Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #427
-- 3/17/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
THE
MISUSE
OF
SWAT
--
PARAMILITARY
POLICING
IN
THE
DRUG
WAR
In
an
unprecedented
development
in
American
history,
SWAT
teams,
designed
to
be
used
only
in
the
most
intense
and
dangerous
situations,
now
get
deployed
routinely
in
towns
large
and
small
for
the
most
minor
alleged
crimes.
The
results
are
sometimes
tragic.
- FEATURE:
CINCINNATI
MARCHING
BOLDLY
BACKWARD
WITH
NEW
MARIJUANA
ORDINANCE
The
Cincinnati
city
council
is
on
the
verge
of
passing
an
ordinance
that
would
recriminalize
marijuana
possession
in
the
conservative
Ohio
River
city,
despite
the
lack
of
any
public
outcry
or
signs
of
support
for
it.
- FEATURE:
PORTLAND
INITIATIVE
WOULD
MAKE
MARIJUANA
"LOWEST
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
PRIORITY"
Portland
is
gearing
up
to
be
the
latest
city
to
jump
on
the
"lowest
law
enforcement
initiative"
bandwagon,
through
the
efforts
of
a
home-grown
group,
Safer
Portland,
which
has
begun
a
signature-gathering
drive
for
the
November
ballot.
- HITTING
THE
GROUND
RUNNING
IN
2006
--
WITH
YOUR
HELP
Amazing
things
(and
a
lot
of
them)
have
already
happened
at
DRCNet
this
year,
but
we
need
your
help
to
keep
it
going.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
classic
corrupt
cop
trial
is
underway
in
New
York,
two
Texas
Border
Patrol
agents
are
headed
for
prison,
cops
in
Oklahoma
and
Pennsylvania
get
in
trouble
for
warning
drug
dealers
they
were
being
watched,
and
a
sticky-fingered
Texas
deputy
couldn't
keep
his
hands
off
the
drug
buy
money.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
DEA,
LOCAL
COPS
RAID
ANOTHER
CALIFORNIA
COLLECTIVE
--
ANGEL
RAICH
ARRESTED
AT
PROTEST
DEA
agents
accompanied
by
Riverside
County
sheriff's
deputies
raided
a
small
Palm
Desert
medical
marijuana
growing
collective
Tuesday
--
sending
the
homeowner
running
it
to
the
hospital.
- MARIJUANA:
EAST
BAY
DEA
RAIDS
TAKE
OUT
MARIJUANA
CANDY
SUPPLIER
DEA
agents
raided
a
building
in
the
heart
of
Oaksterdam
and
locations
in
Emeryville
and
Lafayette
in
what
they
called
"a
sophisticated
marijuana
operation"
involving
large
grows
as
well
as
the
production
of
marijuana
candy
and
soft
drinks.
- FREE
SPEECH:
HIGH
SCHOOL
STUDENT'S
"BONG
HITS
4
JESUS"
BANNER
PROTECTED
BY
FIRST
AMENDMENT,
9TH
CIRCUIT
SAYS
An
Alaska
high
school
principal
violated
a
student's
constitutional
right
to
free
speech
by
suspending
him
for
his
"Bong
Hits
4
Jesus"
banner,
the
federal
9th
Circuit
has
ruled.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
STEVE
KUBBY
BACK
IN
JAIL
FOR
60
DAYS
--
OR
LESS
California
medical
marijuana
activist
Steve
Kubby
is
back
behind
bars,
but
there
is
a
not
so
distant
light
at
the
end
of
the
tunnel.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
ARGENTINE
APPEALS
COURT
THROWS
OUT
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
CONVICTION
An
Argentine
federal
court
has
thrown
out
the
marijuana
possession
conviction
of
a
Buenos
Aires
woman
who
argued
that
she
was
using
it
medically,
and
has
ordered
the
sentencing
judge
to
reconsider
the
case
based
on
privacy
law
and
the
medical
issues.
- SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
AFGHANISTAN
TO
ENCOURAGE
OPIUM
LORDS
TO
INVEST
AT
HOME,
OFFICIAL
SAYS
The
Afghan
government
of
President
Hamid
Karzai
will
attempt
to
integrate
profits
from
the
opium
trade
into
the
legitimate
national
economy,
the
governor
of
the
country's
leading
opium
growing
province
said
this
week.
- MIDDLE
EAST:
ISRAELI
GREEN
LEAF
(MARIJUANA)
PARTY
COULD
WIN
KNESSET
SEATS
Two
years
ago,
Israel's
Ale
Yarok
(Green
Leaf,
referring
to
marijuana)
Party
came
within
7,000
votes
of
winning
a
seat
in
the
Knesset.
Now
some
pollsters
think
this
is
the
year
Ale
Yarok
could
go
over
the
top.
- WEB
SCAN
BBC,
Newsday
Rockefeller
Editorial,
A
Drug
War
Prisoner
on
the
Net
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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at
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event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
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week's
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