuesday, June 16, 1998:
Why Are We Paying Cops To Target Lawful Victims? ('Seattle Times' Columnist Michelle Malkin Gives An Interesting Update On How The War On Some Drug Users Is Devastating Businesses Owned By Innocent African-Americans In Seattle - The Same Law Enforcement Officials Who Blamed The McCoys For Attracting Illegal Drug Sellers To Their Two-Decades-Old Family Soul Food Restaurant And Dancing Venue Have Lured Suspects Into Other Businesses To Make Arrests, And Police Admit It's 'Not Uncommon' For Them To Hand Out Crack Cocaine To Informants As Rewards)
Crime In California Drops For The Fourth Straight Year ('The Associated Press' Says California Attorney General Dan Lungren Attributed The Decline To Passage Of The State's 'Three Strikes' Law In 1994, Even Though 85 Percent Of Those Sentenced Under The Law Had Been Convicted Most Recently Of A Non-Violent Offense, Mostly Involving Cannabis)
Advocates Of Medical Marijuana File Petition Signatures On Deadline (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Las Vegas Sun' Notes Nevadans For Medical Rights Filed Signatures Tuesday For A Statewide Initiative On Medical Marijuana - The Big Concern For Backers Of The Petition Was Whether They'd Comply With The Law Requiring The Minimum Number Of Petition Signers To Include 10 Percent Of The Voters In At Least 13 Counties)
Reno Joins Crowd In Mourning Victim Of Border Shooting ('The Arizona Daily Star' Covers The Funeral Of The Prohibition Agent Allegedly Killed By Marijuana Smugglers Along The Arizona-Mexico Border - The Usual Suspects Are Being Rounded Up)
US Border Guard Arrested In New York Drug Murder ('Reuters' Says A Border Patrol Agent Who Attended The Arizona Memorial Service For A Fellow Officer Who Was Allegedly Killed By Marijuana Smugglers Was Arrested Afterwards And Confessed To The Murder And Rip-Off Of A New York Cocaine Seller)
Border Agent Faces Murder, Drug Charges ('Arizona Daily Star' Version)
Marine Corps Report Clears Corporal In Shooting Death Of Texas Teen-Ager ('The Houston Chronicle' Says Marine Investigators Concluded In A Report Released Monday That It Was Perfectly Legal For One Of Their Own Camouflaged Anti-Drug Snipers To Kill High School Goatherd Esequiel Hernandez Jr. Near The Texas-Mexico Border Last Year)
Don't Militarize Border ('Waco Tribune-Herald' Columnist John Young Says Governor George W. Bush And Other Texans Should Join In The Outrage Of Arizona Governor Jane Hull Over An Amendment To The Defense Bill That Would Authorize Putting US Military Troops Along The Border With Mexico)
Serviceman Cleared In Teen's Death ('San Jose Mercury News' Version)
Bush Replaces Drug Task Force (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Dallas Morning News' Says Texas Governor George W. Bush Has Formed The West Texas Narcotics Enforcement Task Force To Replace The Embattled Permian Basin Drug Task Force, Which He Shut Down After Allegations Of Financial Impropriety)
Canada Enlightened On Issue Of Hemp (Op-Ed In The St. Paul, Minnesota, 'Pioneer Press' By David Morris, Vice Chair Of The North American Industrial Hemp Council, Laments The Fact That Health Canada Is Letting Farmers Grow Hemp, While In The United States, The DEA Is Holding Hearings On Spraying Herbicide On Feral Hemp Left Over From World War II)
Minnesota Candidate Is Pro Legalization (A List Subscriber Publicizes The Gubernatorial Campaign Of Jesse Ventura Of The Reform Party, Said To Have A Real Chance For Victory)
Appeals Court Tosses Out Drug Tax-Stamp Conviction ('The Associated Press' Says The Third District Court Of Appeals Has Ruled That A 1997 Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision That Wisconsin's 1990 Tax-Stamp Law Is Unconstitutional Should Be Applied Retroactively)
Thompson OKs End To Parole ('The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Says Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson Put An End To Parole Throughout The State Monday By Signing What The Newspaper Claims Is A Politically Popular Truth-In-Sentencing Bill, Even Though The State, With 10,000 Prison Beds, Already Has To Export Some Of Its 16,139 Inmates - Thompson Also Signed Into Law The So-Called 'Chemical Castration' Bill)
Prison Ironies (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Detroit News' Responds To Michigan Governor John Engler's Refusal To Let Human Rights Inspectors From The United Nations Tour Michigan's Prisons For Women)
Norquist Launches Attack Against Drug 'Business' Study ('The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Notes John Norquist, The Scientifically Illiterate Demagogue And Mayor Of Milwaukee, Criticized 'The Business Of Drug Dealing In Milwaukee,' A Report Prepared For The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute By A University Of Illinois-Chicago Assistant Professor, Reported Yesterday)
PBS Transcript - Doing Time - NewsHour With Jim Lehrer (Public Broadcasting Service Story By Tom Bearden Looks At 'Truth In Sentencing' Legislation That Would Eliminate Parole For Georgia's 37,000 Prisoners)
Congressmen Call For Drug-Free NBA (According To 'The New York Times,' Several Demagogic Congressmen, Including Speaker Of The House Newt Gingrich, Said They Plan To Send A Letter Today To NBA Commissioner David Stern And NBA Players Association Executive Director Billy Hunter, Calling On Them To Adopt A 'Zero Tolerance' - That Is, Anti-Marijuana - Drug Policy - Hunter Responded By Saying, 'If There Is A Marijuana Problem, It's One Reflective Of Society' - Indeed, The Latest Survey By The Partnership For A Drug Free America Suggests 48 Percent Of High School Juniors And Seniors Smoked Pot Last Year, Up From 29 Percent In 1993)
Top Court To Review Right To Remain Silent ('The Chicago Tribune' Notes The War On Some Drugs Is Threatening A Basic Constitutional Right As The US Supreme Court Takes Up The Case Of A Pennsylvania Woman Serving A 10-Year Prison Term For Refusing To Tell A Judge How Much Cocaine She Might Have Distributed)
Tobacco Bill Fight Rages On (An 'Associated Press' Article In The Massachusetts 'Standard-Times' Says The Senate Wrestled Inconclusively Yesterday Over The McCain Tobacco Bill - Senator Jack Reed, The Democrat From Rhode Island, Won The First Vote On His Proposed Amendment To Cut Tax Breaks For Tobacco Companies The Government Claims Is Advertising To Children, But Slade Gorton, The Republican From Washington State, Said It Was Unconstitutional To Condition 'A Privilege Available To Everyone Else In The United States On Its Abandonment Of Its First Amendment Rights')
Clinton Urges Senate To End Delays And Pass Anti-Tobacco Measure ('Houston Chronicle' Version)
Man Battling To Sell Pot As Medicine Found Guilty ('The Canadian Press' Notes Saskatchewan Multiple Sclerosis Patient Grant Krieger Was Convicted Tuesday In Calgary Of Possessing Marijuana For The Purpose Of Trafficking - Krieger Promised To Continue Selling Marijuana To The Terminally Ill - Sentencing August 17)
Global Drug Arrangement Just Reeks Of Hypocrisy (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Toronto Star' Points Out That Last Week's United Nations Special Session To Expand The Drug War Was Simply Trying To Quash A Free Market, But When Activists Call Out For International Labour Standards, Human Rights Preservation, Or Global Environmental Treaties, The Same World Leaders Say Such Institutional Arrangements Contradict The Dictum Of Free Markets)
Stars At Fault Over Drugs, Say Police (Britain's 'Independent' Says Colin Phillips, Chairman Of The Association Of Chief Police Officers Drugs Committee And Chief Constable Of Cumbria, Yesterday Attacked Pop Stars And Fashion Models Who He Claimed 'Glamourise Drugs,' And Revealed His Role As An Upholder Of The Nanny State When He Said, 'Why Don't We Challenge The Lyrics And Music? Why Is Drugs, Sex And Rock 'N' Roll Something To Brag About, Something We Accept?')
Beatles Producer Challenges Industry On Drugs ('Reuters' Notes Sir George Martin, The Producer Of The 1960s Pop Band, Often Referred To As 'The Fifth Beatle,' On Tuesday Challenged Record Companies To Boycott Artists Who Take 'Drugs,' Even Though, Of Course, He'd Have A Lot Less Money If He'd Followed The Same Practice)
The Walls Are Crumbling (Translation Of An Article In 'Die Tageszeitung' Suggests The Wind Of Change Has Been Blowing Through Germany In Recent Months As Even Conservative Politicians Demand A Change In Drug Policy)
Pray For Peace Foundation News (The June Newsletter Of The Interfaith Religious Organization 'Committed To The Legalization Of Sacred Natural Medicines For Spiritual Healing, For All People' - Includes An Item On The Group's New 'Organic Food For Our Kids Campaign' - 'Dare To Keep Kids Off Drugs - Use Herbs And Eat Organic Food')
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Wednesday, June 17, 1998:
Davis, Lungren Announce Plan For Series Of Debates ('The Associated Press' Says The Two Leading Candidates In The Race For The California Governor's Seat Will Begin A Series Of Five Debates Beginning Next Month - No Ducking The Issue Of Medical Marijuana?)
Marijuana Eradication In Northern California (An Informed List Subscriber And Local Correspondent Notes The Humboldt County, California, Board Of Supervisors Voted Tuesday To Extend The Marijuana Eradication Grant For Another Year - But Lists Several Interesting Reasons The Trend Favors Reform)
Airway Heights Prison A Model For State ('The Associated Press' Says 70 Percent Of Offenders Are Classified As 'Violent' At The State Prison In Airway, Heights, Washington, But Doesn't Say How 'Violent' Is Defined)
Group Petitions For Vote On Medical Use Of Marijuana ('The Las Vegas Review-Journal' Notes Americans For Medical Rights Wrapped Up Their Nevada Signature-Gathering Campaign Tuesday - 'We Know It Is Close,' Said Dave Fratello Of AMR - 'If We Lose One County We Don't Make It')
Pregnant Drug Abusers Face Detention (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Chicago Tribune' Notes Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson Signed Into Law Tuesday A Bill That Allows Pregnant Women Who 'Abuse' Alcohol Or 'Drugs' To Be Incarcerated By A Judge On The Recommendation Of A Police Officer, Physicians, Lawyer, 'Counselor' Or 'Other Professional')
Conrad To Teach Hemp At Omega (Chris Conrad, Author Of 'Hemp - Lifeline To The Future' And Other Books, Will Offer A Comprehensive Overview Of Hemp October 23-25 At The Omega Institute In New York)
Mike Gray On Art Bell Show (A List Subscriber Invites You To Tune In To Art Bell Via Radio Or RealAudio Thursday And Friday Nights As He Interviews The Author Of 'Drug Crazy,' An Important New History Of America's War On Some Drug Users)
Biden Calls For Expanded DARE Programs (A Press Release From The Democratic US Senator's Web Site Says He Has Also Called On The Senate Judiciary Committee To Hold Hearings On Drug 'Legalization,' Which He, Of Course, Doesn't Favor, But 'Today, Many Powerful Voices In Our Society Are Supporting A Variety Of Legalization Policies - So I Am Suggesting That We On The Senate Judiciary Committee Take A Hard, Unblinking Look At Drug Legalization - I Think It Unfortunate That We Must, But I Believe It Necessary')
Statement By Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office Of National Drug Control Policy, Before The Senate Committee On The Judiciary (Text Of The Drug Czar's Written Testimony)
Congress Challenges NBA's Policies On Drugs (Illinois 'Daily Herald' Version Of Yesterday's News)
New Research Confirms Safe Use Of Marinol For HIV And Cancer Conditions - No Evidence Of Abuse Or Addiction Reported By Health Or Law Enforcement Officials (A Press Release On PRNewswire From Unimed Pharmaceuticals Notes The Results From San Francisco Researchers Evaluating Clinicians' Experiences With The Only Synthetic Cannabinoid Available In The United States Legally Under Federal Law)
Pain Going Untreated, Study Says (A 'Philadelphia Inquirer' Article In 'The Houston Chronicle' Says A New Study In 'The Journal Of The American Medical Association' Found 25 Percent To 40 Percent Of Cancer Patients Experienced Some Level Of Pain Daily - Even In Hospital Oncology Wards)
FDA Ordered To Lift Ban On Imports Of Cholesterol-Reducing Substance ('The San Jose Mercury News' Says The First Challenge To The Food And Drug Administration's Powers Under The 1994 Dietary Supplement Health And Education Act Has Resulted In A Federal Judge Tuesday Ordering The FDA To Stop Prohibiting Pharmanex, Of Simi Valley, California, From Importing Lovastatin, Which Occurs Naturally In 'Red Yeast' Rice Powder From China, Marketed Under The Name Cholestin)
Smoke Fills The US Senate (Staff Editorial In 'The Chicago Tribune' Says 'The Real Issue' The US Senate Is Dealing With In The McCain Bill Is 'Efforts To Reduce Teen Smoking' Rather Than Creating Prohibitionary Taxes, But The Paper Still Doesn't Think Much Of The Bill, Because, Among Other Reasons, Any Tobacco Settlement Will Maintain The Subsidy Program For Tobacco Growers)
Plan For US Troops To Patrol Mexican Border Draws Fire ('The Associated Press' Notes A Congressional Plan To Put US Troops On The Southwest Border To Battle Drugs And Illegal Immigrants Is Drawing Fire From Arizona Governor Jane Hull And Other Officials Along Both Sides Of The Border, Even Though The Military Is Already Heavily Involved There)
I'm Home - Although I Almost Didn't Make It Out Of Canada (Tim Redmond Of 'The San Francisco Bay Guardian,' On Vacation In The Thousand Islands Region On The St. Lawrence River, Loses His Uncle's Boat And Pays A Big Fine For Daring To Take An Unauthorized Lunch In Canada, Something Nobody Used To Care About)
Don't Follow US In Drug War Fiasco (Letter To The Editor Of 'The Vancouver Sun' By Joe McNamara, The Former Police Chief Of San Jose, California)
Up In Smoke ('Calgary Sun' Version Of Yesterday's News About Grant Krieger Being Convicted For Distributing Medical Marijuana)
Marijuana Legalization (A Brief Item On The Grant Krieger Conviction In Canada's 'Nelson Daily News')
They Always Get Their Cut (Staff Editorial In 'The Ottawa Citizen' Says That Finding The Mounties Ignoring The Law, Deceiving Our Allies, Concealing Things From Cabinet, Disregarding Court Orders, And Making A Profit Laundering Drug Money Internationally Is Like Finding The High School Valedictorian Slumped In The Gutter Drinking Rotgut From A Paper Bag - 'This Sorry Episode Perfectly Illustrates The Corruption Inherent In The War On Drugs')
Drugs Swoop In The Cloisters ('The Evening News' In Norwich, England, Says Norwich Cathedral Was At The Centre Of A 'Drugs' Operation Involving Undercover Policemen Yesterday Afternoon After Members Of The Church Of The Holy And Sacred Herb Vowed To Smoke Cannabis In The Cloisters)
French Report Says Drinking Worse Than Cannabis ('Reuters' Says A French Government-Commissioned Report Published On Tuesday By The State Medical Research Institute INSERM And Printed In 'Le Monde' Newspaper Concludes That Drinking Is A Far Worse Health Hazard Than Smoking Cannabis - The Report Questions French Laws That Place Few Restrictions On Drinking But Ban Cannabis)
Rethink Drugs War, Urge German Police (Britain's 'Guardian' Says German Police Chiefs Joined Medical Experts And Politicians Yesterday In Calling For An End To The War On Drugs And The Introduction Of Controlled Distribution Of Heroin To Addicts - A Survey Of Parliamentarians Showed Support For A Change In Drug Policy Within All Germany's Main Parties)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 51 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, Featuring A Lead Article By Dr. Rick Bayer, Chief Petitioner For The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, About The California Medical Association Backing The Rescheduling Of Marijuana)
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