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This
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10/15/04
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October 15, 1986: Assistant
Attorney General Mark Richard testifies before the Kerry Committee that
he had attended a meeting with 20 to 25 officials and that the DEA did
not want to provide any of the information the committee had requested
on the Contra involvement in drug trafficking.
October 16, 1989: A
Time Magazine quote from an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution
in El Reno, Oklahoma, reads, "If the government cannot stop people from
using drugs in the prisons over which it has total control, why should
Americans forfeit any of their traditional civil rights in the hope of
reducing the drug problem?"
October 21, 1999: In
a syndicated column, conservative author William F. Buckley writes: "Now
it's one thing to say (I say it) that people shouldn't consume psychoactive
drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws the
application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans.
Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?"
October 21, 2000: Harry
Browne, the libertarian candidate for president, lists seven ways that
ending the war on drugs would make our neighborhood safer -- freeing up
prison space for violent offenders, freeing up police resources to fight
violent crime, ending gang warfare over drug turf, reducing police corruption,
ending the incentive for drug sellers to recruit children into the drug
trade, ending property crime by addicts by lowering the price of drugs,
and restoring "respect for decent behavior."
support their habits.
October 22, 1982: The
first publicly known case of contra cocaine shipments appears in government
files in a cable from the CIA's Directorate of Operations. The cable
passes on word that US law enforcement agencies were aware of "links between
(a US religious organization) and two Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary
groups [which] involve an exchange in (the United States) of narcotics
for arms." The material in parentheses is inserted by the CIA as
part of its declassification of the cable. The name of the religious
group remains secret.
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Issue #358, 10/15/04
A Message from the Executive Director on What DRCNet is Planning After Election Day and Why We Need Your Help |
Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Amazing Vanishing DEA Pain FAQ |
Montana Medical Marijuana Initiative Appears Headed for Victory |
Second Medical Marijuana Initiative Faces Tough Fight in Oregon |
Medical Marijuana on the Local Ballot in Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Columbia |
DRCNet Book Review: "Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China" by Frank Dikotter, Lars Laaman and Zhou Xun (Oxford University Press, $35.00 HB) and "Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon" by Barbara Hodgson (Greystone Press, $14.95 PB) |
Newsbrief: VP Hopeful John Edwards Makes Methamphetamine a Campaign Issue |
Newsbrief: AMT, Foxy Methoxy Permanently Placed on Schedule I |
Newsbrief: Congress Votes to Double US Troops in Colombia |
Newsbrief: European Drug Think Tank Rips US on Afghan Opium Policy -- No "Plan Afghanistan," Please, Says Senlis Council |
Newsbrief: Dinosaurs Walk the Earth as Prohibition Party, Independent Candidate Demand Return of Alcohol Prohibition |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories |
This Week in History |
Administrative Assistant: Part-Time Job Opportunity at DRCNet |
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