Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #411
-- 11/18/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
TELL
ME
WHY
The
case
against
drug
prohibition
is
complex
and
not
very
conducive
to
"sound
bite"
argumentation.
But
we
need
to
have
the
sound
bites
if
we
are
going
to
effectively
get
our
message
out
to
the
public.
- FEATURE:
ENHANCED
MANDATORY
MINIMUMS
BLOCKED
IN
NEW
METHAMPHETAMINE
BILL
Reformers
won
a
partial
victory
in
the
removal
of
enhanced
mandatory
minimum
sentences
from
a
methamphetamine
bill
passed
by
the
House
Judiciary
Committee.
- FEATURE:
THE
2005
INTERNATIONAL
DRUG
POLICY
REFORM
CONFERENCE
IN
LONG
BEACH,
CALIFORNIA
"People
who
love
drugs"
and
"people
who
hate
drugs"
were
among
the
many
contrasting
allies
at
the
record-well
attended
2005
International
Drug
Policy
Reform
Conference
last
week.
- FEATURE:
DEPORTED
FOR
A
TRACE
--
FARID'S
TALE
A
European
activist
planning
to
attend
last
week's
International
Conference
on
Drug
Policy
Reform
in
California
was
instead
detained
overnight
and
deported
by
the
authorities
--
for
0.0001
grams
of
marijuana
he
didn't
know
he
had.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week
we've
got
cops
stealing
drug
dogs,
cops
cooking
speed,
soldiers
running
drugs,
and
soldiers
who
thought
they
were
running
drugs.
- SPORTS:
UNDER
CONGRESSIONAL
PRESSURE,
MAJOR
LEAGUE
BASEBALL,
UNION
AGREE
ON
DRUG
TESTING
POLICY
Yielding
to
intense
pressure
from
Congress
in
the
wake
of
steroid
use
scandals,
Major
League
Baseball
agreed
Tuesday
to
a
tough
new
drug
testing
policy.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
TWO
MICHIGAN
TOWNS
PASS
ORDINANCES
--
OFFICIALS
BALK
Initiatives
to
allow
medical
marijuana
use
in
two
Michigan
towns
passed
by
comfortable
margins
in
elections
held
November
8.
Town
officials,
however,
are
promising
a
fight.
- SEARCH
AND
SEIZURE:
SUPREME
COURT
HEARS
SEARCH
CASE
WHERE
WIFE
CONSENTED
BUT
HUSBAND
REFUSED
After
Georgia
police
searched
Scott
Fitz
Randolph's
home
for
cocaine
in
2001
--
over
his
objections
but
with
his
wife's
consent
--
the
state's
Supreme
Court
found
one
occupant's
refusal
of
a
warrantless
home
search
was
enough
to
make
it
illegal.
Now
the
US
Supreme
Court
will
decide
the
issue
for
the
land.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
GUATEMALA'S
TOP
NARC
ARRESTED
IN
US
The
chief
of
Guatemala's
anti-drug
police,
his
deputy,
and
another
senior
official
were
indicted
by
a
federal
grand
jury
in
Washington,
DC,
Wednesday
on
cocaine
distribution
conspiracy
charges.
- EUROPE:
SATIVEX
COMING
TO
ENGLAND,
SPAIN
A
marijuana-based
spray
medicine
approved
in
Canada
will
soon
be
available
on
a
limited
basis
to
patients
in
England
and
Spain
as
well,
primarily
cancer
and
MS
sufferers.
- ASIA:
KOREAN
ACTRESS
WHO
CHALLENGED
MARIJUANA
LAW
SENTENCED
TO
PRISON
The
Korean
Supreme
Court
Tuesday
upheld
an
eight-month
prison
sentence
for
actress
Kim
Bu-sun,
whose
arrest
for
smoking
marijuana
in
July
2004
led
to
national
debate
about
the
country's
pot
laws.
- WEB
SCAN
In
These
Times,
Alternet
on
Sembler
and
Straight,
New
SSDP
Blog
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- ANNOUNCEMENT:
SENLIS
COUNCIL
SEEKING
RESEARCH
PROPOSALS
ON
AFGHANI
OPIUM
LICENSING
SCHEMES
The
European
think
tank
that
floated
the
recent
opium
licensing
proposal
in
Afghanistan
is
now
seeking
proposals
from
researchers
for
phase
two
of
the
project.
- JOB
OPPORTUNITIES:
WEBMASTERS
FOR
MPP
IN
DC,
CRCM
IN
NEVADA
The
Marijuana
Policy
Project
is
hiring
web
site
administrators
for
its
office
in
Washington,
DC,
and
for
the
Campaign
to
Regulate
and
Control
Marijuana
in
Nevada.
- INTERNSHIP
OPPORTUNITY:
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
POLICY
FOUNDATION
The
Criminal
Justice
Policy
Foundation
is
seeking
(paid)
interns
for
research
and
writing
assistance
on
the
impact
of
drug
prohibition
on
the
economy.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
Showing
up
at
an
event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
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