Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #406
-- 10/7/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
PROHIBITION
AND
TERROR
--
THE
AFGHAN
CONNECTION
Among
the
forces
working
to
sustain
extremist
organizations
like
Al
Qaeda
is
one
that
policymakers
don't
like
to
talk
about
in
direct
terms
--
drug
prohibition.
- FEATURE:
AFGHAN
OPIUM
FARMERS
CAUGHT
IN
THE
SQUEEZE
With
opium
the
unquestioned
mainstay
of
Afghanistan's
economy
but
the
government
eradicating,
rural
Afghans
are
getting
caught
in
the
squeeze.
Elders
in
a
village
north
of
Jalalabad
told
the
story
in
an
interview
given
to
DRCNet
this
week.
- FEATURE:
AFGHAN
OPIUM
CONUNDRUM
--
WHAT
TO
DO
WITH
WARLORDS,
POLITICIANS
INVOLVED
IN
THE
DRUG
TRADE?
With
the
government
of
President
Hamid
Karzai
attempting
to
solidify
nascent
national
government
institutions,
Afghans
inside
the
government
and
out
ponder
how
to
address
the
problem
of
members
of
the
government
and
other
powers
who
are
involved
in
the
illicit
opium
trade.
- FEATURE:
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS,
GIVE
AND
TAKE
--
AFGHANS
TAKE
ON
THE
SENLIS
COUNCIL
AND
ITS
LICENSING
PROPOSAL
Curiosity
and
intrigue
mingled
with
worry,
skepticism
and
even
hostility
last
week
as
a
European
think
tank's
proposal
to
license
Afghan
opium
growing
for
medical
uses
got
discussed
in
Kabul.
- EDITORIAL:
THE
CONSEQUENCES
OF
PROHIBITION
(WAS
"WHAT
IS
IT
ABOUT
OPIUM?")
With
Phil's
Afghanistan
adventure
soon
to
come
to
a
close,
we
reprint
this
October
2001
editorial
by
David
Borden
that
closely
relates
to
some
of
the
topics
Phil
discusses
in
the
four
special
Afghanistan
reports
published
in
this
issue.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
Drug
War
Chronicle
may
have
taken
a
week
off
in
covering
the
corrupt
cops
beat,
but
that
doesn't
mean
the
corrupt
cops
did.
This
week
we
have
yet
another
prison
guard
gone
bad
and
another
crack-slinging
policeman.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
BOLIVIAN
COCA
LEADER
AND
PRESIDENTIAL
CONTENDER
EVO
MORALES
VISITS
EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
AS
ELECTIONS
THROWN
INTO
DOUBT
With
coca
grower
leader
Evo
Morales
favored
to
win
Bolivia's
presidency,
legislators
in
the
European
Parliament
have
stepped
up
to
ensure
that
he
is
not
robbed
of
victory
by
pre-election
legal
shenanigans.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
US
FUMIGATION
PLANE
SHOT
DOWN
IN
COLOMBIA
Leftist
rebels
in
northeast
Colombia
shot
a
drug
fumigation
plane
owned
by
the
US
State
Dept.
out
of
the
sky
September
30,
killing
the
pilot,
according
to
wire
service
reports.
- WEB
SCAN
New
CJPF
Newsletter,
Meth
Conference
Audio
&
Powerpoint
Online,
Meth
Commentary
from
Cascade
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
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DRCNET
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work
that
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advance
the
issue.
- CONTEST:
NEW
DRCNET
T-SHIRT
DESIGNS
DRCNet
is
currently
soliciting
designs
for
new
t-shirts
to
be
made
available
on
our
web
site
and
worn
by
people
nationwide
who
want
an
end
to
prohibition
and
the
war
on
drugs.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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up
at
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