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Newsbrief:
Liberia
Prepares
to
Join
the
Drug
War
11/1/02
In an act of drug war theater
on October 25, Liberian National Police Director Paul Mulbah led the symbolic
burning of the dope at police headquarters on Capitol Hill, The News (Monrovia)
reported. The stunt came as the legislature prepares to consider
a bill that would enact tough laws against illegal drug use and sales and
helped drum up publicity for the newly formed National Drug Task Force,
set up two months ago by the government of President Charles Taylor.
If the legislature fails
to pass the legislation, warned Mulbah, "drugs will continue to haunt us,
destroy our society and take us down the drain." But it sounds like
drugs still have a ways to go. The country has a grand total of five
"major drug dealers" in custody and has deported two Nigerians, and is
holding 72 "potential drug users," Mulbah said. Still, if only the
international community could send some aid, the battle could be won, Mulbah
said. "We need logistics to empower us to fight against these dangerous
drugs that are killing our society."
Mulbah was clearly playing
to his audience. In attendance, according to The News, were various
Liberian government ministers, "as well as representatives of the American
embassy and the UNDCCP [UN Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention.]"
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Issue #261, 11/1/02
Editorial: The Space Between the Lines | Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Says Feds Can't Punish Doctors for Recommending Medical Marijuana | Learning the Hard Way in Ohio: The Trials and Tribulations of Issue One | DRCNet Book Review: "Addict in the Family," by Dr. Andrew Byrne | DRCNet Interview: Dr. Harry G. Levine | More Than 700,000 Marijuana Arrests Last Year -- Meanwhile, Violent Crime on Increase | November Coalition Roadshow Hits East Coast | DRCNet Survey/Book Giveaway Contest | Newsbrief: Rockefeller Kin Arrested in Rockefeller Law Protest | Newsbrief: Euro Parliamentarians Found Guilty, Scolded by Judge in Manchester Marijuana Civil Disobedience | Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story | Newsbrief: UN Says Afghan Opium Crop Up Almost Twenty-Fold Over 2001, Trade Employs a Half-Million People | Newsbrief: Liberia Prepares to Join the Drug War | Newsbrief: Chattanooga Jail Full, Faith-Based Alternative Sentencing Offered to Drug Offenders | Newsbrief: Mississippi Supreme Court Bars Telephonic Warrants, but Says It Was Okay Just This Once | Newsbrief: Seattle Initiative to De-prioritize Marijuana Enforcement Makes 2003 Ballot | Media Scan: William F. Buckley in National Review, 2002 Voter Guides and Election Resources | Calling on Students to Raise Your Voices for Repeal of the HEA Drug Provision | Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision | The Reformer's Calendar
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