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Asia:
Korean
Actress
Who
Challenged
Marijuana
Law
Sentenced
to
Prison
11/18/05
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Kim Bu-sun
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The Korean Supreme Court
Tuesday upheld an eight-month prison sentence for actress Kim Bu-sun, whose
arrest for smoking marijuana in July 2004 led to national debate about
the country's pot laws. Kim was quickly found guilty, but later filed
a petition
arguing that the ban on marijuana was unconstitutional. That
petition was rejected by the high court, and now the court has upheld her
prison sentence.
The 43-year-old actress first
made her mark in a series of Grade-B adult movies in the 1980s, including
"Madame Aema, Part III," and has more recently starred in Park Chan-wook's
"Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" and Yu Ha's "The Cruel History of Maljuk
Street."
Korean law makes no distinction
between marijuana and other drugs. In her appeal, Bu-son argued that
was unconstitutional. "Current law prescribing marijuana as a narcotic
is unconstitutional, and banning marijuana is in violation of the right
to pursue happiness," she said last year as she launched her appeal.
No word yet on when she will
serve her sentence.
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Issue #411
-- 11/18/05
Editorial:
Tell
Me
Why
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Feature:
Enhanced
Mandatory
Minimums
Blocked
in
New
Methamphetamine
Bill
|
Feature:
The
2005
International
Drug
Policy
Reform
Conference
in
Long
Beach,
California
|
Feature:
Deported
for
a
Trace
--
Farid's
Tale
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Sports:
Under
Congressional
Pressure,
Major
League
Baseball,
Union
Agree
on
Drug
Testing
Policy
|
Medical
Marijuana:
Two
Michigan
Towns
Pass
Ordinances
--
Officials
Balk
|
Search
and
Seizure:
Supreme
Court
Hears
Search
Case
Where
Wife
Consented
but
Husband
Refused
|
Latin
America:
Guatemala's
Top
Narc
Arrested
in
US
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Europe:
Sativex
Coming
to
England,
Spain
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Asia:
Korean
Actress
Who
Challenged
Marijuana
Law
Sentenced
to
Prison
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Web
Scan:
In
These
Times,
Alternet
on
Sembler
and
Straight,
New
SSDP
Blog
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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Council
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on
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in
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