Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #392
-- 6/24/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
THE
OTHER
SHOE
DROPS
--
FEDS
MOVE
IN
ON
CALIFORNIA
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
Less
than
two
weeks
after
the
US
Supreme
Court
upheld
the
federal
government's
power
to
ban
medical
marijuana,
the
other
shoe
has
dropped
in
San
Francisco.
- FEATURE:
RHODE
ISLAND
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
BILL
PASSES
HOUSE,
BUT
FACES
THREATENED
VETO
Rhode
Island
is
one
giant
step
closer
to
enacting
a
medical
marijuana
law
this
year,
with
overwhelming
majorities
in
both
chambers
of
the
legislatures
voting
yes
on
it.
Now
will
the
governor
make
good
on
his
threat
of
a
veto?
- FEATURE:
NEW
JERSEY
JUDGE
STOPS
NEEDLE
EXCHANGE
IN
ITS
TRACKS
At
the
request
of
seven
legislators,
a
New
Jersey
appellate
court
judge
has
issued
a
temporary
injunction
blocking
the
implementation
of
local
government-sponsored
needle
exchange
programs
in
two
Garden
State
cities.
- FEATURE:
DEA
RAID
ON
BILLINGS
DOCTOR
BRINGS
PAIN
WARS
TO
MONTANA
The
DEA's
war
without
quarter
against
what
it
sees
as
corrupt,
pill-dealing
physicians
came
to
Montana
last
month.
But
with
the
raid
also
came
an
uproar,
as
patients
and
pain
advocates
press
their
case
in
Montana's
court
of
public
opinion.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
Relationships
with
their
snitches
proved
problematic
this
week
for
several
law
enforcement
officers,
while
another
had
a
problematic
romance
with
an
alleged
dealer,
and
yet
another
resorted
to
good
old
armed
robbery
to
get
his
share
of
the
loot.
Oh,
and
there's
some
pot
on
the
loose
down
South.
- SENTENCING:
US
ATTORNEY
GENERAL
CALLS
FOR
MORE
MANDATORY
MINIMUMS,
LESS
JUDICIAL
DISCRETION
Warning
that
there
has
been
"a
drift
toward
lesser
sentences"
since
the
US
Supreme
Court
upended
the
federal
sentencing
structure
last
January,
Attorney
General
Alberto
Gonzales
called
Tuesday
for
more
mandatory
minimum
sentences.
- PSYCHEDELICS:
IN
NEW
MEXICO,
GROWING
'SHROOMS
NOT
DRUG
MANUFACTURE
Persons
who
are
caught
growing
hallucinogenic
mushrooms
in
the
Land
of
Enchantment
cannot
be
prosecuted
under
the
state's
drug
trafficking
and
manufacturing
statute,
the
New
Mexico
Court
of
Appeals
has
ruled.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
COLOMBIAN
PARAMILITARIES
IN
GOING
OUT
OF
BUSINESS
COCAINE
SALE
A
top
Colombian
military
commander
told
the
Associated
Press
last
week
that
leaders
of
the
rightist
paramilitary
militias
are
hurriedly
selling-off
huge
amounts
of
cocaine
before
they
demobilize
under
a
sweetheart
deal
with
the
Colombian
government.
- ASIA:
MALAYSIA
TO
PROVIDE
NEEDLES,
CONDOMS
FOR
HARD
DRUG
USERS
Malaysia's
government
hangs
drug
traffickers
for
their
crimes.
But
at
least
it
is
trying
to
stop
injection
drug
users
from
hanging
themselves
with
HIV.
- 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
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
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