Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #381
-- 4/8/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
BILLS
MOVING
IN
THE
STATES
Medical
marijuana
continues
to
be
a
hot
issue
in
state
legislatures
this
year.
- HEMP
LEGISLATION
ON
THE
MOVE
IN
THE
STATES
Industrial
hemp
advocates
and
supporters
have
been
busy
this
legislative
season.
- NORML
2005:
ACTIVISTS
MEET
AND
PLOT
IN
AMERICA'S
MARIJUANA
MECCA
More
than
500
marijuana
activists
gathered
in
San
Francisco
last
weekend
for
the
National
Organization
for
the
Reform
of
Marijuana
Laws
annual
conference.
- PUSHING
THE
ENVELOPE
IN
OAKSTERDAM
When
city
officials
tightened
the
screws
on
Oakland's
thriving
medical
marijuana
neighborhood,
it
looked
like
Oaksterdam's
fleeting
glory
days
were
already
behind
it.
But
nine
months
later,
at
least
one
former
dispensary
has
taken
the
leap
into
non-medical
sales
to
adults.
- HOW
DID
YOUR
MEMBER
OF
CONGRESS
VOTE
ON
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
LAST
YEAR?
By
the
time
you
read
this,
the
Supreme
Court
may
have
already
spoken
on
the
constitutionality
of
medical
marijuana
prohibition.
This
would
be
a
good
time
to
look
up
whether
or
how
your
Representative
in
Congress
voted
on
the
issue
last
time.
- PLEASE
HELP
STUDENTS
LOSING
FINANCIAL
AID
FOR
COLLEGE
BECAUSE
OF
DRUG
CONVICTIONS
GET
THEIR
AID
BACK
Participate
in
DRCNet
online
action
alerts
asking
Congress
and
two
state
Legislatures
to
undo
Rep.
Mark
Souder's
much-criticized
law
stripping
college
aid
from
students
with
drug
convictions.
- NEWSBRIEF:
WITH
PROHIBITION
FAILING,
CHINA
CALLS
FOR
"PEOPLES'
WAR"
ON
DRUGS
With
the
number
of
both
drug
arrests
and
officially
recognized
"drug
addicts"
on
the
rise,
Chinese
authorities
are
responding
with
a
call
for
more,
better
drug
war.
- NEWSBRIEF:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
Sometimes
we
are
hard-pressed
to
come
up
with
material
for
this
feature,
but
this
week
our
cup
runneth
over
with
a
veritable
cornucopia
of
corruption.
- NEWSBRIEF:
SUPREME
COURT
LETS
STAND
RULING
ALLOWING
DRUG
DOG
SEARCHES
OUTSIDE
PEOPLE'S
HOMES
The
US
Supreme
Court
has
declined
to
hear
an
appeal
of
a
Houston
case
in
which
police
used
a
drug
dog
to
sniff
outside
a
man's
garage,
the
second
ruling
in
recent
months
ratifying
expanded
police
powers
at
the
expense
of
the
fourth
amendment.
- NEWSBRIEF:
STATE
COURTS
IN
INDIANA,
OREGON
RESTRICT
POLICE
GARBAGE
SEARCHES
While
the
US
Supreme
Court
has
repeatedly
held
that
police
do
not
need
a
search
warrant
to
search
people's
trash
once
it
has
been
placed
outside
for
collection,
two
recent
rulings
in
state
courts
will
place
limits
on
police
in
Indiana
and
Oregon.
- NEWSBRIEF:
IOWA
LEAGUE
OF
WOMEN
VOTERS
CRITICIZES
DRUG
POLICY,
CALLS
FOR
SENTENCING
REFORM
After
an
18-month
study
of
prison
and
sentencing
policy
in
Iowa,
that
state's
chapter
of
the
nonpartisan
national
civic
organization
has
called
for
serious
sentencing
reform.
- NEWSBRIEF:
NORML
ISSUES
SOBERING
REPORT
ON
PROHIBITIONIST
"DRUGGED
DRIVING"
OFFENSIVE
A
report
from
the
National
Organization
for
the
Reform
of
Marijuana
Laws
provides
a
sobering
analysis
on
an
effort
crafted
by
drug
war
bureaucrats
and
drug
testing
entrepreneurs
to
criminalize
drug
users
who
drive
--
even
if
they're
not
under
the
influence.
The
laws
are
already
on
the
books
in
11
states.
- MEDIA
SCAN
American
Enterprise
Institute
on
US
Drug
Policy,
New
York
Times
on
Hurwitz
Case,
Christopher
Hallam
on
Afghanistan,
NYPD
Narcotics
Against
Legalization
- THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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