Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #415
-- 12/16/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- APPEAL:
DAVID
BORDEN
MAKES
A
CASE
TO
SUPPORT
DRCNET
FOR
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.
- FEATURE:
DEA,
LOCAL
POLICE
JOIN
FORCES
TO
RAID
13
SAN
DIEGO
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
DISPENSARIES
Eyewitness
accounts
describe
drawn
guns,
handcuffing
of
staff
and
patients,
and
marijuana
and
medical
record
seizures
in
a
coordinated
anti-medical
marijuana
sweep
on
Monday,
but
arrests
were
few.
- FEATURE:
JURORS
ACQUIT
CALIFORNIA
NARC
WHO
KILLED
RUDY
CARDENAS
IN
MISTAKEN
CHASE
A
San
Jose
jury
Tuesday
acquitted
a
California
state
narcotics
officer
of
manslaughter
in
the
February
2003
shooting
death
of
Rudy
Cardenas.
- FEATURE:
COCA
LEADER
EVO
MORALES
POISED
TO
WIN
BOLIVIA
PRESIDENTIAL
VOTE
SUNDAY
An
indigenous
member
of
Bolivia's
parliament
who
grows
coca
and
is
opposed
by
the
US
government
is
likely
to
take
the
reins
of
the
national
government.
Drug
warriors
are
not
happy.
- DRCNET
BOOK
REVIEW:
"BUD,
INC.:
INSIDE
CANADA'S
MARIJUANA
INDUSTRY"
Vancouver
Sun
justice
columnist
Ian
Mulgrew
has
been
covering
the
marijuana
beat
in
British
Columbia
for
a
decade,
and
his
book
provides
a
fascinating
look
at
Canada's
largest
cash
crop,
its
culture
and
its
politics,
and
where
it
could
be
headed.
- ALERT:
PROTEST
DEA'S
DECEMBER
OUTRAGE
Earlier
this
week,
the
US
Drug
Enforcement
Administration
(DEA)
took
the
cruel
and
reckless
step
of
raiding
13
medical
marijuana
dispensaries
that
patients
in
the
San
Diego
area
rely
on
for
needed
relief
for
serious
medical
conditions.
Please
help
patients
by
protesting
this
outrage
to
Congress.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week,
a
crooked
Border
Patrol
agent
gets
sent
to
prison,
so
does
a
crooked
border
town
sheriff,
three
more
soldiers
plead
guilty
in
a
massive
Arizona
sting,
and
a
Chicago
cop
gets
caught
playing
weed
dealer.
- SENTENCING:
REPORT
ON
2004
NEW
YORK
DRUG
LAW
REFORM
FINDS
LESS
THAN
MEETS
THE
EYE,
MUCH
MORE
TO
DO
A
report
by
the
NYC
Legal
Aid
Society
found
limited
impact
from
last
year's
Rockefeller
drug
law
reforms
and
called
on
the
legislature
to
finish
what
it
had
started.
- INDUSTRIAL
HEMP:
SOUTH
DAKOTA
INDIANS
GO
TO
FEDERAL
COURT
IN
EFFORT
TO
GROW
CROP
In
2000
and
2001,
Pine
Ridge
Indian
Reservation
resident
Alex
White
Plume
and
his
family
sowed
hemp
crops,
only
to
have
them
destroyed
by
heavily
armed
federal
raiders.
This
week
he
and
his
family
went
to
federal
appeals
court
to
press
their
claim
that
hemp
is
not
illegal.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
SHERIFF
CAN'T
REVOKE
PISTOL
PERMIT
JUST
BECAUSE
OF
MEDICAL
USE,
OREGON
COURT
RULES
Washington
County
Sheriff
Rob
Gordon
has
pulled
at
least
four
concealed
pistol
permits
because
of
their
holders'
medical
marijuana
use.
Now
a
judge
has
told
him
he
can't.
- MARIJUANA:
GOVERNOR
TO
TRY
AGAIN
TO
END
LEGAL
MARIJUANA
IN
ALASKA
Alaska's
drug
warrior
governor
has
failed
multiple
times
to
defeat
a
state
Supreme
Court
finding
that
possession
of
small
quantities
of
marijuana
is
protected
under
the
right
to
privacy.
With
a
new
year
coming,
Murkowski
is
back
at
it.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
BILLS
ACTIVE
IN
SEVERAL
STATES
Medical
marijuana
continues
to
be
a
hot
issue
in
statehouses,
with
pending
legislation
continuing
to
progress
in
at
least
three
states
--
Massachusetts,
Rhode
Island
and
Wisconsin.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
GAO
REPORT
CHALLENGES
US
STATISTICS
ON
COCAINE
SEIZURES
A
new
government
report
raises
doubts
about
administration's
claims
of
progress
in
reducing
the
flow
of
cocaine
to
the
United
States.
- WEB
SCAN
Seattle
Times,
Village
Voice,
San
Diego
Raids
and
LEAP
in
Princeton
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOB
OPENINGS:
LISTINGS
AT
THE
MARIJUANA
POLICY
PROJECT
The
Marijuana
Policy
Project
currently
has
permanent
job
openings
at
its
offices
in
Washington,
DC,
Montpelier,
Vermont
and
Las
Vegas,
Nevada,
and
temporary
positions
in
locations
around
the
country.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
Showing
up
at
an
event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
Check
out
this
week's
listings
for
events
from
today
through
next
year,
across
the
US
and
around
the
world!
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