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This
Week
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History
12/3/04
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December 5, 1933: The
passage of the 21st Amendment repeals prohibition of alcohol. Prohibition
ends a little after 5:00pm EST when Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify
the amendment.
December 6, 2000: In
Belgium, the Liberal Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and the Brussels coalition
of Liberals, Socialists and Greens, vote to "exempt from punishment possession,
consumption and trade of up to five grams hashish or marijuana."
December 7, 1993: During
a speech at the National Press Club, US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders
says, "I do feel that we would markedly reduce our crime rate if drugs
were legalized, but I don't know all the ramifications of this... I do
feel that we need to do some studies. In some of the countries that
have legalized drugs, they certainly have shown that there has been a reduction
in their crime rate and that there has been no increase in the drug use
rate." Elders' gets in hot water for the comment.
December 7, 2001: John
P. Walters is sworn in as director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy, or the "drug czar."
December 7, 2001: In
California, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports that a Poly High School
senior who played bass in the school orchestra committed suicide by self-inflicting
a gunshot wound to his head after being booked on marijuana possession
charges. His aunt says he was humiliated by his arrest. "All
he repeated to his mother on the way home was 'they treated me like a common
criminal,'" she said.
December 8, 1929: Col.
Levi G. Nutt, Head of the Narcotics Division of the US Treasury Dept.,
declares, "I'd rather see my children up against a wall and see them shot
down before my eyes than to know that any one of them was going to be a
drug slave."
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Issue #365
, 12/3/04
DRCNet
Event:
Rep.
Barney
Frank
to
Keynote
for
Perry
Fund
Forum/Fundraiser,
December
9,
2004,
Boston
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DEA
Retraction
of
Pain
FAQ
Angers,
Scares
Doctors
and
Patients
|
Hurwitz
Trial
Update
and
Call
for
Support
|
Raich
Case
as
Much
About
Federalism
as
About
Medical
Marijuana
|
Medical
Marijuana
at
the
Supreme
Court
--
a
Taste
of
the
Day's
Events
|
Top
Cops
Say
Drug
War
a
Flop
in
Two
New
Surveys
|
Newsbrief:
Group
Can
Display
Marijuana
Reform
Ads,
Federal
Court
Rules
|
Newsbrief:
Supreme
Court
Puts
Hold
on
Religious
Ayahuasca
Use
|
Newsbrief:
Delaware
Legislature
to
Take
Up
Needle
Exchange
Again
|
Newsbrief:
Britain's
Brave
New
World
of
Drug
Testing
Gets
Underway
|
Newsbrief:
Afghan
Opium
Farmers
Claim
They
Are
Being
Sprayed
With
Pesticides
|
Newsbrief:
Drug
Policy
Alliance
Rejects
Grant
Over
Anti-Terror
Clause
|
Newsbrief:
Federal
Sentencing
Guidelines
Fill
Prisons
With
Blacks,
Hispanics,
Study
Finds
|
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Story
|
This
Week
in
History
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New
Harm
Reduction
Grant
Program
for
Activism
and
Policy
By
and
for
Drug
Users
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Now
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at
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