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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
1/6/06
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January 6, 1999: A
lawsuit is filed in Paris accusing Fidel Castro of international drug trafficking.
January 6, 2001: General
Barry McCaffrey steps down from his post as Director of the Office of National
Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
January 7, 1997: The
US House of Representatives votes 226-202 in favor of 25 changes to internal
House rules, including requiring House members and their staffs to be tested
for illegal drug use.
January 8, 1990: General
Manuel Noriega is convicted on eight counts of drug trafficking, money
laundering, and racketeering, and sentenced to 40 years in Federal prison.
January 8, 1998: Rep.
Bobby Moak's (R-Lincoln County) Mississippi House Bill 196 proposes "The
removal of a body part in lieu of other sentences imposed by the court
for violations of the Controlled Substances Law."
January 9, 1923: US
Labor Secretary Davis endorses the idea of a national campaign against
the peril of habit-forming drugs.
January 9, 1996: Agents
of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami arrest Jorge Luis Cabrera,
a $20,000 donor to the Democratic Party who had attended a White House
Christmas Party the year before but was busted with thousands of pounds
of cocaine by the DEA.
January 11, 1906: LSD
inventor Dr. Albert Hofmann is born.
January 12, 1929: The
Porter Narcotic Farm Act is enacted, establishing the first two narcotics
hospitals for addicts in federal prisons in response to addicts' crowding.
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Issue #417
-- 1/6/06
Editorial:
Arguments
Best
Set
to
Rest
|
Feature:
Rhode
Island
Overrides
Governor's
Veto
to
Become
11th
State
Okaying
Medical
Marijuana
|
Feature:
Medical
Marijuana
Refugee
Running
Out
of
Time,
Options
|
Feature:
Congressional
Budget-Cutting
Extends
Even
to
Drug
War
Sacred
Cows
|
Feature:
Reformers
Focus
on
Colorado,
Nevada
to
Free
the
Weed
in
2006
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Methamphetamine:
Tennessee
Creates
Meth
Offender
Registry
|
Medical
Marijuana:
Sativex
Wins
FDA
Approval
for
Trials
in
US
|
Europe:
Ketamine
Now
Illegal
in
England
|
Latin
America:
DEA
to
Expand
into
Guyana
|
World-Wide:
This
Year's
Global
Marijuana
March
is
Coming
to
a
City
Near
You
May
6
|
New
DRCNet
Book
Offer:
"Tulia:
Race,
Cocaine,
and
Corruption
in
a
Small
Texas
Town"
|
Web
Scan:
New
England
Journal
of
Medicine
on
the
DEA
vs.
Oregon's
Right
to
Die
Law
|
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This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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