Wednesday, July 15, 1998:
Hemp Racing Team, Sunday July 19 In Portland (Portland NORML Director TD Miller Passes Along A Press Release About The Motorcycle Roadracing Team Dedicated To Educating People About The Benefits Of Industrial Hemp, Participating In The Formula USA Motorcycle 600 Series At Portland International Raceway)
Drug War, Not Ballot Measure, Is Menace (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Columbian' In Vancouver, Washington, Rebuts An Earlier Letter Opposed To Initiative 692, The Washington State Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure)
Busted, Ravaged And Not Charged (A List Subscriber Forwards A Letter From The Reverend Gene 'Merlin' Weeks, An Adelanto, California, Medical Marijuana Patient Who Says He Was Busted With 22 Plants And Will Be Charged With Intent To Sell - Detective Dvorik, Who Leads The Marijuana Eradication Effort For The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Reportedly Said That Proposition 215 Is Made Null And Void By Federal Law And Any And Every Medical Patient Who Is Cultivating Will Be Arrested And Their Plants, Medicine, Equipment, And Cash Will Be Seized)
Advertising This Hemp Beer Is Definitely Legal, Though Its Ads May Hint Otherwise ('The Wall Street Journal' Says In The Advertising Business, It's Beer Ads That Make Creative Reputations, So When Lee St. James, Executive Creative Director At Ketchum Advertising In Pittsburgh, Heard About A New Brew Called Kentucky Hemp Beer, He Quickly Bombarded The Brewer With Unsolicited Advertising Ideas - The Results Show That For An Ambitious Advertising Executive, The Near-Illegality Of Hemp In The United States Spells Opportunity)
Arundel Revises Seizure Policy ('The Baltimore Sun' Says That, In The Wake Of Two Rulings By The Court Of Special Appeals On Forfeiture Cases In Other Maryland Counties, That Cars Not Being Used To Commit A Crime Should Not Be Forfeited, Chief Larry W. Tolliver Ordered Anne Arundel County Police Yesterday To Stop Seizing Cars In Simple Drug Possession Cases, A Rollback Of His Allegedly Popular 'Zero Tolerance' For Drug Trafficking)
Louisiana Boys' Prison Is Epitome Of Neglect And Abuse (Though It Doesn't Say What Proportion Of Inmates Are Drug Offenders, A Lengthy 'New York Times' Article Uses The Example Of The Tallulah Correctional Center For Youth In Louisiana To Show How Juvenile Prisons Around The United States Are Getting Both More Numerous And More Inhumane)
This Is Your Brain On Heroin (An Anti-Prohibition Script You're Not Likely To See Until The Revolution Is Televised)
Just Say $1 Billion ('New York Times' Columnist Frank Rich Ponders The US Government's New Anti-Drug Advertising Campaign, Asking, 'If All The Merchandising Might Of Hollywood Couldn't Make America's Teen-Agers Buy 'Godzilla,' Why Does Anyone Think That A Five-Year, $1 Billion Government Ad Campaign Is Going To Make Kids Swear Off Drugs? - And Notes The Industry Publication 'Brandweek' Has Challenged The Academic Studies The Partnership For A Drug-Free America Trots Out To Defend The Efficacy Of Its Ads, While 'Advertising Age' Says Most Of The First $90 Million Installment Will Go To Disney Productions)
Cynical Or Silly, These Ads Will Fry Your Brain ('San Jose Mercury News' Columnist Jim Trotter Thinks The Government's New $2 Billion Drug-War Advertising Blitz Is A Waste Of Money, And Quotes Lawrence Wallack, A Professor Of Public Health At The University Of California At Berkeley: 'It's The Kind Of Strategy That Makes Everyone Feel Like Something Is Being Done On The Problem - Everybody Is Happy, But It Is Just Not Sufficient To Have An Impact On The Problem')
McCaffrey V. Dutch - Full Chronology (A List Subscriber Gives A Blow-By-Blow Account Of The White House Drug Czar's Recent Self-Inflicted Wounds)
Dutch Erupt At Speech By American Envoy - US Drug Czar Wrongly Cited Higher Crime Rate In Holland ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The Netherlands Reacted Angrily Yesterday To US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey's Criticisms Of Dutch Drug Policies And His Incorrect Claim That The Netherlands Has Much Higher Rates Of Murder And Other Crime Than The United States)
US Drug Czar Seeks To Dampen Dutch Ire (A Brief 'Chicago Tribune' Version)
US Drug Czar Eases Criticism Of Dutch (An Even Briefer Illinois 'Daily Herald' Version)
More Slime From ONDCP (A List Subscriber Dogs US Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey's Missteps Through Europe, Quoting Excerpts From 'The Washington Post,' 'Washington Times,' 'Chicago Tribune' And 'San Francisco Examiner')
McCaffrey Tries To Ease Dutch Anger On Visit ('The Orange County Register' Version)
Dutch Disturbed By US Remarks On Lax Drug Laws ('The San Jose Mercury News' Version)
US Chief Of Drug Effort Tries To Ease Dutch Anger ('The Associated Press' Version In 'The Boston Globe')
Drug Czar's Misstatements On Dutch Drug Policy Provoke Outrage From Dutch Officials, US Drug Policy Experts (A Press Release From Common Sense For Drug Policy, A Washington, DC-Based Public Education And Advocacy Organization)
Are The Dutch Inept At Murder Compared To Americans? (List Subscribers Inspired By An Egregiously Stupid Remark By McCaffrey Spokesman James McDonough Research The Statistics On Attempted Murder Rates In The Netherlands And The United States - The 1995 Dutch Rate Was 17.58 Per 100,000 While The US Rate Was 418.3 Per 100,000, More Than 20 Times Higher)
US Drug Czar Criticizes Swiss Heroin Handouts ('Reuters' Says General Barry McCaffrey Was In Zurich Wednesday And Dismissed Switzerland's Heroin Distribution Program For Severe Addicts, Lying Once Again When He Said, 'We Have Historical Experience In The 1920s That It Did Not Work' - Plus List Subscriber Commentary)
McCaffrey's Resignation (One List Subscriber Thinks Lying Will Get The US Drug Czar Fired - A Second Doesn't, And Writes Out The Only Sort Of Message He Thinks Would Lead To McCaffrey's Forced Resignation - An Admission That Current Policies Are A Failure, And A Call For An End To The Drug War)
Drug Probe Implicates Salinas (A Knight-Ridder Syndicated Article In 'The Seattle Times' Says Swiss Prosecutors Have Three Witnesses Who Claim Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas De Gortari Received Money From Illegal Drug Traffickers)
Mexico Lets Former Police Director Testify In US ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says Mexican Law Enforcement Officials Have, In A Groundbreaking Collaboration, Allowed Former Police Director Adrian Carrera Fuentes, The Jailed Former Head Of The Mexican Police, To Travel Secretly To The United States To Testify About Drug Payoffs At High Levels Of The Mexican Government)
Ex-Police Chief Cooperates In US Drug Probe ('The New York Times' Version In 'The Orange County Register')
Jailed Mexican Official Allowed To Testify In US (A Lengthier 'New York Times' Version In 'The San Jose Mercury News')
Jailed Top Mexico Cop Sent To US To Testify ('The Chicago Tribune' Version)
Act On Drug Report, Urges PDA's Wilson (According To 'The Province' In Vancouver, British Columbia, The Leader Of The Progressive Democratic Alliance, Gordon Wilson, Told The Legislature Yesterday That The Number Of Heroin-Related Deaths Was Heading To An All-Time High In BC, And Urged The Government To Do Something About The Report Of Former Chief Coroner Vince Cain, Who Called For A Program That Would Decriminalize Heroin For Known Addicts)
Police Battle 'Dial-A-Doper' Trend (According To 'The Edmonton Sun,' Edmonton, Alberta Police Say That Over The Last 18 Months, Illegal Drug Sellers Using Cell Phones And Pagers Have Proliferated, With Many Dealers On The Road Constantly, Making Deliveries)
Punishment Must Fit Crime (A Staff Editorial In The Irish 'Examiner' Contrasts The Six-Year Prison Sentence Of An English Dealer Who Attempted To Set Up A Heroin Network In Dublin With The Nine-Year Term Handed Down Recently To A Woman Addict Who Stole A Handbag, Unaware It Contained £10,000 In Cash And Jewellery, And Seems To Endorse The Government's Proposed 10-Year Mandatory Minimum For Anyone Possessing More Than £10,000 Worth Of 'Drugs')
Three Dutch Marines Arrested As Drug Smugglers (The New York Times News Service Says The Three Tried To Smuggle 700 Pounds Of Cocaine Into The Netherlands Aboard A Military Plane That Was Normally Used In The Anti-Drug Campaign In The Dutch Antilles, The Islands Off The Venezuelan Coast)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 55 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists, Including A Feature Article By Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, 'Drug Wars - Menace To America,' Part One Of Three, And This Week's Drug War 'Fact Of The Week' - European Incarceration Rates Are Below 100 Per 100,000 - In The United States, The Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Is 4,000 Per 100,000)
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