Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #417
-- 1/6/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
ARGUMENTS
BEST
SET
TO
REST
The
best
arguments
against
medical
marijuana
were
aired
in
Rhode
Island
this
week
--
and
failed.
- FEATURE:
RHODE
ISLAND
OVERRIDES
GOVERNOR'S
VETO
TO
BECOME
11TH
STATE
OKAYING
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
Gov.
Donald
Carcieri
thought
a
veto
would
stop
medical
marijuana
in
Rhode
Island.
But
first
the
Senate
and
then
the
House
turned
his
veto
back,
and
medical
marijuana
is
the
law
of
the
state.
- FEATURE:
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
REFUGEE
RUNNING
OUT
OF
TIME,
OPTIONS
One
of
America's
best
known
medical
marijuana
refugees
may
be
coming
home
next
week
--
against
his
will
and
to
face
what
could
effectively
be
a
death
sentence.
- FEATURE:
CONGRESSIONAL
BUDGET-CUTTING
EXTENDS
EVEN
TO
DRUG
WAR
SACRED
COWS
For
decades,
it
has
been
almost
anything
goes
when
it
comes
to
fulfilling
budget
requests
for
federal
drug
war
funding.
But
several
drug
warrior
favorites
took
big
hits
last
month,
and
the
impact
is
likely
to
be
significant.
- FEATURE:
REFORMERS
FOCUS
ON
COLORADO,
NEVADA
TO
FREE
THE
WEED
IN
2006
In
no
state
have
voters
or
legislators
legalized
marijuana
for
recreational
use,
but
if
drug
reformers
have
their
way,
this
could
be
the
year.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
This
week,
the
long-running
Dallas
"sheetrock
scandal"
grows
even
sleazier,
a
San
Francisco
cop
is
accused
of
being
a
serial
horndog,
and
in
Honolulu,
a
cop
faces
prison
for
selling
meth
and
a
prison
guard
may
find
himself
on
the
other
side
of
the
bars
for
similar
reasons.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
TENNESSEE
CREATES
METH
OFFENDER
REGISTRY
With
the
new
year,
meth
offenders
join
sex
offenders
as
social
pariahs
deserving
of
a
permanent
electronic
registry
in
Tennessee.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
SATIVEX
WINS
FDA
APPROVAL
FOR
TRIALS
IN
US
GW
Pharmaceuticals,
the
maker
of
the
sublingual,
cannabis-based
spray
medication
Sativex,
announced
Wednesday
that
it
won
US
Food
and
Drug
Administration
(FDA)
approval
to
proceed
with
Phase
III
clinical
trials
of
the
drug's
efficacy
in
patients
suffering
from
pain
from
advanced
cancers.
- EUROPE:
KETAMINE
NOW
ILLEGAL
IN
ENGLAND
Legal
in
Britain
up
until
last
week,
"Special
K,"
as
the
club
drug
Ketamine
is
popularly
known,
now
carries
penalties
of
up
to
two
years
in
prison
for
possession
or
14
years
for
sales.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
DEA
TO
EXPAND
INTO
GUYANA
The
US
Drug
Enforcement
Administration
is
preparing
to
set
up
shop
in
Guyana,
the
agency's
first
venture
in
the
small,
non-Spanish-speaking
countries
of
South
America's
north
coast.
- WORLD-WIDE:
THIS
YEAR'S
GLOBAL
MARIJUANA
MARCH
IS
COMING
TO
A
CITY
NEAR
YOU
MAY
6
Organizers
of
the
May
marijuana
marches
around
the
planet
announced
this
week
that
they
had
at
least
150
cities
signed
up
for
the
annual
event.
- NEW
DRCNET
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Nate
Blakeslee
that
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an
in-depth
picture
of
the
drug
war's
most
notorious
scandal
and
the
rural
and
political
landscape
in
which
it
unfolded.
- WEB
SCAN
New
England
Journal
of
Medicine
on
the
DEA
vs.
Oregon's
Right
to
Die
Law
- 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!
Check
out
this
week's
listings
for
events
from
today
through
next
year,
across
the
US
and
around
the
world!
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