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Thursday, September 10, 1998

The NORML Foundation Weekly Press Release (Governor's Signature All That Stands In The Way Of Freedom For Medical Marijuana User Originally Given 93 Year Sentence; Court Challenges Boost Hopes For Colorado, DC Medical Marijuana Initiatives; Patient's Glaucoma Justified Medical Marijuana Use, Cultivation, Canadian Judge Rules)
Oregon - Measure 57 And Measure 67 Poll (A List Subscriber Says A Poll By KPTV Channel 12 News In Portland Suggests The Ballot Initiative To Recriminalize Less Than One Ounce Of Marijuana Is Opposed By 51 Percent Of Voters, While The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act Is Favored By 64 Percent)
Hemp Voter's Guide Now Online! (A Bulletin From The Washington Hemp Education Network Publicizes Its Impressive Guide For Washington State Voters Interested In Cannabis Issues)
State May Receive $1 Million To Fight Methamphetamines (The Everett, Washington, 'Herald' Says The Money May Come From A $29.9 Billion Spending Bill To Fund The Treasury Department And Related Agencies That Cleared The Senate On A 91-5 Vote Last Week - The Newspaper Says Prohibition Agents In Washington State Last Year Found 203 Illegal Labs That Produce Methamphetamines, Up From 36 In 1990, But Omits The Rate Of Increase In Prohibition Agents)
HIV-Positive Participants Sought For Medical Marijuana Study ('The Bay Area Reporter' Publicizes Dr. Donald Abrams' Ongoing Research Into Pot And Protease Inhibitors At San Francisco General Hospital, Which Began In May And Is Slated To Run For Two Years - Because The Hospital Can Only Accommodate A Few Participants At A Time, A Continual Stream Of Enrollees Is Needed)
ACT UP/San Francisco Says Members Absconded With $9,000 In Medical Pot ('The Bay Area Reporter' Says Two Members, Chris Abbott And Carl McGarry, Allegedly Were Given Money To Buy Medicine For AIDS Patients But Disappeared In Two Separate Incidents)
Trial Ordered For Suspects In Death Of Teen Informer ('The Orange County Register' Says Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Stephen Marcus Ordered Michael L. Martinez, 21, Florence Noriega, 29, And Jose Ibarra, 19, To Stand Trial Wednesday For The Strangulation Of 17-Year-Old Chad MacDonald, Who Had Been Recruited By Police In Brea, California - MacDonald's Girlfriend Said Ibarra Raped Her Before The Three Suspects Drove Her To A Ditch, Choked Her With A Rope And Shot Her In The Face)
Prison Violence . . . Followed By A Pay Raise (A Staff Editorial In 'The San Jose Mercury News' Notes Prison Guards Were The Only State Workers Whom The California Governor And Legislature Deemed Worthy Of A Wage Increase This Year - Coming So Soon After Legislators Heard About The Brutality Of The Guards At Corcoran State Prison And Their Code Of Silence In Covering It Up, The 12 Percent Pay Raise Implied One More Official Sanctioning Of Bad Acts)
Conviction Of Drug Dealer In CIA Expose Is Upheld ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The US Court Of Appeals In San Francisco Yesterday Rejected An Appeal By 'Freeway' Ricky Ross, A Major Southern California Cocaine Seller Who Was A Central Figure In The 'Dark Alliance' Series Published By 'The San Jose Mercury News,' Which Suggested That The CIA Had Secretly Encouraged The Crack Cocaine Plague In The Early 1980s As A Funding Mechanism For The US-Backed Contras In Nicaragua - The Court Ruled There Is No Evidence Of Government Misconduct)
Colorado Town Adopts Fugitive As Folk Hero ('The San Jose Mercury News' Says Federal Prohibition Agents' Pursuit Of Neil Murdoch In Crested Butte, Colorado, Has Been Impeded By Residents' Widespread Refusal To Cooperate - The Fugitive And Widely Respected Member Of The Community Moved To Crested Butte 25 Years Ago After Jumping Bail In 1973 In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Where He Was Arrested As Richard Gordon Bannister For Intent To Distribute 26 Pounds Of Cocaine)
Drug War Masquerade (A Lengthy Account In 'The San Antonio Current' Of The Killing Of Esequiel Hernandez Jr., A High School Goatherder In Texas, By Camouflaged Marines Along The US-Mexico Border, Says Putting Troops In Such Places Is A Compromise - It Allows Congress To Appear Tough On Drugs, While Not Hindering Trade)
Marines Who Shot Teen Lacked Adequate Training, Report Says (An Updated 'Associated Press' Account In 'The Dallas Morning News' Of AP's Story Yesterday About Developments In The Case Of Esequiel Hernandez, Jr., Particularly The Military Report That Found The Camouflaged US Marines Who Killed The Texas Teenager Along The US-Mexico Border Were Not Adequately Trained For An Anti-Drug Operation Which Placed Them Among Civilians)
Marine Training Faulted In Fatal Border Shooting (A Different 'Associated Press' Version In 'The Orange County Register')
Court Rules School's Drug Policy Is Illegal ('The Indianapolis Star' Says The Seventh US Circuit Court Of Appeals Ruled Wednesday That A High School In Anderson, Indiana, Improperly Required A 15-Year-Old Student To Take A Drug Test In Order To Return To Classes After He Was Suspended For Fighting - During The First Semester The Policy Was In Effect, Only 18 Percent Of All Students Suspended For Fighting Tested Positive For Drugs)
NORML Doesn't Advocate Pot Use, Just Prohibition (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Daily Gazette' In Schenectady, New York, Rebuts The Newspaper's Past And Present Mischaracterizations Of NORML's Mission, Which Is To Advocate For An End To Prohibition)
Highlights Of Survey On Police Conduct ('The Associated Press' Selects A Few Highlights From A Recent Survey Of Connecticut Residents About Their Perceptions Of Police Conduct - 23 Percent Know Someone Who Has Been Physically Abused By Police)
Louis Armstrong, Tight Like Gage! (A List Subscriber Forwards A Cannabis Quote From The Great Jazz Musician)
'Annals Of Emergency Medicine' Presents New Studies On Alcohol Intoxicated Drivers, Marijuana Use, And Domestic Violence (PRNewswire Says A New Study In The September Issue Of The Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal, The First Population-Based Study Of The Relation Between Marijuana Use And Injury Incidence, Found That Marijuana Use Was Not Associated With Outpatient Injury, But Users Had More 'Personal Problems' And 'Employment Problems' - Like Most Persecuted Minorities - Another Study In The Same Issue Shows Alcohol Intoxicated Drivers Are Rarely Prosecuted Or Referred For Help)
New Drug Offers Fresh Approach To Depression (According To 'Reuters,' A Report In The Journal 'Science' Suggests An Experimental New Anti-Depressant Being Investigated By Merck And Company, MK-869, May Lead Researchers To Discover A Biochemical Link Between Depression And Pain)
Toronto, Ontario, Man Loses Bid For Legal Grass ('The Toronto Sun' Version Of Yesterday's News About AIDS Patient James Wakeford Losing The First Round Of His Medical Marijuana Lawsuit)
Two-Thirds Of Teens Try Drugs ('BBC Online' Says Researchers From The Department Of Social Policy And Social Work At Manchester University Who Followed The Progress Of 500 Ordinary British Youths From The Age Of 14 Until 18 Found That 64 Percent Had Tried Illicit Drugs And Around Three In 10 Were 'Recreational Drug Users' - The Study, Called 'Illegal Leisure - The Normalization Of Adolescent Recreational Drug Use,' Concludes That Recreational Drug Use 'Has Been Widely Accommodated Amongst British Youth')
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Friday, September 11, 1998:
Just Vote No On Measure 57 (A Bulletin From The American Antiprohibition League In Portland About The Oregon Ballot Measure That Would Recriminalize Possession Of Less Than One Ounce Of Marijuana Makes A Number Of Good Points, Such As That The State Says It Would Cost $1.2 Million To Enforce The New Law, Whereas The Legislative Record Suggests It Could Actually Cost As Much As $18 Million, But Only $300,000 Has Been Budgeted, Which Means Millions Of Tax Dollars Would Have To Come From Schools, Roads And Other Priorities)
Cayetano Supports Legalization Of Industrial Hemp ('The Associated Press' Says Hawaii Representative Cynthia Thielen, A Republican, Was The One Who Persuaded Democratic Governor Ben Cayetano)
Governor Supports Hemp Use ('The Hawaii Tribune-Herald' Version)
Yes On 692 (Timothy W. Killian, Campaign Manager For Initiative 692, Says 'The Seattle Post-Intelligencer' And KOMO Will Announce The Results Of A Statewide Poll Monday Suggesting 62 Percent Of Voters Favor The Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure Sponsored By Washington Citizens For Medical Rights)
Todd McCormick's Book On Growing Medical Marijuana (Peter McWilliams Of Prelude Press, A California Medical Marijuana Patient And Federal Defendant, Publicizes The Online Book By Co-Defendant Todd McCormick)
Customs Agent Pleads Guilty To Kickback Charges In Hashish Case ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says Senior US Customs Special Agent Frank Gervacio Has Pleaded Guilty To Accepting $4,000 From An Informant In The Case Of Thanong Siriprechapong, A Former Member Of The Thai Parliament Arrested In 1996 On Charges Of Smuggling 49 Tons Of Hashish Into The United States - Attorneys For Siriprechapong Want Charges Dismissed)
Over-Avid Policemen (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Orange County Register' Complains That Two Police Officers On Monday Walked From Group To Group At Aliso Creek Beach, Asking To Look In People's Coolers For Alcoholic Beverages)
Colorado Initiative On November Ballot (Dave Fratello Of Americans For Medical Rights Says A Denver Judge Ruled This Morning That Colorado Secretary Of State Victoria Buckley Wrongly Excluded Thousands Of Voter Signatures For The Medical Marijuana Initiative Sponsored By Coloradans For Medical Rights)
Loopholes Cited In Petition Process (According To 'The Rocky Mountain News' Version, A Temporary Clerk In The Colorado Secretary Of State's Office Said Her Group Of Ballot Petition Checkers Had Almost No Supervision Or Training And Didn't Understand The Rules For Rejecting Petition Signatures)
Author Calls Drug War A 'Disastrous Failure' ('The Ft. Worth Star Telegram' Covers A Talk At The Local Rotary Club By Mike Gray About His New Book, 'Drug Crazy')
Hemp's Benefits Outlined (According To 'The Bismarck Tribune,' A Study Directed By David Kraenzel Of The North Dakota State University Agriculture Economics Department Was Presented To The State Legislative Interim Commerce And Agriculture Committee Thursday Afternoon - The Report Says Industrial Hemp Has Potential As An Alternative Crop And Recommends That It Be Grown For Experimental Production And Processing)
Fee Increase Will Pay For Drug Testing ('The New Haven Register' Says Two Lifeguards In Orange, Connecticut, Who Were Fired Last Summer For Allegedly Possessing Marijuana On The Job Prompted Town Officials To Raise Parks Department Fees To Pay For A Random Drug Testing Program)
Ex-Cop Jailed, Stole Pot ('The Philadelphia Inquirer' Says Michael McCue, A Former Philadelphia Police Officer Who Was Assigned To A US Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force In The Early 1990s, Was Sentenced Yesterday To A Year And A Day In Prison By A Federal Judge For Stealing About 70 Pounds Of Marijuana In 1992 That He And A Partner Were Supposed To Destroy)
House Resolution 372 Scheduled For Next Week (A Bulletin From Americans For Medical Rights Says Congress Has Decided To Hold A Vote Next Week On The Anti-Medical Marijuana Legalism That Was Quietly Put On The Back Burner After The California Medical Association Endorsed Rescheduling Cannabis So Physicians Could Prescribe It)
North Texas Named High-Intensity Drug Zone ('The Dallas Morning News' Says The White House Drug Czar, General Barry McCaffrey, On Thursday Named Dallas, Tarrant And Collin Counties In Texas The 21st High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Under A Federal Program Begun In 1990 - The Region Will Reap As Much As $5 Million Extra In Federal Anti-Drug Money Next Year)
New Anti-Depression Drug Targets Different Brain Chemical (According To An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Seattle Times,' An Account Published Today In The Journal 'Science' Says Scientists With Merck And Company Have Stumbled Onto An Experimental Anti-Depressant That Targets A Mysterious Brain Chemical That Until Now, Doctors Did Not Know Was At Work In Mental Disorders)
Rising Star In Mexico Cocaine Trade Killed ('Reuters' Says Rafael Munoz Talavera, Who Was Allegedly Trying To Become The Godfather Of The Mexican Drugs Trade, Was Gunned Down Thursday In The Northern Border City Of Ciudad Juarez And Found Stuffed In An Armored Pick-Up Truck)
Cloud Over Mexican Anti-Drug Force (A 'Washington Post' Article In 'The International Herald-Tribune' Discusses The Investigation Into Systemic Corruption In Mexico's GAFE, Consisting Of US-Trained Airmobile Special Forces, Established In Response To Other Corrupt Mexican Law Enforcement And Military Groups)
Child Dealer Downs Coke During Raid ('The Province' In Vancouver, British Columbia, Says A 10-Year-Old Boy Who Swallowed 28 Rocks Of Cocaine During A Vancouver Police Sweep Of Hastings Street Is Recovering In Children's Hospital)
Top Cops And Money (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Edmonton Sun' Says The Drug War In America Was Set Up For Illegal Seizures Of Personal Property By Law Enforcement, Who Only Put More Drugs On The Street)
Moderate Drinkers 'Healthier' (An 'Ottawa Citizen' Article In The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Says The First Study Of Its Kind On Younger Adults, Carried Out On 9,605 British Men And Women By Dr. Chris Power At The Institute Of Child Health In London And Colleagues At The Australian National University In Canberra, Suggests The Link Between Alcohol And Its Effect On A Person's Health And Longevity Is Solidly Established By Age 33)
Junkie Justice (According To 'The Daily Telegraph,' Premier Bob Carr Said Yesterday Australia's First Experiment With American-Style Drug Courts Would Begin Next Year In Parramatta, New South Wales, With A $5 Million State Program Inspired By Theories Rather Than Evidence - Opposition Health Spokeswoman Jillian Skinner Said The Trial Was A Farce Because The Government Had Already Slashed Funding For Drug Treatment)
Cannabis Popular Among Teens ('The Daily Telegraph' In Australia Notes The Secondary Schools Survey, Completed In 1996 But Not Released Until Yesterday, Shows Cannabis Prohibition Has Led To About 40 Per Cent Of High School-Aged Boys In New South Wales And 31 Per Cent Of Girls Having Smoked Cannabis)
One Youth In 20 Has Tried Heroin - School Survey ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Version)
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 58 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original Summary Of Drug Policy News And Calls For Action)
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Saturday, September 12, 1998:
Pot Issue To Go On Ballot ('The Denver Post' Version Of Yesterday's News About The Medical Marijuana Initiative Sponsored By Coloradans For Medical Rights)
Medicinal Pot On Ballot (The Colorado 'Gazette' Version)
Marijuana Petition Back On Ballot ('The Rocky Mountain News' Version)
Rise Seen In Lake Teens' Use Of Marijuana ('The Chicago Tribune' Says A Survey Of Teen-Agers In Lake County, Illinois, Carried Out By The Center For Prevention Research And Development At The University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Suggests Marijuana Use Among High School Juniors Increased To 22.9 Percent, Up From 15.1 Percent In 1992 - When It Comes To Drugs Than Can Kill You, 27.1 Percent Smoked Tobacco, Compared With 30.3 Percent In 1992, And 38.7 Percent Consumed Alcohol, Down From 45.6 Percent Six Years Ago)
Study On DARE's Effectiveness From The University Of Illinois At Carbondale Is Now Online (List subscribers publicize the URLs for Adobe Acrobat and .html versions of the April 1998 study by Dennis Rosenbaum, "Assessing the Effects of School-Based Drug Education - a Six-Year Multi-Level Analysis of Project DARE," which finds the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program to be ineffective - or worse.)
Excuses For A Drug War (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Des Moines Register' Responds To A Comment Last Month By Former Pot Smoker Donna Shalala, Secretary Of The US Department Of Health And Human Services, About Statistics On Marijuana Use By Youths)
Marijuana Reformer Survives Challenge ('The Times Union' Says Tom Leighton, The Marijuana Reform Party Candidate In The New York Gubernatorial Race, On Thursday Won A Challenge To The Group's Petition Initiated By The Green Party) LI>Study Finds Treatment Aids Addicts ('The New York Times' Says A National Survey Released On Wednesday By The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration Of The Department Of Health And Human Services, Which Interviewed And Drug Tested 1,799 People Five Years After Their Discharge From Treatment Programs, Confirmed That Older People Were More Likely To Curtail Drug Use And Criminal Behavior Than Younger Ones, And That Women Responded Better To Treatment Than Men - Drug Use By Adolescents, However, Did Not Drop Significantly After Treatment, And The Number Who Smoked Crack Cocaine And Abused Alcohol Actually Rose)
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Sunday, September 13, 1998:
Lungren And Medical Marijuana (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Los Angeles Times' Says California Attorney General Dan Lungren's Campaign To Nullify The California Compassionate Use Act Shows He's Unfit To Be The People's Governor)
Pro-Pot Activist Arrested In Latest Marijuana Raids ('The Hawaii Tribune-Herald' Says County Council Candidate And Marijuana Law-Reform Activist Jonathan Adler Was Arrested On Felony Cultivation Charges After Helicopter Surveillance Led Police To 89 Plants At Adler's Home In Hawaiian Paradise Park - Adler Said The Plants Were For Medicinal Use)
Disorganized Crime ('The Dallas Morning News' Describes 'La Eme,' Also Known As The Texas Mexican Mafia, A Violent, Prison-Born Crime Organization In Which 'Everyone Is Expendable - When You Take Them Out, Whether It's The Leaders Or The Soldiers, There Is Someone To Take Their Place')
By The Numbers ('The Salt Lake Tribune' Notes The US Government Estimates Americans Spent $7 Billion Last Year On Marijuana, While NORML Estimates $7.5 Billion Was The Minimum Amount Federal, State, And Local Governments Spent Combating Marijuana)
Clinton Releases Drug-Fighting Grants; Atlanta Among Recipients ('The Atlanta Journal-Constitution' Says President Clinton Told Americans 'We Must Stay Focused On Your Business' And Released $8.7 Million Saturday In New Drug-Fighting Grants)
Drug-Fighting Money Released ('The San Francisco Examiner' Version)
Don't Go Soft On Cannabis ('The Mail On Sunday' In Britain Says Police Are Urging The Government Not To Legalise The Use Of Cannabis For Medical Treatment, Alleging That In 'Some' American States, Police Have Given Up Prosecuting Drug Users Because Courts 'Routinely' Accept Medical Usage As A Defence)
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Monday, September 14, 1998:
Democratic Oregon Legislators' E-Mail Addresses (A List Subscriber Forwards A List)
Poll Shows Some Voters Not Clear On I-200 Intent (An 'Associated Press' Preview Of November Ballot Measures Facing Voters In Washington State Notes Initiative 692, Regarding Medical Marijuana, Is Favored By 62 Percent)
Medical Marijuana, Higher Wage Favored But There's Opposition To Abortion Initiative (A Lengthier 'Seattle Post-Intelligencer' Version)
Longtime Pot-Smoker Seeks To Be Governor (A Feature Article In 'The Sacramento Bee' About Medical Marijuana Patient Steve Kubby, The Libertarian Party Candidate For California Governor)
LAPD Chief Bernard Parks' Daughter In Trouble For Drugs (An MSNBC Newscast By KNBC Says The 37-Year-Old Daughter Of Los Angeles' Police Chief, A Civilian Employee Of The Police Department, Was In A Las Vegas Courtroom Monday To Be Apprised Of Charges That She Drove A Car Used In The Alleged Sale Of 20 Grams Of Cocaine To Undercover Officers Last June)
Guarding The Truth About State Prison ('The San Jose Mercury News' Notes Campaign Discussions About The California Gubernatorial Race Are Skirting The Issue Of Brutality By Guards At Corcoran State Prison And Dan Lungren's Inability To Prosecute Anyone For It - Even As '60 Minutes' Is Planning A Piece About The 43 Inmates Who Were Wounded There And Seven Who Were Killed Between 1989 And 1995)
Alan Carter McLemore Update (A Letter From The Wife Of The Former Lawyer And Texas Medical Marijuana Prisoner Says His Motion For Sentence Reduction Was Finally Granted, Meaning He'll Be Released To House Arrest At Christmas, Or Outright Next June)
Tax On Illegal Drugs In Jeopardy (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Augusta Chronicle' Says A South Carolina Law Requiring Sellers Of Illegal Drugs Such As Marijuana To Pay Taxes May Be Nullified By A North Carolina Lawsuit Challenging A Similar Law)
First Ever Medicinal Marijuana Vote To Be On Tuesday - Finally (A Bulletin From The Marijuana Policy Project In Washington, DC, Says The US House Of Representatives Will Vote Tuesday On House Resolution 372, Now House Joint Resolution 117, The Anti-Medical Marijuana Vow Of Ignorance - Please Call Or Fax Your Representative Tuesday Morning)
Anti-Medical Use Vote In Congress (A Similar Bulletin From Keith Stroup Of NORML, Issued Earlier In The Day)
DARE To Hold Postmark Design Contest For Children Ages 8 To 12 (A PRNewswire Release From DARE America Indicates The Privately Owned, Police-Administered Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program Will Unveil A Winning Design At The White House On April 9, After Which It Will Appear On Millions Of Pieces Of Mail)
'Shattered Lives' - New Book Offer From DRCNet (The Drug Reform Coordination Network Publicizes A New Book Publicizing The Needless Suffering Of Drug War Prisoners - Join DRCNet And Get It A Discount)
Three More Bodies Found In Juarez ('The San Antonio Express-News' Says The Bodies - One Of A Wealthy Rancher - Were Found Stuffed In The Trunk Of A Car In The Border Town Of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, In What Police Said Friday Were Drug-Related Killings, Bringing The City's Toll For The Week To Seven)
Rising Star In Mexico Cocaine Trade Killed - Report ('Reuters' Says Rafael Munoz Talavera, Described By The US Drug Enforcement Administration As An Emerging Drug Kingpin, Was Gunned Down Thursday In Ciudad Juarez And Found Stuffed In An Armored Pick-Up Truck)
Cultivating A Following ('The Montreal Gazette' Says The Bloc Pot, A Quebec Group Recognized As An Official Political Party By The Chief Electoral Officer In March, Is Set To Run At Least 11 Candidates In The Next Election)
International Olympic Committee - No Jail For Suspect Athletes ('The Los Angeles Times' Says The IOC Declared Its Opposition Monday To Athletes Being Jailed For Taking Banned Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Rejecting Last Month's Proposal By The Australian Olympic Committee That The Penalty For Possession, Manufacturing, Trafficking Or Use Of Steroids Or Other Banned Substances Should Be The Same As Those For Illicit Drugs)
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Tuesday, September 15, 1998:
Assisted Suicide Supporters Say Bill To Overturn Law Ill-Timed ('The Associated Press' Says Congress Is Expected To Vote This Week On The Bill That Would Nullify Oregon's Death With Dignity Act - The State's Congressional Delegation Opposes The Legislation, And Opponents Are Accusing Sponsors Of Trying To Slip The Bill Through The US House Of Representatives In The Shadow Of The Presidential Sex Scandal)
Lawmakers Try To Shield Suicide Measure ('The Oregonian' Version)
Notorious Inmate Slain In Rec Yard At State Penitentiary ('The Oregonian' Says Mark Dean Davis, 31, Originally Sentenced To 20 Years For Five Counts Of Burglary And Possession Of A Controlled Substance In Multnomah County, Died Sunday Night After An Unknown Assailant Stabbed Him In The Torso - In 1989 He Took A Guard Hostage For 50 Minutes To Demand Cigarettes For All The Inmates)
Doctors Debate Medicinal Use Of Marijuana ('The Olympian' In Olympia, Washington, Covers A Discussion Among AIDS Physicians Monday About The Relative Merits Of Marinol Versus Initiative 692, The Medical Marijuana Initiative Facing State Voters In November)
DEA Raids Arcata Club (A Bulletin From California NORML Says 10 Federal Prohibition Agents Raided The Collective Medical Marijuana Garden Of The Humboldt Cannabis Center, Destroying More Than 150 Plants With The Assistance Of Four State Agents - Nobody Was Arrested, And It's Not Clear Whether The Marauders Had A Warrant Or How They Gained Entrance, But It Shows How Medical Marijuana Patients Who Try To Cooperate With Local Authorities Can Be Harmed When Local Drug Warriors Hand Off Information To The Feds)
Gene Weeks (A List Subscriber Says The California Medical Marijuana Patient Recently Busted Without Being Arrested Has Been Taken To The Hospital After Suffering An Apparent Heart Attack)
LAPD Chief's Daughter Arraigned In Drug Case ('The Los Angeles Times' Version Of Yesterday's News About The 37-Year-Daughter Of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, Charged In Las Vegas With Trying To Sell 20 Grams Of Cocaine)
LAPD Chief's Daughter Facing Drug Counts ('The Orange County Register' Version)
LA Police Chief's Daughter Faces Drug Charges (The 'Reuters' Version)
Another Patient Arrested Protesting US House's Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution (A Bulletin From The Marijuana Policy Project In Washington, DC, Says Multiple Sclerosis Patient Renee Emry Of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Was Busted For Smoking A Joint In The Office Of Florida Republican Bill McCollum, Who Sponsored House Joint Resolution 117)
Medical Marijuana Patient Arrested In Representative McCollum's Office (The Drug Reform Coordination Network Version)
Medical Marijuana Resolution (A List Subscriber Says House Joint Resolution 117 Has Passed With 317 Yes Votes, 93 No Votes And 25 Abstentions)
House Says Marijuana Should Not Be Legal For Medical Use ('The Associated Press' Version)
House Joint Resolution 117 - Congressional Record (A List Subscriber Posts The URL For The Full Text Of The Congressional Debate)
Sense Of Congress Regarding Marijuana (The Complete Text Of The Congressional Record With Members' Comments On House Joint Resolution 117, The Anti-Medical Marijuana Legalism)
Uses Of Marijuana - Request For Contributions (A List Subscriber Forwards An Advertisement From 'The New York Review Of Books' By Dr. Lester Grinspoon And William Novak, Seeking Personal Testimonials From Those Who Use Marijuana For Medical And Other Reasons)
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Wednesday, September 16, 1998:
Fifty Police Raid Bill Conde (A List Subscriber Breaks The News About A Massive Police Action Against The Marijuana Law Reform Activist In Harrisburg, Oregon)
Man Who Throws Annual 'Cannabis Carnival' Arrested ('The Associated Press' Version)
Man Who Throws Annual 'Cannabis Carnival' Arrested (A Lengthier 'Associated Press' Version)
Cannabis Carnival Activist Arrested (The Version In The Bend, Oregon 'Bulletin')
Marijuana Activist Arrested In Raid (The Version In The Eugene, Oregon 'Register-Guard')
Pot Battle Shifts To Ballot Box (An Op-Ed In 'The San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune' Favors Patients' Rights To Medical Marijuana But Says The Fate Of Proposition 215 Likely Will Be Determined In November By Who California Voters Elect As Governor And Attorney General)
County Seeks To Shut Down 'Drug' Fest ('The Herald-Bulletin' In Anderson, Indiana, Says A Letter From The Madison County Prosecutor's Office Has Threatened Criminal Charges And Forfeiture Action Against The Hosts Of This Year's Hoosier Harvest Fest, A Rally Dedicated To The Decriminalization Of Marijuana, To Be Held September 25-27 At Pine Lakes Campground In Pendleton)
House Votes To Oppose Medical Marijuana Use ('The San Francisco Examiner' Notes The US House Of Representatives Voted 310-93 Tuesday For House Resolution 117, Sponsored By Republican Bill McCollum Of Florida In Response To 1996 Ballot Initiatives Approved In California And Arizona That Allow Physicians To Prescribe Marijuana To Treat Symptoms Of Illnesses)
House Joint Resolution 117 Watered Down (A Bulletin From California NORML With The Text Of The Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution Approved Yesterday Notes The Language Is Less Extreme Than That Contained In Its Forerunner, House Resolution 372)
Find Out How Your Representative Voted On House Joint Resolution 117 (A List Subscriber Posts The URL)
Re - Find Out How Your Representative Voted On House Joint Resolution 117 (A List Subscriber Says Oregon Representatives Furse, Blumenauer, And DeFazio Voted 'No,' While Smith And Hooley Voted 'Yes')
Vote Of California Delegation On House Joint Resolution 117 (A California NORML Tally Finds The State's Congressional Representatives Voted 26 To 23 To Oppose The Anti-Medical Marijuana Resolution)
Reefer Madness or Federalism? Congress and States Head for Showdown over Medical Marijuana Cultivation (An analysis of House Joint Resolution 117 from the web site of Californians for Compassionate Use, associated with Dennis Peron.)
The Good, The Bad, And The Useless (A List Subscriber Forwards The Roll Call Tally Of Who All Voted How On House Joint Resolution 117)
Admiral James M. Loy, USCG, On The Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act (The Text Of Congressional Testimony On Behalf Of The US Coast Guard Suggests The Admiral Would Like All The New Money Included In The Legislation And More, But Spent More Wisely, And The Mission Of Reducing The 'Flow Of Drugs Into The United States 80 Percent By The End Of 2001 Is Overly Optimistic And Is Not Achievable')
Barry R. McCaffrey On the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act (The Text Of The Testimony Presented By The White House Drug Czar To The Senate Foreign Relations Committee And The Senate Caucus On International Narcotics Control)
US Links Top Mexican Agents To Traffickers ('The New York Times' Says That After US Government Experts Traveled To Mexico Late Last Month To Administer Routine Lie-Detector Tests, The US Now Thinks Most Of The Top Investigators Of An Elite Mexican Police Unit That Was Trained By Americans May Have Ties To Drug Traffickers - 'You Have To Assume That Everything We've Been Giving Them Has Ended Up In The Hands Of The Traffickers,' Said A Senior US Law-Enforcement Official - 'It's A Disaster')
Colombia's Way To Halt Drugs And War At Once ('The Christian Science Monitor' Explains Why Colombia's US-Financed Coca-Eradication And Crop-Substitution Programs Have Increased The Total Area Of Coca Production Every Year Since 1992, From 91,000 Acres To About 200,000 Acres)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 64 (Special Back To School Issue - Feature Article - Who Is Starting College This Fall? By Nora Callahan Of The November Coalition; Child Dealer Downs Coke During Raid; Baby Was Used To Conceal Smuggled Drugs; Two-Thirds Of Teens Try Drugs; One Youth In 20 Has Tried Heroin - School Survey; Rise Seen In Lake Teens' Use Of Marijuana; In Schools Drug Testing Policy Ruled Unconstitutional; Marines Who Shot Teen Lacked Adequate Training, Report; LA Cops Accuse A Colleague; Iowa's Forfeiture Law Takes The Profit Out Of Crime; Drug Pipe Report Spurs City Probe; Drug Seizure Laws Ripe For Abuse; Mike Gray Featured Guest Live Online Saturday - Legalize-USA Web Page Hosts; DrugSense Tip Of The Week - Marsha Rosenbaum Op-Ed In 'San Francisco Chronicle' - A Mothers Advice About Drugs; Special Focus Alert - 'Mademoiselle' Magazine, Circulation 1.2 Million, Discusses Medical Marijuana; Quote Of The Week; Fact Of The Week)
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