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This
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10/1/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/356/thisweek.shtml
October 2, 1982: Ronald
Reagan, in a radio address to the nation on federal drug policy, concludes,
"we're making no excuses for drugs -- hard, soft, or otherwise. Drugs
are bad, and we're going after them. As I've said before, we've taken
down the surrender flag and run up the battle flag. And we're going
to win the war on drugs."
October 2, 1992: Thirty-one
people from law enforcement agencies storm Donald Scott's 200-acre ranch
in Malibu, California. Scott's wife screams when she sees the intruders.
When sixty-one-year-old Scott, no doubt believing thieves were breaking
into his home, comes out of the bedroom with a gun, he is shot dead.
A drug task force was looking for marijuana plants. Scott had refused
earlier to negotiate a sale of his property to the government. DEA
agents were there to seize the ranch. No marijuana is found.
October 4, 1970: Legendary
singer Janis Joplin is found dead at Hollywood's Landmark Hotel, a victim
of what is concluded to be an accidental heroin overdose in combination
with alcohol.
October 6, 2000: Former
US president Bill Clinton is quoted in Rolling Stone magazine: "I
think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in
some places, and should be."
October 7, 1989: Former
US secretary of state George P. Shultz tells an audience at a Stanford
Business School alumni gathering, "It seems to me we're not really going
to get anywhere until we can take the criminality out of the drug business
and the incentives for criminality out of it. Frankly, the only way
I can think of to accomplish this is to make it possible for addicts to
buy drugs at some regulated place at a price that approximates their cost...
We need at least to consider and examine forms of controlled legalization
of drugs... No politician wants to say what I have just said, not for a
minute."
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Issue #356, 10/1/04
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