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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
3/24/06
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March 24, 1998: House
Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) establishes the Speaker's Task Force for a
Drug-Free America to design a World War II-style victory plan to save America's
children from illegal drugs and achieve a Drug-Free America by 2002.
March 25, 1994: Retired
minister Accelyne Williams dies of a heart attack when a SWAT team consisting
of 13 heavily armed Boston police officers raids his apartment based on
an incorrect tip by an unidentified informant.
March 25, 2002: The
Maryland House of Delegates overwhelmingly approves H.B. 1222, the Darrell
Putman Compassionate Use Act, which removes criminal penalties for the
medical use of marijuana.
March 26, 2002: A unanimous
US Supreme Court rules that public housing tenants can be evicted for any
illegal drug activity by household members or guests, even if they did
not know about it.
March 28, 2002: Federal
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rules that the Barr Amendment, which blocks the
District of Columbia from considering a medical marijuana voter initiative,
infringes on First Amendment rights.
March 28, 2003: The
Hemp Industries Association, several hemp food and cosmetic manufacturers
and the Organic Consumers Association petition the federal Ninth Circuit
to again prevent the DEA from ending the legal sale of hemp seed and oil
products in the US.
March 29, 2000: CNN
reports that a multination drug sweep known as Operation Conquistador nets
2,331 arrests, 4,966 kilograms of cocaine, 55.6 kilograms of heroin, and
362.5 metric tons of marijuana. The 17-day operation takes place
in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Suriname, Trinidad and
Tobago, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, Anguilla, St.
Martin, British Virgin Islands, Barbuda, Grenada, Barbados, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Aruba, Curacao, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican
Republic, and Puerto Rico.
March 30, 1961: The
UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is convened in New York City, the
first of the three international treaties binding signatory nations into
prohibitionist systems.
March 30, 1992: Bill
Clinton, during the 1992 presidential campaign, says, "When I was in England
I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it.
I didn't inhale."
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Issue #428
-- 3/24/06
Feature:
Despite
Supreme
Court
Ruling
Throwing
Out
Federal
Sentencing
Guidelines,
Federal
Drug
Sentences
Keep
Getting
Longer
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Feature:
Zogby
Poll
Says
Both
Coasts
Favor
Letting
States
Legalize
Marijuana
--
What
Is
It
Going
To
Take?
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Feature:
Texas
League
of
Women
Voters
Adopts
Drug
Policy
Positions
--
Supports
Needle
Exchange,
Medical
Marijuana
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Feedback:
Do
You
Read
Drug
War
Chronicle?
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Lawsuit:
ACLU
and
Students
Sue
Feds
Over
College
Aid
Ban
for
Drug
Offenders
|
Search
and
Seizure:
Supreme
Court
Rejects
Searches
When
One
Occupant
Consents,
But
Another
Does
Not
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Marijuana:
Poll
Finds
Alaskans
Just
Say
No
to
Recriminalization
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Sentencing:
Drug-Free
Zone
Laws
Don't
Work
and
Result
in
Racial
Disparities,
New
Report
Says
|
Free
Speech:
Giant
Marijuana
Leaves
Painted
On
House
Okay,
Connecticut
Town
Says
|
Southwest
Asia:
State
Department
Seeks
Afghan
Opium
Victory
Through
Public
Relations
|
South
Asia:
Indian
State
Government
Sells
Cannabis
|
Web
Scan:
Slate
on
Student
Drug
Testing,
Stats
Truths
of
the
Drug
War
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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Job
Opening:
Communications
Assistant,
Marijuana
Policy
Project,
Washington,
DC
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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