Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #407
-- 10/14/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
WHY
I'M
STILL
AN
OPTIMIST
Opinion
polls
will
reflect
a
change
in
attitudes
about
drug
prohibition
within
the
next
six
years.
- FEATURE:
FORMER
LAWMAN'S
COAST
TO
COAST
HORSE
RIDE
TO
LEGALIZE
DRUGS
CONCLUDES
AT
STATUE
OF
LIBERTY
With
cowboy
boots
and
jeans
and
a
big,
shiny
belt
buckle,
Howard
Wooldridge
looks
the
part
of
the
stereotypical
Texas
lawman.
But
the
message
Howard
and
horse
Misty
took
to
the
highways
and
byways
of
America
for
seven
months
this
year
was
hardly
typical.
- FEATURE:
LORETTA
NALL
ENTERS
ALABAMA
GOVERNOR'S
RACE
After
a
2002
encounter
with
the
law
turned
Alabama
housewife
Loretta
Nall
into
an
activist,
now
she
is
championing
the
drug
reform
message
as
the
Marijuana
Party
candidate
in
the
2006
race
for
governor.
- DRCNET
BOOK
REVIEW:
"BUSTED:
DRUG
WAR
SURVIVAL
SKILLS
FROM
THE
BUY
TO
THE
BUST
TO
BEGGING
FOR
MERCY"
DC
defense
attorney
Chris
Fabricant
book
is
a
veritable
bible
for
drug
users
or
people
who
know
and
care
about
drug
users.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
sticky-fingered
Pennsylvania
police
chief
pilfers
pot,
a
trio
of
Texas
cops
gets
caught
running
interference
for
traffickers,
and
yet
another
jail
guard
sells
dope
to
inmates.
- CENTRAL
ASIA:
AFGHAN
PRESIDENT
PUBLICLY
LINKS
DRUG
TRAFFICKING,
TERRORISM
President
Hamid
Karzai
has
warned
that
the
country
could
fall
back
into
the
hands
of
terrorists
if
the
Afghan
opium
crop
is
not
stamped
out.
But
with
the
crop
providing
livelihoods
for
hundreds
of
thousands
of
families
and
accounting
for
40-60
percent
of
Afghanistan's
GDP,
eradication
is
what
might
help
the
terrorists
win
hearts
and
minds
most
of
all.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
CANADIANS
DEPORT
ACTIVIST/PATIENT
STEVE
TUCK,
NOW
IMPRISONED
WITHOUT
MEDICAL
CARE
BY
US
AUTHORITIES
Medical
marijuana
activist
and
patient
Steve
Tuck
was
dragged
from
his
bed
by
Canadian
immigration
officials
last
Friday
and
handed
over
to
US
authorities
at
the
border
--
catheter
still
attached.
- MARIJUANA:
POT
AN
ISSUE
IN
CINCINNATI
MAYORAL
RACE
A
mayoral
candidate's
proposal
to
increase
marijuana
penalties
didn't
go
over
well,
but
the
issues
continues
to
percolate
in
Cincinnati
pre-election
politics.
- EMPLOYMENT:
FBI
MAY
REVISE
HIRING
RULES
FOR
FORMER
MARIJUANA
AND
OTHER
DRUG
USERS
Some
FBI
officials
are
seeking
to
loosen
limits
on
past
drug
use
by
qualified
job
applicants.
It
goes
to
the
Director's
desk
soon
for
a
decision.
- MIDDLE
EAST:
US
INVASION,
CONTINUING
INSURGENCY
LEAD
TO
INCREASING
DRUG
USE
IN
IRAQ
Drug
use
in
Iraq
is
rising
steadily
as
war-weary
Iraqis
turn
to
hard
drugs
to
take
the
edge
off
a
bleak
and
terrifying
existence.
- EUROPE:
STUDY
CALLS
INTO
QUESTION
FRANCE'S
OBSESSION
WITH
"DRUGGED
DRIVING"
Findings
reported
by
the
Paris
newspaper
Liberation
suggest
that
a
"zero-tolerance"
drugged
driving
law
passed
in
the
midst
of
a
heated
anti-marijuana
campaign
may
be
mistargeted.
- EUROPE:
MOST
MARIJUANA
IN
UNITED
KINGDOM
NOW
HOME-GROWN
BY
SOCIALLY
CONSCIOUS
USERS
Imports
from
traditional
suppliers
of
marijuana
to
the
UK
have
plummeted
in
the
face
of
competition
by
users
wanting
to
disassociate
themselves
from
criminality
and
violence
linked
to
the
black
market
drug
trade.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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up
at
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