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Issue #418 -- 1/13/06

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Georgia's Southeast Asian Community Stands Up to Meth Madness
  1. FEATURE: FEDERAL METH PRECURSOR STING TARGETING SOUTH ASIAN CONVENIENCE STORES DRAWS PROTESTS, ACLU INTERVENTION
    For several dozen hard-working South Asian immigrants and their families in northwest Georgia, the American dream has turned into a nightmare.
  2. FEATURE: CANNABIS CAUSING SCHIZOPHRENIA IN BRITISH MARIJUANA POLICY
    In an act of political expediency against a background of tabloid hysteria over links between marijuana and mental illness, the Blair government has proclaimed that it may well reclassify marijuana back to Class B. Or maybe not.
  3. FEATURE: ALITO HEARINGS YIELD INCONCLUSIVE BUT MOSTLY BAD FORECASTS FOR DRUG WAR ISSUES
    Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is not the libertarian kind of conservative jurist, and his record on issues relating to drug policy tilts decidedly in the direction of government power. The reach of the Interstate Commerce Clause, which underpins federal drug prohibition, is potentially an important exception. But the nominee provided too little information for anyone to do much besides guess.
  4. FEATURE: IN THE WAKE OF BOOKER, SOME SMALL RELIEF FOR A SMALL FRACTION OF FEDERAL CRACK COCAINE OFFENDERS
    Last year's Supreme Court decision in the Booker and Fan Fan cases threatened to draw retaliation from Congressional hardliners in love with harsh sentencing. But a new study has found that for crack cocaine offenses, at least, most people are still getting very harsh sentences.
  5. LAW ENFORCEMENT: THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES
    Another pair of drug-dealing prison guards, a drug-dealing small-town cop, a drug-dealing big city cop, and a really big time, big city drug-dealing cop make the news this week.
  6. SENTENCING: FEDERAL APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS MANDATORY 55-YEAR SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO SOLD MARIJUANA WHILE ARMED
    Arguing that Congress intended to severely punish crimes involving guns and drugs, a three-judge panel from the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver found no problem with a 55 year sentence the trial judge had issued under protest.
  7. SENTENCING: NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL TO END MANDATORY DRIVER LICENSE SUSPENSIONS FOR DRUG OFFENDERS
    New Jersey's 2004-2005 legislative session ended with a bill to allow judges to waive a previously mandatory six-month drivers license suspension for any drug offense passing. But bills to reduce the size of "drug free school zones" and legalize needle exchange failed to make it through.
  8. MARIJUANA: BILL TO RECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA IN ALASKA INTRODUCED AND MOVING
    Attempts by Gov. Frank Murkowski and Alaska’s law enforcement establishment to recriminalize marijuana have been slapped down multiple times, but still they come back to try again.
  9. EUROPE: LEADING BRITISH DATE RAPE DRUG IS ALCOHOL, STUDY FINDS
    Alcohol, not illicit drugs, poses the greatest date rape risk, according to a study whose results were published this week in the New Scientist.
  10. EUROPE: ALBANIAN HEMP FARMERS FREED AS JUDGE RULES IT'S NOT MARIJUANA
    For the second time in five years, Albanian police have arrested farmers growing industrial hemp, and for the second time in five years, an Albanian judge has told the cops to knock it off.
  11. LATIN AMERICA: US SEEKING TALKS WITH BOLIVIA'S MORALES ON COCA, TRADE
    A campaign pledge by Bolivian president-elect and coca grower Evo Morales to decriminalize the leaf's cultivation could place him directly at odds with US policy in the country. For once US diplomats in Bolivia are walking softly.
  12. WEB SCAN
    NORML Animation, Budapest Drug Policy Dialogue
  13. WEEKLY: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
    Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
  14. 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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