Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #396
-- 7/22/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
CONGRESSMAN
SENSENBRENNER
MAKING
NAME
AS
DRUG
WAR
EXTREMIST
Watch
out,
Mark
Souder
--
Rep.
Sensenbrenner
is
giving
you
a
run
for
your
money
in
drug
warring.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
STEVE
MCWILLIAMS
REMEMBERED
AT
TUESDAY
VIGILS
Supporters
in
at
least
15
cities
across
the
country
gathered
to
honor
the
memory
of
the
patient
and
activist
who
committed
suicide
last
week.
- DRCNET
INTERVIEW:
CHER
FORD-MCCULLOUGH
AND
JEAN
MARLOWE
OF
THE
WOMEN'S
ORGANIZATION
FOR
NATIONAL
PROHIBITION
REFORM
Modern-day
activists
revive
the
approach
the
ended
prohibition
of
alcohol
last
century.
- DRCNET
BOOK
REVIEW:
"AN
ANALYTIC
ASSESSMENT
OF
US
DRUG
POLICY,"
BY
DAVID
BOYUM
AND
PETER
REUTER
DRCNet
Book
Review:
"An
Analytic
Assessment
of
US
Drug
Policy"
by
David
Boyum
and
Peter
Reuter
(2005,
American
Enterprise
Institute,
131
pp.,
$20.00
pb.)
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
CALIFORNIA
REINSTATES
ID
CARD
PROGRAM
The
suspension
of
California's
pilot
state
medical
marijuana
ID
card
program
in
the
wake
of
the
US
Supreme
Court's
adverse
decision
in
the
Raich
case
has
proven
short-lived.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
NEARLY
A
THOUSAND
RALLY
IN
SANTA
CRUZ
Activists
held
the
largest
medical
marijuana
demonstration
in
Santa
Cruz
since
supportive
city
council
members
and
county
supervisors
authorizes
a
medical
marijuana-distributing
demonstration
on
the
steps
of
City
Hall
in
support
of
WAMM
after
it
was
raided
by
the
DEA.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
Another
prison
guard
smuggling
dope,
another
cop
caught
tweaking,
an
airport
security
professional
trying
to
get
rich,
a
horny
Florida
deputy,
and
a
Michigan
police
chief
who
sounds
like
a
real
decadent
party
animal.
- NEW
ZEALAND:
IN
PRAGMATIC
RETREAT,
NANDOR
TANCZOS
INTRODUCES
MARIJUANA
DECRIMINALIZATION
BILL
In
a
retreat
from
the
New
Zealand
Green
Party's
formal
position
that
marijuana
should
be
legalized,
a
Member
of
Parliament
introduced
a
bill
that
would
decriminalize
possession.
- EUROPE:
MAGIC
MUSHROOMS
NOW
ILLEGAL
IN
GREAT
BRITAIN
A
loophole
in
Britain's
drug
law
that
allowed
the
importation
of
hallucinogenic
mushrooms
has
now
been
closed.
- ASIA:
PHILIPPINES
MAN
GETS
15
YEARS
FOR
TWO
JOINTS
The
sentencing
of
a
man
to
15
years
in
prison
for
possessing
two
marijuana
cigarettes
shows
that
the
country
remains
mired
in
an
on-going,
full-blown
anti-drug
frenzy.
- COERCED
TREATMENT:
PENNSYLVANIA
LEGAL
CHALLENGE
THREATENS
DRUG
COURTS,
JUDGE
COMPLAINS
An
appeal
filed
a
Pennsylvania
woman
could
have
national
repercussions
on
the
way
drug
courts
work.
- WEB
SCAN
NOW
Resolution,
American
Chronicle,
NYT
Editorial
on
Richard
Paey,
NORML
Report,
APHA/DPA
Oregon
Amicus
- 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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