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This
Week
in
History
1/14/05
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January 15, 1997: Milahhr
Kemnah, an AIDS patient, becomes the first person to buy medical marijuana
under the protection of Proposition 215, at the Cannabis Cultivators Club
in San Francisco, California.
January 16, 1919: The
18th Amendment is declared ratified and is scheduled to take effect in
one year.
January 16, 1920: At
midnight, the 18th Amendment becomes law, making alcohol illegal.
January 18, 1990: Mayor
Marion Barry of Washington, DC, is arrested after hidden cameras record
him smoking crack cocaine with ex-girlfriend Hazel Diane "Rasheeda" Moore
in her room at the Vista Hotel.
January 19, 1999: Twenty
heavily armed officers from the Placer County sheriff's department in northern
California raid the home of Steve and Michele Kubby. The officers
find a number of marijuana plants under cultivation in a room where copies
of Proposition 215, California's medical marijuana law which made such
activity legal, had been prominently posted.
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Issue #370
-- 1/14/05
Editorial:
Make
No
Mistake
|
Supreme
Court
Ends
Current
Federal
Sentencing
System
|
Course
Reversal:
Poland
Moving
From
"Zero
Tolerance"
Toward
Eased
Drug
Laws
|
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Blogging:
Jackson,
Mississippi
Cocaine
Ring
Taken
Down,
Our
Side
Comments
on
Legalization
for
BBC
|
Newsbrief:
Clashes
and
Conflict
as
Afghan
"Jihad"
Against
Opium
Gets
Under
Way
|
Newsbrief:
South
Dakota
Legislators
Ready
to
Reduce
Administrative
Penalties
Against
Students
Caught
With
Drugs
|
Newsbrief:
US
Troops
Go
from
Iraq
Combat
to
Scottish
Drug
Treatment
|
Newsbrief:
Marines
Claim
Fallujah
Foes
Were
Hopped
Up
on
Dope
|
Newsbrief:
Violent
Consolidation
Underway
Among
Mexican
Drug
Trafficking
Groups
|
Newsbrief:
Black
Market
Marijuana
Finances
Maoist
Rebellion,
Indian
Officials
Say
|
Crackdown
on
Ecstasy
in
Malaysia
|
This
Week
in
History
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The
Reformer's
Calendar
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