Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #400
-- 8/19/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
LONG
MEMORIES
Issue
#400
seems
as
good
a
time
as
any
to
show
off
our
long
memories
at
DRCNet.
David
Borden's
long
memory
points
to
a
double
standard
in
Ohio
officialdom's
outlook
on
possible
ethical
violations
by
the
governor
now
vs.
three
years
ago
when
the
drug
reform
measure
Question
One
was
on
the
state's
ballot.
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- FEATURE:
KILLER
DRUG
RAIDS
--
WHAT'S
THE
ALTERNATIVE?
Drug
War
Chronicle
reports
with
depressing
regularity
on
the
needless
deaths
of
people,
both
innocent
and
guilty,
at
the
hands
of
police
in
the
course
of
anti-drug
enforcement.
What's
the
alternative
to
killer
drug
raids?
- FEATURE:
DC
"TWO
MILLION
IS
TOO
MANY"
PRISON
RALLY
LAYS
GROUNDWORK
FOR
MORE,
BETTER
COLLABORATION
Roughly
a
thousand
people
showed
up
in
Lafayette
Park
across
from
the
White
House
Saturday
for
the
first
national
rally
aimed
at
ending
this
country's
reliance
on
mass
incarceration.
- EUROPE:
LEADER
OF
LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS
IN
EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
SAYS
LEGALIZE
IT
ALL
The
leader
of
Britain's
Liberal
Democrat
party
in
the
European
Parliament
has
called
for
the
legalization
and
regulation
of
all
currently
illicit
drugs.
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week
it's
more
jail
guards
in
trouble,
a
US
soldier
pleading
guilty
to
coke-smuggling,
and
a
Florida
cop
turned
drug
dealer.
- BLOGGING:
NATIONAL
MARIJUANA
PARKS
DRCNet's
Prohibition
in
the
Media
blog
points
to
an
Associated
Press
story
on
marijuana
cultivation
in
Arizona's
national
forests
that
missed
the
point.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
IN
ANTI-METH
LAB
MOVE,
OREGON
BECOMES
FIRST
STATE
TO
REQUIRE
PRESCRIPTION
FOR
COLD,
ALLERGY
MEDICATIONS
Oregonians
wanting
Sudafed
will
now
have
to
get
a
prescription,
thanks
to
a
legislature
and
governor
who
hope
it
will
help
curb
meth
labs.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
SOUDER
ATTACKS
HHS
FOR
FUNDING
HIV
METH
CONFERENCE
A
leading
congressional
drug
warrior
has
angrily
criticized
the
Department
of
Health
and
Human
Services
for
allowing
itself
to
be
named
as
a
"primary
sponsor"
of
this
weekend's
first
National
Conference
on
HIV,
Hepatitis
and
Methamphetamine.
But
prominent
Utahns
weren't
with
him
on
this
one.
- ASIA:
MORE
REEFER
MADNESS
FROM
THE
PHILIPPINES
Hysteria
over
marijuana
has
been
commonplace
in
the
Philippines
for
years,
and
remarks
this
week
by
the
National
Police
Deputy
Director
are
a
fine
example.
- WEB
SCAN
Seattle
Weekly
on
the
Drug
Issue
- 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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