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Blogging:
Airport
Corruption
8/26/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/401/blogging.shtml
This week DRCNet's "Prohibition
in the Media" blog dealt with a case of airport corruption -- a former
Haitian police officer in charge of the airport in Port au Prince who allowed
tons of cocaine to be flown into the US in exchange for payoffs.
But the article in the Miami Herald didn't point out how this is an inevitable
(indeed commonplace) effect of drug prohibition, which makes the drugs
expensive and lucrative -- it's an easy matter which so much money involved
to find the occasional customs officer or border guard willing to turn
a strategic blind eye.
Click
here to check it out and for letter to the editor info. (Temporary
technical problems have prevented us from updating the blog main page.)
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Issue #401
-- 8/26/05
Appeal:
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Feature:
National
Methamphetamine
Conference
Convenes
Unscathed
Despite
Attack
by
Congressional
Drug
Warrior
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Feature:
Bush
Administration
Methamphetamine
Initiative
a
Bomb
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Western
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Anti-Prohibitionists
Set
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Gather
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City
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Ordinance
--
Impact
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Cited
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Drug
Law
Reform
Measure
Awaits
Gov.
Pataki's
Signature
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Europe:
Former
British
Drug
Czar
Mo
Mowlam
Dead
at
55
--
Called
for
Legalization,
and
Will
Again
in
Forthcoming
Book
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Medical
Marijuana:
Supreme
Court
Justice
Regrets
Vote
on
Raich
Case
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Marijuana:
14th
Seattle
Hempfest
Draws
150,000
--
No
Arrests
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Europe:
Scottish
National
Party
Considers
Prescription
Heroin
|
Sentencing:
Kansas
Lawmakers
Want
"Internal
Possession"
Charge
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Hearings,
Seattle
Weekly
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Hempfest,
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