Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #376
-- 2/25/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
PROOF
Years
after
candidate
George
Bush's
non-answers
to
questions
about
his
possible
drug
past
fueled
controversy
and
a
sense
that
he
indeed
had
such
a
past,
proof
for
some
of
it
at
least
has
at
last
emerged.
On
one
level,
it's
not
very
important.
On
other
levels,
the
proof
after
all
these
years
raises
some
important
philosophical
issues.
- CAMPAIGN
AGAINST
"SOUDER'S
LAW"
PROGRESSES
FORWARD
AND
OUTWARD
IN
DC
AND
THE
STATES
The
campaign
to
repeal
the
Higher
Education
Act's
(HEA)
drug
provision
--
the
brainchild
of
arch-drug
warrior
Rep.
Mark
Souder
--
continues
to
pick
up
steam.
- OHIO
DRUGGED
DRIVING
BILL
HITS
SPEED
BUMPS
IN
HOUSE
AFTER
QUICK
SENATE
APPROVAL
A
bill
that
would
define
drivers
as
impaired
if
certain
set
quantities
of
illicit
drugs
or
their
metabolites
are
detected
in
their
blood
or
urine
sailed
through
the
Ohio
Senate
last
week,
but
may
have
been
knocked
off
course
this
week
in
the
House
as
opponents
mobilized
to
amend
or
defeat
it.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
AT
THE
STATEHOUSE
2005
--
AN
OVERVIEW
OF
PROGRESS
SO
FAR
With
medical
marijuana
already
approved
directly
by
voters
in
eight
states
and
by
the
legislative
process
in
three
more,
the
push
for
medical
marijuana
in
state
legislatures
is
well
underway
this
year.
- DRCNET
BOOK
REVIEWS:
"DRUGS
AND
DEMOCRACY"
AND
"DANGEROUS
HARVESTS"
Two
complementary
collections
of
essays
on
drug
crops
and
the
drug
war
have
different
aims
and
focuses,
but
between
them
readers
will
find
a
wealth
of
information
on
drug
production,
drug
prohibition,
and
their
impact
on
producers
and
producer
nations
not
usually
found
in
an
easily
accessible
fashion.
- DRCNET/PERRY
FUND
EVENT
TO
FEATURE
REP.
JOHN
CONYERS
AND
KEMBA
SMITH,
MARCH
9
IN
WASHINGTON,
DC
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and
the
Perry
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for
the
second
stop
in
our
national
tour
raising
money
for
student
scholarships
and
awareness
of
a
bad
law.
- THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week
there
are
new
developments
in
a
pair
of
nasty
stories
previously
mentioned
here,
as
well
as
a
motley
collection
of
cops
and
prosecutors
who
probably
don't
qualify
as
corrupt,
but
who
have
the
sort
of
bad
habits
for
which
they
usually
arrest
or
prosecute
others.
- NEWSBRIEF:
BUSH
ALL
BUT
ADMITTED
PAST
DRUG
USE
IN
SECRETLY
RECORDED
TAPES
In
conversations
with
a
friend
who
secretly
recorded
his
comments,
President
Bush
all
but
admitted
to
having
a
past
history
of
drug
use.
The
tapes
were
released
late
last
week.
- NEWSBRIEF:
PUSHING
NATIONAL
DRUG
CONTROL
STRATEGY,
DRUG
CZAR
CALLS
FOR
DRUG
WAR
TO
EMULATE
TERROR
WAR
On
the
eve
of
Wednesday's
official
release
of
the
2005
National
Drug
Control
Strategy,
drug
czar
John
Walters
told
Reuters
the
US
should
employ
some
of
the
techniques
it
uses
in
the
"war
on
terror"
to
the
war
on
drugs.
- NEWSBRIEF:
PARENTS
MORE
CHILL
ABOUT
TEEN
DRUG
USE,
STUDY
FRETS
Barely
half
of
today's
parents
would
be
upset
if
they
caught
their
teens
experimenting
with
marijuana,
according
to
an
annual
survey
released
Tuesday.
That
has
the
Partnership
for
a
Drug-Free
America
worried.
- NEWSBRIEF:
IN
LATEST
BORDER
KILLING,
AGENT
SHOOTS
UNARMED
MARIJUANA
MULE
The
FBI
and
Arizona
local
authorities
are
investigating
an
incident
in
which
a
US
Border
Patrol
agent
shot
and
killed
an
unarmed
Mexican
man
who
was
part
of
a
group
backpacking
marijuana
across
the
border.
It
is
only
the
latest
incident
of
Border
Patrol
agents
wounding
or
killing
unarmed
Mexican
immigrants.
- NEWSBRIEF:
MORE
METH
MADNESS
--
IOWA
SCHOOL
DISTRICT
TO
BAN
HOMEMADE
GOODIES
FOR
FEAR
OF
CRANK
CONTAMINATION
The
superintendent
of
Iowa's
rural
Mount
Pleasant
School
District
is
set
to
recommend
that
the
school
board
bar
children
from
bringing
homemade
treats
to
share
with
other
students
at
school
events
out
of
fear
the
cakes
and
cookies
could
contain
methamphetamine.
- NEWSBRIEF:
MARIJUANA
LEGALIZATION
TO
BE
DEBATED
AT
CANADIAN
LIBERAL
PARTY
MEET
The
Canadian
parliament
is
already
debating
a
bill
from
the
ruling
Liberal
Party
to
decriminalize
marijuana
possession.
But
in
a
sign
of
discontent
with
halfway
measures,
party
delegates
from
Alberta
have
crafted
a
resolution
calling
for
the
legalization
and
taxation
of
the
country's
booming
marijuana
trade.
- NEWSBRIEF:
SINGAPORE'S
FIRST-EVER
COCAINE
BUST
PROMPTS
AD
CAMPAIGN
AIMED
AT
ELITE
Officials
in
Singapore
are
targeting
the
rich
and
the
powerful
in
an
anti-drug
media
campaign
after
more
than
a
dozen
members
of
the
puritanical
city-state's
glitterati
were
rounded
up
in
the
nation's
first
cocaine
bust.
- NEWSBRIEF:
COUNTERCULTURE
ICON
HUNTER
THOMPSON
DEAD
BY
HIS
OWN
HAND
Author,
provocateur,
prodigious
drug-taker
and
rabble-rouser
Hunter
Thompson's
savage
journey
through
life
came
to
an
end
last
Saturday
when
he
committed
suicide
at
his
long-time
home
in
the
mountains
outside
Aspen,
Colorado.
- THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOB
OPENINGS
WITH
MPP
NEVADA
CAMPAIGN,
AND
OTHER
OPPORTUNITIES
A
host
of
new
work
opportunities
in
the
movement
have
just
opened
up.
- THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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