Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #398
-- 8/5/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
MARC
EMERY
BUSTED
--
CANADA'S
LEADING
MARIJUANA
ACTIVIST
FACING
LIFE
IN
AMERICAN
PRISON
OVER
SEED
SALES
Controversy
has
erupted
in
Canada
after
police
arrested
British
Columbia
Marijuana
Party
founder
Marc
Emery
and
two
employees
at
the
request
of
the
US
DEA,
which
wants
to
extradite
them.
- FEATURE:
THE
METHAMPHETAMINE
EPIDEMIC
--
LESS
THAN
MEETS
THE
EYE
News
consumers
on
the
US
East
Coast
can
be
forgiven
for
nervously
glancing
over
their
shoulders
in
search
of
a
20-foot
wave
of
crystal
meth
rolling
toward
them
out
of
the
Midwest.
But
there
is
less
to
the
"epidemic"
of
methamphetamine
than
meets
the
eye.
- FEATURE:
PRISON
PROTEST
AIMING
FOR
DC
IN
EIGHT
DAYS
A
grassroots
call
for
a
national
rally
for
prison
and
sentencing
reform
will
bear
fruit
eight
days
from
now
in
Washington,
DC.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week,
we've
got
cops
stealing
from
drug
dealers
in
Dayton
and
from
the
evidence
locker
in
Detroit,
and
yet
another
prison
guard
caught
trying
to
supplement
his
income.
- PATRIOT
ACT:
HOUSE
REAUTHORIZATION
INCLUDES
NEW
"NARCOTERRORISM"
OFFENSE
A
House
of
Representatives
amendment
to
the
Patriot
Act
would
call
any
whose
drug
sales
help
fund
listed
terrorist
group
a
"narco-terrorist"
--
whether
they
knew
it
or
not.
- PATRIOT
ACT:
SOLD
AS
FIGHTING
TERRORISTS,
ACT
IS
USED
IN
MARIJUANA-SMUGGLING
INVESTIGATION
A
Patriot
Act
provision
sold
as
a
crucial
tool
for
combating
terrorism
has
been
used
by
federal
officials
to
investigate
a
marijuana-smuggling
operation.
- SEARCH
AND
SEIZURE:
NEW
JERSEY
POLICE
LOOKING
FOR
MARIJUANA
GROWERS
MUST
HAVE
WARRANT
TO
SEE
UTILITY
RECORDS,
APPEALS
COURT
HOLDS
A
state
appeals
court
has
said
no
to
warrantless
access
to
New
Jerseyans
utility
bills.
Now
it
goes
to
the
state
Supreme
Court.
- TREATMENT:
CONGRESS
LIFTS
30-PATIENT
LIMIT
FOR
BUPRENORPHINE
TREATMENT
Both
houses
of
Congress
have
approved
legislation
that
will
expand
the
use
of
methadone
substitute
buprenorphine
as
a
treatment
for
heroin
and
other
opioid
dependency.
- MARIJUANA:
DENVER
SAFER
INITIATIVE
HEADED
FOR
NOVEMBER
BALLOT
A
voter
initiative
that
would
make
Denver
the
first
large
city
in
the
country
to
legalize
marijuana
possession
is
headed
for
the
November
ballot.
- NEW
ZEALAND:
PARLIAMENT
RECLASSIFIES
SPEED
AND
ECSTASY,
STIFFER
PENALTIES
COMING
A
move
by
the
New
Zealand
Parliament
will
dramatically
increase
penalties
for
amphetamine-type
stimulants.
- TREATMENT:
NEW
WEB
SITE
PROVIDES
RESOURCES
ON
OPIATE
AGONIST
THERAPY
A
new
resource
for
patients,
advocates,
and
opiate
agonist
treatment
providers
has
appeared
on
the
world-wide
web.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOB
OPPORTUNITY:
PREVENTION
POINT
PITTSBURGH
Prevention
Point
Pittsburgh
is
hiring
a
Crisis
Interventionist/Cross
Systems
Specialist
to
provide
risk
reduction
and
crisis
management
services
to
injection
drug
users
enrolled
in
the
needle
exchange
program.
- 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
the
world!
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