Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #413
-- 12/2/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- UPDATE
AND
APPEAL:
DRCNET
IN
2006
2005
has
been
quite
a
year
at
DRCNet.
In
2006
DRCNet
will
be
able
to
advance
the
cause
in
a
broader
way
and
at
a
greater
level
than
ever
before
--
but
only
with
your
help.
- EDITORIAL:
NOW
YOU
CAN
ASK
ME
WHY
More
than
75
readers
responded
to
our
request
for
pro-legalization
sound
bites.
Here's
a
sampling
of
them.
- OFFER
AND
APPEAL:
THE
GREAT
DRUG
WAR,
BY
ARNOLD
TREBACH
DRCNet's
latest
premium
offer
is
a
re-released
classic
detailing
the
outrages
of
the
1980s
drug
war
--
outrages
which
still
continue
today.
- FEATURE:
PLAINTIFFS
WANTED
--
ACLU
TO
FILE
LAWSUIT
CHALLENGING
FEDERAL
BAN
ON
FINANCIAL
AID
FOR
COLLEGE
STUDENT
DRUG
OFFENDERS
The
ACLU
is
preparing
to
file
a
class
action
lawsuit
challenging
the
constitutionality
of
a
federal
law
barring
students
with
drug
convictions
from
receiving
financial
aid.
Plaintiffs
are
needed.
- FEATURE:
CONFERENCE
TO
PLOT
DRUG
WAR
EXIT
STRATEGY
GETS
UNDERWAY
IN
SEATTLE
In
an
historic
conference
that
got
underway
yesterday
in
downtown
Seattle,
drug
reform
notables
met
to
begin
to
plot
strategies
to
move
from
drug
prohibition
to
a
regulatory
drug
control
regime.
- FEATURE:
LOS
ANGELES
EVENT
RAISES
FUNDS
FOR
HEA
VICTIMS
While
the
ACLU
Santa
Cruz
office
was
preparing
a
national
class
action
lawsuit,
a
scholarship
program
that
is
finding
many
of
their
plaintiffs
held
a
celebrity
fundraiser
several
hundred
miles
to
the
south
in
LA.
- DRCNET
BOOK
REVIEW:
"TULIA:
RACE,
COCAINE,
AND
CORRUPTION
IN
A
SMALL
TEXAS
TOWN,"
BY
NATE
BLAKESLEE
(2005,
PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
PRESS,
450
PP.,
$26.95
HB)
The
new
book
by
the
reporter
who
did
groundbreaking
work
exposing
the
Tulia
scandal
is
a
page
turner
and
a
must
read.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
America's
prisons
must
be
a
real
captive
market
for
wannabe
drug
dealers
--
this
week
yet
another
prison
guard
goes
down.
And
then
there's
the
case
of
the
bad
cop
turned
bad
kiddie
van
driver.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
CALIFORNIA
DRUG
TASK
FORCE
MUST
HOLD
PUBLIC
MEETINGS,
COURT
RULES
Open
government
activists
have
won
a
court
ruling
forcing
LA
County's
Impact
drug
task
force
to
allow
public
attendance
at
its
board
meetings.
The
repercussions
could
be
statewide.
- ASIA:
SINGAPORE
EXECUTES
AUSTRALIAN
FOR
DRUG
SMUGGLING
Despite
global
appeals
for
clemency,
Singapore
this
morning
executed
25-year-old
Australian
citizen
Nguyen
Tuong
Van
just
before
dawn.
- MARIJUANA:
MARIJUANA
CROP
WORTH
$1.5
BILLION
IN
ONE
CALIFORNIA
COUNTY
ALONE,
PAPER
ESTIMATES
Northern
California's
Mendocino
County
has
been
known
for
marijuana
growing
for
at
least
30
years.
But
the
economic
scale
of
the
industry
may
be
even
greater
than
was
thought.
- SILLINESS:
TWO
FLORIDA
GRADE
SCHOOL
GIRLS
ARRESTED
FOR
FAKE
MARIJUANA
PRANK
Police
in
Flagler
County
last
week
arrested
two
10-year-old
girls
for
bringing
a
bag
of
parsley
to
school
and
pretending
it
was
marijuana.
- EUROPE:
ENGLAND
TO
DRUG
TEST
ARRESTED
BURGLARS
AND
MUGGERS
Under
new
powers
granted
police
in
Britain's
fight
against
street
crime,
people
arrested
for
"acquisitive
crime"
now
face
mandatory
drug
tests
upon
arrest.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
MEXICO
ALLOWS
STATE,
LOCAL
COPS
TO
JOIN
DRUG
WAR
Mexico's
war
on
drugs
has
traditionally
been
the
domain
of
federal
police
and,
increasingly,
the
Mexican
armed
forces.
But
as
of
Monday,
state
and
local
police
will
have
the
authority
to
enforce
federal
drug
laws
aimed
at
traffickers
too.
- WEB
SCAN
New
"Change
The
Climate"
Animation
- 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
Showing
up
at
an
event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
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out
this
week's
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for
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next
year,
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US
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