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February 17, 1997:
Legislation to repeal an 18 year-old state law permitting physicians to
prescribe marijuana for patients suffering from cancer or glaucoma is voted
down by a Virginia Senate committee in a 9-6 vote.
February 18, 1999:
Dr. Frank Fisher, a pain doctor from Northern California, is arrested and
charged with five counts of murder. After about six years of legal
wrangling and having more charges levied against him, he is determined
to be completely innocent.
February 18, 2000:
President Clinton signs the "Hillary J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape
Drug Prohibition Act of 2000," categorizing GHB as a Schedule I drug.
February 19, 2004:
Veterans and medical marijuana activists in San Francisco hold a protest/rally
in front of San Francisco's Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic and
ask doctors working for the Veteran's Administration to help provide better
access to medical marijuana.
February 20, 1997:
CNN reports that a prestigious panel of experts convened by the National
Institutes of Health said there is promising evidence that smoking marijuana
may ease the suffering of some seriously ill patients.
February 21, 1971:
The United States joins with other countries in signing the international
treaty Convention on Psychotropic Substances, in Vienna, Austria.
February 22, 2000:
Due to drug-related violence, the US State Department issues a traveler's
advisory warning for Tijuana, México City, and Ciudad Juárez,
which are labeled as "dangerous." Juárez Mayor Gustavo Elizondo
protests to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
February 23, 1887:
The 49th Congress of the United States enacts legislation that provides
a misdemeanor fine of between $50 and $500 for any US or Chinese citizen
found guilty of violating the ban on opium.
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Issue #423
-- 2/16/06
Feature:
New
Mexico
Medical
Marijuana
Bill
Likely
to
Die
Without
A
Floor
Vote
Barring
Last-Ditch
Effort
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Feature:
Drug
Possession
for
Personal
Use
is
Not
a
Crime,
Argentine
Court
Rules
|
Feature:
Foes
Fume
and
Flee
as
Drug
Reform
Reaches
Out
to
Conservatives
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Federal
Drug
Budget:
Democratic
Senators
Urge
Restoring
Funds
for
Drug
Task
Forces
|
Marijuana:
Decriminalization
Measure
Moving
in
Massachusetts
|
Marijuana:
Oakland-Style
"Measure
Z"
Campaigns
Slated
for
More
California
Cities
|
Ecstasy:
After
the
Fact,
Wisconsin
Legislator
Seeks
to
Stiffen
Penalties
|
Europe:
Belgian
Socialists
Call
for
Regulated
Marijuana
Sales
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Web
Scan:
Sentencing
Project
on
the
War
on
Marijuana,
Marsha
Rosenbaum
on
Drug
Hysteria
for
Alternet
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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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