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Newsbriefs
7/30/99
Jane Tseng, [email protected]
A New York City police officer
has been reinstated to his job despite failing a drug test in which traces
of THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, were detected. The
officer, Russel Kain, successfully argued that it was his use of legal
hemp oil, and not marijuana, that led to the positive test result.
While reinstating Kain, the New York City police department has also changed
its policy and will now forbid the use by any officer of any product --
legal or not -- which contains THC.
Bruce Farr, dismissed last
year from his post as associate warden at Corcoran State Prison by the
California Department of Corrections, was named this week as associate
warden of High Desert State Prison, a new, maximum security prison in the
California State system. Farr was fired from his post at Corcoran
for condoning the use of excessive force, incompetence, and inexcusable
neglect of duty. Farr appealed his firing and had his punishment
reduced to a year's suspension.
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Issue #101, 7/30/99
House Reinstates "Social Riders" in District of Colombia Appropriations Bill | New Mexico Republicans Stop Short of Repudiating Governor | Jamaica: Lawmakers Consider Decriminalization of Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Research Facility | Clinton Administration Proposes Changes to Methadone Regulations | Army Spy Plane Disappears Over Colombia, Speculation of Coming US Intervention Abounds | Australian State to Open Legal Heroin Injecting Room | DEA Chief Acknowledges Agency's Ineffectiveness | Newsbriefs | Senate Considering Raising Methamphetamine Penalties | Editorial: Body Bags
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