Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #391
-- 6/17/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
HOUSE
MOVE
TO
BAN
FUNDS
FOR
FEDERAL
RAIDS
ON
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
PATIENTS
GAINS
SUPPORT,
BUT
FALLS
SHORT
The
US
House
of
Representatives
Wednesday
turned
back
a
measure
that
would
have
barred
the
use
of
federal
funds
to
go
after
sick
people
using
marijuana
for
medical
reasons.
- FEATURE:
ANOTHER
"DRUG
RELATED"
DEATH
--
AUSTIN
POLICEWOMAN
KILLS
UNARMED
TEEN
It
was
in
shabby
subdivisions
of
southeast
Austin
that
18-year-old
Daniel
Rocha
died,
his
heart
penetrated
by
a
single
slug
fired
at
point
blank
range
by
Austin
police
officer
Julie
Schroeder
--
into
his
back.
- FEATURE:
US
HAS
MORE
THAN
A
MILLION
PEOPLE
LIVING
WITH
HIV,
GOVERNMENT
SAYS
--
AS
IT
IGNORES
PREVENTION
FOR
DRUG-RELATED
CASES
Federal
officials
continue
to
turn
a
blind
eye
to
needle
exchange
programs
--
and
to
pressure
others
to
do
so
--
despite
one-half
of
all
new
HIV
cases
being
related
to
injection
drug
use.
- FEATURE:
CREEPSHOW
--
A
DISTURBING
GLIMPSE
INTO
DEA
MENTALITY
We
admit
it:
We
don't
like
the
DEA.
But
an
unofficial
web
site
for
former
and
current
DEA
agents
doesn't
help
its
case
either.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
sheriff
on
the
border
succumbs
to
temptation,
a
prosecutor
in
San
Francisco
trades
leniency
for
crank,
two
jail
guards
in
New
Jersey
see
their
retail
operation
crash
and
burn,
and
a
love-struck
West
Virginia
cop
makes
a
bad
choice.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
RHODE
ISLAND
BILL
APPROVED
IN
HOUSE
COMMITTEE,
FACES
ONE
LAST
VOTE,
BUT
GOVERNOR
VOWS
VETO
Rhode
Island's
governor
is
threatening
to
veto
a
pending
medical
marijuana
bill
supported
overwhelmingly
by
the
legislature.
His
office
is
giving
medical
marijuana
supporters
who
offer
their
opinions
"rude
treatment."
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
HAWAII
FEDERAL
PROSECUTOR
BACKS
OFF
Following
criticism
and
under
threat
of
a
lawsuit
for
comments
made
after
the
Supreme
Court's
Raich
decision,
Hawaii
US
Attorney
Ed
Kubo
has
backed
off.
- POLICING:
PHILADELPHIA
DA
DISBANDS
DRUG
UNIT
Citing
budgetary
constraints,
Philadelphia
District
Attorney
Lynn
Abraham
has
disbanded
a
specialized
group
of
prosecutors
who
had
worked
drug
cases.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
COCAINE
PRODUCTION
ON
THE
INCREASE,
UN
SAYS
After
five
years
of
declines,
cocaine
production
in
South
America
is
once
again
on
the
rise,
the
United
Nations
Office
on
Drug
and
Crime
has
reported.
But
it
never
really
went
away.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
MEXICAN
ARMY
INVADES
NUEVO
LAREDO,
DETAINS
POLICE
FORCE
AS
CARTEL
VIOLENCE
HITS
BORDER
CITY
The
Mexican
Army
was
patrolling
the
streets
of
Nuevo
Laredo
earlier
this
week
after
a
steady
drumbeat
of
drug
prohibition-related
violence
reached
a
spectacular
double
crescendo
last
week.
- AFRICA:
SWAZILAND
MARIJUANA
GROWERS
UNSTOPPABLE,
POLICE
SAY
With
African
nations
waiting
for
the
effects
of
debt
relief
agreed
on
this
week
to
gradually
trickle
down,
farmers
in
the
southern
kingdom
of
Swaziland
are
making
micro-level
decisions
to
grown
marijuana
in
the
meantime.
- MEDIA
SCAN:
SEATTLE
TIMES
The
Seattle
Times
draws
on
the
work
of
the
King
County
Bar
Association
and
Law
Enforcement
Against
Prohibition
to
conclude
it
is
"[t]ime
for
a
new
strategy
in
the
war
on
drugs."
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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