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November 19, 1993: A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) helicopter crashes in a heavily wooded area 15 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri, while conducting surveillance of suspected drug activity, killing a St. Louis police officer and critically injuring the pilot.

November 19, 1993: Former West Vancouver (Canada) school superintendent Ed Carlin is furious with North Vancouver Royal Canadian Mounted Police after an emergency response team searching for drugs and guns raids a basement rental suite occupied by his son and three others. Red-faced police take down the four young men at gunpoint and find Nintendo controllers but no contraband.

November 20, 2002: Irvin Rosenfeld marks his twentieth anniversary of receiving a monthly tin of about 300 pre-rolled medical marijuana cigarettes from the United States government, as one of seven living patients grandfathered into the now defunct Compassionate Investigative New Drug Program.

November 21, 1987: Jorge Ochoa is arrested in Colombia, leading to drug traffickers under the name "The Extraditables" threatening to execute Colombian political leaders if he is extradited. Ochoa is released on December 30. The Extraditables claim responsibility for the murder of attorney general Carlos Mauro Hoyos the next month.

November 22, 1975: Colombian police seize 600 kilos of cocaine from a small plane at the Cali airport, leading to the "Medellin Massacre," in which 40 people are killed in one weekend.

November 25, 1992: Benson B. Roe, physician and professor emeritus of surgery at the University of California at San Francisco, states: "The propaganda that illegal drugs are 'deadly poisons' is a hoax. There is little or no medical evidence of long-term ill effects from moderate consumption of uncontaminated marijuana, cocaine, or heroin. If these substances, which have been consumed in enormous quantities for decades, were responsible for any chronic, progressive or disabling diseases, they certainly would have shown up in clinical practice and/or on the autopsy table. But they simply have not!"

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