Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #366
, 12/10/04
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- THE
PERRY
FUND
AND
DRCNET
GO
TO
BOSTON
Dozens
of
drug
reformers,
educators,
and
concerned
citizens
with
crowded
into
the
Omni
Parker
House
Hotel
in
downtown
Boston
Thursday
evening
to
support
a
scholarship
fund
for
students
losing
federal
financial
aid
for
college
because
of
drug
convictions.
- DRCNET
INTERVIEW:
WHITNEY
TAYLOR,
EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR,
DRUG
POLICY
FORUM
OF
MASSACHUSETTS
At
age
34,
DPFMA
head
Whitney
Taylor
is
already
a
tested
veteran
of
the
good
fight.
Today
she
shares
her
past
and
recent
experiences
with
Drug
War
Chronicle.
- NEW
YORK
LEGISLATORS
CUT
SOME
ROCKEFELLER
SENTENCES,
BUT
REAL
REFORM
REMAINS
ELUSIVE
After
years
of
inaction,
the
New
York
state
Rockefeller
drug
law
reform
logjam
broke
this
week.
But
drug
reformers
and
their
allies
are
less
than
satisfied
because
the
sentencing
bill
failed
to
address
what
they
have
identified
as
the
failure
to
address
their
key
concerns.
- HURWITZ
FATE
IN
HANDS
OF
JURY
The
trial
of
Northern
Virginia
pain
management
specialist
Dr.
William
Hurwitz
wound
to
an
end
this
week,
and
Hurwitz'
is
now
in
the
hands
of
a
federal
jury.
Federal
prosecutors
are
seeking
to
send
the
nationally
known
doctor
to
prison
for
life.
- REP.
SOUDER
URGES
FDA
REVIEW
OF
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA,
PROVOKES
BATTLE
OF
THE
"DEAR
COLLEAGUE"
LETTERS
ON
CAPITOL
HILL
Leading
congressional
drug
warrior
Rep.
Mark
Souder
(R-IN)
is
at
it
again,
this
time
with
a
bill
to
have
the
federal
health
bureaucracy
do
a
report
and
publicity
on
marijuana's
harms
but
not
its
benefits.
Medical
marijuana
supporter
Rep.
Sam
Farr
(D-CA)
has
responded.
- NEWSBRIEF:
NO
JUSTICE
FOR
KENNETH
WALKER
--
POLICE
SHOOTER
NO-BILLED
BY
GRAND
JURY
On
December
10,
2003,
the
unarmed
Kenneth
Walker
was
killed
by
two
shots
to
the
head
after
being
pulled
out
a
vehicle
drug
agents
mistakenly
thought
was
that
of
a
Florida
drug
dealer.
On
November
23
a
Georgia
grand
jury
refused
to
indict
former
Deputy
David
Glisson
for
the
killing.
- NEWSBRIEF:
CALLING
DRUG
RAID
ON
HELL'S
ANGELS
AN
"ATTACK,"
JUDGE
THROWS
OUT
EVIDENCE
When
Arizona
police
conducted
a
pre-dawn
raid
on
a
Hell's
Angel's
clubhouse
in
Phoenix
in
July
2003,
they
knocked
at
the
door,
waited
six
seconds,
then
tossed
a
"diversionary"
grenade
and
broke
a
window
at
the
back
of
the
building.
The
judge
has
called
it
an
"attack
that
violated
search
and
seizure
laws,
and
has
thrown
out
the
evidence.
- NEWSBRIEF:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COP
STORY
Either
all
the
bad
apples
have
gone
good
or
the
corrupt
cops
have
gotten
smarter.
This
week,
for
the
first
time
in
memory,
we
suffer
a
shortage
of
corrupt
cop
stories,
and
the
one
story
we
do
have
barely
rises
to
the
level
of
corruption
--
it's
more
like
sheer
orneriness
and
vengeance.
- NEWSBRIEF:
PERUVIAN
COCA
GROWERS
MOBILIZING
AGAIN
Frustrated
by
the
Peruvian
government's
unwillingness
or
inability
to
address
their
grievances
over
forced
coca
eradication,
Peruvian
coca
grower
organizations
were
on
the
move
this
week.
- NEWSBRIEF:
HAWAII
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
ARRESTS
SETTLED
WITH
$30,000
PAY-OUT
Medical
marijuana
really
is
legal
in
Hawaii,
and
police
on
the
Big
Island
have
found
that
out
the
hard
way.
- NEWSBRIEF:
JIMSON
WEED
NOW
ILLEGAL
IN
OKLAHOMA
Under
a
law
that
was
passed
in
April
and
went
into
effect
November
1st,
the
weirdly
psychoactive
member
of
the
datura
family
known
folklorically
for
making
sheep
crazy,
is
now
considered
a
"synthetic
controlled
substance,"
with
punishments
of
up
to
a
year
in
jail
for
possession
to
up
to
life
in
prison
for
distribution.
- THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
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