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Thursday, July 16, 1998

NORML Weekly News (Drug Czar Distorts Facts To Malign Dutch Drug Policies; Oregon Voters Will Decide On Legalizing Medical Marijuana This Fall; Australian State Decriminalizes The Possession Of Marijuana; Nevada Medical Marijuana Proponents To Challenge Signature Count)
Public Suicide Awakens Portland To Its Heroin Problem ('The Associated Press' Account Of How Heroin Addicts 29-Year-Old Michael Douglas And 25-Year-Old Mora McGowan Came To Hang Themselves From The Steel Bridge In Downtown Portland)
Hatch Questions Suicide Law ('The Oregonian' Says Conservative Republian Utah Senator Orrin Hatch Quized US Attorney General Janet Reno Wednesday During Her Appearance Before The Senate Judiciary Committee About The Justice Department's Determination On June 5 That Federal Law Does Not Authorize The DEA To Sanction Oregon Doctors For Assisting In A Suicide Under The State's Law)
Siblings Still In Custody After Parents' Pot Arrest ('The Fresno Bee' Says A 9-Year-Old Boy Who Tipped Deputies To His Parents' Suspected Marijuana Crop Remained In The Custody Of Fresno County's Child Protective Services Wednesday, Along With His 10-Year-Old Sister)
Police Stumble Upon Marijuana Stack (An Unsourced Wire Story Notes Three Suspects Were Arrested Thursday In Linwood, California, For Allegedly Shooting And Trying To Steal A Half-Ton Of Marijuana From A Man Who Faces Charges Himself, Once He's Out Of The Hospital - Guess Who Will Get Out Of Prison First)
$30 Million Awarded For Drug Error ('The Los Angeles Times' Says A Jury In Santa Ana, California, Made The Judgment Against Thrifty Payless, Which Admitted Dispensing An Overdose Of Phenobarbital To A 10-Year-Old Girl Who Suffered Brain Damage)
Accused Agent Had Affair, Wife Is Told ('The Orange County Register' Says A Federal Judge Denied Bail Wednesday For California Bureau Of Narcotics Enforcement Agent Richard Wayne Parker Of San Juan Capistrano, Charged With Distributing Cocaine - So Far, Authorities Have Found About $680,000 In Cash, And Parker's Wife Was Prepared To Post Bail At The Hearing Until The Prosecutor Told Her Her Husband Had Been Having An Affair For The Past Year And Paying For The Other Woman's $1,000-A-Month Newport Beach Apartment - 'I Need A Drink,' She Said)
Disastrous Consequences In Drug War (Two Letters To The Editor Of 'The San Francisco Chronicle')
Consolidated Growers Processors, Inc. Acquires Zollig (PRNewswire Says CGPR, The First Multi-National Industrial Hemp Company, Has Acquired 100 Percent Interest In Werner Zollig AG., Glulam Lumber Mfg. Corp., A Swiss Manufacturer Of Laminated Beams For Construction)
US Drug Czar Visits Amsterdam (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Los Angeles Times' Says General Barry McCaffrey Flew Into The Eye Of A Self-Made Storm Thursday As He Arrived To Study The Permissive Dutch Cannabis Policy He Has Already Branded An 'Unmitigated Disaster')
US Drugs Adviser Soothes Row Over Dutch Policy (The 'Reuters' Version Rebuts General Barry McCaffrey's Earlier Assertion That 'Drugs' Caused A Higher Murder Rate In The Netherlands Compared To The United States, Noting The Murder Rate In Holland Stood At 1.8 Per 100,000 Inhabitants In 1996, Far Below The US Rate Of 8.22 Per 100,000 - McCaffrey Refused To Admit His Mistake And Claimed His Figures Came From Interpol - 'I Shouldn't Comment On Interpol Data - I Learned In College - Don't Argue About Facts,' He Said)
McCaffrey Interviewed On Dutch Television (A Dutch Correspondent Posts A Transcript Of The US Drug Czar's Comments On '2 Vandaag,' And Says Other Mass Media In The Netherlands Are Unanimously Critical Of Him)
Pot Smoking Cleric Seeks Tory Leadership ('The Vancouver Sun' Says The Reverend Michael Baldasaro, A 49-Year-Old Bearded Hippie Clad In Sandals Who Lives In A Trailer Without Electricity, On Thursday Announced His Intention To Seek The Leadership Of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party)
Toronto Transit Commission Rejects Drug Testing Its Drivers ('The Toronto Star' Says The Commission Voted 4-2 Yesterday To Reject Testing Of New Applicants, For Several Reasons)
Shaken By Rebel Gains, Colombia Turns More To The US ('The Chicago Tribune' Portrays The Increasing Cooperation Between The US And Colombian Governments And Military Forces, Authorized By The US Congress In The Name Of The War On Some Drug Users)
Armed Hold-Ups Explode As Heroin Takes Its Toll (According To 'The Sydney Morning Herald,' Crime Figures Released By The Australian Bureau Of Statistics Yesterday Suggest An Increase In Heroin Use Among The Poor And Young Is Driving A Huge 44 Per Cent Increase In Armed Hold-Ups - The Increase Was Even More Stark In New South Wales, Where Hold-Ups Jumped By 67 Per Cent)
Body's Pain Relief Mimics Cannabis (Britain's 'Independent' Says Research Published In Today's Issue Of The Science Journal 'Nature' Shows Scientists Have Discovered That Anandamide, A Cannabis-Like Substances That The Human Body Produces Naturally, Is Essential To The Control Of Pain Experienced Beyond The Central Nervous System - Working Together With Another Cannabinoid Called PEA That The Body Makes, They Reduced Pain 100-Fold)
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Friday, July 17, 1998:
Loss Of Measure 40 Could Reduce Time For 200 Inmates ('The Oregonian' Notes The Oregon Supreme Court's Nullification Of Ballot Measure 40, Advertised As A Victim's Right Bill During The 1996 Election Campaign, Is Likely To Benefit A Lot Of People Imprisoned For Victimless Crimes, Including Marijuana Offenders)
Dave Herrick Sentenced To Four Years In Prison (A List Subscriber Forwards A Letter From A Southern California Correspondent Who Provides More Details About The David Herrick Case And Official Noncompliance With Proposition 215 And Judicial Bias In San Bernardino County)
Take This Plant And Shove It (A Sympathetic Article In 'The Orange County Weekly' About Medical Marijuana Defendant Marvin Chavez)
Busey Repents For Drug-Riddled Past ('The San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune' Says Gary Busey Of Pasadena, California, The Oscar-Nominated Star Of 'The Buddy Holly Story,' Quit Using Drugs, Become A Christian, And Is Seeking A Comeback After Overdosing On Steroids, Cocaine And Tequila In 1995)
Pegasus' 'Reefer Madness' Has A New Subplot ('The Dallas Morning News' Previews An Original Comic Adaptation By Playwright Sean Abley Of The 1930s Anti-Pot Movie, On Stage At The Pegasus Theatre In Dallas, Texas)
Asset Forfeiture - Guidelines For Seizing Property Need To Be Tightened (A Staff Editorial In 'The Dallas Morning News' Notes Illinois Senator Henry Hyde's Proposed Bill To Reform Forfeiture Laws Is Opposed By The Republican Leadership, Which Backs Stronger Asset Forfeiture Provisions In A Money Laundering Bill Sponsored By Florida Representative Bill McCollum - But The Newspaper Says The Burden Of Proof Belongs On The Government)
Cops May Have Had Right To Shoot ('The Houston Chronicle' Says Six Members Of The Houston Gang Task Force Who Broke Into An Innocent Man's Apartment And Killed Him Sunday Night May Face No More Than Temporary Suspension With Pay 'Because The Law Does Not Allow Anyone To Resist An Arrest, Even An Illegal One')
Study Links Pot To Cancer, Mutations (The Bay Area 'San Mateo Times' Notes The US Government Is Still Funding Propaganda As Science - A New Study By The National Institute On Drug Abuse Carried Out At The University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston Ignores 5,000 Years Of Epidemiological Evidence And An Overwhelming Body Of More Objective Research - No Word On How Many Other Drugs, Including Tobacco, The 17 Subjects Used)
Three Chicago Police Officers Charged In Robbery ('The Associated Press' Says John Labiak, Rodney Carriger And Ernest Hutchinson Were Each Charged With One Count Of Armed Robbery, Home Invasion And Official Misconduct For Extorting Thousands Of Dollars From Three People In Exchange For Not Charging Them With Marijuana And Weapons Offenses)
63-Year-Old's Lawsuit Links Viagra With Heart Attack (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Says A New York Man Who Had A Heart Attack After Using Pfizer's New Drug For Impotence Filed The First Viagra Liability Lawsuit Thursday, Seeking $85 Million)
Court Says Informant's Tip Didn't Justify Police Search ('The Bergen Record' Says The New Jersey Supreme Court Thursday Gave A Victory To A Man Arrested For Marijuana Possession, Ruling That Police Lacked Sufficient Cause To Pull Him Over And Search His Car On The Basis Of A General Tip From An Informant - Police Must Have Detailed, Specific Information From A Tipster Who Can Be Shown To Be Reliable Before Searching A Suspect)
Defendant Vanishes In Miami Lawyers' Drug Trial ('Reuters' Says Former US Prosecutor William Moran, On Hearing That Jurors In His Retrial Had Reached A Partial Verdict On Charges That He Was Involved In The Colombian Illegal Drug Trade, Walked Out Of The Federal Court House Friday And Did Not Return)
CIA Worked With Suspected Drug Traffickers, Report Admits ('The New York Times' Says A New 'Classified' Study By The Central Intelligence Agency's Inspector General Shows The Agency Continued To Work With About Two Dozen Nicaraguan Rebels And Their Supporters During The 1980s, Despite Allegations They Were Trafficking In Illegal Drugs)
Notorious Thalidomide OK'd For Use By Lepers ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The Drug Whose Name Became Synonymous With Birth Defects Three Decades Ago Won Approval Yesterday From The Food And Drug Administration As A Treatment For Hansen's Disease)
Thalidomide Aproval Alarms Victim ('The Toronto Star' Version)
US Drug Chief Sees How Dutch Manage Liberal Drug Program ('The New York Times' Says The Outspoken General Barry McCaffrey Was Expected To Arrive In The Netherlands Thursday After Mistakenly Claiming That The Dutch Murder Rate Far Outstripped That In The United States - Government Officials Expressed Their Annoyance Publicly And The Foreign Minister Called In The American Ambassador)
US Drug Adviser Mutes Harsh Criticism Of Netherlands ('The Boston Globe' Version)
Drug Chief Unconvinced By Dutch Policy ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Version)
Drug Czar Gets Lesson On Dutch 'Disaster' ('The Associated Press' Version In The Rockford, Illinois, 'Register Star')
Dutch Officials Say US Drug Tsar Visit Useful (The 'Reuters' Version Says Els Borst, Health Minister In The Outgoing Dutch Administration, Had Dinner With General McCaffrey Thursday Evening, And Said The US Drugs Tsar Had Been More Amenable To Open Discussion Than She Had Expected, But McCaffrey Refused To Accept Some Of The Facts On The Results Of Dutch Drugs Policy)
US Drugs Czar At Odds With Dutch (The BBC Version)
Quote From General McCaffrey (A List Subscriber Posts And Translates An Excerpt From An Article In The Dutch Newspaper, 'De Volkskrant,' Showing The US Drug Czar's 'Fact-Finding' Tour Has Turned Into A Facade Of Denial)
McCaffrey And The Dutch - Final Act (A List Subscriber Collects Several Telling Quotes From The US Drug Czar Regarding 'Facts')
Swiss Say Mexico Leader's Brother Took Drug Money (According To 'The Orange County Register,' Valentin Roschacher, The Swiss Anti-Narcotics Chief, Said Thursday That Swiss Investigators Had Evidence That The Brother Of Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas De Gortari Accepted Bribes From Illegal Drug Merchants, But Hadn't Decided Yet Whether It Was Sufficient To Prosecute Him)
Benefits Found In Marijuana (A Brief Item In 'The Toronto Star' About Research By The US National Institute Of Mental Health Confirming Cannabinoids Work As Antioxidants To Protect Brain Cells)
Drug Turf Up For Bids - Gangs Might Move In Following Mafia Arrests (According To Law Enforcement Officials Interviewed By 'The Montreal Gazette,' Members Of The Country's Biggest Mafia Family Are Now In Custody And The Race Is On For Control Of A Major Chunk Of Canada's Market For Illegal Drugs)
Hemp Beer Hits Britain - But You Won't Get Stoned (Britain's 'Independent' Says A German Company Has Teamed Up With An English Importer To Introduce Hempseed-Flavoured 'Turn' Beer To Britain - Asbjorn Gerlach Of The Berlin-Based Bier Company, said 'Using Hemp As A Flavouring Agent In Beer Is A Very Old Idea And Was Popular In The Middle Ages')
Cannabis Seized On Navy Destroyer (Britain's 'Times' Says Two Kilograms Of Cannabis Was Discovered On HMS Newcastle After It Returned From A Mission To Combat Drug Smuggling In The West Indies)
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 50 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original News Summary For Activists, Including New Details About General Barry McCaffrey's Innocence Abroad And Those Inflated Interpol Statistics He Cited But Never Apologized For)
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Saturday, July 18, 1998:
Expo Vendors Tout Products, Politics (The Eugene, Oregon 'Register-Guard' Does A Nice Job Representing The Range Of Participants And Patrons At The Second Annual World Hemp Expo Extravaganja This Weekend In Harrisburg, One Of The Largest Hemp Festivals In The United States - 'Thirty Years Ago, Farmers Were Laughing About Soybeans, But Today It's The Best-Selling Crop In America - And Right Now Hemp's A Joke, But 30 Years From Now, You Just Watch')
Marijuana Seller Sentenced To Jail Time (MSNBSC Says David Lee Herrick, A Former San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Who Was Prevented By Superior Court Judge William Froeberg From Invoking Proposition 215 During His Trial, Despite Its Connection To His Work At The Orange County Cannabis Co-op, Was Sentenced To Four Years In Prison Friday)
Former Deputy Headed To Prison ('The Orange County Register' Version)
Former Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced To Four Years For Selling Pot ('The Sacramento Bee' Version)
Agent's Wife Attacks His Alleged Mistress ('The Orange County Register' Says The Wife Of A California State Narcotics Agent Charged With Stealing And Selling Cocaine, Who Learned About Her Husband's Affair Wednesday From A Prosecutor Intent On Derailing Her Plans To Post His Bail, Was Released On Her Own Recognizance After Assaulting The Alleged Mistress A Few Hours Later)
Not Necessarily Fan Mail ('San Jose Mercury News' Columnist Jim Trotter Notes His Description Of The National Youth Anti-Drug Campaign As A Waste Of Money Has Provoked A Response From Chuck Blanchard Of The White House Office Of National Drug Control Policy, Who Says The Television Ads By The Partnership For A Drug-Free America Have Been Endorsed As Effective By The Annenberg School Of Communications)
Prescribing Viagra For Sex Offenders May Become Illegal ('The San Francisco Examiner' Says Assemblyman Robert Prenter Has Introduced A Bill To The California Legislature, Which Has Previously Mandated Chemical Castration For Repeat Child Molesters, That Would Punish Doctors For Prescribing Pfizer's Drug For Impotence To The Wrong People, Requiring Doctors To Query Their Patients About Their Criminal Background - Prenter Said He Was Reacting To A Report About An Alleged Case At The Fresno Veterans Affairs Medical Center, But The Newspaper Was Unable To Verify It)
Proof Sought To Save Marijuana Initiative ('The Las Vegas Review-Journal' Says Representatives Of Americans For Medical Rights Were In Lyon And Nye Counties Friday Looking For Evidence To Support A Claim That The Measure To Legalize Medical Marijuana In Nevada Should Be Qualified For The November Ballot)
Wild Marijuana To Be Cut Down Sunday In Dane County ('The Associated Press' Says A Program Called The Wisconsin Cannabis Enforcement And Suppression Effort Will Cut Feral Hemp Stands Near Madison Sunday - Sergeant Mark Twombly Of The Dane County Narcotics And Gang Task Force Says, Even Though Its Potency Is Only 0.5 Percent To 1 Percent, 'You Can Get A Buzz Off It - It's Available To Kids And Can Get Them Hooked On It And They End Up Addicted To Other, Harmful Substances')
Researchers Find Black Market For Ritalin Among Students ('The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Says A New Study By Marshfield Clinic Researchers In Milwaukee, Published In The Journal, 'Developmental And Behavioral Pediatrics,' Suggests 16 Percent Of Students In Kindergarten Through High School Who Are Prescribed Ritalin Say They've Been Approached To Sell, Give Away Or Trade Their Pills)
Shakedown Charges Raise New Corruption Concerns (MSNBC Says Three Chicago Police Officers Are Free On Bond After Being Charged With Home Invasion And Armed Robbery - Two Off-Duty Wood District Police Officers Who Witnessed The Alleged Home Invasion And Extortion Reported The Incident)
Top Motorcycle Racer Suspended After Positive Marijuana Test ('The Associated Press' Says Anthony Gobert Of Australia, Second In AMA Superbike Standings, Was Prevented From Competing Sunday At The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course In Lexington - 'I Did Have A Bit Of Smoke,' He Said)
Trooper Says He Was Ostracized By Superiors Because Of Report ('The Boston Globe' Says A Suffolk Superior Court Jury Heard Opening Statements Yesterday In A Civil Trial Against The State Police, One Of The First Trials Under Massachusetts' Whistle-Blower Law, Brought By State Trooper Robert Monahan When He Languished Without An Assignment For A Year And A Half After He Reported That Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Had Paid Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To An Informant Suspected Of Drug Running, Money Laundering, And Hiring Other Troopers To Conduct Illegal Wiretaps)
A Brooklyn Prosecutor Faces Drug Charges ('The New York Times' Says Assistant Brooklyn District Attorney Jason Friedman Was Busted With Four Friends, Sharing Some Cannabis Outside A Concert Featuring Jimmy Page And Robert Plant At Madison Square Garden Thursday Night)
The Life Of A Gangster ('The Vancouver Sun' Portrays Phin Van Nguyen, A Vietnamese Immigrant To Vancouver, British Columbia, Allegedly Involved In The City's Illicit Heroin Trade)
Heroin - Our $1.6 Billion Habit ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Describes A Yet-To-Be-Released Report The Newspaper Has Obtained, Written By Four Of Australia's Leading Drug Researchers, Titled 'Running The Risks')
Doped Skin (Britain's 'New Scientist' Says An Article In This Week's Issue Of 'Nature' Reports That Daniele Piomelli And His Colleagues At The Neurosciences Institute In San Diego Have Found That Two Cannabinoids, Anandamide And PEA, Become Concentrated In The Skin Near Injuries - Combined, They Have 100 Times The Painkilling Power Of Morphine)
The Drug-Runners Who Shamed A Regiment (Britain's 'Telegraph' Says One Of Britain's Most Distinguished Regiments Was Publicly Shamed Yesterday When Seven Of Its Soldiers Were Convicted Of Smuggling Cocaine, Heroin And Ecstasy Worth Millions Of Pounds Across The English Channel)
Squaddies Ran £2.5M Drugs Ring (The Version In Britain's 'Independent')
In A Major Sting Customs Men Let Drugs Worth £250.000 Into Britain (Britain's 'Express' Says It Has Learned That Undercover Customs Officers Handed Over Three Kilos Of Heroin To Informers, Then Lost Track Of It, And Now Believe It's Being Sold On British Streets)
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Sunday, July 19, 1998:
Study Targets Stalemate Over Medicinal Use Of Marijuana ('The San Jose Mercury News' Describes What It Erroneously Calls 'The First And Only Government-Sanctioned Marijuana-Therapy Research Project In The United States,' Being Carried Out With AIDS Patients At San Francisco General Hospital Under The Direction Of Dr. Donald Abrams, Neglecting To Note The Low-Cannabinoid, High-Tar Ditchweed Cigarettes Provided By The Government Have Had The Flowering Buds Favored By Other Medical Marijuana Patients Removed So The Government's Rolling Machines Can Process Them)
Alliance Between Government, Media A Bad Move (Everett, Washington 'Herald' Columnist James McCusker Is Suspicious Of The Government's New $2 Billion Drug-War Advertising Blitz, Suggesting The Real Question Is Whether We Want Our Government To Get VIP Treatment By Media Moguls, Noting Some Years Ago, At The Forming Of The US Information Agency, Congress Expressed Concern About Using Taxpayer Money For Domestic Propaganda)
Grand Jury To Probe Shooting Of Mexican (United Press International Says Mexican Consul General Manuel Perez Cardenas Was Told By Houston, Texas Police That By August 17 A Grand Jury Would Hear The Case Of Mexican National Pedro Oregon Navarro, An Innocent Man Killed By Houston Prohibition Agents Who Shot Him 12 Times, Nine Times In The Back, After Breaking Down His Door Without A Warrant)
Any Questions? ('The Minneapolis Star Tribune' Interviews The Minneapolis Actress, Rachael Leigh Cook, Your Tax Dollars Paid To Swing A Frying Pan In The Ubiquitous New Anti-Heroin Television Advertisement Produced By The Partnership For A Drug-Free America)
Addicts Avoid AIDS Drugs, Fearing They Affect Methadone (According To 'The New York Times,' Medical Experts And Advocates For AIDS Patients Say Many Drug Addicts Infected With HIV Are Missing The Benefits Of Powerful New AIDS Drugs Because Of Widespread Suspicion On The Street That The Drugs Reduce The Calming Effect Of Methadone)
Former Mexican Assistant Attorney General Linked To Drug Trafficking (According To 'The Associated Press,' The Daily Newspaper 'El Universal' In Mexico City Said Sunday That Testimony By Members Of The Gulf And Juarez Drug Cartels Against Mario Ruiz Massieu May Help Win His Extradition From The United States, Where He Has Been Under House Arrest In New Jersey Since He Fled Mexico In 1995)
Drug Ring Smuggles Kids To Vancouver ('The Vancouver Province' Says A Professional Drug Ring Has Lured As Many As 100 Underage Children From Honduras To British Columbia, Where They Have Being Turned Into Indentured Street-Corner Crack Dealers)
Cops Eye New Pot Club ('The London Free Press' In Ontario Says Mike Harichy, Husband Of Multiple Sclerosis Patient Lynn Harichy, Is Managing The London Cannabis Compassion Centre, Which Has Opened To Provide Cut-Price Medical Marijuana To Qualified Patients - But Police Vow To Shut It Down)
Panama To Abandon Canal Anti-Drug Center (According To 'Reuters,' US And Panamanian Officials Are Locked In A Stalemate Over American Plans For An International Anti-Drug Center In The Panama Canal Zone, Meaning A Likely End To Any US Military Presence Beyond December 31, 1999, When Panama Assumes Full Control Of The Waterway)
Third US Drug Helicopter Crashes In One Month (According To 'The Associated Press,' Colombian Police Said The Helicopter Was On An Anti-Narcotics Mission In Rebel Territory And Insisted The Guerrillas Had No Role In The Crash Late Saturday That Killed Seven Prohibition Agents)
Surprises In Drug Reports ('The Sunday Mail' In Adelaide, South Australia, Says A New Federal Health Department Study Has Found Alcohol And Tobacco Cause The Biggest Problems In The Community, Not Heroin And Marijuana As Most People Believe)
Cannabis - Strangling Weed Of The Maori? (An Article In Singapore's Prohibitionist 'Sunday Times' Discusses The Social And Economic Aspects Of Cannabis In Northern New Zealand, Noting The Recent Study By Auckland University Suggesting The Weed Underpins Northland's Economy - Sir Graham Latimer, A Maori Leader, Has Asked That Cannabis Be Legalised, Since The Maori Jobless Rate Is 17 Per Cent Against A National Rate Of 7 Per Cent - The Crop, He Argued, Was Providing Better Returns Than Jobs In The Dairy And Forestry Sectors)
Cannabis Campaign - Chemicals Help Brain Damage After A Stroke (Britain's 'Independent On Sunday' Continues Its Weekly Push For Reform With The Two-Week Old News About American Researchers Confirming That Cannabinoids Prevent Brain-Cell Damage, Noting Also That Less Authoritative Research In The States Is Beginning To Indicate That Some Of The Properties Of Cannabis Might Be Used To Help People Withdraw From Addictions To Cocaine And Heroin)
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Monday, July 20, 1998:
Medical Pot Politically Hot (Eugene, Oregon 'Register-Guard' Columnist Don Bishoff Suggests He's Shocked, Shocked That A Lot Of People At The WHEE! 2 Hemp Festival Near Eugene Consider Medical Marijuana Reform To Be The First Step Toward Broader Reform Of Marijuana Laws, Even Though Polls Show The Public At Large Supports One And Not The Other)
They Huff And Puff In California Fight Over Medical Marijuana ('The Boston Globe' Notes The Oakland City Council's Recent Vote In Support Of Patients And Interviews A Variety Of Players, Including Jeff Jones At The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, Scott Imler At The Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center, And Matt Ross Of Attorney General Dan Lungren's Office)
Pitt Buzzed About Pot Project ('Reuters' Says A Story In 'Variety' Claims Actor Brad Pitt Is Showing More Than Token Interest In A New Line Studios Project, 'Smuggler's Moon,' The Life Story Of Marijuana Smugglers Kris And Bill Shaffer)
Scoring Against Drugs (A Traditionally Simplistic 'Dallas Morning News' Article About Ex-Football Star Isiah Robertson's Rehab Program For 'Young Addicts' In Mabank, Texas)
New Smoking Vaccine Developed (Scripps Howard News Service Says Immulogic Of Waltham, Massachusetts, Plans To Test A Vaccine Soon On Human Volunteers That Blocks Nicotine From Reaching Receptors In The Body - The Company Has Already Begun Testing A Cocaine Vaccine On Volunteers, And Claims The Same Technique Would Work For Marijuana Consumers, If Not Alcoholics)
A Win For Due Process (A Staff Editorial In 'The Bergen Record' Praises The New Jersey Supreme Court's Ruling Last Week That People Have A Right To Take Forfeiture Cases To A Jury - In Their Decision, The Justices Referred To Colonial Days When Ships Off New Jersey's Coast Could Not Be Seized Without A Jury Trial - 'Automobile Owners Are Entitled To The Same Protection Today,' Justice Stewart Pollock Wrote)
Frederick Brewing Second Quarter Revenue Rose 82 Percent (A 'Reuters' Financial Report On The Maryland Producer Of Hempen Ale)
Lawyers Found Guilty Of Helping Cocaine Cartel ('Reuters' Says A Jury In Miami On Monday Convicted Two US Lawyers, William Moran And Michael Abbell - The Latter A Former Senior Government Justice Official - Of Conspiring With Colombian Drug Barons, Relaying Death Threats And Making Payments Of Hush Money)
Union Head - NBA Players Would Bend, But Not Too Far, On Marijuana (A CBS 'Sportsline' Update On The Campaign By National Basketball Association Club Owners To Test Players For Cannabis Metabolites)
Blowing Smoke - Marijuana Use NBA's Biggest Drug Concern These Days (Another Piece On The Same Topic By The Same CBS 'Sportsline' Announcer)
Clean Up The DEA (A Staff Editorial In 'The Seattle Times' Responds To Recent News The Drug Enforcement Administration Is Being Robbed Blinder By Its Own Agents, And Can't Even Balance Its Books)
Treat The Pain (A Staff Editorial In 'The Wall Street Journal' Says That, In A Day When Viagra Is Flying Off The Shelves, The Unwillingness To Put Serious Muscle Into Treating Pain Is A Puzzle, Noting 40 Percent Of Cancer Patients In Nursing Homes May Receive Inadequate Medical Attention And Report Daily Pain, And A Recent Report In 'The Journal Of The American Medical Association' Suggests 90 Percent Of Those Suffering Severe Pain From Cancer Or Other Diseases Could Be Helped)
US Drug Chief Tries To Downplay Criticism Of Dutch System ('The Associated Press' Ignorantly Claims The Netherlands Has A 'Laissez-Faire' Drug Policy And Glosses Over General McCaffrey's Embarrassing Lies And Rudeness)
Defending The Netherlands' Drug-Control Policy (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Washington Times' By Dutch Ambassador Joris Vos Rebuts False Information From The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey)
Federal Judge Says EPA Overstated Cancer Link To Secondhand Smoke ('The Wall Street Journal' Says A Federal Judge In North Carolina Has Ruled That A 1993 Environmental Protection Agency Study Overstated The Proven Link Between Secondhand Smoke And Cancer - The 92-Page Decision 'Destroys The Basis For Those Agencies And State And Local Governments That Have Banned Or Restricted Smoking Because Of The EPA's Classification,' Said Charles A. Blixt, General Counsel For RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company)
Officials Say They'll Fight To Save Bans On Smoking (A 'Washington Post' Article In 'The Seattle Times' Notes Politicians In Washington, DC, Will Respond With Typical Denial To A Judge's Ruling That The Science Doesn't Support Public Policy, This Time With Regard To Second-Hand Tobacco Smoke)
Canal Talks With US Falter ('The Chicago Tribune' Quotes A Political Analyst In Panama City Who Says The United States And Panama Will Probably Abandon Plans For An International Anti-Drug Center In The Canal Zone, Ending More Than 90 Years Of A US Military Presence When The US Returns The Canal In 1999)
Brisk Trade Exposes Peru Anti-Drug Model (An Unsourced Wire Story Says Peru's Globally Acclaimed 'Revolution' Against Drugs Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be)
Melbourne Is Not New York (A Staff Editorial In 'The Age' Says That With Just 1.4 Murders A Year For Every 100,000 People, Victoria Remains The Safest State In Australia, But With Armed Robbery Having Increased More Than 40 Percent In The Last Year, Primarily Due To Heroin Addicts, The Premier, Mr Jeff Kennett, Deserves Credit For Recognizing That The Prohibitionist Approach Has Not Worked, And That There Needs To Be A Shift From Treating It As Criminal Problem To Treating It As A Health Issue, And Adhering To His Policy Of Allowing Police To Caution Rather Than Arrest People Possessing Heroin And Other Illegal Drugs)
$90 Million In Drugs Hidden In Ovens ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Says Federal Prohibition Agents Arrested One British National Friday And Made The Second-Largest Seizure Of Heroin In Australia's History Near South Wentworthville - 'Enough Smack To Satisfy Every Junkie In Sydney For A Couple Of Months')
Massive Rise In Cigarette Smuggling ('Scotland On Sunday' Notes, Thanks To High Taxes Designed To Introduce Prohibition By Other Means, Customs Officers Estimate That Two Thirds Of All Tobacco Now Sold In Britain Is Contraband)
Cash Boost To Keep Addicts Out Of Prison ('The Scotsman' Says Henry McLeish, The Scottish Home Affairs Minister, Will Announce Today An £8 Million Cash Injection For Alternative Sentencing Programs Intended To Reduce The Growing Number Of Suicides In Scottish Jails - The Biggest Boost In A Generation, A 25 Per Cent Increase)
The Big Exhale In Amsterdam (MSNBC Presents A First-Person Travel Piece On How To Enjoy The Netherlands As A Tourist)
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Tuesday, July 21, 1998:
Rider Wants Pot Conviction Tossed ('The Associated Press' Says Lawyers For Isaiah Rider, The Portland Trail Blazers Basketball Player, Argued Before The Oregon Court Of Appeals Tuesday That It Should Void His Conviction For Possessing A Small Amount Of Marijuana In Lake Oswego In October 1996)
Re - Medical Pot Politically Hot (A Letter Sent To The Editor Of The Eugene, Oregon 'Register-Guard' Rebuts A Claim By Columnist Don Bishoff Suggesting That Medical Marijuana Users Have Not Spent A Lot Of Time In Jail)
Couple Weren't 'Just Two Dead Junkies' (An 'Associated Press' Article In The Seattle 'Post-Intelligencer' Says The Mother Of A Woman Addicted To Heroin Who Hanged Herself With Her Fiance From The Steel Bridge In Downtown Portland Believes The First Step To Curing Addiction Is Not A Medical One, It Is Lifting The Social Stigma Of Being Addicted)
Proposed Bill Would Cause More Pain For Terminally Ill (A Staff Editorial About Oregon's Unique Assisted-Suicide Law In 'The Houston Chronicle' Says Congress Should Not Intervene)
Oakland City Council Votes Again To Support Medical Cannabis (A News Release From California NORML Says The Oakland City Council Today Approved The First Reading Of A Medical Marijuana Ordinance Designed To Protect The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative From Federal Prosecution, And Reaffirmed Its Support For The City's Policy Guidelines Allowing Patients To Grow Up To Six Pounds Per Year Of Marijuana)
Resisting The Law (A Staff Editorial In 'The Orange County Register' Calls The Four-Year Prison Sentence For Medical Marijuana Defendant David Herrick 'Outrageous' And Says It Is Difficult To Avoid The Suspicion That Orange County Prosecutors And Judges Are Thwarting The Will Of Californians Who Voted For Proposition 215)
California Struggles With Issue Of Medical Marijuana ('The Washington Times' Says The Future Of Proposition 215 And Cannabis Buyers Clubs May Be Decided In California's Fall Gubernatorial Election)
The Drug War Can't Abide Honest Stats ('Los Angeles Times' Columnist Robert Scheer Says A Simplistic And Dishonest Approach Is At The Heart Of The US Government's New $2-Billion Anti-Drug Advertising Campaign, As Well As The US Drug Czar's European Trip Where He Showed His Imperviousness To Truth, And Also The Simplistic And Dishonest Approach Of Lumping Marijuana In With Illegal Hard Drugs, Which Is At The Heart Of The New Advertising Campaign McCaffrey Announced Last Week)
Interesting E-Mail On DARE (Cliff Schaffer, Webmaster For The Most Important Online Drug Policy Library, Forwards A Letter From A 15-Year-Old Cannabis Consumer Who Critiques What He Learned From Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
Contra Costa Drug-Screening Tests Upheld ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The Ninth US Court Of Appeals Handed A Setback To Disability-Rights Advocates Yesterday, Ruling 3-0 To Upheld Contra Costa County's Use Of Personality Tests To Screen Welfare Applicants For Alcohol And Illegal Drug 'Addictions,' Since The Privacy Violation Does Not Result In Denial Of Welfare Benefits)
Dogging Drugs On Campus (A Staff Editorial In 'The Los Angeles Times' Endorses The Use Of Drug-Sniffing Dogs At Venice High School, The First Campus Of The LA Unified School District That Would Have Such A Program)
Truth-Sniffing Students (A Letter Sent To The Editor Of 'The Los Angeles Times' Wonders Why The Dogs At Venice High School Won't Look For Tobacco, Which Is Also Illegal For Minors And Proven To Be More Dangerous Than Marijuana)
Police Shot Man 12 Times In Raid ('The Houston Chronicle' Says An Autopsy Shows That Houston Prohibition Agents Who Forced Their Way Into Pedro Oregon Navarro's Apartment Without A Warrant Shot The Innocent Man 12 Times, Including Nine Times In The Back - Nine Of The 12 Shots Also Had A Downward Trajectory, Suggesting The Officers Involved May Be Charged With Murder)
Think Tank Blasts Property Seizures (United Press International Says A Report Released Today By The Mackinac Center For Public Policy, Which Helps Craft Policy For The Republican Party, Criticizes What It Calls An 'Onslaught' Of Property Seizures By The Nation's Law Enforcement Agencies, Mainly In Drug Investigations)
Appeals Court Throws Out Drug Conviction Against County Man ('The Associated Press' Says The Wisconsin Third District Court Of Appeals Ruled Tuesday That Thomas Martwick Was Wrongly Convicted Of Cultivating Marijuana Because Sheriff's Deputies Invaded His Privacy To Obtain Evidence)
Prison Caught In Suprise Drug Sweep (MSNBC Says 235 Correctional Officers Handcuffed Inmates At The Joliet Correctional Facility In Illinois Tuesday And Went Through Their Cells And Belongings With Search Dogs And X-Ray Machines Looking For 'Drugs' - No Word On The Results)
Mayor Aims To Abolish Methadone Programs - Treatment Experts Are Angered ('The New York Times' Says That As New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani Outlined His Plans To Dramatically Expand His Workfare Program To Include Drug Addicts, He Veered Unexpectedly From His Prepared Speech Monday And Announced His Intention To Try To Reduce Methadone Treatment Programs For Heroin Addicts)
New Call To Legalize Cannabis ('The Legal Intelligencer,' A Daily Legal Newspaper In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Says Attorney Lawrence Elliott Hirsch And A Group Of 164 People From 49 States Have Filed A Groundbreaking Lawsuit In US District Court In Philadelphia Demanding That Laws Prohibiting The Medical Use Of Marijuana Be Struck Down As Unconstitutional)
Two Lawyers Convicted In Drug Cartel ('The Orange County Register' Version Of Yesterday's News About A Jury In Miami Convicting Two US Lawyers, One A Former Senior Government Justice Official, Of Conspiring With Colombian Illegal Drug Merchants)
Online Debate (A Bulletin From The Marijuana Policy Project In Washington, DC, Alerts You To The Debate On Marijuana Policy Thursday, July 23, Featuring Nadine Strossen, President Of The American Civil Liberties Union, And Chuck Blanchard, Legal Counsel For The White House Office Of National Drug Control Policy)
Study - GOP Enjoys Tobacco's Perks (An 'Associated Pres' Article In 'The Los Angeles Times' Says A New Report By Democrats On The House Government Reform And Oversight Committee Shows That While Republicans In Congress Took Numerous Rides Aboard Jets Owned By Tobacco Companies Before The Senate Killed The McCain Tobacco Bill, Sponsored By An Arizona Republican, A Wide Array Of Other Corporations Provide Jet Travel To Lawmakers Of Both Parties)
Drug Policy Foundation Opposes New Mandatory Minimum (A Press Release From The New York-Based Reform Group Says It Has Joined Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Groups In Raising Objections To HR 3898, The 'Speed Trafficking Life In Prison Act Of 1998,' Approved Today By The Judiciary Committee Of The US House Of Representatives)
McCaffrey Still Down On Dutch ('The Orange County Register' Says The Clinton Administration's Drug Policy Director On Monday Criticized A Heroin Maintenance Program In The Netherlands, Saying The Program Would Commit 'Part Of The Population To Suffering Endlessly From Heroin')
Drug Chief Mitigates Slap At Dutch After Tour ('The Washington Post' Says General Barry McCaffrey Now Considers Dutch Drugs Policy To Be A 'Mitigated' Rather Than An 'Unmitigated' Disaster)
Drug Czar Downplays Dutch Criticism ('The Associated Press' Version In 'The Los Angeles Times')
Why Dutch Drug Policy Threatens The US (A Translation Of An Excellent Op-Ed In The Dutch Newspaper, 'Het Parool,' By Craig Reinarman, Author Of 'Crack In America - Demon Drugs And Social Justice,' An American Professor And Visiting Scholar At The University Of Amsterdam, Who Explains To The Dutch That The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, Lied About The Netherlands' Experience Because The US Drug Control Complex Fears Dutch Drug Policy Like The Catholic Church Feared Galileo - They Must Believe The Dutch Model Is A Failure, Or Their Whole Cosmology Shatters)
Re - Drug Chief Unconvinced By Dutch Policy (A List Subscriber Responds To Friday's 'San Francisco Chronicle' Article By Citing US, Swedish And Dutch Mortality Rates Attributable To Illegal Drugs)
CIA - No Plans For Public Release Of Contra Report (According To 'The Associated Press,' A US Intelligence Official, Speaking On Condition Of Anonymity, Said Last Friday That Because The 500-Page Inspector General Report Inspired By Gary Webb's 'Dark Alliance' Series In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Contains So Much Information About Central Intelligence Agency Sources And Methods, It May Be Impossible To Declassify In Any Intelligible Form)
Crime Finds Home On US-Canada Border ('USA Today' Says British Columbian Marijuana Trades Pound-For-Pound For Cocaine And Is Flooding The West Coast Of The United States, Contributing To An Increase In 'Crime' Along The Border With Canada To Levels Surpassing The Rum-Running Days Of Prohibition)
'I Was Reduced To A Lab Rat' ('The Ottawa Citizen' Recounts The Case Of Dorothy Proctor, Who Is Suing The Canadian Government For $5 Million For Giving Her Experimental LSD While She Was A 17-Year-Old Inmate In Solitary Confinement At Kingston Prison In 1961)
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Wednesday, July 22, 1998:
'I' Is For Initiative - An Unorthodox A To Z Guide To The Ballot Measures That Made It (Excerpts From A 'Willamette Week' Article That Pertain To The Medical Marijuana And Recriminalization-Repeal Initiatives On Oregon's November Ballot)
Herrick Verdict In (Ellen Komp Of 'The 215 Reporter' Forwards Excerpts From The Periodic Newsletter Going Back As Far As February 1998, Documenting The Prosecutorial And Judicial Bias In Orange County Against Medical Marijuana Patient And Activist David Herrick, Just Sentenced To Four Years In Prison)
Ammo (A List Subscriber Re-Posts The County By County Yes-No Vote Percentages For Proposition 215 In California In November 1996)
Oakland City Council Says Yes To Patients (A Bay Area Correspondent Provides More Details About Yesterday's Vote For A Medical Marijuana Ordinance Designed To Protect The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative From Federal Prosecution)
Oakland Council Backs Pot In Two Votes ('The San Francisco Examiner' Version)
Customs Yahoo Alert (California NORML Publicizes A Rude Letter To A Licensed California Physician, Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D., By US Customs Inspector Mark A Johnson, Informing Him The Federal Government Doesn't Recognize The Protections Afforded Medical Marijuana Patients By California Proposition 215)
ACLU Challenges Oakland Seizure Ordinance ('The Contra Costa Times' Says The American Civil Liberties Union Sued The City On Tuesday To Overturn An Ordinance Allowing Police To Seize The Cars Of Suspected Drug Buyers And Prostitution Customers)
ACLU Sues Oakland Over Car Seizures ('The San Francisco Examiner' Version)
The CIA's Paper Of Record (That's The Characterization Of 'The New York Times' Presented In A 'San Francisco Bay Guardian' Interview With 'Dark Alliance' Reporter And Author Gary Webb, Who Critiques The Newspaper's Recent Article About The Latest Development In The CIA-Contra-Cocaine Scandal)
Chipchase Had Evidence Taken Before Trials, Detective Says (An Update In 'The Fresno Bee' On The Case Of Woodlake, California Police Sergeant Kenneth Chipchase, Suspected Of Pilfering Confiscated Drugs From An Evidence Room)
Pot Petition Appeals To Secretary Of State ('The Las Vegas Sun' Says Nevadans For Medical Rights On Tuesday Contested The Finding Of Secretary Of State Dean Heller That The Initiative Campaign Had Fallen Short By Seven Signatures In Lyon County And 36 Signatures In Nye County - The Secretary Of State's Office Plans A Prompt Investigation)
Medical Marijuana Advocates Appeal To Salvage Nevada Ballot Question (The 'Associated Press' Version In 'The Las Vegas Sun')
Failed Medical Marijuana Initiative Sponsors Appeal ('The Las Vegas Review-Journal' Version)
MAP Focus Alert Number 73 - CNN 'TalkBack Live' (The Media Awareness Project Asks You To Make A Quick Response To A Biased Cable News Network Newscast And Online Poll Regarding Heroin Deaths In Plano, Texas)
Plano Drug Crackdown Targets Heroin Dealers (WFAA In Texas, An ABC Affiliate, Says Plano Police And The Drug Enforcement Administration Arrested 29 Alleged Local Heroin Dealers And A Federal Grand Jury Has Charged Them In Connection With Some Of The Heroin-Related Deaths Of 14 Young People In Plano, Threatening Them With Mandatory Minimum 20-Years-To-Life Sentences - Plus Background From A Local Correspondent)
Police Mistook Officer's Shot As Hostile Fire During Raid, Source Says ('The Houston Chronicle' Suggests There May Be No Legal Recourse For The Family Of Pedro Oregon Navarro, Who Was Killed By Houston Police Last Week Who Entered His Apartment Without A Warrant In Search Of Drugs He Didn't Have And Shot Him Nine Times In The Back After He Was Already Felled By Other Shots)
Arresting Officers Followed Rules (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Houston Chronicle' By Houston District Attorney John Holmes Defends The Killers Of Pedro Oregon Navarro)
DARE Program Could Lose Federal Funding Under New Policies ('The Dallas Morning News' Says Many School Districts In Texas And Elsewhere Around The United States May Have To Rreplace Or Rethink Their Drug Education Programs Over The Next Two Years Because The US Department Of Education Has Labeled The Program Ineffective)
DARE Ends At Keller District School ('The Fort Worth Star-Telegram' Says Keller, Texas Police Chief Bill Griffith Made The Announcement, Saying Recent Studies Have Shown The Program Is Effective Only If Taught At All Grade Levels, Which The Keller Police Department Does Not Have The Money To Do)
Extensive Prison Raid Turns Up Little in Joliet ('The Daily Southtown' In Illinois Says 235 Tactical Officers And 13 Drug-Sniffing Dogs Searched Joliet Correctional Center Tuesday Turned Up Three Handmade Weapons And Two Inmates' Urine That Tested Positive For Cannabis Metabolites - Two Visitors Were Arrested On Unspecified Charges)
Some Residents Questioning Police Tactics In Dealing With Teens ('The Bangor Daily News' In Maine Shows How The Local War On Some Drug Users Disturbs The Peace, Sows Discord And Alienates Young People)
Pro-Marijuana Event Slated For Second Year ('The Daily Gazette' In Schenectady, New York, Publicizes The Woodrock '98 Festival Set For August 8 In Ephratah)
Giuliani's Drive Against Methadone Called Unlikely To Prevail ('The New York Times' Says That New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Continued For A Second Day His Attack On Methadone Treatment, But Many Experts And Government Officials Pointed Out He Had Little Power To Do Anything)
Giuliani's War On Methadone (A Staff Editorial In 'The New York Post' Says That, Whether Methadone Should Be Gotten Rid Of Or Not, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Is Right About Requiring Those In Treatment To Work)
Methadone Works, Usually (Even Arch-Prohibitionist Dr. Sally Satel, In A 'New York Times' Op-Ed, Thinks New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Is Being Extreme In His New Campaign To Prohibit Methadone Maintenance Programs)
Hemp May Be The Answer (The Editor Of 'The Lebanon Enterprise' In Lebanon, Kentucky, Says Industrial Hemp Could Solve Some Of Kentucky's Agriculture Woes In The Future)
Appeal Of Search, Conviction Results In New Trial (The Fayetteville, North Carolina, 'Observer-Times' Says The State Court Of Appeals Ruled Tuesday A Woman Is Entitled To A New Trial Because Clinton Police Didn't Have A Warrant When They Looked For Cocaine In A Soda Can In Her Home)
Bill Aims To Reduce Drug Flow To USA (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'USA Today' Says Senator Mike DeWine Of Ohio And Representative Bill McCollum Of Florida, Both Republicans, Have Introduced Legislation To Spend $2.6 Billion Over The Next Three Years To Reduce The Amount Of Illegal Drugs Coming Into The Country By 80 Percent With 10 Radar Aircraft To Monitor Airspace Over Peru, Bolivia And Colombia, Plus An Airbase At An Undisclosed Location)
Hill Group Offers Plan To Stanch Drug Flow ('The Washington Post' Version)
Teen Anticrime Programs With Religious Base To Get Aid ('The Philadelphia Inquirer' Says President Clinton, Inspired By A Boston Program Credited With Reducing Youth Killings, Plans To Announce Today That He Is Awarding $2.2 Million To Groups In 16 Cities, Including Philadelphia, That Have Been Working To Stem Crime Among Juveniles - No Congressional Approval Is Required, And Constitutional Qualms Will Be Avoided By Giving The Money Not Directly To Religious Organizations But Rather To Groups That Are Affiliated With Them)
Death Toll Mounts While Government Searches For Votes ('The Vancouver Province' Discusses The Political Situation In British Columbia And Its Relation To The 201 People In The Province Who Have Died In Heroin-Related Incidents In The First Six Months Of This Year, A 37-Per-Cent Increase Over The Same Period Last Year)
An Officer And A Social Worker ('The Economist' In Britain Portrays The US Drug Tsar, General Barry McCaffrey, And Comments On The Government's New Billion-Dollar Drug War Advertising Blitz)
New Plea On Youth And Drugs (According To 'The Sydney Morning Herald,' The President Of The Law Society Of New South Wales Said Yesterday That Juveniles Charged With Illegal Drug Offences Should Be Cautioned Rather Than Sent To Prison, To Prevent Them From Being Drawn Into The Criminal Justice System, Where They Were Likely To Become Hardened Criminals)
Marijuana 'A Social Issue' (According To 'The Australian,' Dr Hugh Seward, President Of The Australian Football League Medical Officers' Association, Said Marijuana Is Not A Performance Enhancing Drug, And Defended The League's Decision Not To Sanction Five Players Who Have Tested Positive So Far This Year)
Scottish Prisons Worst In UK For Drug Use ('The Scotsman' Says The Soon-To-Be-Released Scottish Prison Service's Annual Report Includes The First Results Of Random Mandatory Drug Testing In Scottish Prisons, Instituted In March 1997, Which Show Up To 46 Per Cent Of Prisoners Are Testing Positive For 'Drugs' In Their Bloodstream, Compared To An Average Of Roughly 20 Per Cent Of English And Welsh Prisoners)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 56 (Summary Of Drug Policy News For Activists)
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