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Policy,
Reason,
Nation,
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Sentencing
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7/18/03
The Netherlands drug research
think tank Centre for Drug Research, or Het Centrum voor Drugsonderzoek
in Dutch (CEDRO), has added three new documents to its online library:
Justus Uitermark
and Peter Cohen detail how a March meeting on "law enforcement and terrorism,"
which included Dutch and American law enforcement officials, produced little
to do with terrorism but much to do with drugs, particularly ecstasy, in:
"The Netherlands as a Branch
of American Law Enforcement?"
http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/uitermark.filiaal.en.html
CEDRO director Peter Cohen
criticizes the dogmatic basis of the United Nations drug treates, in:
"The Drug Prohibition Church
and the Adventure of Reformation"
http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/cohen.church.html
John Davies, Douglas Cameron
and Ernest Drucker criticize the "Farmington Consensus," which has been
used to stifle unpopular ideas and debate about fundamental questions on
addiction, in:
"Damned and be Unpublished?"
http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/davies.farmington.html
Ethan Nadelmann urges Latin
American leaders to break with US-led drug policy, in:
"Addicted to Failure"
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=13794
Jacob Sullum describes the
threat to freedom of speech and assembly posed by the RAVE Act, for Reason
magazine, in:
The Chill Is On: Fighting
Raves, Squelching Speech
http://www.reason.com/sullum/071803.shtml
Jason Vest profiles incoming
DEA administrator Karen Tandy in:
"A New Hard-Liner at the
DEA"
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030721&s=vest
Bill Berkowitz profiles Tandy
for Working for Change, in:
"Tandy Won't be Dandy for
Medical Marijuana"
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15309
Former Baltimore police officer
and doctoral candidate Peter Moskos writes that "eighty years of failed
drug prohibition have destroyed swaths of urban America," a Washington
Post, op-ed:
"Victims of the War on Drugs"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29981-2003Jul8.html
Columnist Molly Ivins decries
the drug war's draconian response to crack cocaine use:
http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv
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or July 15 if it doesn't immediately show)
New Freedom of Information
Act research finds that Venezuela's government under then-president Carlos
Andrés Perez successfully resisted US pressure to aerially fumigate
drug crops using glyphosate in 1988-89:
http://www.usfumigation.org/Literature/FOIA/VZ_says_no/
The UN's 2003 Global Illicit
Drug Trends report is now online at:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/global_illicit_drug_trends.html
A Bureau of Justice Statistics
report, "Money Laundering Offenders, 1994-2001" (NCJ-199574), is available
at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/mlo01.htm
or in print by calling the BJS Clearinghouse at (800)-851-3420.
The Sentencing Project has
launched its new web site, featuring news, events, and downloadable publications
on sentencing, incarceration, felony disenfranchisement, juvenile justice,
drug policy and other issues. Visit http://www.sentencingproject.org
to check it out.
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Issue #296, 7/18/03
Editorial: Tragic Confusion |
Medical Marijuana Eroding Capitol Hill Prohibition Consensus -- Democrats Also On Attack against Drug Czar, Drug War in General |
With Hip-Hopper's Support, NY Governor Tries Again on Rockefeller Law Reform -- Not Good Enough, Say Critics |
Bush, Ashcroft Ask Supreme Court for Permission to Punish Doctors Who Recommend Medical Marijuana |
DRCNet Book Review: "Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America," by Ted Galen Carpenter (2003, Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95) |
Newsbrief: North Carolina Prosecutor Charges Methamphetamine Cook with Terrorist Offense |
Newsbrief: Whites Benefit from California's Proposition 36 Disproportionately, UCLA Study Finds |
Newsbrief: No Needle Exchange in Delaware -- Lack of Political Support Cited |
Newsbrief: Colombian Supreme Court Blocks President's Effort to Recriminalize Drug Possession |
Newsbrief: Brazil to Cooperate in Andean Drug Plane Shoot-Down Strategy |
Newsbrief: Peru to Modify Drug Penalties -- One Step Forward, One Step Back, Some Standing in Place |
Newsbrief: Legalize It, Says Canada's National Post |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story |
Web Scan: CEDRO, Foreign Policy, Reason, Nation, Working for Change, Washington Post, Molly Ivins, usfumigation.org, UN Report, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sentencing Project |
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