Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #416
-- 12/23/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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notorious
scandal
and
the
rural
and
political
landscape
in
which
it
unfolded.
- FEATURE:
FEDS
TARGET
SAN
FRANCISCO
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
DISPENSARY
--
DEA
AGENTS
FACE
ANGRY
PROTESTORS
Dozens
of
patients
and
activists
faced
off
with
DEA
agents
raiding
a
highly
respected
medical
marijuana
cooperative
in
San
Francisco
Tuesday.
- FEATURE:
CONGRESS
SCALES
BACK
HEA
DRUG
PROVISION
--
WILL
NOW
APPLY
ONLY
TO
STUDENTS
BUSTED
WHILE
IN
COLLEGE
In
a
rare
scaling
back
of
a
punitive
federal
drug
law,
Congress
has
decided
to
restrict
the
range
of
a
provision
of
the
Higher
Education
Act
that
takes
financial
aid
for
college
away
from
students
who
have
drug
convictions.
Advocates
are
pleased
but
unsatisfied.
- FEATURE:
BOLIVIANS
ELECT
EVO
MORALES
PRESIDENT
--
INDIGENOUS
LEFTIST
COCA-GROWER
LEADER
WINS
SWEEPING
VICTORY
In
a
major
blow
to
official
US
international
drug
war
policy,
an
ardent
critic
of
coca
eradication
has
been
elected
president
of
Bolivia
by
the
widest
electoral
margin
in
decades.
- APPEAL:
DAVID
BORDEN
MAKES
A
CASE
TO
SUPPORT
DRCNET
FOR
2006
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been
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a
year
at
DRCNet.
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2006
DRCNet
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able
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a
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help.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
PATRIOT
ACT
EXTENSION
DEAL
PUTS
SOUDER-SENSENBRENNER
METH
BILL
ON
HOLD
Two
drug
warriors
promoting
a
methamphetamine
bill
that
would
put
Sudafed
behind
the
counter
and
enact
harsh
new
penalties
tried
to
get
their
way
by
attaching
it
to
the
Patriot
Act.
But
they
found
that
Congressional
maneuverings
can
cut
both
ways.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
It
won't
be
a
Merry
Christmas
for
a
South
Carolina
sheriff's
deputy
who
made
a
small
fortune
protecting
a
meth
dealer
or
for
a
Louisiana
police
chief
who
sold
crack
on
the
side.
- PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS:
ALABAMA
TO
JOIN
GROWING
LIST
OF
STATES
TRACKING
PRESCRIPTIONS
Over
20
states
track
patients'
prescriptions
for
frequently
abused
drugs.
But
the
databases
come
at
a
time
when
patients
are
widely
under-treated
for
chronic
pain
and
doctors
are
increasingly
leery
of
prescribing
large
doses
of
popular
pain
relievers
for
fear
of
prosecution.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
PERUVIAN
COCA
LEADER
NANCY
OBREGON
ARRESTED
Peru's
most
prominent
coca
leader
was
arrested
December
16
in
the
Upper
Huallaga
River
valley
town
of
Tingo
Maria.
- HEROIN:
BRITISH
STUDY
FINDS
A
DIFFERENT
SORT
OF
USER
The
stereotypical
heroin
addict
may
be
just
that,
according
to
a
study
of
continuing
heroin
users
who
either
escaped
dependency
altogether
or
managed
to
live
controlled,
productive
lives
while
dependent
on
heroin.
- EUROPE:
HUNGARIAN
PARAMEDICS
AGREE
TO
KEEP
POLICE
AWAY
FROM
DRUG
EMERGENCIES
Following
frequent
complaints
that
drug
users
feared
to
call
for
help
in
emergencies
due
to
fear
of
arrest,
the
Hungarian
National
Ambulance
Service
has
agreed
to
instruct
its
paramedics
to
longer
call
the
police
when
dealing
with
overdoses
and
other
drug
emergencies.
- CARIBBEAN:
NEW
BERMUDA
DRUG
CHIEF
HINTS
AT
MARIJUANA
LAW
REVIEW
Two
weeks
after
being
appointed
Bermuda's
National
Drug
Control
Minister,
veteran
drug-fighting
police
leader
Wayne
Perinchief
fielded
a
reporter's
question
about
drug
decriminalization
by
saying
he
would
review
the
island
nation's
marijuana
laws.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
DYING
BRAZILIAN
WOMAN
FREED
AFTER
INTERNATIONAL
APPEAL
A
79-year-old
Brazilian
great-grandmother
imprisoned
despite
terminal
cancer
for
19
rocks
of
crack
cocaine
found
in
a
house
she
shared
with
her
adult
son
has
been
released
pending
appeal.
- WEB
SCAN
Reason/Cato
9th
Circuit
Raich
Brief,
CounterPunch
on
Bryan
Epis,
Drug
Truth
Network
- 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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up
at
an
event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
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week's
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next
year,
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US
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