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Blogging:
A
Stunning
Admission
by
Baltimore
Police
Officials,
and
More
1/21/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/371/blogging.shtml
Baltimore police officials
have made the stunning admission that their campaign against inner city
drug dealing has sparked a wave of homicides. But they intend to
"stay on course." The Baltimore Sun ran a remarkably insightful article;
the AP also covered the story.
Federal prosecutors in Michigan
have indicted seven people for trafficking between Detroit and Ypsilanti
and a "drug related slaying," one of whom, Terrance Smith, is already serving
time for another such murder, according to the Ann Arbor News. Changing
"drug related" to "drug trade related" would make the report more precise.
Changing occurrences of the words "drug" and "marijuana" and "cocaine"
to "alcohol" and changing "Smith" to "Capone" would turn it into something
that could have run in the paper 70 years ago during Prohibition.
A cocaine dealer in southern
Florida is accused of raping one of his customers, a woman who was unable
to pay her drug debt, in order to make things "even." Sergio Barr,
the accused, may face life in prison if he is convicted. But wouldn't
it be better if it had never happened? Drug users should not be forced
into contact with the criminal underground as our prohibition laws do.
All of the above point to
the urgent need for some form of drug legalization. Visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/blog/,
our Prohibition
in the Media blog, to check out the stories and for letter to the editor
information. Visit http://www.ga0.org/drcnet/smp.tcl
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Issue #371
-- 1/21/05
Editorial:
Unfortunate
Bedfellows
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Following
Oklahoma's
Lead,
States
Target
Cold
Remedies
in
Fight
Against
Methamphetamine
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Mexican
Stand-Off:
Government
Sends
in
Tanks,
Soldiers
in
Effort
to
Retake
Prisons
from
Narcos
|
Blogging:
A
Stunning
Admission
by
Baltimore
Police
Officials,
and
More
|
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Newsbrief:
German
Supreme
Court
Rejects
"Zero
Tolerance"
Drugged
Driving
Law
in
Cannabis
Case |
Newsbrief:
Mass
Arrests
of
Drug
Users
in
Iran
|
Newsbrief:
Marijuana
Bills
Filed
--
Medical
Marijuana
in
New
Jersey,
Decriminalization
in
New
Hampshire
|
Newsbrief:
Resistance
to
Methadone
Clinics
Rears
Head
in
Virginia,
Washington
State
|
Newsbrief:
King
County
Bar
Association
(Seattle)
Calls
for
Legal,
Regulated
Drug
Markets
|
Newsbrief:
Texas
Bill
Would
Ban
Drug
Offenders
from
Entering
Certain
San
Antonio
Neighborhoods
|
Newsbrief:
Last
Week's
Supreme
Court
Ruling
Pays
Off
for
New
York
Woman
|
Newsbrief:
Martha
Stewart,
Prisoner
Advocate
|
Newsbrief:
MPP
Assists
Poor
Montana
Medical
Marijuana
Patients
|
Newsbrief:
Maine
Activist
Providing
Medical
Marijuana
Indicted
for
Trafficking
and
Cultivation
|
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Week
in
History
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Reformer's
Calendar
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