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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
5/20/05
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May 20, 1991: A domestic
heroin seizure record, still in effect today, is set, 1,071 pounds in Oakland,
California.
May 20, 1997: Eighteen-year-old
Esequiel Hernandez is shot while herding sheep near the US-Mexico border,
is shot and killed by camouflaged Marines involved in a Joint Task Force-6
border drug interdiction operation, becoming the first American citizen
killed on American soil by US soldiers in peacetime.
May 22, 1997: Mayor
John Norquist of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, signs a measure decriminalizing
first time possession of small amounts of marijuana, passed by a close
margin by the city council.
May 24, 1988: A domestic
hashish seizure record, still in effect today, is set, 75,066 pounds in
San Francisco, California.
May 24, 1993:
Juan Cardinal Posados Ocampo, archbishop of Guadalajara, is assassinated
at 3:45pm in Hidalgo International Airport in Guadalajara by San Diego
gang members hired by the Arellano-Felix Organization.
May 26, 1971: In tapes
revealed long after his presidency ended, President Richard M. Nixon says,
"You know it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for
legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with
the Jews, Bob, what is the matter with them? I suppose it's because
most of them are psychiatrists, you know, there's so many, all the greatest
psychiatrists are Jewish."
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Issue #387
-- 5/20/05
Editorial:
Weak
Claims
of
Success
|
Feature:
Bush
Administration
Claims
Success
in
Colombia
Drug
War,
Seeks
More
Money
|
Feature:
As
California
Grapples
With
Medical
Marijuana,
Some
Communities
Move
to
Regulate
or
Ban
Dispensaries
|
Nightmare
in
Bali:
Young
Australian
Woman
Faces
Possible
Death
Sentence
for
Marijuana
Smuggling
in
Case
Stirring
Passions
|
Announcement:
DRCNet/Perry
Fund
Event
to
Feature
US
Rep.
Jim
McDermott,
June
1
in
Seattle
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Free
Speech:
NJ
Weedman
Arrested
at
Statehouse
Over
Pot
Leaf
T-Shirt
|
Sports:
Drug
Czar's
Team
Runs
From
Drug
Reform
"One-Hitters"
|
Australia:
South
Australia
Announces
Tough
New
Drug
Laws
|
Asia:
US
"Drug
Expert"
Says
No
Way
to
Afghan
Opium-Into-Medicine
Proposal
|
Canada:
Former
Vancouver
Top
Drug
Cop's
Study
Finds
Drug
Busts
Boost
Drug
Sales
|
Europe:
German
Drug
Deaths
at
15-Year
Low,
Government
Credits
Harm
Reduction
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
|
Job
Listing:
Outreach
Coordinator,
Coalition
for
Higher
Education
Act
Reform
(DRCNet)
|
Job
Postings:
Drug
Policy
Alliance,
Marijuana
Policy
Project,
Community
HIV/AIDS
Mobilization
Project
|
Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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