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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
5/13/05
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May 14, 1932: "We Want
Beer" marches are held in cities all over America – 15,000 union workers
demonstrate in Detroit alone.
May 15, 1928: Arnold
Trebach, founder of the modern drug policy reform movement, is born.
May 15, 1988: Baltimore
Mayor Kurt Schmoke writes in the Washington Post: "Decriminalization
would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate,
the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets."
May 16, 2001: Regina
McKnight is convicted in South Carolina of using crack during a pregnancy
that resulted in a stillbirth. It is the first time in US history
that a woman is convicted of homicide for using drugs during a pregnancy.
May 17, 2001: Canada's
House of Commons passes a unanimous motion to create a committee to examine
the issue of non-medical drugs in Canada. Members of all five parties
say they intend to discuss legalization, or at least decriminalization,
of marijuana as part of a sweeping look at the country's drug strategy.
May 17, 2002: The Associated
Press reports that the city of Santa Cruz, California has decided to install
needle disposal boxes in a dozen public restrooms to promote safety after
several city employees are pricked by used needles.
May 19, 1988: Carlos
Lehder, one of the key founders of the infamous Medellin Cartel and the
first to use small planes to transport cocaine, is convicted of drug smuggling
and sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 135 years.
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Issue #386
-- 5/13/05
Editorial:
Paying
for
Propaganda
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Feature:
Marijuana
Remains
Legal
in
Alaska
|
Feature:
Major
Russian
Drug
Reforms
on
Verge
on
Being
Reversed
|
Feature:
ONDCP
Student
Drug
Testing
Road
Show
Dogged
by
"Truth
Squads"
|
Announcement:
DRCNet/Perry
Fund
Event
to
Feature
US
Rep.
Jim
McDermott,
June
1
in
Seattle
|
Sentencing:
House
Passes
Orwellian
"Anti-Gang"
Mandatory
Minimums
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Cocaine:
Connecticut
House
Passes
Bill
to
Eliminate
Crack/Powder
Disparities
|
Pain:
Boston
Congressman
Wants
Nationwide
Ban
on
Oxycontin
|
Pain:
ABC's
Nightline
Gives
Sympathetic
Look
at
Pain
Treatment
vs.
Prohibition
|
Prisons:
Sex
Abuse
of
Federal
Inmates
by
Guards
"A
Significant
Problem,"
Justice
Department
Says
|
Initiatives:
Denver
Marijuana
Initiative
Submitted
for
Approval
|
Initiatives:
Michigan
Marijuana
Initiative
Effort
Gets
Underway
|
Middle
East:
Lawless
Iraq
Becoming
Key
Drug
Corridor,
INCB
Says
|
Asia:
Taiwan
Considers
Syringe
Access
to
Reduce
AIDS
Spread
|
Caribbean:
"Ganja
Planter"
Lament
Tops
the
Charts
in
Trinidad
&
Tobago
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
|
Job
Listing:
Outreach
Coordinator,
Coalition
for
Higher
Education
Act
Reform
(DRCNet)
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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