Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #445
-- 7/21/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
DO
WE
REALLY
WANT
TO
HELP
KIDS
FIND
THE
DRUG
DEALERS?
Drug
offender
registries
are
a
hare-brained
idea
that
is
more
likely
to
help
young
people
find
drug
dealers
than
prevent
them.
- FEATURE:
VANCOUVER
FIGHTS
TO
SAVE
ITS
PIONEERING
SAFE
INJECTION
SITE
The
InSite
safe
injection
site
for
drug
users
in
Vancouver's
Downtown
Eastside
is
facing
the
threat
of
a
September
shutdown
by
the
ideologically
hostile
Conservative
government
of
Prime
Minister
Steven
Harper.
Vancouver
is
mobilizing
to
save
it.
- FEATURE:
WHAT
WOULD
JESUS
DO?
RELIGIOUS
COMMUNITIES
AS
DRUG
REFORM
ALLIES
The
drug
reform
movement,
much
of
it
secular
and
unattached
to
traditional
religious
practices,
is
beginning
to
make
serious
inroads
with
mainstream
religious
denominations.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
former
Massachusetts
State
Police
sergeant
goes
to
prison,
a
former
Milwaukee
detective
cops
a
plea,
a
Virginia
sheriff's
deputy
gets
busted,
and
so
do
a
pair
of
would-be
drug-dealing
prison
guards.
- SENTENCING:
BILL
TO
STUDY
HABITUAL
DRUG
OFFENDER
REGISTRY
INTRODUCED
IN
MAINE
A
bill
introduced
in
the
Maine
Senate
would
lay
the
groundwork
for
what
could
be
the
nation's
first
registry
of
habitual
drug
offenders.
- EUROPE:
BRITAIN
GOES
AFTER
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
SUPPLIERS
Despite
the
government's
downgrading
in
2004
of
marijuana
from
a
Class
B
drug
to
the
less
serious
Class
C,
members
of
two
British
medical
marijuana
groups
are
headed
to
trial
this
week
and
next,
and
could
face
up
to
14
years
in
prison.
- AUSTRALIA:
VICTORIA
GREENS
CALL
FOR
PRESCRIPTION
HEROIN,
SAFE
INJECTION
SITES
The
Victoria
Green
Party
has
unveiled
a
new
drug
policy
platform
that
calls
for
prescription
heroin
trials
for
long-term
addicts
and
the
establishment
of
safe
injection
sites.
But
those
were
only
the
most
controversial
proposals
in
the
platform.
- MIDDLE
EAST:
WAR
DRIVING
IRAQIS
TO
DRUGS
Thanks
to
the
horrors
of
war,
drug
abuse
is
on
the
rise
in
Iraq,
Iraqi
officials
and
residents
told
the
Associated
Press
Monday.
- CANADA:
VANCOUVER
POLICE
TO
STOP
ARRESTING
PEACEABLE
DRUG
USERS,
ACCORDING
TO
NEW
DRAFT
POLICY
Vancouver
police
are
making
it
their
official
policy
not
to
arrest
people
for
quietly
using
drugs,
but
to
focus
instead
on
those
who
sell
and
make
them.
- CANADA:
NELSON,
BRITISH
COLUMBIA,
HEAD
SHOP
BUSTED
FOR
MARIJUANA
SALES
Local
police
in
a
particularly
tolerant
part
of
Canada
broke
with
longstanding
unofficial
tolerance
to
bust
the
Holy
Smoke
Culture
Shop
and
Psyche-Deli.
- HARM
REDUCTION:
NEEDLE
ACCESS
BILLS
TO
BECOME
LAW
IN
DELAWARE,
MASSACHUSETTS
Governors
in
two
states
Monday
signed
into
law
bills
that
would
ease
injection
drug
users'
access
to
clean
needles
--
in
one
case
overriding
a
veto.
- WEB
SCAN
Cato
on
Paramilitary
Police
Raids,
John
Fugelsang
on
Drug
War
for
Daily
Kos,
Australia
Institute
Drug
Prohibition
Report
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOBS
AND
INTERNSHIPS
Marijuana
Policy
Project
and
Criminal
Justice
Policy
Foundation
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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