Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #408
-- 10/21/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
MARIJUANA
ARRESTS
AT
ALL-TIME
HIGH
AGAIN
America's
war
on
drugs
continued
full
steam
ahead
last
year,
and
nearly
800,000
marijuana
law
violators
were
among
those
paying
the
price.
- FEATURE:
TORONTO
MOVES
TOWARD
FOUR
PILLARS-STYLE
DRUG
POLICY
After
an
18-month
review,
Toronto's
Drug
Strategy
Advisory
Committee
has
called
for
changes
including
decriminalization
of
marijuana
possession
and
consideration
of
a
safe
injection
site
for
hard
drug
users.
- FEATURE:
MOMA
EXHIBIT
MUTES
DANCESAFE'S
DRUG
HARM
REDUCTION
MESSAGE
Leaders
of
a
rave
culture
harm
reduction
organization
were
eagerly
awaiting
seeing
their
work
on
exhibit
at
New
York's
Museum
of
Modern
Art
last
week.
But
when
they
got
there
the
result
was
disappointing.
- EVENT:
CELEBRITY
PERRY
FUND
RECEPTION
IN
LOS
ANGELES,
MONDAY,
NOVEMBER
7
--
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INVITED
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John
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Fund,
our
scholarship
program
helping
students
who
have
lost
government
financial
aid
for
college
because
of
drug
convictions.
- QUOTE
OF
THE
WEEK:
FORMER
SEATTLE
POLICE
CHIEF
NORM
STAMPER
ON
LEGALIZATION
OF
ALL
DRUGS
No
beating
around
the
bush
for
this
top
cop...
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
The
corrupt
cop
beat
is
lonely
this
week
--
only
one
case
worth
mentioning,
and
in
that
one
a
Pennsylvania
detective
apparently
got
away
with
the
goods.
- NEWSBRIEF:
TRIAL
FOR
CALIFORNIA
NARC
WHO
KILLED
RUDY
CARDENAS
GETS
UNDERWAY
A
California
State
Bureau
of
Narcotics
Enforcement
agent
went
on
trial
this
week
for
the
February
2004
killing
of
Rodolfo
"Rudy"
Cardenas.
- POST-HURRICANE:
NEW
ORLEANS
NARCS
ITCHING
TO
MAKE
MORE
BUSTS
In
the
wake
of
the
Hurricane
Katrina
disaster,
the
New
Orleans
Police
Department's
Vice
and
Narcotics
Squad
is
eager
to
get
back
to
busting
nonviolent
drug
offenders.
- POST-HURRICANE:
CONGRESSIONAL
CONSERVATIVES
EYE
CUTS
IN
ANTI-DRUG
SPENDING
TO
PAY
FOR
KATRINA
RELIEF
--
REFORMERS
CLAMOR
FOR
MORE
Certain
anti-drug
programs
are
apparently
on
the
chopping
block
as
Congress
seeks
ways
to
pay
for
Gulf
Coast
rebuilding
amidst
a
sea
of
red
ink.
- ASIA:
CALM
WORDS
FROM
AN
INDIAN
DRUG
EXPERT
Stop
the
presses!
Legal
drugs
are
a
"greater
menace"
to
public
health
than
the
illegal
ones,
an
addiction
expert
in
India
says.
- CANADA:
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
HEALTH
OFFICIALS
CALL
FOR
DISCUSSION
ON
REGULATION
OF
ILLICIT
DRUGS
In
a
position
paper
released
during
an
international
symposium
on
drug
policy
this
week,
the
Health
Officers
Council
of
British
Columbia
called
the
war
on
drugs
an
"abysmal
failure."
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
BOTH
NEW
JERSEY
GOVERNOR
CANDIDATES
SUPPORT
IT
It's
always
a
question
whether
candidates
will
hold
to
their
views
stated
during
campaigns
once
elected.
But
if
these
two
mean
it,
medical
marijuana
will
have
a
friend
in
the
governor's
office
in
New
Jersey
next
year.
- WEB
SCAN
Stamper,
Hartford,
Emery,
Prosecutorial
Zealotry,
LEAP
- 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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