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Newsbrief:
RAVE
Act
Reverberations
6/20/03
In the wake of the cancellation
of a Montana NORML/SSDP benefit by the venue's owners after a DEA agent
warned them they could face a $250,000 fine under the RAVE Act if anyone
used marijuana at the event (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/290.shtml#dearave),
organizers of some drug reform-related events have begun to cancel events
or relocate them to friendlier territory. At the same time, national
drug reform and civil liberties organizations are mobilizing against the
RAVE Act, now officially known as the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act.
The Sonoma Health and Harmony
Festival (http://www.harmonyfestival.com)
in California has cancelled plans to have a medical marijuana smoking area
due to fears of RAVE Act prosecutions, California NORML has reported.
And the Wisconsin Weedstock festival (http://www.weedstock.com)
is relocating across the border to Canada -- to Sault, Ontario, where there
currently are no laws against marijuana possession, let alone anything
like the RAVE Act. Weedstock will become part of the Planetary Pride
Hemp Fest (http://www.planetarypride.com/comingsoon.html),
an Ontario-based event now in its fifth year.
(US citizens thinking of
attending but who have an arrest record should make sure they can get into
Canada. Visit http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/customs/individuals/visitors-e.html
and go to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada's web pages to get more
information about entry.)
As some groups change plans
under RAVE Act prosecution pressures, the drug reform movement is mobilizing
to roll back the law, which was stalled under stiff opposition in the Senate
last year, but which passed easily once it was stealthily inserted into
the popular Amber Alert by RAVE Act sponsor Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE).
Drug Policy Alliance has made repealing the RAVE Act one of its action
priorities (http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/action/),
and other major reform and civil liberties groups continue to plot strategies
to kill the law.
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Issue #292, 6/20/03
DRCNet
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Editorial:
No Drug War Exception to Good and Evil |
The Gathering
in Cartagena: The Global Social Forum Thematic Meeting on Democracy,
Human Rights, War, and the Drug Trade |
DRCNet
Interview: Nancy Obregón, Sub-Secretary General of the Confederation
of Peruvian Coca Growers |
DRCNet
Interview: Anthropologist Anthony Henman |
Dozens
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Newsbrief:
12 Tulia Victims Walk Out of Jail |
No
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Candidate
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Newsbrief:
RAVE Act Reverberations |
Newsbrief:
Teachers Against Prohibition Reborn as Educators for Sensible Drug Policy |
Newsbrief:
Kentucky Supreme Court Tightens Law on Methamphetamine Prosecutions |
Newsbrief:
Thais Get Drug War Help from US |
Newsbrief:
US-Peru Anti-Drug Flights Set to Resume |
Newsbrief:
Israeli Company Receives Notice of Allowance from US Patent Office for
Synthetic Marijuana Pharmaceuticals |
Teen
Facing 26 Years for First-Time Marijuana Offense Sentenced to Two |
Marc Mauer
Testimony on Comparative International Rates of Incarceration |
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