Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #426
-- 3/10/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
FIVE
YEARS
ON,
CALIFORNIA'S
PROPOSITION
36
CLAIMS
SUCCESS,
BUT
FACES
NEW
STRUGGLES
More
than
140,000
people
arrested
for
drug
possession
have
received
treatment
instead
of
incarceration
and
60,000
have
successfully
completed
treatment
since
California
voters
passed
Prop.
36
five
years
ago.
Now
the
end
of
voter-mandated
funding
means
new
struggles
over
the
measure's
cost
--
and
its
spirit.
- FEATURE:
PILOT
METHADONE
MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM
FOR
JAIL
INMATES
OFF
TO
GOOD
START,
NEW
MEXICO
OFFICIALS
SAY
In
the
only
project
of
its
sort
in
the
southwestern
US,
a
select
group
of
inmates
in
the
Bernalillo
County's
Metropolitan
Correctional
Center
in
Albuquerque
have
been
receiving
maintenance
doses
of
methadone
as
a
treatment
for
heroin
addiction
for
the
last
three
months.
- WEB
SITE:
A
FRIENDLY
REMINDER
ABOUT
THE
DRUG
WAR
CHRONICLE
ARCHIVES
PAGE
--
NEW
MARIJUANA-ONLY
ARCHIVES
NOW
AVAILABLE
TOO
The
Chronicle
archives
now
boast
over
5,600
articles,
more
than
1,000
on
marijuana
news
alone.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
Cops
as
gangsters,
DEA
agents
as
thieving
real
estate
speculators,
a
Texas
police
chief
who
never
let
any
drug
evidence
get
away,
cops
in
Miami
and
Chicago
planting
drugs,
evidence
gone
missing
in
East
St.
Louis,
and
a
greedy
prison
guard,
this
time
in
Georgia.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
FEDERAL
BILL
PASSES
AS
PART
OF
USA
PATRIOT
ACT
The
Patriot
Act
is
ostensibly
designed
to
protect
Americans
from
the
foreign
terrorist
threat,
but
its
most
immediate
impact
will
be
to
protect
Americans
from
Sudafed.
- METHAMPHETAMINE:
SAMHSA
RELEASE
MISLEADS
ON
TREATMENT
NUMBERS,
PRESS
BITES
A
press
release
by
the
federal
Substance
Abuse
and
Mental
Health
Services
Administration
screamed
out
that
the
number
of
people
in
treatment
for
methamphetamine
had
increased
dramatically
between
1993
and
2003.
But
it
didn't
mention
that
a
significant
factor
in
the
increase
was
heightened
attention
to
the
drug
by
the
criminal
justice
system
and
resulting
compulsory
referrals.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
STEVE
KUBBY
FREED
FROM
JAIL
--
LOST
25
POUNDS
IN
SIX
WEEKS
Forty
days
into
a
120-day
sentence,
former
medical
marijuana
refugee
Steve
Kubby
has
been
released
early
for
good
behavior,
and
is
free
at
least
for
now.
- CANADA:
ANOTHER
WEEK,
ANOTHER
ATTACK
ON
THE
CANNABIS
INDUSTRY
The
Conservative
government
of
Prime
Minister
Steven
Harper
has
only
been
in
office
for
a
few
weeks,
but
it
is
already
sending
strong
signals
that
cannabis
and
cannabis-related
businesses
will
be
the
subjects
of
unwanted
government
attention.
- EUROPE:
EDINBURGH
"DRUG
CZAR"
SAYS
TIME
TO
CONSIDER
PRESCRIBING
HEROIN
The
debate
over
heroin
has
turned
lively
in
Scotland
this
week,
with
Edinburgh's
"drug
czar"
urging
the
Scottish
Executive
to
consider
prescribe
heroin
to
addicts
through
the
National
Health
Service.
- AFRICA:
MOROCCO'S
CAMPAIGN
AGAINST
HASHISH
GROWING
HAS
PEASANTS
GRUMBLING,
PROTESTING
The
Moroccan
government
has
won
international
praise
for
its
campaign
against
marijuana
cultivation
in
the
country's
Rif
region.
But
last
week
about
3,000
people
demonstrated
near
the
village
of
Boujdiane
to
demand
the
government
help
them
replace
lost
incomes.
- SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
AFGHAN
OPIUM
CROP
TO
EXPAND
THIS
YEAR,
UN
SAYS
Afghan
farmers
are
planting
more
opium
poppies
this
year
than
last
year,
the
United
Nations
Office
on
Drugs
and
Crime
reported
Monday.
- THE
DEBATE:
REFORMERS
AND
A
PROHIBITIONIST
RESPOND
TO
FAVORABLE
WALL
STREET
JOURNAL
EDITORIAL
Two
LEAP
cops
and
a
libertarian
say
yes
to
WSJ
legalization
column
on
the
editorial
page
--
former
drug
czar
mouthpiece
says
no.
- MEDIA
SCAN
Reformers
and
UN
Drug
Chief
Debate
on
the
BBC
This
Weekend
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOB
OPENING
Communications
Assistant,
Drug
Policy
Alliance,
New
York
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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at
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event
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be
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to
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