Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #393
-- 7/1/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
STAR
WARS
AND
THE
DRUG
WAR
At
the
risk
of
getting
adversely
"pegged,"
DRCNet's
executive
director
makes
a
Star
Wars
analogy
this
week.
- FEATURE:
RHODE
ISLAND
GOVERNOR
VETOES
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
BILL
WEDNESDAY
--
SENATE
OVERRIDES
THURSDAY
Rhode
Island's
legislature
may
be
on
the
way
to
overriding
their
governor's
veto
to
become
the
11th
state
to
legalization
medical
use
of
marijuana.
- FEATURE:
COCA
ON
THE
MARCH
IN
PERU
In
the
last
week,
the
Peruvian
government's
US-backed
policy
against
coca
cultivation
has
come
under
renewed
attach
from
coca
growers
and
their
allies,
including
the
local
government
of
the
ancient
Inca
capital
in
Cuzco.
- FEATURE:
MOST
MARIJUANA
USERS
IN
DRUG
TREATMENT
SENT
THERE
BY
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
SYSTEM
Three
months
ago,
the
government
released
a
study
finding
that
the
number
of
people
entering
drug
treatment
for
marijuana
increased
dramatically
from
1992
to
2002.
But
a
new
government
study
released
this
week
shows
most
were
sent
there
in
lieu
of
incarceration
--
and
have
fewer
signs
of
problematic
drug
use
than
those
who
weren't.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
sticky-fingered
evidence
room
guard
gets
his
reward,
a
long-running
Dallas
scandal
takes
down
another
cop,
a
New
York
City
transit
cop
gets
in
trouble
for
his
day
job,
and
yet
another
prison
guard
gets
caught
peddling
goodies
to
the
inmates.
- GLOBAL:
WORLD
DRUG
TRADE
WORTH
$320
BILLION
ANNUALLY,
UN
SAYS
The
2005
World
Drug
Report
of
the
United
Nations
Office
on
Drug
and
Crime
estimates
the
global
drug
trade's
annual
revenues
at
more
than
$320
billion
per
year.
- AIDS/HIV:
HARM
REDUCTION
WINS
BATTLE
IN
UN
AIDS
SESSION
US
efforts
to
remove
harm
reduction
and
needle
access
programs
from
the
anti-AIDS
vocabulary
were
rebuffed
by
the
United
Nations'
AIDS
agency
this
week.
- ASIA:
CELEBRATING
INTERNATIONAL
ANTI-DRUGS
DAY
WITH
EXECUTIONS,
BONFIRES
In
what
has
become
a
macabre
annual
ritual,
China
marked
the
United
Nations'
International
Day
Against
Drug
Abuse
and
Illicit
Trafficking
Sunday
by
ordering
the
execution
of
at
least
24
people
for
drug
crimes
in
one
city
alone.
- HEMP:
REP.
RON
PAUL
INTRODUCES
FEDERAL
BILL
FOR
INDUSTRIAL
HEMP
For
the
first
time
since
the
federal
government
outlawed
industrial
hemp
farming
in
the
1937,
a
bill
has
been
introduced
in
Congress
to
allow
it.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
US
PATIENT
SEEKS
ACCESS
TO
BRITISH
MARIJUANA
EXTRACT
SPRAY
THROUGH
INVESTIGATIONAL
NEW
DRUG
PROGRAM
Sativex,
a
prescription
marijuana
extract
applied
via
sublingual
spray,
went
on
sale
last
week
in
Canada.
This
week
a
Multiple
Sclerosis
victim
from
Illinois
and
her
doctor
announced
they
are
seeking
access
to
it
through
the
FDA's
Investigational
New
Drug
program.
- AFRICA:
CANNABIS
CULTIVATION
FEEDS
A
HUNDRED
THOUSAND
FAMILIES
IN
MOROCCO
Morocco's
Rif
Mountains
region,
long
famous
as
a
center
for
Moroccan
hashish
production,
continues
to
live
up
to
its
reputation.
- EUROPE:
BRITISH
MARIJUANA
SMOKERS
GROW
THEIR
OWN
England
is
experiencing
an
"unprecedented
boom"
in
home
marijuana
grows,
according
to
the
British
newspaper
The
Independent
this
week,
and
the
trend
has
reached
critical
mass.
- WEB
SCAN
Cato
on
Pain,
MPP
PSAs
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOB
OPPORTUNITY:
HARM
REDUCTION
COALITION,
NYC
The
Harm
Reduction
Coalition
is
recruiting
for
the
position
of
Assistant
Training
Coordinator
for
the
Harm
Reduction
Training
Institute.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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up
at
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event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
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