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Thursday, July 23, 1998

Hemp Racing Team's Finish In Portland (A Portland Correspondent Recounts Sunday's Appearance At Portland International Raceway Of The Motorcycle Racing Team Dedicated To Promoting Industrial Hemp)
Cops Lost In Smoke And Mirrors ('Oregonian' Columnist Steve Duin Helps Manufacture Consensus On Drug Policy By Discussing Why There's Never A Police Officer Around In Portland When You Need One - Without Mentioning The Possibility That It's Because They're Off Chasing Pot Smokers, Pot Growers, Or Perpetrators Of Other Consensual Crimes)
McWilliams In Jail (List Subscribers Spread The Word That California Medical Marijuana Activist And Patient Peter McWilliams, A Best-Selling Author, Was Taken Away At Dawn By Federal Agents - Todd McCormick And Others Also Face New Charges)
Marijuana Advocate Is Indicted On Conspiracy Charge ('The Los Angeles Times' Says A Federal Grand Jury In Los Angeles Has Indicted Medical Marijuana Patient/Activists Todd McCormick, Peter McWilliams, And Seven Others - The Cultivation- And Trafficking-Related Charges Include An Alleged Attempt To Sell Cannabis To The Los Angeles Cannabis Buyer's Club, Which Scott Imler Says Has Never Purchased Marijuana From Outside Sources)
Two Arrested For Alleged Pot Powerhouse ('The Associated Press' Version)
City Widens Marijuana Limit For Medicinal Use ('The Chicago Tribune' Notes Tuesday's Night's Vote By The Oakland City Council To Re-Affirm Its Ordinance Allowing Medical Marijuana Patients Protected By Proposition 215 To Possess Up To One And A Half Pounds Of Cannabis)
Oakland Designates Pot Club ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Version Notes The City Council Also Sought To Protect The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative From Federal Legal Challenges By Designating It An Agent Of The City In Accordance With The Controlled Substances Act)
San Francisco Bay News Briefs ('The Sacramento Bee' Version)
Re - Resisting The Law (A Local Correspondent Says Dave Herrick, The Medical Marijuana Defendant Just Sentenced To Four Years By An Orange County, California Judge, Has Written A Letter Expressing His Fear Of Being Sent To State Prison, Where He Sent More Than A Few Inmates Himself While He Was A San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy)
DrugSense Focus Alert Number 73 - US Customs (DrugSense Asks You To Write A Letter Protesting An Obnoxious And Rude Letter From US Border Inspector Mark Johnson To California Physician Tod H. Mikuriya, MD, Taunting Him About Border Agents' Refusal To Recognize Or Comply With Proposition 215)
California Decriminalizes Caesar Salad And Libertarian Party Cheers 'Victory' (A Humorous News Release From The Libertarian Party Headquarters In Washington, DC, Equates A Pure-Food-And-Drug Law With Drug-Prohibition Laws)
$6 Million Sought In Deputy's Killing (The Tacoma, Washington, 'News Tribune' Says The Ex-Wife Of Pierce County Sheriff's Deputy John Bananola Has Filed Claims Against Pierce County, Saying He Died In A Poorly Planned, Unsafe And Dangerous Raid On The Home Of Convicted Marijuana Seller Brian Eggleston In 1995)
Don't Look For Parole In Texas ('Fort Worth Star-Telegram' Columnist Molly Ivins In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Says Thanks To Texas's Prison-Building Boom, The Political Appointees Who Make Up The Texas Parole Board Have Almost Shut Down The Parole System While The Governor Seeks Re-Election)
29 Are Charged In North Texas Drug Overdoses (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Houston Chronicle' Says Federal Authorities In Plano, Texas, Filed The Charges Wednesday, Taking The Unusual Step Of Targeting The People Who Sold Heroin Associated With Four Deaths - No Mention Of The Penalties Facing The Accused)
29 Indicted In Plano Heroin Ring (The Fort Worth, Texas, 'Star-Telegram' Version)
29 Suspected Drug Dealers Indicted - Plano Targeted As Market For Heroin ('The Dallas Morning News' Version)
Fatal Overdose In Texas Town Result In 29 Indictments ('The Orange County Register' Version)
Debby Moore Sentenced (The Kansas Activist Writes That Her Able Lawyer Helped Her Avoid A 40-Year Mandatory Minimum For .091 Gram Of Marijuana, But She Now Faces Two Years Of Probation And Drug-Testing)
Nixon Ad Accuses Bond Of Once Supporting Decriminializing Marijuana ('The St. Louis Post-Dispatch' Says Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, A Democrat, Is Accusing Senator Christopher 'Kit' Bond, A Republican He Is Seeking To Defeat In November, Of Telling St. Louis High School Students 22 Years Ago That He Supported Marijuana-Law Reform)
Prisoners In Protest Draw Stiff Penalties ('The Wisconsin State Journal' Says About 150 Prisoners Who Engaged In A Nonviolent Sit-Down Strike At A Fox Lake Prison Yard To Protest Wisconsin's Policy Of Shipping Inmates Out Of State Are Being Punished With Four Months To A Year Of Solitary Confinement And Other Restrictions, And Their Time In Segregation Will Not Count As Time Served Toward Their Sentences)
Rudy - Methadone Docs Hooked On Cash ('The New York Post' Says New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Stepped Up His Campaign To End Methadone Treatment For Heroin Addicts Yesterday, Claiming Clinic Operators Who Oppose Him Are Just Guarding Their $44-Million-A-Year Turf)
You Simply Can't Replace One Addiction With Another (Puritanical 'New York Post' Columnist Steve Dunleavy Applauds Mayor Giuliani's Campaign To Close Methadone Maintenance Programs)
Reno Allows Release Of CIA Cocaine Report ('Reuters' Says That, After A Seven-Month Delay, US Attorney General Janet Reno Gave The Go-Ahead For Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich To Make Public His 407-Page Report On His 15-Month Investigation Into Alleged CIA Involvement In Cocaine Dealing By Individuals Tied To Nicaraguan Rebels In The 1980s)
FDA Confirms 39 Viagra Deaths, Says Drug Safe ('The Dallas Morning News' Doesn't Say Why The US Food And Drug Administration Considers Marijuana, Which Never Killed Anyone, Dangerous)
Let's Treat Drug Abuse As The Illness It Is (An Op-Ed From 'The Washington Post' In 'The International Herald-Tribune' By Drs. David C. Lewis And June E. Osborn Of Physician Leadership On National Drug Policy)
In The Drug War, Fantasy Beats Facts ('Chicago Tribune' Columnist Steve Chapman Critiques The Willful Ingorance Of The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, As Revealed In His Recent Trip To Europe, Billed As A 'Fact-Finding Tour,' Which In Practice Seems To Have Been A Fact-Dodging Tour)
General McCaffrey On NPR Radio's 'Diane Reim' Show (NORML In Washington, DC, Invites You To Call The US Drug Czar After 9 AM Tomorrow, Friday)
McCaffrey's Retraction (A List Subscriber Says The Dutch Newspaper, 'De Volkskrant,' Wrote On July 16 That The Dutch Secretary Of State Had Threatened To Refuse Admittance To The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey - Which May Have Led To The Mysterious Retraction Of A Particularly Inane Statement)
Media Alert - Overdoses And Prosecutions In Plano, Texas (The Drug Reform Coordination Network Asks You To Take A Few Minutes To Write To Your Local Media To Counteract Harmful Sensationalism And Knee-Jerk Ignorance - Plus URLs To Information Explaining The Error In The Ways Of ABC's 'Nightline' And Others)
Drug Policy Foundation Action Alert - Oppose New Mandatory Minimums (The New York-Based Reform Group Asks You To Urge Your Congressional Representatives To Vote Against HR 3898, 'The Speed Trafficking Life In Prison Act Of 1998')
Drug Crazy - Stoning The Drug War (A Review In 'New York Magazine' Of Mike Gray's Important New Book About The History Of The War On Some Drug Users)
High And Mighty - The Lies Of The Anti-Drug Propaganda Machine (The Online Magazine, 'Slate,' Critiques The US Government's New $1 Billion Pro-Drug-War Advertising Campaign - To Succeed, A Propaganda Campaign Need Not Convince Its Audience, It Need Merely Suck The Oxygen Out Of The Lungs Of Its Foes)
From Placebo To Panacea - Putting Psychiatric Drugs To The Test (A Review In 'The New England Journal Of Medicine' Of The New Book By Two Academic Psychologists Which Says Psychoactive Drugs Are No More Effective Than Placebos)
Court Date Set For Appeal (Randy Caine Says His Appeal Before The British Columbian Supreme Court Of An Adverse Ruling In His Constitutional Challenge To Canadian Cannabis Prohibition Will Take Place September 29-30)
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Friday, July 24, 1998:
NORML Weekly News (Body's Natural Pain Controlling Agents Mimic Marijuana, 'Nature' Magazine Reports; Oakland City Council Moves To Support Local Medical Marijuana Dispensary; California Senator Attacks Advertising By 'Head Shops' On The Net; Medical Marijuana Petitioners Confident Recount Will Place Initiative On Nevada Ballot; Best Selling Author Indicted On Marijuana Conspiracy Charge)
Industrial Hemp, Pot's Straight Cousin, Creeps Into Mainstream (An 'Associated Press' Account Of The Struggle In The United States To Re-Introduce Industrial Hemp Opens With An Interview With Wolf Creek, Oregon, Hemp-Fabric Artisan Kevyn Woven)
Pot Advocate, Author, Others Indicted (The United Press International Version Of Yesterday's News About The Federal Indictment And Re-Arrests Of California Medical Marijuana Patient/Activists Todd McCormick, Peter McWilliams And Nine Others On Cultivation, Conspiracy And Trafficking Charges)
Medical Marijuana Activist, Others Indicted (An 'Associated Press' Version In 'The Contra Costa Times')
Medical Marijuana Advocates Accused Of Cultivation For Sale ('The Los Angeles Times' Version, Updated Somewhat From Yesterday)
Action Alert - Peter McWilliams/Todd McCormick (A Bulletin From The Colorado Hemp Initiative Project Asks You To Take A Few Minutes And Write A Letter To California Media About The Federal Prosecution Of The Two Medical Marijuana Defendants)
Save Peter McWilliams (A Message Forwarded From Los Angeles Area Attorney James Silva Has More Details About The Medical Marijuana Defendant's Conditions Of Bail)
Reaction Mixed To Yamaguchi Quitting ('The San Francisco Examiner' Notes The Resignation Of Northern California Federal Prosecutor Michael Yamaguchi, The US Government's Point Man In Its War Against California Medical Marijuana Patients)
Yamaguchi Quitting As US Attorney August 24 ('The Associated Press' Version)
A Clockwork Orange - Gone To Pot ('OC Weekly' Notes The Four-Year Prison Sentence Bestowed Last Week On David Lee Herrick, The Former San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Convicted In May Of Selling Weed Through The Orange County Cannabis Co-Op)
Medicinal Marijuana User Faces Drug Charges ('The Press-Telegram' Previews Today's Court Appearance By Orange County Cannabis Co-Op Founder Marvin Chavez, Noting Prosecutors Want To Prevent Him From Invoking Proposition 215, Even Though He Was Arrested In April By An Undercover Officer Posing As A Caregiver For A Terminally Ill Uncle)
Update - Marvin Chavez (A Local Correspondent Says The Former Director Of The Defunct Orange County Cannabis Co-Op Was In Court Again Today, Enduring Abuse And Improper Conduct From Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald And District Attorney Carl Armbrust - Please Show Up To Protest In Front Of The Courthouse Before The August 3 Hearing)
Ex-Pleasanton Cop Sues City, Police To Get Job Back ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says Jeffery Anadon, A Longtime Police Officer In Pleasanton, California, Has Filed Suit Against The City And Its Police Department To Reverse His Demotion From Lieutenant To Patrol Officer Because He Twice Had Affairs With A Former Drug Snitch Against His Chief's Emphatic Orders)
Charges Dropped Against Alleged Meth Makers ('The San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune' Says Charges Have Been Dismissed Against Howard Leasure Of San Luis Obispo, California, Because The 10 Pounds Of Methamphetamine Police Discovered In A Raid On His Property Turned Out To Be Caustic Soda - Leasure Believes The Raid Was A 'Small Town Politics' Ploy Designed To Enhance The Political Career Of Police Chief Jim Gardiner)
LULAC's Leader Asks Feds To Probe Shooting ('The Houston Chronicle' Says Rick Dovalina, National President Of The League Of United Latin American Citizens, Met On Wednesday With The Acting US Assistant Attorney General In Charge Of Civil Rights And Was Assured The FBI Would Investigate The Death Of Pedro Oregon Navarro, An Innocent Young Man Shot In The Back Nine Times After An Illegal Entry By Houston Prohibition Agents)
Dallas Lawyer Found Guilty Of Tampering In Irvin Trial ('The Dallas Morning News' A Dallas County Jury Found Thomas B. Arnold Guilty Thursday Of Coercing Amber Gatcomb, 23, To Evade A State Subpoena In The 1996 Cocaine Possession Trial Of Dallas Cowboys Star Michael Irvin)
Little-Used Law Invoked In Plano Heroin Deaths - If Convicted, 29 Could Receive Life Sentences ('The Dallas Morning News' Says Federal Cops Believe They Can Connect The Deliveries Of The Drug To Specific Heroin-Related Deaths In Plano, Texas)
Drug Charges - Indictments Deliver Hardball Warning (A Staff Editorial In 'The Dallas Morning News' Makes It Clear The Newspaper Is Opposed To Heroin, But Fails To Address The Question Of How Many Drug Offenders The Newspaper Thinks Should Be Locked Up In Order To Take Care Of The Problem)
School Drug Tests Possible In Dallas (According To 'The Dallas Morning News,' A Dallas School Official Said Thursday That Dallas Schools Would Institute A Drug Testing Program As Early As Next Year - The Program Is 'Voluntary' In That Students' Parents' Would Volunteer Them For The Program)
Anti-Drug Programs Must Be Effective (Another Staff Editorial In 'The Dallas Morning News' Notes The US Education Department's Recent Announcement That It Won't Fund School Programs That Aren't Effective In Reducing Drug Use, Including DARE)
High Court Rules Nighttime Drug Search Broke Law ('The Associated Press' Says The Nebraska Supreme Court On Friday Overturned The Conviction Of A Blair Man, Patrick Fitch, Sentenced To Two And A Half To Five Years In Prison For Possession Of Marijuana With Intent To Deliver, Because Police Searched His Garbage At Night And Later Served A Search Warrant At His House At Night)
US Asks Hemp Suit Be Dismissed ('The Lexington Herald-Leader' Suggests The US Department Of Justice Has Done As Expected In Asking A US District Court Judge In Ashland, Kentucky, To Throw Out A Lawsuit Filed By The 100-Member Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association And Other Plaintiffs Who Want To Grow Industrial Hemp - No Timetable Has Been Set For A Ruling)
Bush - Deny Drug Users Scholarships ('The Miami Herald' Notes Republican Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Jeb Bush, Who Admits Smoking Marijuana When He Was 17, Is Appealing To Drug-War Hawks In His Campaign Against Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay, The Democratic Candidate Who Has Never Used An Illegal Drug)
Teen Smokes Sting Shames Congress ('The Toronto Star' Says The American Lung Associated Sent Two 15-Year-Olds To Buy Cigarettes At Nine Food Stores In Washington, DC, Successfully At Five - No Word On Why Nobody Has Busted The Little Lawbreakers Or The Adults Who Contributed To Their Delinquency)
Fighting Drugs (Gingrich And Clinton Throw Money At The Problem In A Syndicated Cartoon By Danziger Of The Los Angeles Times Syndicate)
Shades Of 'Reefer Madness' (An Op-Ed In 'The Christian Science Monitor' By A Washington State Drug-Prevention Speaker Suggests The US Government's New $2 Billion Advertising Campaign For The War On Some Drug Users Is Demeaning To The Intelligence Of Teens, Who Want Information On Which To Base Decisions, Not For The Decisions To Be Made For Them)
'Mercury News' Series Is Hit Again ('The San Francisco Chronicle,' Which Wouldn't Have The Guts Or Brains To Print A Series Like 'Dark Alliance' In A Million Years, Taunts Its San Jose Competition In Noting Yesterday's News That US Attorney General Reno Has Released The Justice Department Report Exonerating Itself And The CIA In The Selling Cocaine In California To Raise Funds For Contras In Nicaragua)
No Evidence US Protected Cocaine Dealers ('The San Jose Mercury News' Version)
Justice Rebuts CIA-Crack Articles ('The Washington Post' Version In 'The Seattle Times')
Justice Finds No CIA Link To Nicaraguan Cocaine Trade ('The Miami Herald' Version)
'Intellectual Capital' Debate (A List Subscriber Says Eric Voth, Charles Blanchard And Other Prohibitionists From The White House Office Of National Drug Control Policy And Elsewhere Have Turned Up At An Ongoing Online Debate At The Magazine's Web Site)
McCaffrey's Retraction, Part Two (A List Subscriber Follows Up On His Post Yesterday With More Details From The Dutch Newspaper, 'De Volkskrant,' Which Wrote That The Dutch Secretary Of State Threatened July 14 To Refuse Admittance To The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey)
America's Drug Warrior (The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, Lies His Way Through Europe, Embarrassing Himself And The United States, And A Staff Editorial In 'The San Diego Union Tribune' Praises Him For It And Dishes Out More Misinformation)
Drug Led To Market Showdown ('The Ottawa Sun' Says It Has Learned The Shooting Of Two People In The Byward Market Last April Was A Violent Powerplay To Corner Lowertown's Lucrative Crack Trade - But Neglects To Mention That Therefore The Shooting Was Attributable To Prohibition)
Crackhead Killed My Son - Dad ('The Toronto Sun' Says The Father Of A Teen Stabbed To Death On A Deserted Toronto Street Says His Son Was Ordered Executed By Crack Cocaine Pals Who Feared He Would Snitch On Them To Police)
Mr Coca Takes On US In Drugs War (Britain's 'Independent' Portrays Evo Morales, Leader Of Peru's Main Coca Growers' Unions And A Member Of Parliament)
200 'Corrupt' Police Face Charges (Britain's 'Independent' Says A 180-Member Investigation Team Constituting The Biggest Corruption Inquiry In British Policing For A Quarter Of A Century, Set Up By Sir Paul Condon, London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Has Uncovered 'Criminality Of The Highest Level' By Up To 200 Officers)
Soldiers Jailed Over Drugs Plot (Britain's Independent' Says Five Former Members Of The 39th Regiment Of The Royal Artillery Were Given Sentences Of Up To 17 Years Yesterday In Liverpool For Plotting To Smuggle Drugs Worth Millions Of Pounds Into Britain From The Continent)
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 51 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original News Summary For Activists, Including - Marijuana Reform Party Organizes In New York State; Strip Searches At O'Hare Get US Senator's Attention; An Interview With Dr. Robert Newman On Methadone Maintenance, And The Self-Inflicted Wounds Of The Methadone Establishment; And An Editorial By Adam J. Smith, 'Prohibition, Punishment And Plano, Texas')
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Saturday, July 25, 1998:
Warrants Not Needed For Drug Dog Searches ('The Associated Press' Says The Oregon Supreme Court Reversed A 1997 Decision By The Oregon Court Of Appeals, Ruling That A Drug-Sniffing Dog Outside A Storage Unit Didn't Require A Search Warrant Because The Dog Was In A Public Space, If Not The Marijuana Found In A Storage Locker In Brookings Rented By Desmond Smith)
Sun Is As Plentiful As The Beer At 11th Fest ('The Oregonian' Shows Its Support For Portland's Dominant Drug Culture And Double Standards In Journalism As It Emphasizes The Positive Aspects Of An Alcohol Festival In Waterfront Park)
Antelope Valley Man Indicted In Huge Pot Ring (The Antelope Valley Press' In Palmdale, California, Says David Richards Of Lancaster Has Been Indicted And Arrested As Part Of The Alleged Marijuana Cultivation Conspiracy Including Medical Marijuana Patient/Activists Todd McCormick And Peter McWilliams)
Proposition 215 Disallowed In Pot Trial ('The Orange County Register' Says Santa Ana Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzergald Ruled Friday That Orange County Cannabis Co-Op Founder Marvin Chavez Cannot Use The California Compassionate Use Act Of 1996 As A Defence In His Upcoming Traffickng Trial, And Upheld The Prosecutor's Subpoena For Former Co-Op Members' Medical Records)
Pot Case Is Put On Hold ('The Press-Telegram' Version Does A Good Job Noting The Prejudicial Conduct Of Santa Ana Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzergald)
Pot Legalization Support Bill Stalls (The 'Press-Telegram' Says California Senate Bill 1887, Which Would Fulfill Proposition 215's Mandate That State Authorities Find A Way To Provide Medical Marijuana To Authorized Patients, Has Passed The Senate, But Is Bogged Down In The Assembly's Health Committee)
Veteran Probation Officer Sentenced ('The Antelope Valley Press' Says Christopher Bryon Truitt Of Lancaster, California, A Six-Year Veteran Of The County Probation Department Who Bragged About His Drug Connections To Undercover Sheriff's Deputies During A Massive Sting Operation, Was Sentenced Thursday To 16 Months In State Prison For Selling Marijuana And Cloned Cell Phones)
Criminal Problems - Civil Solutions ('The San Jose Mercury News' Says San Jose's Attempt To Have 47 Suspected Gang Members Barred From A Wide Range Of Conduct In A Central Neighborhood Has Renewed Debate Over The Nationwide Trend Of Using Public-Nuisance Laws To Address Criminal Problems)
300 Pounds Of Marijuana Seized Near Border Crossing ('The Associated Press' Says US Border Patrol Agents Interdicted Six Duffel Bags Containing 300 Pounds Of Marijuana And Arrested One Man Near The Northeastern Washington Town Of Metaline Falls In The Biggest Marijuana Bust In Pend Oreille County History)
MADD Takes On Clothing Catalog (An 'Associated Press' Article In The Illinois 'Daily Herald' Says The Group Mothers Against Drunk Driving Is Targeting Abercrombie & Fitch In New York And Its Latest Magazine-Catalog For Combining Hot Back-To-School Fashions With Drinking Games And Recipes For Hard-Core Cocktails Like The 'Woo-Woo' And The 'Brain Hemorrhage')
Court Quashes Police Practice ('The News And Observer' Says A North Carolina Court Of Appeals Panel In Raleigh Reversed A Marijuana Conviction, Ruling That Police Cannot Consciously Lie To Secure A Search Warrant)
Former Official Pleads Guilty ('The Associated Press' Says Former Mecklenburg County Elections Director Bill Culp Has Pleaded Guilty To Bribery And Corruption Charges In Charlotte, South Carolina, Blaming Marijuana Use That He Says Began When He Was A Serviceman In Vietnam)
The General McCaffrey Scientific Fool Award (The Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site Announces A New Award It Will Bestow On Appropriate Drug Warriors, Starting With The US Drug Czar, For Such Misstatements During His Recent European Tour As His Claim That '30.2 Percent Of Dutch Youths Say They Have Tried Marijuana, Versus 9.1 Percent In The United States')
Pot-Pouri Gathers At Cannabis Carnival (A Superficial 'Canadian Press' Article In 'The Ketchener-Waterloo Record' Recounts This Weekend's Gathering In Kitchener, Ontario)
Drug Testing Ruled Unlawful (A 'Candian Press' Story In 'The Toronto Star' Says The Canadian Federal Court Of Appeal Has Ruled That A Drug-Testing Policy Implemented By The Toronto Dominion Bank To Screen New Hires Is Discriminatory And Isn't Sufficiently Related To Job Performance)
Cannabis Evidence Goes Before MPs ('The Weekend Herald' Says A New Zealand Parliamentary Inquiry Into The Mental Health Effects Of Cannabis Will Begin Hearing Evidence This Week - The Government Has Ruled Out Any Move To Decriminalise Cannabis Until The Inquiry Is Carried Out)
Bad Dope (Britain's 'New Scientist' Is Surprisingly Uncritical Of A Study Involving 17 Subjects, Carried Out By Marinel Ammenheuser And Her Colleagues At The University Of Texas Medical Branch In Galveston, Supposedly Showing Marijuana Damages DNA As Much As Tobacco, Creating Potentially Fertile Ground For Cancers And Begging The Question Why We Don't Lock Up People For Smoking Cigarettes - The Fact That Pot Smokers Do Not Show A Higher Incidence Of Cancer Or Lung Disease Is Excused With The Ludicrous Assertion That Widespread Marijuana Use Is A Recent Phenomenon, Ignoring US Government Studies Of Lifelong Users In Costa Rica And Jamaica In The 1970s Which Found They Lived Longer - No Mention Of The Study's Methodological Flaws, Whether It Was Peer Reviewed, Its Funding By The Current Prohibitionists Running The US Government, Or That It Contradicts A Vast Body Of Other, More Credible Evidence)
Heroin Scandal Rocks London's Devout Jewish Community (Britain's 'Independent' Says London's Orthodox Jewish Community Has Been Shocked By A Series Of Arrests For Alleged Heroin Smuggling)
PC 'Appalled' ('The Evening News' In Norwich, England, Says A Sheringham Police Constable Is Upset That Only Seven Parents Turned Out For A 'Drug Awareness Evening' After More Than 750 Letters Were Sent Out To Parents Of Pupils At Sheringham High School)
Anti-Drug Activists For Trial On Man's Killing ('The Irish Times' Says The Coalition Of Communities Against Drugs Issued A Statement Condemning The Decision To Have The Three Men Tried Before A Non-Jury Court For Stabbing A Heroin Addict To Death And Assaulting His Companion)
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Sunday, July 26, 1998:
We're Not Getting Job Done On Drugs (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' Responds To The News Of Yet Another Corrupt California Prohibition Agent By Supporting A Change From A Law-Enforcement Model To A Medical One, Noting The Principle Opposition To Change Comes From Police With Vested Interests)
Tracking A Political Movement In Progress ('The Los Angeles Times,' Noting The Fastest-Growing Party In Orange County Became 'None Of The Above' In 1996, Says A Progressive Alliance And Mutual Aid Society Has Sprouted There Among Activists Opposing California's Three-Strikes Law, The Death Penalty, Political Repression In Nigeria, As Well As Members Of The California Green Party, Marijuana-Law Reformers And Nuclear Disarmament Activists, Libertarians, Veterans For Peace, Volunteers From The Catholic Worker And Others)
A Jail Is Not A Prison (A Staff Editorial In 'The Arizona Daily Star' Says State Law Enforcement Officials And Judges Are Still Thwarting The Will Of Voters Who Approved Proposition 200, Noting First-Time Drug Offender David P. Calik May Be Locked Up In The Yuma County Jail, Although Proposition 200 Prohibits Him From Serving Prison Time - Officials Say A Jail Is Not A Prison)
Trooper Reassigned After Perjury Indictment (The Amarillo, Texas 'Globe-News' Says Department Of Public Safety Trooper Chad Estes Will Continue To Collect A Paycheck After Being Indicted By A Grand Jury Who Believed He Lied When He Said He Found Marijuana In A Fanny Pack, When No Such Marijuana Was Logged Into Evidence)
Congressional Candidate Says Former Drug Use Was A Mistake (According To The St. Louis, Missouri, 'Post Dispatch,' Michael Scott, An Omaha, Nebraska, Democratic Candidate For The US House Of Representatives, Says He Used Marijuana And Cocaine In His Youth, But Regrets The Mistake And Is Now Committed To Helping Young People Avoid Drugs)
Laredo Inquiry Hot Topic - DA Says Being Target Is A Strain ('The Dallas Morning News' Says The FBI Searched The Offices Of Webb County, Texas, District Attorney Joe Rubio And Eight Of His Assistant Prosecutors As Part Of A Federal Investigation Into Allegations Of Bribery And Fixing Cases For Criminals, The Latest In A String Of Federal Anti-Corruption Efforts In Border Counties)
Neighbors Had Noticed Home In Drug Case ('The Dallas Morning News' Follows Up On News Of A Big Heroin Bust In Plano, Texas)
Doonesbury On The Drug Warriors And Pain Treatment (Garry Trudeau's Syndicated Cartoon)
Cannabis Carnival Held (An 'Associated Press' Account Of The Festival This Weekend In Kitchener, Ontario)
Cannabis Campaign - Marijuana Farmer To Meet House Of Lords (Britain's 'Independent On Sunday' Says Dr Geoffrey Guy, The British Entrepreneur Licensed By The Government To Farm Cannabis, Is To Speak To The House Of Lords Health Sub-Committee Looking Into The Legalisation Question During A Final Public Meeting On Tuesday)
Police Say Prison Works (Britain's 'Independent' Says Senior Police Officers Have Embarked On A Collision Course With The Home Secretary, Jack Straw, By Asking Him To Abandon Plans For More Community Punishments And, Instead, To Send Even More Criminals To Prison)
Tour Riders Strike Over Drug-Scandal Criticism ('The International Herald-Tribune' Says The Tour De France Nearly Unraveled Friday When The 150 Remaing Bicyclists Went On Strike For Two Hours To Protest What They Called Media Hounding And Criticism Arising From A Performance-Enhancing Drug Scandal Involving More Than One Team)
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Monday, July 27, 1998:
CRRH Web Site Wins Awards And Accolades (Paul Stanford Of The Campaign For The Restoration And Regulation Of Hemp Says The Redesigned Web Site For The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Has Received Web Design Awards From Project Cool Sighting And Four Other Groups)
Money For Medical Marijuana Measure Comes From Outside Oregon (Rather Than Focus On The Seriously Ill Patients Throughout Oregon Who Need Measure 67, The Medical Marijuana Initiative Sponsored By Oregonians For Medical Rights, 'The Associated Press' Reflects Characteristic Oregonian Xenophobia In Focusing On Where The Campaign's Money Is Coming From, Ignoring The Oregon Roots Of One Major Donor)
Gossip ('New York Post' Columnist Liz Smith Describes The Legal Problems Besetting Los Angeles Author And Medical Marijuana Patient, Activist And Defendant Peter McWilliams)
Important Meeting At Oakland City Hall 7 PM Tuesday, July 28 (A Bay Area Medical Marijuana Activist Urges You To Show Support Tomorrow Night For The Final Approval Of The City's Ordinance Designating The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative As An Agent Of The City)
Legalization Would Be The Wrong Direction (An Op-Ed In 'The Los Angeles Times' Opposing Harm Reduction, By The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, Shows Again How The US Media Will Not Say A Word When He Cites False Statistics And Other Misinformation)
MAP Focus Alert Number 74 - McCaffrey Applauded For Lying! (The Media Awareness Project Asks You To Write A Quick Letter Protesting The Refusal Of 'The San Diego Union Tribune' To Print The Facts Friday Regarding The US Drug Czar's Misrepresentations Of Dutch Drug Policies And Statistics)
Carson City Man Files Suit After Arrest ('The Associated Press' Says John Longshore Of Nevada Was Initiatially 'Roughed Up' And Dosed With Pepper Spray By Cops Who Arrested Him On Charges Of Possessing Marijuana And Methamphetamine, But A Judge Suppressed The Evidence Due To Lack Of A Warrant And Now The Victim Is Suing)
Drug 'War' Misstates Government's Approach (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Denver Post' From Robert Housman, The Chief Policy Adviser For The US Office Of Strategic Planning, Defends The Lies Of The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, Cited By 'Los Angeles Times' Columnist Robert Scheer - Plus Commentary From List Subscribers)
Thomaston Teen Wins Challenge To Expulsion For Off-Campus Pot ('The Associated Press' Says The Connecticut Supreme Court Ruled Monday That The Thomaston School Board Should Not Have Expelled A Student For Possession Of Marijuana Off School Grounds)
NSW Fails The Drug Test (According To 'The Sydney Morning Herald,' A Report To Be Released August 10, 'Drugs, Money And Government,' By The Alcohol And Other Drugs Council Of Australia, Or ADCA, Says The State Of New South Wales Has The Country's Worst Drug Problem, Is Doing The Least To Combat It, And Has Even Cut Back On Per Capita Spending)
Cannabis - Telephone Vote Results (An Unscientific But Impressive Poll By The BBC's Healthcheck Program Finds 96 Percent Of 42,000 British Callers Favor Legalising Medical Marijuana)
EPO - A Powerful, Dangerous Drug (A 'New York Times' Article In 'The International Herald-Tribune' Says EPO, The Synthetic Hormone Erythropoietin, Which Stimulates The Production Of Red Blood Cells, Is At The Epicenter Of A Widening Drug Scandal In The Tour De France)
Tour Goes On As Riders Close Ranks ('The International Herald-Tribune' Says The 147 Remaining Bicyclists In The Tour De France Continued Sunday To Roll Toward Their Rendezvous With The Alps Sunday After Two Officials Of The TVM Team From The Netherlands Were Jailed In Connection With The Seizure Of A Team Car Carrying Illegal Performance-Enhancing Drugs)
Olympics Boss Wants Drug Rules Relaxed ('The Calgary Herald' Says Olympic Chief Juan Samaranch, Speaking To The Spanish Daily Newspaper, 'El Mundo,' Reignited The Controversy Over Drugs In Sport Sunday By Calling For A Distinction Between Drugs That Enhance Performance And Those That Harm Users' Health)
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Tuesday, July 28, 1998:
Pain Relief For Dying Patients Not Congress' Decision (An Op-Ed In 'The Houston Chronicle' Says The Attempt In Congress To Stymie Oregon's Unique Assisted Suicide Law With The Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act Of 1998, Introduced Last Month By Representative Henry Hyde And Senator Don Nickles, Both Republilcans, Would Put A Damper On Progress Now Being Made In Providing Pain Relief To Dying Patients)
Monday March To End The Drug War (A Seattle Activist Provides Details About The Monthly Rally Against The War On Some Drug Users, Beginning 6 PM Monday, August 3, At The Statue Of Liberty On Alki Beach)
Re - Monday March To End The Drug War (Noting The Focus Of This Month's Rally In Seattle Is On The Impact Of The Drug War On Families, A List Subscriber Cites The Source For The Statistic That 2.4 Million American Children Have Parents Incarcerated For Illegal-Drug Offenses)
Drug Tests For Granite Falls Athletes End In The Fall (The Everett, Washington 'Herald' Says The Granite Falls School District In Snohomish County Is Concerned About A Potential Legal Challenge And Will Stop Giving Random Drug Tests To Student Athletes Next Fall - The District Claims The Program Helped, Since Twelve Students Told A Drug Counselor They Were 'Staying Clean' Because Of It)
Snohomish School District Drops Drug Testing For Athletes ('The Seattle Times' Version)
Comments From Peter McWilliams In Federal Custody (Co-Defendant Todd McCormick Passes Along A Heartbreaking Note From The Celebrated Author And Medical Marijuana Patient/Activist, Held Pending Trial By The Federal Government, Which Is Denying Him His AIDS Medications - McWilliams Denies All Charges)
Peter McWilliams Denied AIDS Medication For Four Days! (An Action Alert From The Colorado Hemp Initiative Project Urges You To Write To California Media To Publicize The Inhumane Pretrial Treatment Of The Medical Marijuana Patient/Activist/Defendant)
Medical Marijuana Advocate Pleads Innocent To Conspiracy Charges (The MSNBC Version On Los Angeles' KNBC)
Oakland May Back Medical Pot Providers ('The Sacramento Bee' Notes The Oakland City Council Is Expected Tonight To Make Designated Providers Of Medical Marijuana 'Officers Of The City,' Giving Them Legal Immunity From Criminal And Civil Actions)
Oakland Set To Protect Medical Marijuana Providers (The Scripps-McClatchy News Service Version)
A Religious Exemption For Marijuana (A News Release Seeking Support For The New American Church Association, An Association Of People Representing Various Churches And Religious Traditions Who Publish 'Holy Smoke' And Advocate The Establishment Of A Religious Exemption For The Sacramental Use Of Marijuana And Peyote)
'Drug War' Needs Overhaul (An Op-Ed In 'The Arizona Daily Star' By Robert Whitcomb, Editorial-Page Editor Of The Providence, Rhode Island 'Journal-Bulletin,' Says Two-Thirds Of Anti-Drug Resources In America Are Devoted To Punishment, Which, Rather Than Solving The Social And Economic Problems Of Addiction, Causes Even More Problems, And Notes The Array Of Interests, Including Politicians, Who Benefit From Counterproductive Policies)
Immigrant-Rights Group Calling For Justice ('The Houston Chronicle' Says La Resistencia, A Regional Group Based In Houston, Sponsored A Rally Sunday Protesting The Killing Of An Innocent Man, Pedro Oregon Navarro, Shot 12 Times, Nine Times In The Back, By Houston Prohibition Agents Who Broke Into His Apartment Without A Warrant)
Attorney Pleads Guilty To Drug-Related Charges ('The Midland Reporter-Telegram' Says Odessa, Texas, Defense Attorney Jose Antonio 'Tony' Chavez Copped A Plea Monday To Helping A Marijuana Dealer)
Sioux Indians Vote To Challenge DEA On Hemp (A Press Release From The Oglala Sioux Tribe In South Dakota Says The Tribal Council Today Enacted An Ordinance Reviving The Legal Distinction Between Industrial Hemp And Marijuana, Setting The Stage For Land-Based Economic Development On The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation And A Legal Challenge By The Tribe In Federal Court)
US Suppression Of Debate Is Monkey On Nation's Back (An Excellent Column In 'The St. Paul Pioneer Press' By David Morris Criticizes The Willful Ignorance Of Prohibitionists Such As The Drug Czar And The American Media, Noting Reformers Have Much More Scholarship Backing Them, Citing The Schaffer Online Library And Other Sites On The Internet - But Suggests The War On Some Drug Users Is A War Against Evil And Not Amenable To Reason)
Court Denies Appeal By Advocates Of Medical Use Of Marijuana ('The Associated Press' Says The Maine Supreme Judicial Court On Tuesday Upheld Rulings By A Lower Court And The Secretary Of State Invalidating Thousands Of Signatures Because Circulators Weren't Residents Or Weren't Registered To Vote - Mainers For Medical Rights Vowed To Continue Collecting Signatures For A 1999 Referendum)
Diet Doctor's Indictment Surprises To Wealthy Community ('The Associated Press' Says The Federal Government Indicted Suburban Philadelphia Physician Donald J. Rosato Last Week For Selling 120 Valium Pills And Nearly 3,000 Tablets Of Phendimetrazine, A Diet Drug, To Three Female Undercover Officers Between March 1995 And September 1997 For More Than $2,000)
Alabama Senator's Son Caught At Airport With Hashish ('The Associated Press' Says Claude Nevin Shelby, 32, The Youngest Son Of Richard Shelby, A Republican Who Chairs The Senate Intelligence Committee, Was Arrested With 13.8 Grams Last Week At Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport)
Advocates Urge FDA To Ban Diabetes Drug ('The Dallas Morning News' Says The Consumer-Advocacy Group Public Citizen Has Cited At Least 26 Deaths Worldwide, Including 14 In The United States, From Liver Failure Attributed To Rezulin, And Urged The US Government Monday To Ban The Drug, Widely Touted As A Way To Help Some Patients Reduce Their Need For Insulin Shots)
Girls' Kidnapping A Sign Of Police Corruption In Mexico (A 'Washington Post' Article In 'The Seattle Times' Uses The Case Of Three Teen Girls Kidnapped And Raped By Mexico City Cops To Illustrate Its Case That Most Mexicans Perceive Police To Make Up The Biggest Criminal Gangs In Mexico)
Pressure Builds For Free Heroin ('The Province' In Vancouver, British Columbia, Says The Chief Provincial Medical Officer, Dr. John Millar, In A Special Report On HIV, Hepatitis And Drug Use In The Province, Will Recommend That Some Addicts Be Offered Legalized Heroin Free On Prescription As Part Of A Major Anti-Drug Strategy For BC)
Drug Tests Rock US Track World ('The Toronto Star' Notes The Canadian Relay Team's Winning Streak May Be Intact After American Sprinter Dennis Mitchell Was Suspended Indefinitely Yesterday After Testing Positive For Too Much Testosterone - Olympic Shot Put Champion Randy Barnes Also Failed A Out-Of-Competition Drug Tests April 1, According To The International Amateur Athletics Federation)
Two Track Stars Fail Drug Tests ('The New York Times' Version In 'The Dallas Morning News')
Olympic Stars Suspended For Drug Abuse ('The Scotsman' Version)
Drug-Riddled Sports Reap What They've Sown ('Toronto Star' Sports Columnist Randy Starkman Says That While Canada Has Taken A Hard Look At Athletic Doping, American Officials Were Saying, 'We Don't Have A Problem,' And Says The Belief Of International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch That Some Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized Is Wrong - Controls Should Be Made Tougher)
Two American Anti-Drug Pilots Dead After Crash In Colombia ('Reuters' Says The Two Were US Civilians Working For The Texas-Based Dyncorp Aviation Company, Which Has A Contract With The State Department To Train Colombian Pilots To Spray Illicit Drug Crops In Colombia - Though No Colombians Were On Board - A Spokesman For The Drug-War Division Of Colombia's National Police Was Unable To Say Whether It May Have Been Shot Down By Anti-Government Guerrillas)
Two US Pilots Die In Colombia Crash ('The New York Times' Version)
Colombia Tracking $500 Million In Payoffs From Cali Cartel ('Reuters' Says Colombian Investigators Have Tracked Down About 37,000 Checks Issued Between 1989 And 1996 That Went From The Cali Cocaine Syndicate To 13,000 Separate Bank Accounts, Including Those Belonging To Colombian Politicians, Sports Stars And Journalists, Who Will Now Be Investigated And Could Face Prosecution)
MS Victims To Puff Pot To Test Medicinal Effectiveness (A Scripps Howard News Service Article In Britain's 'Guardian' Says Dr. Geoffrey Guy, Chairman Of GW Pharmaceuticals, A Company He Set Up With A License From The British Home Office To Explore The Medical Uses Of Marijuana, Told The House Of Lords Select Committee On Science And Technology In London Tuesday That The First Human Trials Of The Medicinal Properties Of Marijuana Will Involve Inhaling Substances Made From The Entire Weed, Not Derivatives - 'I Don't See The Value In Taking Apart Something That Seems At The Moment To Work')
Why All Drugs Should Be Legalised, By Ringo (According To Britain's 'Daily Mail,' Ringo Starr Has Ticked Off The Prohibitionists With A Call For The Legalisation Of All Drugs In An Interview In 'The Big Issue' Magazine - The Former Beatle Said Preventative Campaigns Were A Waste Of Money - 'Why Don't They Just Make It All Legal? He Asked - 'I Don't Think The Campaigns Of The Government In This Country Or America Are Doing Anything - I Think It's An Absolute Waste Of Resources, The Way They're Going About It')
Cocaine Find 'Biggest This Year' (The BBC Says Prohibition Agents Acted On A Hunch Rather Than A Tip-Off When They Found 13 Kilograms Of Cocaine They Valued At More Than £32.5 Million On A Ship In Liverpool, England)
Olympics Chief's Call To 'Go Soft' On Drugs Attacked ('The Scotsman' Says Leading Figures In British Athletics Reacted Angrily Yesterday To A Call By Juan Antonio Samaranch, The President Of The International Olympics Committee, For A Relaxation In Doping Restrictions)
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Wednesday, July 29, 1998:
Oakland Passes Groundbreaking Ordinance (Oakland, California Attorney Robert Raich, Who Represents The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, Says The Oakland City Council Early This Morning Unanimously Passed On Second Reading An Ordinance Designed To Shield Medical Cannabis Providers From Federal Civil And Criminal Liability Through A Novel Application Of The Controlled Substances Act)
July 28 Oakland City Council Meeting (A Local Correspondent Notes Council Member La Fuentes Changed His Mind, Opting To Protect Medical Marijuana Providers - The Heaviest Nay-Sayer Opponents Could Muster Was Lyndon LaRouche)
Final Approval Of Oakland Medical Marijuana Ordinance (A California NORML Press Release Provides More Details)
Peter McWilliams Special MAP Focus Alert And Funding Appeal (The Media Awareness Project Asks You To Write A Letter On Behalf Of The AIDS/Medical Marijuana Patient And Prisoner, Denied Vital Medication While Being Held Prior To His Federal Trial For $250,000 Bail)
Urgent! Re - Busted, Ravaged And Not Charged (A List Subscriber Asks You To Provide A Little Financial Help For The Reverend 'Gene' Weeks, And Forwards A Sad Update From The Medical Marijuana Patient Who Now Faces Homelessness Because The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Refuses To Comply With Proposition 215)
More Bad News In Orange County, California (A List Subscriber Angrily Passes Along The News That The Attorney Of Marvin Chavez Won't Appeal Friday's Ruling By Santa Ana Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzergald That The Founder Of The Orange County Cannabis Co-Op Cannot Use The California Compassionate Use Act Of 1996 As A Defence In His Upcoming Traffickng Trial, And Gave Up Former Co-Op Members' Medical Records Without A Fight)
Re - America's Drug Warrior (Six Letters To The Editor Of 'The San Diego Union Tribune' Criticize The Newspaper's Recent Staff Editorial Praising The US Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, For Trying To Spread Misinformation Abroad)
Corcoran Guards Thwarted Probe, District Attorney Tells Lawmakers ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says King County DA Greg Strickland Told Legislators Yesterday That Guards Used A Code Of Silence To Block His Investigation Of Brutality At California State Prison At Corcoran)
Union Pressure Helped Block Prison Probe, Prosecutor Says ('The Associated Press' Version In 'The Orange County Register')
Blowing It By Blowing Grass? (The Television Columnist For 'The San Jose Mercury News' Expects Controversy Next Month, When The Fox Network Will Premiere Its New Fall Sitcom, 'That '70s Show,' Which Includes A Scene In Which Three Of The Show's Main Characters Are Stoned From Smoking Marijuana In The Basement)
Drug Proposition Backers Want `Biased' Ballot, Booklet Changed ('The Arizona Daily Star' Says The Backers Of Arizona Proposition 300 Have Filed A Lawsuit Seeking To Revamp How Their Referendum Drive Is Described Both On The November Ballot And In Pamphlets Published By The Secretary Of State's Office, Contending The Wording Is Designed To Persuade People To Vote To Repeal Provisions Of Proposition 200, The Law That They Approved Only Two Years Ago)
Dopers Try Again For Legalization ('Arizona Republic' Columnist And Drug War Hawk David Leibowitz Rudely Characterizes Proponents Of Proposition 300 And Their Motives, Failing To Note Two Doctors Would Have To Justify Prescribing A Schedule 1 Substance By Citing Credible Scientific Research)
Brown Disturbed By Shooting, Has Faith In Houston Police Department ('The Houston Chronicle' Says Houston Mayor Lee Brown, The Former Police Chief In Houston And Portland, And President Clinton's First Drug Czar, Doesn't Think The Fact That Local Prohibition Agents Forced Their Way Into The Apartment Of An Innocent Man, Pedro Oregon Navarro, Without A Warrant And Shot Him 12 Times, Including Nine Times In The Back, Is Indicative Of A Larger Problem)
Some Say Hemp Products Send Wrong Message (A Knight Ridder News Service Article In The St. Paul, Minnesota, 'Pioneer Press' About The Resurgence Of Hemp Gives Ample Coverage To The Drug Warriors' Perspective)
Media Blitz Is Effective Against Drugs (An Op-Ed In 'The Chicago Tribune,' Whose Fact-Checker Is Apparently On Vacation, By General Barry McCaffrey, The US Drug Czar, Rationalizing The Government's New $2 Billion Advertising Campaign For The War On Some Drug Users)
Judge Allows Short Delay For Elderly Couple To Go To Federal Prison ('The Associated Press' Notes A 79-Year-Old Retired House Painter In New Haven, Connecticut, And His 72-Year-Old Wife, A Lifelong Homemaker, Are Going To Separate Prisons In Texas For Five Years Each For Laundering Money From The Cocaine Business Of Their Son Who Got A 55-Year Term - Another Son Got Six Years And A Daughter Got Five Years)
Driver Claims Viagra Caused Crash (The Bend, Oregon 'Bulletin' Notes A New Jersey Man Is Suing Pfizer For $110 Million Because Its New Drug For Impotence Caused A Blue Tinge Impairing His Vision)
Expulsions On Rise In Orange Schools (According To 'The Orlando Sentinel,' A School Board Report Says The Number Of Fifth-Grade Students Being Expelled From Schools In Orange County, Florida, Has More Doubled In The Last Three Years, And The Number Of Fourth-Graders Expelled For Such Offenses As Using Alcohol Or Other Drugs Has More Than Tripled)
60 Mexico City Police Suspended For Drug Use ('Reuters' Says The City's Attorney General, Samuel Del Villar, Told A News Conference That Nearly All The Officers Had Tested Positive For Cocaine Use)
British Columbia Cries Uncle ('Reuters' Says Vancouver Police Chief Bruce Chambers Is Among Those Voicing Support For A Plan Proposed By British Columbia's Top Medical Officials To Overhaul The Province's Anti-Drug Strategy That Could Eventually Include Free Prescription Heroin For Some Addicts)
British Columbia Seeks New Ways To Battle Drugs (The Complete 'Reuters' Story)
British Columbia Declares Defeat In Its War On Drugs ('The Toronto Star' Version)
Free Heroin Urged For Addicts As War On Drugs `Lost' ('The Vancouver Sun' Version)
British Columbia Seeks New Ways To Battle Drugs (The 'Reuters' Version)
Dosanjh, Priddy Just Say No ('The Province' In Vancouver Says British Columbian Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh And Health Minister Penny Priddy Want Traditional Methadone Treatment Programs Expanded Before Experimenting With A Heroin Maintenance Program)
Two US Pilots Die On Colombian Anti-Narcotics Mission ('The Dallas Morning News' Version Of Yesterday's News About The Aiplane Crash That Killed Two Coca-Dusting Instructors But No Students)
President-Elect Aims To 'De-Narcotize' Relations (Inter Press Service Notes Colombian President-Elect Andres Pastrana Will Meet With US President Bill Clinton On August 3)
Change Our Drug Laws (The 'Advertiser' Says The South Australian Police Commissioner, Mr Mal Hyde, Wants Substantial Changes To The State's Heroin And Cannabis Laws - Less Intervention With Heroin Users And More For Cannabis Users)
Policy Seen As Deadly Failure ('The Advertiser' Says Mr Hank Prunkhun, A Former National Crime Authority Intelligence Analyst And South Australian Police Researcher, Has Made A Two-Year Study Of Heroin Trafficking In Australia And Believes The National Heroin Trade Is Worth $2.9 Billion, That The Number Of Heroin Users Has Increased From 150,000 To 250,000 In 10 Years, And That Heroin Prohibition Is An Expensive, Deadly Failure And It Is Time For A New Approach)
Drugs In Sport - Why The IOC Boss Is Not Playing Games ('Sydney Morning Herald' Sports Columnist Matthew Moore Reflects On The Recent Call By Juan Antonio Samaranch, The President Of The International Olympics Committee, For A Relaxation In Doping Restrictions, Saying The Objections To Athletic Doping Are Fine Until You Argue Them Through To Their Logical Conclusion)
Trials To Begin Into Medical Use Of Cannabis ('The Scotsman' Says Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals Hopes To Begin Controlled Experiments Next Year On The Utility Of Marijuana As A Medicine For Relieving Pain And Muscle Spasms, Noting A Recent Survey By 'Disability Now' Showed That Almost 98 Per Cent Of The Magazine's Readers Backed The Legalisation Of Cannabis And 67 Per Cent Said They Had Taken Cannabis For Medicinal Reasons)
Cannabis Research Gets Growing (The Version In Britain's 'Times')
Riders Stop Tour De France Again In Protest Over Drug Scandal ('The Associated Press' Says Angry Bicyclists Stopped Racing Wednesday In Their Second Protest Over A Drug Scandal That Has Demoralized The Competition)
Despite Drug Scandal, People Still Cheer Tour De France (A Different 'Associated Press' Version)
Tour Must Exorcise Drugs Or Be Damned (The Editorializing 'International Herald-Tribune' Version)
Internet Child Porn Scandal Disgusts The Dutch (A Biased 'Associated Press' Article Suggests Dutch Drugs Policy Is Related To The Discovery Of A Netherlands-Based Ring That Trafficked In Internet Child Pornography)
Governing Body Of World Basketball Votes To Penalize Use Of Cannabis ('The Associated Press' Says The FIBA World Congress Meeting This Week In Athens, Greece, Voted To Penalize The Use Of Marijuana By Players In FIBA Competitions)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 57 (A Weekly Summary Of Drug Policy News, Including Part One Of An Original Feature Article By Jeffrey A. Schaler, PhD, 'The Drug Policy Problem')
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