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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
1/13/06
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January 14, 1937: A
private
federal cannabis conference takes place in room 81 of the Treasury
Building in Washington, DC, leading up to enactment of federal marijuana
prohibition later that year.
January 14, 2003: A
high profile pain prosecution ends with a whimper when California prosecutors
dismiss all remaining charges against Dr. Frank Fisher.
January 15, 1963: President
Kennedy establishes the Advisory Commission on Narcotic and Drug Abuse,
with Judge E. Barrett Prettyman as chair.
January 15, 1997: Milahhr
Kemnah, an AIDS patient visiting the Cannabis Cultivators Club in San Francisco,
becomes the first person to buy medical marijuana in California following
passage of Proposition 215.
January 16, 1919: The
18th Amendment (alcohol prohibition) is declared ratified and is scheduled
to take effect in one year.
January 16, 1920: At
midnight, the 18th Amendment becomes law, making alcohol illegal.
January 16, 1980: Paul
McCartney is arrested by Japanese customs officials at Tokyo International
Airport when they find two plastic bags in his suitcases containing 219
grams of marijuana (approximately 7.7 ounces). Concerned that McCartney
would be refused a US visa under immigration laws if convicted and be unable
to perform in an upcoming Wings concert in the US, Sen. Edward Kennedy
called first secretary of the British Embassy D.W.F. Warren-Knott on January
19. McCartney is released and deported on January 25.
January 18, 1990: Mayor
Marion Barry of Washington, DC, is arrested after hidden cameras record
him smoking crack cocaine with ex-girlfriend Hazel Diane "Rasheeda" Moore
in her room at the Vista Hotel.
January 19, 1999: Twenty
heavily armed officers from the Placer County sheriff's department in northern
California raid the home of Steve and Michele Kubby.
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Issue #418
-- 1/13/06
Feature:
Federal
Meth
Precursor
Sting
Targeting
South
Asian
Convenience
Stores
Draws
Protests,
ACLU
Intervention
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Feature:
Cannabis
Causing
Schizophrenia
in
British
Marijuana
Policy
|
Feature:
Alito
Hearings
Yield
Inconclusive
but
Mostly
Bad
Forecasts
for
Drug
War
Issues
|
Feature:
In
the
Wake
of
Booker,
Some
Small
Relief
for
a
Small
Fraction
of
Federal
Crack
Cocaine
Offenders
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Sentencing:
Federal
Appeals
Court
Upholds
Mandatory
55-Year
Sentence
for
Man
Who
Sold
Marijuana
While
Armed
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Sentencing:
New
Jersey
Legislature
Passes
Bill
to
End
Mandatory
Driver
License
Suspensions
for
Drug
Offenders
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Marijuana:
Bill
to
Recriminalize
Marijuana
in
Alaska
Introduced
and
Moving
|
Europe:
Leading
British
Date
Rape
Drug
is
Alcohol,
Study
Finds
|
Europe:
Albanian
Hemp
Farmers
Freed
as
Judge
Rules
It's
Not
Marijuana
|
Latin
America:
US
Seeking
Talks
with
Bolivia's
Morales
on
Coca,
Trade
|
Web
Scan:
NORML
Animation,
Budapest
Drug
Policy
Dialogue
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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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