|
Media
Scan:
Reason
on
Pain,
Cockburn
on
Webb,
Grits
for
Breakfast,
Faith
Under
Fire,
BJS
12/24/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/368/mediascan.shtml
Jacob Sullum on the Hurwitz
conviction in Reason, "Trust Busters: pain doctor's drug trafficking conviction
sets a chilling precedent":
http://www.reason.com/sullum/121704.shtml
Alexander Cockburn in Counterpunch,
on "From Kobe Bryant to Uncle Sam: Why They Hated Gary Webb":
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/12/18/1254514
Scott Henson's Grits for
Breakfast Blog reports on some highly positive fallout from the Tulia scandal:
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2004/12/tx-house-committee-end-drug-task-force.html
PAX-TV "Faith Under Fire"
interviews former Medellin cartel leader and founder of Coming Clean Ministries
Dr. Jorge Valdes, and criminal defense attorney Alan Ross. Saturday, 12/25,
10:00pm EST and PST, 9:00pm CST and MST, visit http://www.faithunderfire.com
and look up episode #113 for further information.
New Bureau of Justice Statistics
report, "Felony Sentences in the US, 2002":
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/fssc02.htm
or http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fssc02.pdf
-- END --
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Issue #368
-- 12/24/04
Editorial:
Jury
Manipulation
|
Conflict
Over
Pain
Management
Heats
Up
as
Mainstream
Medical
Groups
Wake
Up
|
In
Run-Up
to
New
European
Union
Drug
Strategy,
European
Parliament
Adopts
Report
Critical
of
Continued
Drug
War
|
Young
Reformers
Give
Drug
Czar
Hard
Time
at
Monitoring
the
Future
Press
Conference
|
DRCNet
Book
Review:
Under
The
Influence:
The
Disinformation
Guide
to
Drugs,
Edited
by
Preston
Peet
(The
Disinformation
Company
Ltd.,
2004,
312
pages,
$24.95)
|
Legalization
Talk
|
Newsbrief:
Senior
Citizens
Support
Medical
Marijuana,
AARP
Poll
Finds
|
Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Newsbrief:
From
Federal
Prison,
Martha
Stewart
Calls
for
Sentencing
Reform
|
Newsbrief:
Anachronistic
Law
Could
Hamper
Hemp
in
South
Africa
|
Newsbrief:
Dutch
Open
First
Retirement
Home
for
Junkies
|
Newsbrief:
Hungarian
High
Court
Overturns
Drug
Reforms
|
Newsbrief:
Intelligence
Bill
Yields
New
Federal
Drug
Fighter
Position
|
Newsbrief:
First
Cannabis-Based
Prescription
Drug
Wins
Preliminary
Approval
in
Canada
|
Newsbrief:
Canadian
Study
to
Examine
Safety
of
Medical
Marijuana
|
Newsbrief:
Illinois
Nurses
Join
Growing
List
of
Nursing
Groups
Supporting
Medical
Marijuana
|
Media
Scan:
Reason
on
Pain,
Cockburn
on
Webb,
Grits
for
Breakfast,
Faith
Under
Fire,
BJS
|
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Week
in
History
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