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Thursday, September 17, 1998

The NORML Foundation Weekly Press Release (Ninety-Three Members Of Congress Stand Up For Medical Marijuana; Colorado Medical Marijuana Initiative Will Appear On November Ballot; University Study Gives Green Light For Hemp Cultivation In North Dakota; DEA Raids Humbolt Cannabis Center, Destroys Patients' Medicine)
Harrisburg Concert Results In 39 Citations ('The Statesman Journal' In Salem, Oregon, Says William Conde Was Charged With State And County Violations Wednesday For Holding The 'Cannabis Carnival' At His Rural Lumberyard This Month)
Measure Filled With Pain (An Excellent Staff Editorial In 'The Orange County Register' Opposes Henry Hyde's Bill In Congress That Would Nullify Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law, Noting, For Example, It Exacerbates The Problems Of Undertreated Pain And The Demand For Assisted Suicide By Making An Impossible Requirement That Pharmacists Second-Guess Physicians' Motives For Writing Some Painkiller Prescriptions)
Study Could Stall Attack On Assisted Suicide Law ('The Oregonian' Says That With The US House Of Representatives Scheduled To Vote Today On Henry Hyde's Bill To Nullify Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law, The Clinton Administration Attempted To Stall The Legislation Yesterday By Proposing A National Commission To Study The Use Of Pain-Killing Drugs By The Terminally Ill)
Doctors Team With Law Enforcement To Launch Medical Marijuana Review Panel Program ('The Contra Costa Times' Says Physicians And Law Enforcement Officials In Sonoma County, California, Have Created A Patient Case Review Panel That Offers Benefits To Physicians And Law Enforcement Officials, But None To Patients Protected By Proposition 215, Who Would Be Forced To Allow Cops To Inspect Their Homes And Otherwise Require Them To Jump Through A Bunch Of Illegal Hoops)
Houston DARE Study Online (List subscribers publicize the URLs for Adobe Acrobat and .html files with the recent report that led the city of Houston, Texas, to cancel its DARE program.)
DC To Vote On Medical Marijuana ('The Associated Press' Says It's Official - The District Of Columbia Board Of Elections Has Placed Initiative 59, Sponsored By ACT UP!, On The November 3 Ballot - In A Characteristic Response, The US House Of Representatives Amended Its Version Of A Bill Appropriating Money For The District Of Columbia To Make It Illegal To Spend Money Carrying Out The Initiative, Which Would Prevent Officials From Printing The Ballot Or Processing Its Results)
A Nonsense Resolution (A Staff Editorial In 'The Orange County Register' Criticizes The US House Of Representatives For Passing House Joint Resolution 117, Saying Congress' Opposition To Medical Marijuana Ignores Evidence Both Anecdotal And Factual, And Borders On The Inhumane)
Drug Search Barred At Fed Buildings ('The Associated Press' Says The Ninth US Circuit Court Of Appeals In San Francisco Ruled Thursday In A Case From Hawaii That Heightened Security Rules For Searches At Federal Buildings Imposed After The Oklahoma City Bombing Are Unconstitutionally Allowing Guards To Look For Drugs)
Drug Czar Wants Interdiction Bill To Lose In Congress ('The Orange County Register' Says That As The US House Of Representatives Voted To Add $2.6 Billion Over Three Years To Drug-Interdiction Efforts, General Barry McCaffrey Was Urging Lawmakers To Reject The Legislation As An Ill-Conceived Exercise In Micromanagement Possibly Motivated By Election-Year Politics)
House OKs $3.2-Billion Measure To Bolster The Fight Against Drugs ('The Los Angeles Times' Version)
City Cops Use US Agents In Drug Bust ('The Vancouver Province' In British Columbia Says Vancouver Police Used Four US Navy Undercover Agents To Gather Evidence For A Marijuana Bust At Hemp BC And The Cannabis Cafe)
Market Forces Cut Heroin Price (The Toronto 'Globe And Mail' Suggests Low Demand Rather Than Increased Supply Explains Why The Street Price Has Plummeted And Purity Has Increased In The Past Five Or Six Years - While A Gram Of Heroin Might Have Sold For About $700 In Toronto A Decade Ago, It's Now Readily Available For $100 To $200)
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Friday, September 18, 1998:
No On Measure 67 (A Staff Editorial In The Bend, Oregon, 'Bulletin' Opposes The Statewide Ballot Measure On Medical Marijuana, Saying 'It's Anybody's Guess How Medical Necessity Would Be Determined, Except Subjectively,' Despite The Text Of The Initiative, Which Clearly Indicates Doctors Licensed In Oregon Would Determine Medical Necessity Based On Their Professional Expertise)
House Doesn't Take Up Bill To Derail Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law ('The Associated Press' Says The US House Of Representatives Didn't Get Around To Taking A Vote Scheduled For Thursday On The Legislation Sponsored By Henry Hyde - Prospects For A Vote Friday Were Unclear)
Radford Woman Sues Drug Test Lab Over Lost Job ('The Roanoke Times' In Virginia Says Melissa Simpkins Is Seeking $400,000 From The Laboratory Corporation Of America After Being Denied A Job At Corning Glassworks In Christiansburg Because Her Urine Test Indicated She Had .25 Percent Alcohol In Her Blood)
MPP Pleasantly Surprised With First Congressional Vote (A Bulletin From The Marijuana Policy Project In Washington, DC, Finds Silver Linings In Tuesday's Vote For House Joint Resolution 117, Against Medical Marijuana Patients)
Focal Point - Marijuana Regulation (The Lindesmith Center, A New York Drug Policy Reform Group, Publicizes Some Interesting And Important New And Old Documents Just Uploaded To Its Web Site - One Report Of Particular Interest To Oregon Voters Who Haven't Yet Made Up Their Minds About Ballot Measure 57, Which Would Recriminalize Possession Of Less Than One Ounce Of Marijuana, Is 'Effects Of Decriminalization Of Marijuana In Oregon,' The 1976 Study By Paul H. Blachly In The 'Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences,' Which Found That Since The Abolishment Of Criminal Penalties In 1973 For Simple Possession Of Marijuana, 'Significant Medical Problems Resulting From Marijuana Use Have Decreased')
Massacre In Mexico ('The San Jose Mercury News' Says At Least 19 Men, Women And Children Were Shot To Death Thursday Near The Resort Town Of Ensenada In Baja, Mexico, 60 Miles South Of San Diego, In What Police Said Could Be A Drug-Related Massacre Ordered By Leaders Of One Of Mexico's Biggest Trafficking Cartels)
Police Search For Clues In Mexico Massacre (The 'Reuters' Version In 'The San Jose Mercury News')
Gunmen Kill 18 In Mexico ('The Dallas Morning News' Version)
Pot Needed For Health, Says Accused ('The Edmonton Sun' Says John Klaver, An Edmonton, Alberta, Firefighter Charged With Growing And Selling Marijuana At His Stony Plain Home, Says He Was Forced To Start A Hydroponic Operation To Help Cope With Ill Health)
US General Sees Turning Of Corner In Colombia ('Reuters' Says Marine General Charles Wilhelm, Commander In Chief Of The US Southern Command, Or SOUTHCOM, Said Thursday That With A New President And A Change In The Armed Forces Leadership, There Were Signs Colombia Was 'Turning The Corner')
Troops Get The All-Clear To Dose Up On Energy Drugs ('The Sydney Morning Herald' Says Australian Military Troops Have Been Officially Cleared To Use Performance-Enhancing Chemicals, Including Drugs And Methods Banned By International Sports Authorities To Improve Their Physical And Mental Strength)
Campaign Gets Up Close And Personal On Heroin Issue ('The Australian Financial Review' Says The Australian Election Campaign Turned Bitter And Personal Yesterday When Senator Bolkus, Shadow Attorney-General, Issued A Statement Before The Prime Minister's Drugs Policy Release Stating That 'Under John Howard, The Price Of A Cap Of Heroin Has Dropped From $40 To As Little As $5')
The Week Online With DRCNet, Issue Number 59 (The Drug Reform Coordination Network's Original Summary Of Drug Policy News And Calls For Action)
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Saturday, September 19, 1998:
Legalize Drugs (A Letter To The Editor Of The Bend, Oregon, 'Bulletin' Says Our Silly, Ineffectual 'War On Drugs' Amounts To Shooting House Flies With Cannon Balls And Pretending The Holes In The Wall Don't Matter)
Suicide Bill May Escape House Vote This Year ('The Oregonian' Says Backers Of Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law Left Capitol Hill On Friday Optimistic That Their Efforts To Educate House Members May Have Headed Off A Vote, At Least For This Year, On The Bill Sponsored By Henry Hyde To Nullify The Law)
Internal Border Checkpoints Impede Citizen Travel (Universal Press Syndicate Columnists Patrisia Gonzales And Roberto Rodriguez, Who Are Both US Citizens, Recount How Roberto Was Detained At An Internal 'Border' Checkpoint 20 Miles North Of Las Cruces, New Mexico, While Three US Border Patrol And Two Drug Enforcement Agents Took Apart Their Car Looking For Illegal Drugs - The US-Mexico Border Is Not An Internationally Recognized Boundary, Rather, It Follows Those Of Us With Red-Brown Skin Wherever We Go)
Little League Coach Is Jailed 6-1/2 Years (For Making And Selling Methamphetamine, According To 'The Morning Call' In Allentown, Pennsylvania)
AP Blows House Pot Bill Story! Cites draft resolution - Bill passed was different! (A news bulletin from the web site of Californians for Compassionate Use, associated with Dennis Peron, notes The Associated Press coverage of House Joint Resolution 117 quoted the orginal draft version with much more negative language and a different intent.)
What To Do About House Joint Resolution 117 (A Hawaiian Medical Marijuana Activist Says You Have To Fight The Lies Of Mass Media Such As 'Frontline' - And He Proceeds To Do So With A Well-Researched Critique Of The Myth That Marijuana Smoke Is More Carcinogenic Than Tobacco Smoke)
Victims' Drug Ties Likely Behind Mexico Massacre (According To 'The Houston Chronicle,' Mexican Officials Said Friday They Were All But Certain That The 18 People Who Were Slaughtered Near Ensenada Were Targeted Because Some Of The Victims Were Linked To The Drug Trade)
Mexico Holds 10 For Questioning About Massacre ('The San Jose Mercury News' Version Says The Detainees Were Being Held For Questioning But Weren't Suspects, And The Killings Were Definitely Drug-Related But Doesn't Say How)
Kids Reported Used As Drug Mules ('The Toronto Star' Says Casa Alianza, A Children's Rights Group Alleged Yesterday That About 200 Honduran Children Aged 10-13 Are Being Used By Drug Gangs To Peddle Cocaine In Mexico, The United States And Canada)
Pot Crusade Continues ('The Toronto Star' Notes Medical Marijuana Activist Doug Thompson Of Nolalu Vows He'll Go On A Hunger Strike If He's Jailed On Two 'Drug' Charges)
Colombia Fears US Anti-Drug Bill May Harm Peace Talks ('The Dallas Morning News' Says The Regional Anti-Drug Bill, Which Passed The US House On A 384-39 Vote Wednesday, Calls For Suspending Drug-Fighting Aid To Colombia If The Pastrana Government Halts Counternarcotics Operations In A Planned Demilitarized Zone Dominated By The Guerrillas When Peace Talks Are Convened In November)
Easy Street For Hard Drugs (The Australian 'Advertiser' Says Hard Drugs Such As Heroin And Speed Are Readily Available In Adelaide)
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Sunday, September 20, 1998:
Stage Is Set For Showdown On Use Of Pot ('The Rocky Mountain News' Says Michael Domangue Of Grand County Is About To Become The First Medical Marijuana Defendant In Colorado Allowed By A Judge To Invoke The State's 'Choice Of Evils' Defense - A Vietnam Veteran, Domangue Suffers From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Other Mental And Emotional Problems Stemming From His Military Service)
New Drug Strategy Sought (A 'New York Times' Article In 'The Houston Chronicle' About The White House Drug Czar's Campaign For A US-Mexico Border Drug Sub-Czar)
Drug Chief Seeks Overhaul Of Strategy At Border (The Lengthier 'New York Times' Original Version)
Festival Planning Forges On ('The Herald-Bulletin' In Anderson, Indiana, Says Organizers Of The Hoosier Harvest Fest Are Determined To Hold The Event September 25-27 At Pine Lakes Campground In Pendleton, Despite Madison County Prosecutors' Threat To Arrest The Campground Owners And Forfeit Their Property)
Hemp Happening In Coconut Grove (A MSNBC Story By WTVJ In Miami, Florida, Says Statewide Groups Who Have Started A Petition To Legalize Hemp And Medical Marijuana Held A Gathering Saturday)
Well-Trained Team Behind Massacre (An 'Associated Press' Update In 'The Seattle Times' On The Investigation Into The Murders Of 18 People In Ensenada, Mexico, Supposedly Linked To A Marijuana Trafficker)
'Serpico' Claims Scotland Yard Elite Ran Drug Cartel ('The Sunday Times Of London' Says Duncan MacLaughlin, A Scotland Yard Detective For 18 Years, Will Publish Allegations That Illegal Drug Rackets Worth Millions Of Pounds Were Run From Inside Britain's Biggest Police Force - 'There Were No Better Criminals In The Country . . . I Was A Member Of The Most Professional Criminal Cartel That Britain Has Ever Produced')
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Monday, September 21, 1998:
September Cannabis Liberation Society Meeting (The Reform Group Gathers Wednesday Evening In Eugene, Oregon)
Legislation Signed To Allow Drug-Using Tenants To Be Evicted ('The Sacramento Bee' Says The Law Signed Monday By California Governor Pete Wilson Sanctions A Three-Year Pilot Project To Begin January 1 In Five Los Angeles County Courts, Which Will Allow Prosecutors To Evict Tenants Who Sell Illegal Drugs On Rental Property, And Also Whoever Pays The Rent, Even If The Landlord Is Opposed To Such Inhumanitarian State-Enforced Homelessness)
In The Joint On The Job ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Looks At The California Prison Industry Authority, Which Makes $155 Million Annually From More Than 70 Factories - A New Study Done At The University Of California At Berkeley Says The Vast Enterprise Is Good For The Private Sector And The State Economy, Creating Jobs And Income For Many Californians Outside The Prison Walls)
Seeing Through The Illusions Of The Prison-Industrial Complex (An Op-Ed In 'The San Jose Mercury News' By Angela Davis)
November 3 Ballot Numbers (A Bulletin From Americans For Medical Rights Lists The Viable Medical Marijuana And Other Reform Initiatives Sponsored By AMR And Other Groups)
Senate Joint Resolution 56 (The text of the anti-medical marijuana vow of ignorance to be voted on by the US Senate.)
North Vancouver City Backs Drug Strategy ('The North Shore News' In British Columbia, Noting That A 1994 Canadian Alcohol And Drug Survey Found 13.1 Percent Of Canadians Use Opiate Narcotics, While 7.4 Percent Smoke Marijuana, Says The North Vancouver City Council Voted Unanimously Monday To Adopt The Lower Mainland Regional Drug Strategy And To Work With The Lower Mainland Municipal Association To Develop And Implement A Program Aimed At Curbing Drug Abuse)
Addict Needle Plan Considered ('The Calgary Herald' Says A Controversial British Columbian Plan To Create Government-Sanctioned 'Shooting Galleries' For Vancouver Drug Addicts Is Winning Support In Calgary As A Way Of Blocking The Spread Of AIDS And Hepatitis C)
Mexico Battles Plague Of Corruption ('The Santa Maria Times' In California Examines Official Attempts To Cope With The Rampant Corruption Of Mexico City Police)
In Celebration Of Drug Smugglers ('The Baltimore Sun' Says In Northwest Mexico, Adoration Is Growing For Smugglers Of Illegal Drugs, Bringing Forth A Culture With A Characteristic Dress, Music, Religion, And Attitude Toward Life And Government - The 'Narcocorrido' Has Become The Favored Pop Music For Much Of Northwest Mexico)
Use Of Crack Increases To Record Level (Britain's 'Independent' Says The Home Office And Criminologists Have Discovered That Record Amounts Of Crack Cocaine Are Available Throughout Britain)
Drugs Seizures Double (The Belfast 'Telegraph' Says Figures Released Today Reveal Illegal Drugs With An Estimated Street Value Of More Than £6 Million Were Seized By The RUC Last Year - Double The Total For The Previous Year - Yet Still There Was A Disturbing Growth In Northern Ireland's Drugs Culture)
Drug Policy Foundation Network News (A Monthly Publication For DPF's Advocacy Network, Including - HHS-SAMHSA Release Results Of Annual National Drug Survey; Risky Alcohol And Tobacco Use Among Youth Outpaces Use Of Illicit Drugs; Survey Shows 'Drug Free School Zones' To Be Anything But; Prospective College Students Not Exempt From Drug War Hysteria; Eye On America - Bill Would Require Drug Tests In Schools; House Seeks To Drug Test All Teenage Drivers)
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Tuesday, September 22, 1998:
No On Measure 57 (A Staff Editorial In The Bend, Oregon, 'Bulletin' Says The State Ballot Measure That Would Recriminalize Possession Of Less Than One Ounce Of Marijuana Would Be Ineffective And Would Take Up Jail Beds Needed For Real Criminals)
State Police Fire 18-Year Veteran For Improper Conduct ('The Associated Press' Says Oregon State Police Undercover Detective David Campbell Was Accused Of Pressuring A Drug Informant Into Having Sex - A March Newscast By KOIN-TV, Portland's CBS Affiliate, Noted An Albany Waitress Said Campbell, A Member Of The Albany-Based Valley Interagency Narcotics Team, Threatened To Reveal Her Identity To Traffickers, Ignored Her Tips About Prominent Drug Dealers, Gave Her Prescription Medication, Openly Talked About Secret Investigations And Was Afraid Of 'Going After Certain People' Because He Feared For His Job And His Safety)
State Police Fire 18-Year Veteran For Improper Conduct (A Somewhat Different 'Associated Press' Version)
Hypocrisy Abounds Among Foes Of Medical Marijuana ('Seattle Times' Columnist Michelle Malkin Eloquently Endorses Washington State Initiative 692, The Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure, While Pointing Out The Various Double Standards Of Such Republican Politicians As Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, And Those In Congress Who Recently Pushed Through House Joint Resolution 117, Together With Such Democrats As Washington State Senator Patty Murray And Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen)
SLO Man Files Claim Against Law Agencies Over March Raid ('The San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune' Says Howard Leasure, Who Spent 16 Days In Jail When San Luis Obispo County Narcotics Task Force Officers Mistook 10 Pounds Of Lye For Methamphetamine, Filed A Lawsuit Wednesday In Superior Court, Alleging False Arrest And Imprisonment And Violation Of His Civil Rights)
Court Cancels Penalty For Corcoran Guards ('The Orange County Register' Says Sacramento Superior Court Judge Cecily Bond Ruled Friday That A Former Associate Warden And Five Officers From Corcoran State Prison In California Who Were Accused Of Choking And Hitting Shackled Prisoners In 1995 Should Be Returned To Their Jobs With Back Pay Because The Notice Of Charges Filed Against The Officers 'Didn't Specifically Cite' The Regulations They Were Accused Of Violating)
Court Allows Parolee Search For No Reason (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Orange County Register' Says The California Supreme Court Ruled Monday That Law-Enforcement Officers Can Search Any Of California's 108,000 Adults On Parole, Or Their Homes, Without Having To Show Any Reason At All, Because It Would 'Discourage Crime' - Juveniles And Those On Probation Had Their Fourth Amendment Rights Removed Previously)
Three Law Officers Resign Their Posts After Drug Tests ('The Houston Chronicle' Says The Deputy Constables In Montgomery County, Texas - Two Of Them Assigned To Police Duty In The Willis School District - Tested Positive For An Undisclosed Drug)
Filthy Rich (According To ABC News, The October Issue Of 'Discover' Magazine Says Scientists From The University Of California At San Francisco Took A Sampling Of Money From Miami, Chicago And Houston And Found 70 Percent To 80 Percent Of It Had Traces Of Cocaine - 7 Percent Of Paper Money And 18 Percent Of Coins Had Traces Of Fecal Bacteria)
Exclusive - Drug Use Probed In White House - Reports Say 25 Percent Of Staff Has History ('World Net Daily' Says Trained Dogs Brought In By The Secret Service Detected Drug Use In And Around The Oval Office - Several Sources Have Reported Independently Of Each Other That Monica Lewinsky's Dress Not Only Had Evidence Of A Sexual Encounter With Bill Clinton, But Also Traces Of Cocaine)
Salinas Warns Mexico Against Drug Probe ('The Los Angeles Times' Says Former President Carlos Salinas De Gortari Lashed Out From His European Exile Monday, Demanding That Mexican Justice Officials Officially Discredit A Report By Swiss Police Claiming That His Brother Raul Virtually Ran Narcotics Traffic In Mexico During The 1988-94 Salinas Presidency)
Huge Outsourcing Deal With Organised Crime (That's How A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Australian Financial Review' Characterizes Governments' Attempt To Control Drugs Through Prohibition)
Human Rights Activists Accuse Drug Squad Of Planting Drugs (According To An 'Agence France Presse' Article In 'Russia Today,' Russian Human Rights Activists Monday Alleged 'An Organization Of Crooked Policemen' Had Been Planting Illegal Drugs On Suspects, Either To Embellish Their Own Track Records, Or Under Orders From Political Or Organized Criminal Groups Wishing To Compromise Their Enemies - 63,458 Russians Were Sentenced In 1997 For Making, Possessing, Transporting Or Selling 'Drugs')
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Wednesday, September 23, 1998:
Affidavit Describes Drug Use At Fair (According To 'The Register-Guard' In Eugene, Oregon, Undercover Linn County Prohibition Agents Filed An Affidavit In Support Of A Warrant To Search The Property Of Bill Conde, Describing 'Rampant Drug Use And Brazen Drug Sales' At Conde's 'Cannabis Carnival' Earlier This Month, Even By Security Guards - Conde Said Detectives Were Motivated By Politics And Their Search Last Week Effectively Shut Down His Redwood Lumber Business By Confiscating Computers And Business Records)
Challenge To Suicide Law Is Dismissed ('The Oregonian' Says US District Judge Michael Hogan Tuesday Reluctantly Refused To Revive A Lawsuit Against Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law, Apparently Ending Nearly Four Years Of Legal Challenges)
Coalition Opposes Hyde-Nickles Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act ('The St. Louis Post-Dispatch' Relays Commentary On The Bill That Would Nullify Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law, From Some Of The More Than 50 Associations And Organizations Who Have Joined Together To Oppose The Legislation)
NewsBuzz - Follow Up - If You Got 'Em, Smoke 'Em ('Willamette Week' In Portland Notes The Local Impact On Cigar Sales Following Allegations That President Clinton Used A Cigar To Diddle Monica Lewinsky)
The Crime That Changed Punishment ('Willamette Week' Presents A History Of Ballot Measure 11 In Oregon - An Initiative Requiring Mandatory Minimum Sentences For Supposedly Violent Crimes - Showing How The Law-Making Process Works In Oregon Through The Example Of Steve Doell, Whose Daughter Was Killed By A Hit-And-Run Driver)
Patient Rally Sunday, September 27 (The Puget Sound-Area Green Cross Patient Co-Op Invites Medical Marijuana Patients To Gather 11 AM At Myrtle Edwards Park In Seattle During The Annual Walk Sponsored By The Northwest AIDS Foundation, Which Has Endorsed Initiative 692, The Washington State Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure)
Synthetic Marijuana-Like Drug Eases Pain - Study ('Reuters' Says Dr Ian Meng And Researchers From The University Of California In San Francisco Published A Letter In The Science Journal 'Nature' Wednesday In Which They Explained How Cannabinoids Affect Brain Cells That Control Pain)
UCSF Study Backs Claim Pot Kills Pain ('The San Francisco Examiner' Version)
UCSF Study Backs Claim Pot Kills Pain ('The Nation' Version)
Synthetic Marijuana-Like Drug Eases Pain - Study (The Fox News Version)
Clinton Will Be Third Man At Davis-Lungren Debate ('The San Francisco Chronicle' Says The Latest Polls Indicate California Attorney General Dan Lungren, Nemesis Of Proposition 215, Has Come From Behind And Now Is Tied With Democrat Gray Davis In The Race For Governor - A List Subscriber Forwards A Collection Of California Media Addresses And Urges You To Write Letters Opposing Lungren For Governor)
Agents Wage War On Pot In California (An 'Associated Press' Article In 'The Las Vegas Sun' Portrays The Annual Campaign To Eradicate Marijuana Planting - CAMP - And Concludes The Program 'Barely Makes A Dent')
Prison Growth Stealing Funds From Schools, Activists Say ('The Chicago Tribune' Says The Prison-Reform Movement Is Gaining Strength On College Campuses - Again - Angela Davis, 53, A Professor At The University Of California At Santa Cruz, As Well As College Students And Other Former Prisoners, Have Scheduled A Conference This Weekend At The University Of California At Berkeley Titled 'Critical Resistance - Beyond The Prison Industrial Complex,' To Draw Attention To The Issue - A Study To Be Released Wednesday Says In The Last Seven Years, Appropriations For Higher Education In California Dropped 3 Percent While Prison Spending Rose 60 Percent)
Jails At Expense Of Colleges? ('The San Francisco Examiner' Version)
Report - Gap In Education, Prison Funds - Wilson's Office Calls Study `Drivel' ('The San Francisco Mercury News' Version)
Search For Justice? (A Staff Editorial In 'The Orange County Register' Says Monday's Ruling By The California Supreme Court That Police Can Search People On Parole Or Their Residences At Any Time For No Reason Is Troubling - Parole Is A French Word Meaning 'On Your Word' - The Ruling Enlarges Police Powers And, Once Again, That Expansion Of Power Is Tied To The War On Drugs - Anyone Living With A Parolee Also Has His Or Her Fourth Amendment Rights Severely Proscribed, So This Ruling Could Encourage People To Shun The Parolee, Perhaps Forcing Forcing Them Back With Those Who Might Have Enabled A Life Of Crime)
Officer's Wife Admits To Role In Drug Ring ('The Detroit News' Says The Wife Of Police Commander Gary Johnson In Detroit, Michigan, Pleaded Guilty Tuesday To One Count Of Selling Drug Paraphernalia And Admitted To Playing A Role In A Drug Ring - Her Husband Is Not Under Investigation)
Founder Of Wildlife Refuge To Be Sentenced September 30 ('The New Haven Register' Says Robert Salvatore, A Founder And Director Of The Former North American Wildlife Association Inc., Faces Up To 15 Years In Prison After His Conviction Earlier This Year On Charges Of Drug Cultivation And Possession - Salvatore Has Maintained His Innocence Since His Arrest In August 1997, And Claims He Was Set Up By Volunteers Who Worked At The Wildlife Reserve With Him)
Lawyer - DEA Ignored Cop's Mental Problem ('The Miami Herald' Says Richard Fekete, A Federal Prohibition Agent Who Awoke In A Drunken Stupor Last Year And Shot To Death A Fellow Agent With A Wife And Two Children, Now Accuses The Drug Enforcement Administration Of Withholding Evidence That Superiors Knew He Was An Alcoholic And Had 'Jekyll/Hyde' Tendencies But Let Him Keep His Job Anyway - The Widow Of Shaun Curl, Fekete's Victim, Also Plans To Sue The DEA For Allowing Fekete To Keep His Job)
US Catches Wind Of Australian Drug Sniffing Dogs (An 'Australian Associated Press' Story Relayed By NINEMSN Says The White House Is So Impressed By Australian Research To Develop A 'Super Sniffer' Dog Breeding Program That It Has Set Aside $148,000 For The US Customs Service To Import Some Of The Australian Labradors And Develop A Breeding Program The United States Can Call Its Own - Four Of The Australian Dogs Will Be Introduced To Washington Tomorrow At A Press Conference And Are Expected To Be Let Loose To Romp Around The Ronald Reagan Building On Pennsylvania Avenue)
Challenging Report On Pregnancy And Drug Abuse ('The Journal Of The American Medical Association' Says A New Report Titled 'Ethical And Legal Analyses Of Coercive Policies Aimed At Substance Abuse By Pregnant Women,' Written As Part Of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, Documents What Is Currently Known About The Effect On Fetuses Of Substance Abuse By Pregnant Women And Concludes Imprisoning Pregnant 'Drug' Users Is Ineffective, Racist And Otherwise Unethical And Could Be Challenged On Constitutional Grounds - The Substances That Do The Most Harm Are Tobacco And Alcohol)
Mindless Hypocrisy (A Letter To The Editor Of 'The Edmonton Sun' Contrasts A Canadian Prosecutor's Zeal To Deport Morteza Borhania To Certain Death In Iran Because Of An Old Drug Conviction For Which He's Already Done His Time, With Canada's Past Refusal To Deport Americans Facing The Same Penalty In The United States For Real Crimes)
Drug Use Looks Set To Be Decriminalised In Switzerland - Even If Referendum Fails, Penalties Will Be Reduced ('Frankfurter Rundschau' Says Users Of Cannabis, Cocaine And Heroin May Soon Have No Need To Fear Legal Punishment In Certain Swiss Cities - The Government Is Now Deciding Where It Will Carry Out A 'Limited Experiment' Of Complete Drugs Decriminalisation)
DrugSense Weekly, Number 65 (The Original Summary Of Drug Policy News Includes A Feature Article By The Redford Citizens' Committee For Justice; Drug Czar Wants Interdiction Bill To Lose In Congress; House OKs $3.2-Billion Measure To Bolster The Fight Against Drugs; Hemp Study Released By North Dakota; Guarding The Truth About State Prison; Cloud Over Mexican Anti-Drug Force; US Links Top Mexican Agents To Traffickers; Massacre In Mexico; Victims' Drug Ties Likely Behind Mexico Massacre; House Rules Marijuana Dangerous; Editorial - A Nonsense Resolution; DC To Vote On Medical Marijuana; OPED - Pot Battle Shifts To Ballot Box; IOC - No Jail For Suspect Athletes; Australia - Troops Get The All-Clear To Dose Up On Energy Drugs; Canada - Market Forces Cut Heroin Price; Australia - Campaign Gets Up Close And Personal On Heroin Issue; Colombia's Way To Halt Drugs And War At Once; Colombia Fears US Anti-Drug Bill May Harm Peace Talks; Hot Off The 'Net - McCaffrey The Prevaricator Ad In 'The New Republic'; DrugSense Tip Of The Week - Excellent Article On The Hernandez Murder; Quote Of The Week)
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