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Thursday, August 13, 1998

NORML Weekly News (Cannabis Club Staff Designated As Officers Of City Of Oakland; Oregon Democrats Oppose Marijuana Recriminalization Effort; DC Medical Marijuana Petitioners Challenge Initiative Count; ACLU's Stance On Marijuana In New York Times Attacked By Drug Czar's Office; International Marijuana Symposium To Be Held In London)
119 Women Inmates' Return To Oregon Set ('The Oregonian' Says The Inmates Housed At A New Mexico Prison Will Be Returned To Oregon By The End Of November Under An Order Issued Tuesday By State Corrections Department Director Dave Cook, Who Said He Made The Decision Because A Woman's Chances Of Succeeding After Release From Prison Are Greatly Enhanced By Proximity To Her Family And Children During Incarceration)
Oakland Names 'Official' Marijuana Supplier ('Reuters' Notes The City Of Oakland Thursday Formally Designated Staff At The Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative To Be Officers Of The City - Under The Federal Controlled Substances Act, 'City Officers' - Usually Taken To Mean Undercover Law Enforcement Agents - Cannot Be Prosecuted For Selling Controlled Drugs Within The Scope Of Their Official Duties)
Oakland Makes Pot Club Staff Agents ('The Associated Press' Version)
Oakland Designates Pot Club Staff As City Agents ('The Contra Costa Times' Version)
NPR Report Of Oakland Marijuana Strategy (A List Subscriber Posts The URL For A RealAudio Version)
Re - Oakland Names 'Official' Marijuana Supplier (Robert Goodman, A List Subscriber And Libertarian Candidate For Comptroller Of New York State, Reminds Everyone It Was He Who Brought The Clause In The Controlled Substances Act To The Attention Of The Right People)
Chavez Story Update (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' By An Attorney Representing Marvin Chavez, The Medical Marijuana Patient And Co-Founder Of The Orange County Patient, Doctor, Nurse Support Group, Denies Printed Allegations Robert Kennedy And He Won't Defend Chavez Aggressively)
Action Alert - Marvin Chavez Hearing (A List Subscriber Urges Medical Marijuana-Rights Supporters To Attend A Hearing Tomorrow At The Orange County Central Courthouse, Where Chavez's New Judge, Frank F. Fasel, Will Announce Whether He Will Reverse The Previous Judge's Ruling Preventing Chavez From Using A Proposition 215 Defense)
Peron Packs Up Former Pot Club ('The Bay Area Reporter' Interviews Dennis Peron As He Joins With Friends And Supporters In Removing Things From The Site Of The Former San Francisco Cannabis Healing Center At 1444 Market Street)
Judge Denies Bail In $1.1 Million Cash-And-Drugs Case ('The Fesno Bee' Says US Magistrate Judge Sandra M. Snyder Refused To Set A Bail Amount For Victor L. Brown Of Fresno, Charged After Prohibition Agents Turned Up $1.1 Million In Cash And 220 Pounds Of Cocaine, And Told His Court-Appointed Lawyer That Brown Must Remain In Custody Because He Is A Flight Risk Facing 'Incredibly Serious' Consequences If Convicted)
Narcs Have No Evidence (A Letter To The Editor Of 'New Times' In California Refers To The Case Of Nickolaus Kopp And Howard Leasure To Point Out That Things Like Proof And Evidence Simply Do Not Matter To Narcomaniacs Out To Make A Drug Bust - In The World Of Narco Doublethink A Person Is Guilty If The Drug Warriors Say So)
House Blaze Leads To Man's Drug Arrest (According To 'The San Francisco Chronicle,' Police Say A Man House-Sitting For His Ill Mother In Concord Attempted To Make Methamphetamine In Her Garage And Accidentally Started A Fire That Torched The House)
Secrets For The Newcomer (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Hawaii Tribune Herald' Says There Exists A Big Secret That Can't Be Mentioned When Discussing Hawaii's Economic Depression, A Big Secret That Can't Be Mentioned When Discussing Official Corruption - Cannabis Is The Economic Backbone Of The Big Island - What Happens To The Cannabis Crop Is Much More Relevant Than Anything Alan Greenspan May Pontificate)
Clothes But No Cigar - Hemp Campaign Comes Up Empty ('Boulder Weekly' Describes The Campaign By The Agricultural Hemp Association-Voter To Get An Industrial Hemp Initiative On The Colorado Ballot In 2000)
Judge Upholds Leniency Deal Made To Obtain Testimony (A 'Reuters' Article In 'The Washington Post' Notes US District Judge Richard P. Matsch In Denver Made A Ruling Wednesday At Odds With A Controversial Decision July 1 By The 10th US Circuit Court Of Appeals In Denver That Prosecutors Who Offer Leniency To Cooperative Witnesses Are Engaging In Bribery - The Judge Said Leniency Deals Are Specifically Authorized By Law, But 'Reuters' Doesn't Say What Law)
US Judge Backs Leniency Deals For Testimony (A Different 'Reuters' Version)
Prison Officials Request 2,000 High-Security Cells - Board May OK Almost $100 Million For Project (According To 'The Associated Press,' Texas Prison Officials Say They Need 2,000 More High-Security Single-Inmate Cells To House Prison Gang Members And Others In Solitary Confinement - Do The Math And It Comes Out To $50,000 Per Bed)
Police Stage Successful Drug Interdiction ('The Indianapolis Star-News' Says Nearly 25 Prohibition Agents Stopped Drivers In Random Groups Of Five Thursday Near Indianapolis, In Addition To Drivers They Saw Do Something Like Throw Contraband Out The Window In View Of Police Cars)
Judge Unleashes Wrath At Gang Leader ('The Chicago Tribune' Says Federal Judge George Marovich Wednesday Told A Jury To Disregard The Testimony Of Imprisoned Gangster Disciples Leader Larry Hoover, Who Said During The Drug Conspiracy Trial Of Five Other Gang Members That The Gangster Disciples Had Evolved Into A Community Development Organization - An Argument That A Jury Rejected At Hoover's Trial Last Year)
Waukegan High School Says No To Drug Tests ('The Chicago Tribune' Says A Proposal To Explore The Issue Made Last Month By School Board Member Patricia Foley Was Dropped Tuesday Night After District Officials Said Such A Policy Could Raise Constitutional Questions)
Man's Urine Test Shows He's Pregnant ('The Associated Press' Says An Ohio Man Whose Second Urine Test Came Up Positive For Cocaine, After His First Test Was Disallowed, Was Sentenced To One Year In Prison, Even Though He Was Eligible To Receive Only Probation For His Original Charge Of Theft)
Hempstock Begins Four Days Of Music, Food ('The Bangor Daily News' Says More Than 8,000 Fans Are Expected To Descend On The Somerset County Town Of Starks For The Eighth Annual Festival Sponsored By Maine Vocals, Beginning Today)
Mothers And Others . . . Ending The War On Drugs (A List Subscriber Publicizes The Boston To Washington, DC, Walk 'N' Roll On Behalf Of Medical Marijuana Patients Beginning October 3 - And Compassionate Moms, An E-Mail List For Females Only)
Lawyer Admits To Conspiring With Drug Dealers ('The Associated Press' Says A Lawyer In The Bronx, Pat V. Stiso, Has Agreed To Quit Practicing Law And Admitted His Role In A Heroin Distribution Group While Pleading Guilty To Charges That Could Send Him To Prison For Life)
Hemp Debate Gets Bumper Crop Of Attention ('The Lexington Herald-Leader' Describes Wednesday's 'Lopsided' Debate On The Merits Of Industrial Hemp At The Louisville Forum, Featuring Woody Harrelson, A Retired DEA Agent, A Canadian Hemp Farmer, Andy Graves, The Lexington Farmer And President Of The Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association Whose Father, Jake Graves, Grew Hemp During World War II)
Actor Harrelson Plays Lead As Forum Airs Hemp Issue (The Louisville, Kentucky 'Courier-Journal' Version)
High Hope Unrealistic, But Hemp's Worth A Try (A Different Version By Louisville, Kentucky 'Courier-Journal' Columnist Bob Hill)
Mexican Police Find Three More Victims Of Drug War ('Reuters' Says Three Bodies Showing Signs Of Torture Found In A Car Trunk In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Bore The Hallmarks Of The Region's Powerful Cocaine Cartels, Like Four Communications Experts Found Dead Last Week Who Had Been Hired To Install Anti-Eavesdropping Devices For The State Police)
Mexico Arrests Nine Elite Soldiers On Drug Charges ('Reuters' Says The Elite Soldiers Had Been Working At The Capital's Airport For Almost Two Years, Replacing Agents Of The Attorney General's Office Who Who Had Been Removed After Being Accused Of Corruption - The Newspaper 'El Universal' Said Thursday 20 Soldiers Had Been Arrested In Possession Of 550 Pounds Of 'Drugs' While Trying To Gain Passage On A Flight To The United States For 120 Illegal Immigrants From Honduras, El Salvador And Guatemala)
Calling Dr. Dope ('Eye' Magazine In Toronto Describes The Personal And Legal Factors Behind AIDS Patient James Wakeford's Lawsuit Demanding The Canadian Government Provide Him With Medical Marijuana, Just Like Any Other Drug)
BC MP In Heroin Crusade ('The Toronto Star' Says Vancouver New Democrat Member Of Parliament Libby Davies Wants To Forge A Political Coalition To Fight For The Prescription Of Heroin To Addicts)
British Columbian Plan For Drug Treatment Admirable ('Financial Post' Columnist Diane Francis In Ontario's 'London Free Press' Endorses Heroin Maintenance Programs)
Ex-Colombian Minister Seeks Asylum In Costa Rica ('Reuters' Says Colombia's Former Energy And Mines Minister, Who Fled His Country After Being Charged With Taking Money From Drug Traffickers, Has Sought Political Asylum In Costa Rica - Colombia Earlier This Week Asked Costa Rica To Extradite Alvaro Leyva)
Colombians Say Army Ignored Massacre, Failure To Protect Town ('The Washington Post' Says A Massacre Of Civilians May 16 In Barrancabermeja By Paramilitary Death Squads Aided And Abetted By The Military Explains Why The United States Is Supposedly Conditioning Its Support For The Colombian Military On Its Willingness To Break Ties With The Paramilitary Forces, Which Have Been Operating For More Than 30 Years)
US DEA Chief, Colombian President Patch Up Ties ('Reuters' Says Thomas Constantine Met Colombia's New President, Andres Pastrana, Thursday In The Latest Sign That Washington Was Recovering Its Dented Confidence In Bogota's Commitment To The War On Some Drug Users)
Colombia's Fight Against Drug Trafficking (According To 'The Associated Press' Version, Colombian National Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano Said Thursday The Police And Army Expect To Receive $208 Million In US Aid Next Year)
US Will Help Colombia Coca Growers Switch To Other Crops ('The New York Times' Version)
Overdose Lifts Deaths To Nine At Private Jail ('The Age' In Australia Says A 24-Year-Old Inmate Was Found Dead From A Suspected 'Drug' Overdose In Port Phillip Prison Wednesday - The Ninth Death In Custody Since The Privately Run Prison Opened Last August)
Politicians Call For Legalisation Of Hemp (According To The Eastern Cape News Agency In South Africa, NP MPL Sakkie Louw Said During A Debate In The Provincial Legislature In Bisho That His Party Supported A Proposed Investigation Into The Feasibility Of Letting Farmers Grow Hemp)
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Friday, August 14, 1998:
DEA Attacks Peron Lake County Cannabis Farm (A Press Release From Californians For Compassionate Use Notes Heavily Armed DEA Agents Targeting Dennis Peron Uprooted 130 Plants Germinated By Proposition 215, For The Second Time Harming Medical Patients, Acting On Both Occasions As Judge, Jury And Executioner)
City Takes Charge Of Medicinal Pot ('The Bulletin' In Bend, Oregon, Notes The Oakland City Council Has Deputized Staff At The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative In Accordance With The Federal Controlled Substance Act In Order To Prevent The Government From Shutting It Down)
Defiant Oakland Adopts Pot Club ('The Sacramento Bee' Version - Plus Commentary From An Informed List Subscriber)
Oakland Deputizes Medical Pot Club ('The San Francisco Examiner' Version)
Oakland Club To Distribute Pot On City's Behalf ('The Los Angeles Times' Version)
Oakland Begins Providing Marijuana To Ease Pain ('The Seattle Times' Version)
Oakland Designates Cannabis Co-Op Staff As City Agents ('The Associated Press' Updates Its Version From Yesterday)
Oakland Deputizes Pot Club ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Version Incorrectly Says 'State Law Allows' Medical Marijuana Patients To Possess Only One Ounce Of Medicine, The Interpretation Of California Attorney General Dan Lungren, Nemesis Of Proposition 215)
Oakland Seeks To Shield Sellers Of Medicinal Pot ('The Orange County Register' Version)
Marijuana Club Given Official Role In Oakland ('The Chicago Tribune' Version)
Oakland To Supply Marijuana Officially ('The Boston Gobe' Version)
Oakland Tries To Protect Medical Sales Of Marijuana ('The New York Times' Version)
A Clockwork Orange - Judge Dredd Goes On Vacation ('OC Weekly' Notes Marvin Chavez, The Medical Marijuana Patient And Co-Founder Of The Orange County Patient, Doctor, Nurse Support Group, Has A New Judge In His Trial - Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzgerald, Whose Chambers Boast A Poster Of The Sly Stallone Sci-Fi Flick, 'Judge Dredd,' Was Replaced By Judge Franklin Fasel, Who May Reverse Fitzgerald's Decision Not To Allow Chavez A Proposition 215 Defense)
Dave Herrick Moved To Wasco Prison (A List Subscriber Forwards A Letter From The Medical Marijuana Patient And Former San Bernardino County, California Sheriff's Deputy Just Sentenced To Four Years In Prison By An Orange County Judge After Not Being Able To Invoke Proposition 215 In His Defense)
Gherkin Behind A Mask (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The San Francisco Chronicle' Reminds Voters That Dan Lungren Shouldn't Be Elected Governor Of California Because He Defied The Will Of Voters In Thwarting Proposition 215)
Davis And Lungren Pandering On Crime (Another Letter To The Editor Of 'The San Francisco Chronicle' Rejects The Traditional Bidding War To See Who Is 'Tougher On Crime' Waged By The Two Leading California Gubernatorial Candidates)
White House War On Drugs Vs. Watanabe (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' From James R. McDonough, Director Of Strategy For The White House Office Of National Drug Control Policy, Cites Selective But Unbelievable Statistics Trying To Refute A Previous Letter To The Editor)
Bail Denied For Man Accused Of Smuggling ('The Orange County Register' Says A Man Suspected Of Smuggling 550 Pounds Of Cocaine Across The Mexican Border In A Twin-Engine Cessna 320 Was Denied Bail Thursday When He Appeared In Federal Court In Los Angeles)
Alaska Will Vote In '98 (Dave Fratello Of Americans For Medical Rights Confirms AMR Collected Enough Signatures For Its Alaskan Medical Marijuana Initiative)
The DARE Debate - Austin Police Kick Drug Prevention Program ('The Austin Chronicle' Notes The City Of Austin, Texas, Has Become The Latest In A Series Of Large Cities - Including Seattle, Washington, And Oakland, California - To Ditch The Government's Favorite Drug Education Program, Administered Across The United States At A Cost Of About $750 Million Annually, Despite Its Proven Ineffectiveness)
Death Payoff Won't Fix Border Control Policy ('Dallas Morning News' Columnist Richard Estrada Says The United States' Agreement To Pay $1.9 Million To The Survivors Of Esequiel Hernández Jr., The 18-Year-Old Shot To Death On His Family's Ranch By US Marines Patrolling The Texas-Mexico Border, Won't Camouflage A Border Control Policy That Continues To Drift)
Hemp Controversy Growing On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ('The Associated Press' Notes Members Of The Oglala Sioux Tribe Are Moving Forward With Plans To Cultivate Hemp, Even If They Have To Take The Drug Enforcement Administration To Court - Hemp Has Grown Wild For Decades On The Reservation In South Dakota Despite The DEA's Repeated Attempts To Eradicate It)
Pine Ridge Eyeing Hemp As Cash Crop (A Lengthier 'Associated Press' Version In South Dakota's 'Rapid City Journal')
Hemp - Hope For The Future (Another Version In The Rapid City, South Dakota 'Indian Country Today')
Three Cops Indicted In $8,000 Extortion ('The Chicago Tribune' Says Chicago Police Officers John Labiak, Rodney Carriger And Ernest Hutchinson, Who Allegedly Broke Into An Apartment Without A Warrant And Demanded $8,000 From A Couple In Exchange For Not Arresting Them For A Small Amount Of Marijuana And Two Guns, Have Been Indicted On Charges Of Home Invasion, Armed Robbery And Official Misconduct)
Urine Test Traps 'Pregnant' Male Thief ('The Toronto Star' Notes An Ohio Man Whose Second Urine Test Came Up Positive For Cocaine, After His First Test Was Disallowed, Was Sentenced To One Year In Prison, Even Though He Was Eligible To Receive Only Probation For His Original Charge Of Theft)
Court Helps Pot Protest Get Permit ('The Associated Press' Says Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol Ball On Friday Persuaded Officials From The City Of Boston Not To Block MassCan's Ninth Annual Freedom Rally October 3 At Boston Common - The Judge Also Scheduled A Hearing Later This Month On Restrictions Sought By The City, Including A Requirement That All Speakers And Performers Discourage Marijuana Smoking)
Sheriffs May Sue Over Jail Crowding (According To 'The The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,' Georgia Sheriffs Say They Will Sue The State If The Next Legislature And Governor Do Not Take Action To Ease The Pressure On Crowded Prisons)
CDC - One In Five Teen-Agers Carries A Weapon Or Drives After Drinking ('The Associated Press' Says A New Survey Of 16,262 High School Students Nationwide, Released Thursday By The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Suggests One In Three Teen-Agers Gets Into Fights, Almost One In Every Five Carries A Weapon Or Drives After Drinking, And Almost One In 10 Attempts Suicide - Black And Hispanic High School Students Are More Likely Than Their White Counterparts To Be A Threat To Others By Carrying Weapons Or Fighting, But Whites Are More Likely To Hurt Themselves By Driving After Drinking Alcohol And White Teen-Agers Were Nearly Twice As Likely As Hispanics To Smoke Frequently Or Chew Tobacco)
Many Teens Live On The Edge, Study Finds ('The Chicago Tribune' Version)
Double Standard On Drug Testing In Congress (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Gazette' In Schenectady, New York, By Walter Wouk Of NORML, Says The Reason Young People Are Apathetic About Politics Is The Hypocrisy Evidenced Recently When The House Of Representatives Rejected Mandatory Urine Testing For Themselves After Overwhelmingly Passing The 'Drug Free Workplace Act Of 1998' For Everyone Else)
Congress, Your Hypocrisy Is Showing - Plan To Drug-Test Politicians Is Killed (A News Release On The Same Issue From The Libertarian Party Headquarters In Washington, DC)
Court Reverses Landmark Tobacco Ruling ('Reuters' Says A Three-Judge Panel Of The US Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals, With One Judge Dissenting, Ruled In Richmond, Virginia, Friday That Congress Did Not Give The US Food And Drug Administration Regulatory Jurisdiction Over Tobacco Products)
Canada May Supply Heroin To Addicts ('The Associated Press' Says Authorities In Vancouver, British Columbia, Are Dismayed By A Horrific Death Toll From So-Called Heroin Overdoses - 224 People In BC This Year, Up 40 Percent From Last Year - And Are Nudging Canada Steadily Closer To Breaking A North American Taboo By Supplying Heroin To Addicts)
Go Beyond The Surface Of Drug Debate (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Weekend Edition' In Victoria, British Columbia, Critiques The Reasoning Of Government Officials Opposed To Instituting Heroin Maintenance Programs)
Airport Seizure Of Cocaine Was Unlawful, Court Rules ('The Toronto Star' Says Mr. Justice Terrance O'Connor Issued A Ruling Thursday In Ontario That Canadian Customs Officers Can Only Search Passengers, Not Detain Them, And Compelling Urine Samples Or Bowel Movements Was Intrusive)
Premier Softens Law On Cannabis ('The West Australian' Says The Court Government, In A Big About-Face, Will Relax West Australia's Cannabis Laws On A One-Year Trial Basis In The Mirrabooka And Bunbury Police Districts.By Moving To A Cautioning System For First-Time Offenders Caught With Less Than 50 Grams, Who Will Not Be Charged But Will Be Forced To Undergo An 'Education Program')
Drugs Cautions 'Not New' ('The West Australian' Says That, According To The Alcohol And Other Drugs Council Of Australia, The Government's Announcement That It Would Caution Rather Than Arrest First-Time Offenders For Possessing Small Amounts Of Cannabis Would Merely Formalise What Police In West Australia Have Been Doing For Years)
Court Red-Faced At Praise For Drugs 'Backdown' ('The Australian' Says The West Australian Government Appeared Embarrassed Yesterday By Its Surprise Decision To Adopt A Softer Approach To Small-Time Cannabis Users, With Ministers Refusing To Accept The Praise Of Reform Groups)
Court Uncertain On Cannabis Law (A Staff Editorial In 'The West Australian' About The Limited One-Year Experimental Cautioning System For First Offenders, Which Begins October 1 In The Mirrabooka And Bunbury Police Districts Of West Australia, Says The Trial Should Have Covered The Entire State, And The Government Should Give A Precise Definition Of The Criteria To Be Used To Judge The Success Or Otherwise Of The Trial)
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 54 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original News Summary)
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Saturday, August 15, 1998:
Weed And Seed (The Cannabis Liberation Society In Eugene, Oregon, Draws Attention To Upcoming Meetings In Eugene Of A Scary-Sounding Federally Funded Anti-Crime Group About Which 'Only The Correct People Have Been Informed')
Proposition 215 Disallowed In Chavez Case (The Long Beach, California 'Press-Telegram' Notes A Second Judge, Frank F. Fasel, Has Thwarted The Will Of California Voters Regarding Marvin Chavez, Co-Founder Of The Orange County Patient, Doctor, Nurse Support Group)
Medicinal-Marijuana Seller Loses A Ruling ('The Los Angeles Times' Version)
Cannabis Co-Op Founder Told Proposition 215 No Defense ('The Orange County Register' Version)
Peron's Pot Plants Uprooted ('The San Francisco Examiner' Says For A Second Time, DEA Agnts Have Raided A Lake County, California Cannabis Farm Run By San Francisco Medical Marijuana Activist Dennis Peron - About 20 Agents Ripped And Ran Friday Morning Without Even Busting Peron Or Nine Others Tending 151 Plants)
Ex-Los Alamitos Officer Gets Jail For Stealing Drug Evidence ('The Orange County Register' Notes The Same County That Sentenced Medical Marijuana Patient David Herrick To Four Years In Prison For Possessing A Little Medical Marijuana In Baggies Marked 'Not For Sale' Sentenced Former Los Alamitos Police Officer David Conte To One Year In Jail Friday For Stealing Methamphetamine From His Department's Evidence Locker, Thefts That Prompted The Dismissal Of Several Pending Cases)
Slain Teen Informant's Family Sues Brea Police ('The Orange County Register' Says Survivors Of Chad Allen MacDonald, A 17-Year-Old Tortured And Killed Whose Girlfriend Was Also Beaten And Raped, Have Filed A Lawsuit Against The Brea, California Police Department, Alleging That Officers Coerced Him Into Working As A Drug Informant And Failed To Adequately Protect Him - Jeff Wertheimer, The City's Lawyer, Said 'Chad MacDonald Was A Drug Dealer . . . . Drug Dealers Die All The Time')
The Business Of Dealing Drugs (A Staff Editorial In 'The Chicago Tribune' Suggests Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist Was Wrong To Dismiss A Study Of Inner City Sellers Of Illegal Drugs Researched Under The Direction Of Criminologist John Hagedorn At The University Of Illinois At Chicago)
Judge Says City Erred In Barring Marijuana Rally ('The Boston Globe' Says Superior Court Judge Carol S. Ball Ruled The First Amendment Requires The Boston Parks Department To Issue A Permit For The Annual Hempfest, Which Is Expected To Draw 75,000 To 100,000 People - MassCan's Advocacy Of Civilly Disobedient Marijuana Smoking Does Not Allow The City To Deny The Permit)
Marijuana Rally Sponsors Decry Permit Denial ('The Houston Chronicle' Version)
City Must Issue Permit For Pro-Dope Rally On Common ('The Boston Herald' Version)
DEA Targets City Cop ('The Standard-Times' In New Bedford, Massachusetts, Says New Bedford Police Officer Mark Bulbulian Been Indicted By A Federal Grand Jury On Charges Of Conspiracy, Extortion And Bribery For Allegedly Taking A Payoff In 1996 To Tip Off A Cocaine Dealer About A Major Investigation Closing In On Him)
$2 Million Worth Of Marijuana Plants Uncovered ('The Associated Press' Says A Police Helicopter Doing Aerial Surveys Spotted About 1,500 Mature Marijuana Plants Friday Growing Along The Fringes Of An Airport In The Buffalo, New York, Suburb Of Cheektowaga - Police Valued Each Plant At $1,333.33)
Giuliani Orders Five City Hospitals To Wean Addicts Off Methadone ('The New York Times' Says New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Has Followed Through On His Promise To Cut Methadone Maintenance Programs, And Will Unilaterally Effect A Policy Change So That In About 60 Days, Approximately 2,000 Heroin Addicts Treated At City Hospitals Will Generally Not Be Allowed To Obtain Methadone For More Than Three Months)
Teens, Armed And Dangerous ('The Associated Press' Version In 'The International Herald-Tribune' Of Yesterday's News About The New Survey Of 16,262 High School Students Nationwide, Released Thursday By The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Which Suggests One In Three Teen-Agers Gets Into Fights, Almost One In Every Five Carries A Weapon Or Drives After Drinking, And Almost One In 10 Attempts Suicide)
Drug War Facts - Medical Marijuana (An Update From Common Sense For Drug Policy Includes A List Of Organizations That Have Endorsed Medical Access To Marijuana)
FDA Can't Regulate Tobacco, Court Rules (A Knight Ridder News Service Article In 'The Seattle Times' Says A Three-Judge Panel Of The Fourth US Circuit Court Of Appeals In Richmond, Virginia, Ruled 2-1 Thursday That Tobacco Control Is The Business Of Congress, Accused The US Food And Drug Administration Of Trying To Create A National Tobacco Policy Behind The Backs Of Lawmakers, And Stripped The FDA Of Its Power To Regulate The Manufacture And Sale Of Tobacco)
When Truth Gets Lost Amid Trivia (An Op-Ed In Wisconsin's 'Capital Times' Says The New Issue Of FAIR's Magazine, 'Extra!,' Examines Media Bias And Discovers A Washington Press Corps Far Out Of Touch With The American People - It's Not That Journalists Are Right Wingers, Per Se, But That They Are Defenders Of The Status Quo, While The American People Are Inclined Toward Reform)
Heroin Use Among Young People Is Increasing In England And Wales ('The British Medical Journal' Notes The New Report From The Home Office Police Research Group)
Junky Genes (Britain's 'New Scientist' Discusses Research At The University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine Suggesting That Slight Genetic Variations May Make The Difference Between A Person Being Unlikely To Abuse Heroin And Being Predisposed To It)
Deaths In Prison Custody ('The Irish Times' Publishes Statistics For The Years 1990 To 1998 From The Department Of Justice In Dublin)
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Sunday, August 16, 1998:
Lane County Fair (The Cannabis Liberation Society In Eugene, Oregon, Is Seeking Volunteers To Hand Out Information Tuesday Through Sunday, August 18-23)
Why Must I Suffer At The Hands Of The Law? (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' From A 75-Year-Old, Terminally Ill Cancer Patient In A Hospice Who Wants His Medical Marijuana)
Tricky Questions On Medical Marijuana (Another Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' Wants To Know How The Local District Attorney Would Deal With Certain Policy Questions Such As Patients' Privacy And Property Rights)
Proposition 215 On Trial In The McWilliams Case (An Op-Ed In 'The Orange County Register' By William F. Buckley Jr. Recounts The Federal Case Against Peter McWilliams, The Best-Selling Author And Medical Marijuana Patient-Activist)
Drug Dealer Benefited From Agencies' Strife ('The San Francisco Examiner' Says Between 1963 And 1992, Norwin Meneses, A Former Bay Area Resident, Allegedly Killed Two Men, Sold Stolen Cars, Traded Guns, Smuggled 'Massive' Quantities Of Cocaine And Boasted That He Had Ties To The CIA And Was Supporting Contras Trying To Topple Nicaragua's Sandinista Government - But The 407-Page US Department Of Justice Inspector General Report Of July 1998, Prompted By The 1996 'Dark Alliance' Series In 'The San Jose Mercury News' About The CIA-Contra-Cocaine Scandal, Concluded Meneses Had No CIA Connection And Made Only Modest Contributions To The Contras, And The Failure To Prosecute Him Was A Result Not Of Federal Intervention On His Behalf But Of Long-Standing Problems In Federal Anti-Drug Efforts)
A Smuggler, The DEA And The FBI Source ('The San Francisco Examiner' Provides A Chronological Outline Of The Career Of Contra-Cocaine Smuggler Norwin Meneses, Excerpted From The US Department Of Justice's Inspector General Report Of July 1998)
Protesters Seek Jail Time For Officers Linked To Immigrant Killing ('The Houston Chronicle' Says A Small Group Of Demonstrators Continued To Agitate Saturday In Houston For Prison Terms And Other Penalties For The Officers Who Shot Pedro Oregon Navarro 12 Times, Nine Times In The Back, After Breaking Into His Apartment Without A Warrant)
Officers Had No Warrant In Fatal Drug Raid (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Dallas Morning News' Compares The War On Some Drug Users That Killed An Innocent Houston Man, Pedro Oregon Navarro, With Something Out Of Nazi Germany, Noting 'None Of Us Are Safe Any More')
Society To Face Rising Cost Of Aging Prison Population - Experts Wonder If Texas System Can Keep Up With A Trend Toward Longer-Term Sentencing ('The Dallas Morning News' Suggests The State With The Highest Rate Of Incarceration In The World Has Its Own Day Of Reckoning Coming)
Mayor Steps Up His Criticism Of Methadone Programs ('The New York Times' Says The Day After New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Announced Plans To Take 2,000 Heroin Addicts Off Methadone, He Stepped Up His Attack On Such Treatment Programs, Accusing Them Of Enslaving Former Drug Users Instead Of Pushing Them Toward Abstinence)
Not A Smoke Screen (A Staff Editorial In 'The Louisville Courier-Journal' In Kentucky Agrees With Woody Harrelson - 'It's Silly To Let Farmers And The Environment And The Economy Lose Out Because Of Paranoia About Drugs,' Adding That What Kentucky Needs Isn't More Celebrity Gawking, But Folks Brave Enough To Stand Up And Make The Case For Hemp)
Webber Fined For Marijuana ('The Associated Press' Says Chris Webber, The Sacramento Kings Basketball Player, Was Fined $500 For Carrying Marijuana In His Luggage While Passing Through The Airport In San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Woman Cites US Trickery In Drug Case ('The Los Angeles Times' Says A Mexican Investment Counselor Entrapped By US Agents During The Massive 'Operation Casablanca' Money Laundering Sting Was Threatened With Violence When She Tried To Back Out)
President To Propose Relaxed Sentence For Marijuana Possession (According To 'The Associated Press,' The Government Of Guyana Will Move To Phase Out Mandatory Jail Sentences For People Caught With Small Quantities Of Marijuana, Guyanese President Janet Jagan Said Sunday)
New Colombian Environment Minister - Crop Eradication Program A Failure (According To 'The Associated Press,' Juan Mayr, A Renowned Conservationist, Was Quoted By Bogota's 'El Tiempo' Newspaper Saying The Aerial Crop-Spraying Program Favored By The United States To Reduce Colombian Cocaine And Heroin Production Had Failed, And He Would Seek Alternatives)
Drug Clinics Might Be 'Necessary Evil' / Drug Clinic Better Than Nothing (An Article And Letter To The Editor Of 'The Canberra Times' Discuss The Increasing Demand For Government-Run Heroin Injecting Clinics In The Australian Capital Territory)
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Monday, August 17, 1998:
Drug Importer Sentenced To 30 Years, Fined $2 Million ('The Associated Press' Says Robert Charles Tillitz Of Crescent City, California, Was Sentenced Friday In Seattle By US District Judge Robert J. Bryan For Hiring Others To Pick Up 50,000 Pounds Of Hashish Offshore And Deliver It To A Dock In South Bend, Washigton, In August 1992)
Pot Advocates Replant After DEA Raid ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The San Francisco Group Californians For Compassionate Use, Led By Dennis Peron, Spent The Weekend Planting 130 New Cannabis Plants At A Farm In Lake County, Two Days After Federal Agents Confiscated A Fully Grown Crop There)
The Court And Proposition 215 ('The Orange County Register' Reverses Itself In A Staff Editorial That Says It's Not Unreasonable To Prevent Medical Marijuana Patient Marvin Chavez From Invoking Proposition 215 Against Charges Arising From His Work For The Orange County Patient, Doctor, Nurse Support Group)
Oakland's Pot Officers (A Staff Editorial In 'The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The Oakland City Council's Use Of A Federal Anti-Drug Law To Legalize The Distribution Of Medical Marijuana Through The Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative Was A Clever Bit Of Lawyering - The Legislature Should Design A System Of Legal Medical Marijuana Distribution And Leave It To Local Communities To Decide If They Want A Hometown Dispensary)
Activists Seek To Limit Three-Strikes Law Sentencing ('The Los Angeles Times' Describes A Group Of Orange County Activists Called Families To Amend Three Strikes, Part Of A Cadre Of Southern Californians Seeking To Limit The Use Of California's 1994 Law To Cases Involving Violent And Especially Serious Crimes)
16-Year-Old Boy Charged In Shooting Of Officer ('The Chicago Tribune' Says A Plainclothes Prohibition Agent Who Was Shot While Watching The Free Market In Action At A Chicago Housing Project Amid A Gang War Clung To Life Sunday As The Suspect's Mother Said Her Son 'Was At A Party Until 4 In The Morning - I Have 20 Other People Who Saw Him There')
Bribery Suspected In Major Drug Trial (According To 'The Chicago Tribune,' Sunday's 'Miami Herald' Said A Juror Who Bought A Cadillac And A Rolex After Serving In The 1996 Trial Of Two Reputed Cocaine Kingpins Is Under Investigation For Allegedly Accepting A Bribe, Even Though The Jury Voted Unanimously For Acquittal)
Congressional Republicans Play Role Of 'Big Brother' (An Op-Ed By Joanne Jacobs Of 'The San Jose Mercury News' In 'The Salt Lake Tribune' Faults The Reasoning Behind An Education Bill Sponsored By Representative Mark Souder, An Indiana Republican, That Would Suspend Federal College Loans To Students Convicted Of Using Marijuana And Coerce Them Into Rehab, Although It's Estimated A Third Of College Students Use Marijuana)
Clearing The Air About Hemp (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Wall Street Journal' From Erwin A. Sholts, Chairman Of The North American Industrial Hemp Council, Dispels Some Misconceptions And Provides The URL For The NAIH's Recent White Paper, 'Hemp And Marijuana - Myths And Realities')
Parole And Probation Use Continues To Grow (According To A Brief Item In 'The Daily Herald' In Illinois, The US Justice Department's Bureau Of Justice Statistics Said Sunday That A Record 3.9 Million Men And Women Were On Probation Or Parole In The United States At The End Of 1997, An Increase Of 2.9 Percent - Nearly One Out Of Every 35 Adults In The United States Is In Prison, In Jail Or On Probation Or Parole)
More Than 3.9 Million Americans On Probation Or Parole ('The Associated Press' Version In 'The Seattle Times')
3.9 Million People Are On Probation Or Parole In US ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Version)
American Psychological Association Passes Resolution Opposing Mandatory Minimums (The Largest Association Of Psychologists In The World, With More Than 155,000 Members, Passed A Resolution Sunday Urging The Phasing Out Of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws On The Federal And State Level - 'For Drug-Related Offenses That Do Not Involve Drug Trafficking And When No Other Offense Or Harm To Others Is Involved, And The Proper Emphasis On Prevention And Treatment Of Substance-Related Problems As An Alternative To And In Addition To Legal Actions')
DEA Drives Off The Old Guard ('Insight On The News' Says Changing Times Brought On By Janet Reno Have Forced Many Of The Drug Enforcement Administration's 'Jurassic Narcs,' The Most Experienced, Toughest Agents, Into Early Retirement, And Alleges With A Straight Typeface Their Departure May Be Great News For 'Drug' Cartels)
The War On Drugs - Race Falls Out Of The Closet (A List Subscriber Posts An Excerpt From Jerome G. Miller's Book, 'Search And Destroy - African-American Males In The Criminal Justice System,' Including Footnotes, Providing Shocking Documentation Of The Depth Of Racial Bias Inherent In The War On Some Drug Users And Sellers)
McCaffrey Preparing Push To Create Border Drug Czar - Official Would Coordinate Host Of Federal Agencies (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Dallas Morning News' Recycles A Two-Week-Old Story)
Cocaine Plane Scandal Rocks Nicaraguan Elite ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says Arnoldo Aleman, The President Of Nicaragua, Allowed Himself To Be Flown Around Earlier This Year In A Plane Allegedly Owned By A Cuban American Named Jose Francisco Guasch, Who Also Used The Plane, Stolen From An Airport In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, To Transport Large Quantities Of Cocaine, According To Nicaraguan Police)
Rebels Slash Colombian Army In Fierce Clashes ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says Colombia's Army Suffered Another Bloody Setback Over The Weekend As Dozens Of Soldiers Were Killed And Captured In Clashes With Guerrillas The Newspaper Characterizes As 'Leftist')
Brazilian Authorities Destroy 37-Acre Pot Farm (According To 'Reuters,' Globo Network Television Said Monday That Brazilian Military Police Spent Three Days In The Interior Of The Northeastern State Of Pernambuco Destroying Some 65,000 Marijuana Plants With Spades, Hoes And Tractors)
State Government Launches Policy To Curb Student Drug Abuse ('The Australian Associated Press' Says The Western Australian Government Has Launched A Policy Guide For Schools Aimed At Reducing Drug Abuse Among Young People - While The Government Is Concerned About Alcohol, Tobacco And Other Drug-Related Problems, The AAP Shows Traditional Mass Media Bias In Printing Statistics For Marijuana Use Rates, But Not Those For Alcohol Or Tobacco)
Red Tape Cuts Drug Arrests (Australia's 'Daily Telegraph' Says Drug Arrests Have Dropped By Up To 80 Per Cent In Some Sydney Patrols Because Complex New Laws Are Restricting The Number Of Undercover Police Operations)
Support For ACT Heroin Clinics (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Canberra Times' Hails News That There Are Moves Afoot To Establish Safe Injecting Clinics For Addicted Heroin Users In The Australian Capital Territory)
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Tuesday, August 18, 1998:
Police Disperse Protesters On MLK ('The Oregonian' Says Portland Police Fired Shotguns At African-Americans Who Tried To Assemble Peaceably On Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard In A Protest Against Police Who Broke Up An Earlier Black Community Celebration At Sellwood Park In The Name Of Fighting Drug 'Gangs')
MBA-Toting Cocaine Dealer Sentenced To Prison ('The Associated Press' Says Michael F. Hipps, Dealer To Portland's Upper Crust, Was Sentenced Monday To 16 Months In Prison - David B. Peters, A Former Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney, Was The Only One Prosecuted Among Those Named In Hipps' Address Books, But So Far 11 Others Involved In Distributing The Cocaine Have Been Prosecuted - The Man Who Sold Hipps The Business Allegedly Told Him He Had Been Paying Police For Protection And Hipps Would Have To Do The Same)
Cocaine Dealer To Upscale Portlanders Gets Prison ('The Oregonian' Version Doesn't Say Why Or By Whom The Allegation About Payoffs To Portland Police Was Deemed False)
Eight Die From Pills Prescribed Under Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law (An 'Associated Press' Update On Those To Date Who Have Used The State's Unique Law Established By Voters)
10 Get Drugs Under Oregon Suicide Law ('The Oregonian' Account Of The First Report Issued Tuesday By The Oregon Health Division Notes Two Patients At One Point Wanted To Use The Law But Chose Not To)
Initiative 692 Goes Beyond Partisan Politics (An Op-Ed In The Olympia, Washington, 'Daily Olympian' By A Thurston County Democratic Party Official Urges Voters To Support The Medical Marijuana Initiative Sponsored By Washington Citizens For Medical Rights)
'War On Drugs' Should Not Include Medicinal Pot Use (An Op-Ed In 'The Daily Olympian' By A More Conservative And Ignorant Representative Of The Evergreen Freedom Foundation Says Initiative 692 Is Being Backed By 'Billionaire Socialist' George Soros, But Nevertheless The War On Drugs Should Not Be Waged Against Medical Marijuana Patients)
Marijuana Busts Are Waste Of Time (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Olympian' Says Prohibition Agents Should Target Harder Drugs Instead)
Ex-Customs Agent Gets Maximum In Drug Case ('The San Antonio News-Express' Says Former US Customs Agent Timothy Wade Davis Was Sentenced To 71 Months In Federal Prison Monday In Texas For Possession With Intent To Distribute Marijuana)
The Mayor's Crusade Against Methadone (A Staff Editorial In 'The New York Times' Says Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Moralistic Initiative To Deprive Heroin Addicts Of Methadone, Introduced Without Public Debate Or Discussion, Will Harm Addicts Without Reducing The Scourge Of Heroin Use In New York City)
Planned Hemp Facility A First (According To 'The Winnipeg Free Press,' Douglas Campbell, General Manager Of Consolidated Growers And Processors Of Canada Ltd., Said The Company Will Announce By November The Site In Rural Manitoba Of A New $6 Million Hemp Processing Plant Expected To Create About 30 Jobs When It Opens, By July 1999)
Halifax Should Profit From Busts - Councillor ('The Halifax Daily News' Says Albro Lake Councillor Clint Schofield, A Member Of The City Police Commission In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Wants The Province To Share Its Proceeds-Of-Crime Account With Municipalities, Since They Pay For Law Enforcement)
Department Hushes Up Boom In Student Drug Use ('The Australian' Says A $100,000 Survey Of 5,200 New South Wales Students Completed In October 1996, Showing Significant Increases In The Use Of Alcohol, Cannabis And Illicit Drugs, Has Been Quashed By The State's Education Department)
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Wednesday, August 19, 1998:
Measure 67 Cover Story (A Letter To The Editor Of 'Willamette Week' In Portland Finds Its 'Dope With Dignity' Article To Be Favorable, And Urges Voters, Especially Conservatives, To Support The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act)
Protest Brings Differing Accounts ('The Oregonian' Describes An Attempt By African-Americans To Assemble Peaceably In Northeast Portland, Only To Have Police Shoot Them - The Protest Was Directed Against Police Who Broke Up A Black Community Celebration At Sellwood Park, In The Name Of Fighting Drug 'Gangs')
The West Hills Cocaine Caper (The 'Willamette Week' Version Of Yesterday's News About An Upper Crust Portland Cocaine Dealer)
Armored Vehicles, Helicopter Used In Drug Bust ('The Associated Press' Says Federal Prohibition Agents Raided Two Non-Operational Methamphetamine Labs And A Psilocybin Mushroom Operation Tuesday In Grants Pass, Oregon, In Rural Jackson County, Arresting Four Men And A Woman)
Seattle Concert To End The Drug War August 25 (A Seattle List Subscriber Publicizes A Benefit Concert Tuesday At The Ballard Firehouse Featuring The Swamp Doggies, Keith Anderson, And Tribute)
Will Foster Is Getting Released (A List Subscriber Says The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Patient Sentenced To 93 Years In Prison For Cultivation Will Be Granted Parole, According To A Telephone Call From Foster's Wife)
Marijuana Case Sentence Slashed By Appeals Court (According To 'The Tulsa World,' The Oklahoma Court Of Criminal Appeals Said Monday That Will Foster's 93-Year Prison Term For Marijuana 'Shocks Our Conscience,' And Modified It To 20 Years)
Arbitrator Reinstates St. Paul Sergeant Fired For Drug Use ('The Minneapolis Star-Tribune' Says Sergeant Cregg Brackman, Minnesota's Top Sex-Crime Investigator In 1997, Will Return To The St. Paul Police Department Despite His Being Fired In February For Using Marijuana, Because The Department Didn't Have A Zero Tolerance Policy On 'Drug' Use)
Drug Issues (A Nonsensical Letter To The Editor Of 'The Chicago Tribune' From James R. McDonough, Director Of Strategy For The White House Office Of National Drug Control Policy, Claims The Drug Czar's Insistence On Misrepresenting The Facts Doesn't Justify Calling Him A Liar)
Crime Chicago Style ('The Chicago Tribune' Interviews A Conservator At The Illinois State Archives Who Thinks The Most Interesting Documents She's Seen Are The Chronicles Of 'Homicides And Important Events' Meticulously Kept By The Chicago Police Department During Alcohol Prohibition From 1920 To 1930 - The Homicides From 1870 To 1910 Fit Into One Book, The Homicides From 1911 To 1920 Fit In Another, But It Took Three Separate Books To Register The Mayhem In Chicago's Roaring '20s - 'Oh My God, The Spousal Abuse - The Women Trying To Kill Themselves And Their Children . . . To Actually See It All In Print, It Just Boggled My Mind,' Said Archivist Dottie Hopkins)
Giuliani's Methadone Proposal Is Backed By Little Evidence ('The New York Times' Responds To Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Crusade Against Methadone Maintenance Programs With A News Account Explaining Why Such Programs Are Needed In New York - Although No Studies Have Been Done, Clinicians Say More Than Four Out Of Five Patients Return To Using Heroin Within Months Of Giving Up Methadone, With Deleterious Physical, Psychological And Social Effects)
Media Alert - 'PrimeTime Live' On ABC Tonight (A List Subscriber Says The Television News Show Will Examine The Mysterious Death Of Jamel Radcliff In The Greenville, South Carolina, County Jail, Only A Few Hours After The African-American Man Was Arrested At His Restaurant Job For A Minor Marijuana Charge)
Drug Smoking Linked To Lung-Cancer Risk (The Scientifically Illiterate 'Orange County Register' Fails To Say If The US Government Funded The New Propaganda Reported In 'The Journal Of The National Cancer Institute,' Carried Out By Other Government Employees At The University Of California At Los Angeles, Purporting To Show That Marijuana Use 'Might' Cause An Increased Risk Of Lung Cancer, Ignoring The Fact That Not A Single Case Of Lung Cancer Or Other Cancer Has Been Attributed To Cannabis Use - Probably Because Other Studies Have Shown Repeatedly That Marijuana Shrinks Tumors)
Marijuana, Crack Smoking Linked To Lung Cancer ('The Reuters' Version Notes The Subjects Were All Residents Of Los Angeles, Whose Polluted Air May Have Had A Significant Effect)
US Launches Covert Program To Aid Colombia (According To 'The Dallas Morning News,' Several Sources Who Spoke On Condition Of Anonymity Said That Tens Of Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Are Going Into Covert Operations Across Southern Colombia Employing US Special Forces, Former Green Berets, Gulf War Veterans And Even A Few Figures From Covert CIA-Backed Operations In Central America During The 1980s - Some Have Been Involved In Direct Combat With Colombian Guerrillas)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 60 (A Weekly Summary Of Drug Policy News From The Media Awareness Project, Including The Drug War Fact Of The Week - 85 Percent Of The Increase In The Federal Prison Population From 1985 To 1995 Was Due To Drug Convictions, According To The US Department Of Justice's Bureau Of Statistics' 'Prisoners In 1996')
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