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This
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History
1/28/05
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January 28, 1972: The
Nixon administration creates the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement.
ODALE establishes joint federal/local task forces to fight the drug trade
at the street level. Myles Ambrose is appointed director.
January 28, 1982: The
Reagan administration creates the South Florida Drug Task Force, headed
by vice president George Herbert Walker Bush and combining agents from
DEA, Customs, ATF, IRS, Army and Navy to mobilize against drug traffickers.
Reagan later creates several other regional task forces throughout the
US.
January 29, 1998: Judge
Nancy Gertner, a district judge in Boston, criticizes the drug war for
spending too much federal funds while depriving Americans of liberty, at
a forum presented by the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers.
January 30, 1997: CNN
reports that The New England Journal of Medicine has come out in favor
of doctors being allowed to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes and
has called the threat of government sanctions "misguided, heavy-handed
and inhumane."
February 1, 1909: The
International Opium Commission convenes in Shanghai, the US delegation
headed by Dr. Hamilton Wright and Episcopal Bishop Henry Brent, both of
whom try to convince the international delegation of the immoral and evil
effects of opium.
February 2, 2004: A
congressional budget rider known as the "Istook Amendment," after its sponsor,
US Rep. James Istook (R-OK), takes, penalizing any transit system that
accepts advertising "promot[ing] the legalization or medical use" of illegal
drugs such as marijuana by cutting off all federal financial assistance,
which often amounts to millions of dollars. The amendment is subsequently
blocked as unconstitutional by the courts (newsbrief this issue).
February 3, 1987: Carlos
Lehder is captured by the Colombian National Police at a safe house owned
by Pablo Escobar in the mountains outside of Medellin. He is extradited
to the US the next day. On May 19, 1988 Lehder is convicted of drug
smuggling and sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus an additional
135 years.
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Review
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for
Hundreds
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Newsbrief:
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Spraying
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Newsbrief:
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Ends
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Ruling
Throwing
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Transit
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Year
Into
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