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This
Week
in
History
10/29/04
October 31, 2002: The
Washington Post releases a story about a rare interview with Benjamin Arellano
Felix, the man accused of running Mexico's most ruthless drug cartel, from
the La Palma maximum security federal prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico.
November 1991: While
attempting to stop an air shipment of Colombian cocaine, Mexican Federal
Police are massacred by Mexican army members in the pay of the traffickers.
Embarrassed, Mexican President Salinas orders an investigation, which results
in the imprisonment of a Mexican General. The general is quietly
released several months later.
November 2, 1951: The
Boggs Act nearly quadruples penalties for all narcotics offenses and unscientifically
lumps marijuana in with narcotic drugs.
November 3, 1995: Anthony
Lewis writes in The New York Times, in part: "We tried Prohibition
to end alcohol abuse. It brought so much crime that we quickly gave
up the Noble Experiment... Prohibition of drugs began in 1915. The
experiment has been going for 80 years now, and by every rational test
it is a ghastly failure."
November 3, 1999: The
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation (CJPF) cosponsors a press conference
releasing a letter to "drug czar" Gen. Barry McCaffrey by distinguished
American and Latin American leaders who reject the US export of the failed
"war on drugs" to Latin America (http://www.cjpf.org/drug/1999latinam.html).
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Issue #360, 10/29/04
On the Ballot: Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Sentencing Reform |
Marijuana Arrests at All-Time High, Far Exceed Violent Crime Arrests |
Latin American Anti-Prohibitionist Umbrella Organization Forms, Eyes UN 2008 Vienna Meeting |
African American Professional Groups Move Into Drug Reform Arena |
Newsbrief: Former Interpol Chief Calls Prohibition "Obsolete and Dangerous" |
Newsbrief: Prohibitionist Bush Supporters "Expose and Oppose" Soros |
Newsbrief: New Jersey Governor Bypasses Legislature, Okays Needle Exchange Programs By Executive Order |
Newsbrief: Nader Calls on Bush to Grant Clemency to Drug War Prisoners |
Newsbrief: Baltimore Cops Offer Minor Drug Suspects Freedom for Guns |
Newsbrief: US-Canada Joint Border Drug Threat Assessment Says BC Bud Only Two Percent of US Marijuana Imports |
Newsbrief: Fiji Islands in Grip of Reefer Madness |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories |
This Week in History |
The DARE Generation Returns to DC: Students for Sensible Drug Policy 2004 National Conference Next Month |
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