Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #378
-- 3/11/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BUSY
WEEK:
CAMPAIGN
FOR
REPEAL
OF
HEA
DRUG
PROVISION
ON
THE
"RISE"
The
campaign
to
repeal
the
Higher
Education
Act's
anti-drug
provision
got
a
boost
this
week,
with
a
record
number
of
starting
cosponsors
on
a
repeal
bill
and
eight
members
of
Congress
speaking
for
events
Wednesday
and
Thursday.
- UN
FORUM
HIGHLIGHTS
DIVIDES
OVER
HARM
REDUCTION
--
US
POWERFUL
BUT
ISOLATED
The
United
Nations'
Commission
on
Narcotic
Drugs
meeting
this
week
in
Vienna
became
the
latest
battleground
in
an
effort
led
by
the
United
States
to
de-legitimize
harm
reduction
strategies
in
general
and
needle
exchange
programs
in
particular.
- POLICE
AND
NEEDLE
EXCHANGES:
THE
PHILADELPHIA
STORY
AND
BEYOND
An
effort
by
Philadelphia
police
to
crack
down
on
the
city's
illicit
drug
markets
has
had
an
unintended
undermining
impact
on
the
city's
needle
exchange
programs.
- HOWARD
RIDES
AGAIN:
FORMER
TEXAS
LAWMAN
RIDING
CROSS
COUNTRY
ON
HORSEBACK
TO
EXPLAIN
WHY
COPS
SAY
LEGALIZE
DRUGS
Texas
lawman
Howard
Wooldridge
and
his
horse
Misty
are
riding
across
the
United
States,
explaining
the
message
on
his
t-shirt:
"Cops
Say
Legalize
Drugs:
Ask
Me
Why."
- DRCNET
INTERVIEWS
DRUG
POLICY
ALLIANCE
EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
ETHAN
NADELMANN
ON
REACHING
OUT
TO
THE
RIGHT
It
must
have
seemed
surreal
to
see
Drug
Policy
Alliance
executive
director
Ethan
Nadelmann
appearing
at
the
Conservative
Political
Action
Conference
in
Washington
earlier
this
month.
Nadelmann
spoke
with
Drug
War
Chronicle
this
week
on
reformers
reaching
out
to
the
right.
- COASTERS
TO
STOP
THE
DRUG
WAR
Order
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new
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Drug
War
coasters
--
and
enjoy
your
favorite
beverages
while
talking
about
prohibition.
- NEWSBRIEF:
FEDERAL
PROSECUTORS
ASK
LIFE
SENTENCE
FOR
DR.
HURWITZ
Federal
prosecutors
are
seeking
to
send
nationally-known
Virginia
pain
specialist
Dr.
William
Hurwitz
to
prison
for
life.
But
others
see
him
as
a
humane,
life-saving
physician.
- NEWSBRIEF:
MOUNTIE
MURDERS
SHIFT
CANADA
MARIJUANA
DEBATE
RIGHTWARD
EVEN
THOUGH
GROW-UP
LINK
TENUOUS
When
James
Roszko
shot
and
killed
four
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
at
his
rural
Alberta
farm
last
week,
he
may
also
have
fatally
wounded
prospects
for
that
country
to
move
beyond
limited
marijuana
law
reform.
- NEWSBRIEF:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
It's
the
usual
motley
assortment
again
this
week:
Small
time
dishonesty
in
Texas,
enterprising
jailers
in
Tennessee,
and
a
cop
with
a
bad
habit
in
Minnesota.
- NEWSBRIEF:
IN
COLORADO
FIRST,
DENVER
POLICE
RETURN
MARIJUANA
TO
PATIENT
On
March
4,
medical
marijuana
patient
Thomas
Lawrence
made
Colorado
history
as
the
Denver
Police
Department
returned
to
him
a
bag
of
marijuana
it
had
seized
during
a
January
11
traffic
stop.
- NEWSBRIEF:
PERUVIAN
FIRST
LADY
DEFENDS
COCA
In
a
February
22
speech
at
George
Washington
University
in
Washington,
DC,
Peruvian
first
lady
Elaine
Karp
said
that
coca
cannot
be
stamped
out
because
its
use
is
deeply
rooted
in
Andean
cultures.
And,
it's
good
for
you.
- NEWSBRIEF:
LOCAL
AUTHORITIES
TRYING
TO
BAN
MILLION
MARIJUANA
MARCH
IN
LONDON
NEIGHBORHOOD
The
Annual
Cannabis
March
and
Festival
in
the
London
neighborhood
of
Brixton
is
in
danger
of
being
banned
by
local
authorities.
But
former
organizers
of
the
event
have
already
disavowed
any
connection
with
it.
- NEWSBRIEF:
DUTCH
COFFEE
SHOPS
FACING
PRESSURE,
GREATER
CONTROLS
For
the
past
three
decades,
Amsterdam
has
been
Mecca
for
marijuana
connoisseurs
and
advocates
of
regulated
cannabis
sales
and
use.
That
may
be
changing
--
or
it
may
not.
- EVENTS
AND
CONFERENCES
COMING
UP
FOR
DRUG
REFORMERS
--
COME
OUT
AND
BE
A
PART
OF
IT
Events
and
conferences
are
coming
up
around
the
country
--
come
out
and
get
to
know
the
people
in
the
movement!
- THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
Showing
up
at
an
event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
Check
out
this
week's
listings
for
events
from
today
through
next
year,
across
the
US
and
around
the
world!
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