Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #429
-- 3/31/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
ANGEL
RAICH
TRIES
AGAIN
ON
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA,
BUT
JUDGES
SOUND
SKEPTICAL
Oakland
medical
marijuana
patient
Angel
Raich
was
back
in
court
Monday
seeking
an
injunction
to
win
protection
from
federal
law
enforcers
who
do
not
recognize
her
right
to
use
her
medicine,
but
skeptical
questioning
from
a
three-judge
panel
at
the
US
9th
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals
suggests
she
will
have
an
uphill
battle.
- FEATURE:
DEPARTMENT
OF
EDUCATION
BACKS
DOWN
IN
FACE
OF
FREEDOM
OF
INFORMATION
ACT
LAWSUIT
SEEKING
DRUG
PROVISION
DATA
In
the
face
of
a
lawsuit,
the
Department
of
Education
has
backed
down
from
a
decision
to
charge
the
nonprofit
organization
Students
for
Sensible
Drug
Policy
thousands
of
dollars
to
provide
it
with
information
about
the
number
of
students
in
each
state
affected
by
the
Higher
Education
Act's
drug
provision.
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- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
We've
got
a
Texas
twofer
this
week,
as
well
as
a
horny
DEA
agent,
a
misguided
magistrate,
and,
yes,
another
prison
guard
trying
to
supplement
his
income
the
wrong
way.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
MISSISSIPPI
SWAT
TEAM
INJURES
ELDERLY
COUPLE
IN
BOTCHED
METHAMPHETAMINE
RAID
ON
WRONG
HOME
A
SWAT-style
"Tactical
Apprehension
Containment
Team"
didn't
find
any
meth
when
they
battered
down
the
door
to
Arthur
and
Lillie
Bostock's
Horn
Lake,
Mississippi,
home,
but
they
did
send
the
two
octogenarians
to
the
hospital.
- MARIJUANA:
CINCINNATI
CITY
COUNCIL
VOTES
TO
RECRIMINALIZE
In
a
giant
step
backward,
the
Cincinnati
City
Council
voted
final
approval
Wednesday
for
a
city
ordinance
that
will
recriminalize
marijuana
possession.
The
move
came
despite
no
public
outcry
or
support
and
in
the
face
of
unanimous
opposition
from
witnesses
in
several
weeks
of
hearings.
- DRUG
TESTING:
VIRGINIA
COUNTY
DRUG
TESTED
SEWAGE
AT
DRUG
CZAR'S
REQUEST
At
the
request
of
the
US
drug
czar's
office,
Fairfax
County
in
northern
Virginia,
has
embarked
on
a
bizarre
program
to
test
its
wastewater
for
cocaine.
- PAIN
AND
THE
DRUG
WAR:
SENTENCE
CUTS
FOR
MYRTLE
BEACH
PAIN
DOCTORS
The
assault
on
doctors
who
treat
chronic
pain
with
opioids
continues
apace.
But
there
is
some
small
solace
this
week
for
a
trio
of
South
Carolina
physicians
who
were
convicted
in
federal
court
of
illegally
prescribing
pain
medications.
- EUROPE:
BRITISH
POLICE
USING
THERMAL
IMAGING
TO
CATCH
MARIJUANA
GROWERS
London
police
have
become
enthused
about
using
thermal
imaging
cameras
to
detect
marijuana
grow-ops,
and
report
seizing
a
"significant
amount"
of
the
weed
in
the
Haringey
neighborhood
last
week.
- SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
REP.
SOUDER
BERATES
ADMINISTRATION
AS
SOFT
ON
AFGHAN
OPIUM,
CONFUSES
IT
WITH
HEROIN,
DEMANDS
AERIAL
ERADICATION
Leading
congressional
drug
warrior
Mark
Souder
is
taking
the
Bush
administration
to
task
for
not
being
tough
enough
against
the
Afghanistan
opium
industry
and
criticizing
the
Pentagon's
reluctance
to
embrace
aerial
spraying
of
Afghan
fields
with
herbicides.
- IRAQ:
OFFICIALS
COMPLAIN
OF
RISING
DRUG
USE,
TRAFFICKING
Prompted
by
recent
large
drugs
seizures,
officials
at
Iraq's
Ministry
of
Labor
and
Social
Affairs
told
the
UN's
humanitarian
news
agency
Monday
drug
trafficking
and
addiction
are
on
the
rise.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
US
PUTS
$75
MILLION
BOUNTY
ON
COLOMBIA'S
FARC
LEADERS
In
a
March
22
press
conference,
the
US
attorney
general
and
DEA
chief
announced
cocaine
trafficking
indictments
against
50
FARC
leaders
and
an
eight-figure
reward
for
their
capture.
- MEDIA
SCAN
Tony
Papa
on
Rockefeller
Reform
for
Alternet,
Ryan
Grim
Knocks
Post
on
Meth
Story
for
the
City
Paper
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- PAID
INTERNSHIP:
UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALISTS
FOR
DRUG
POLICY
REFORM/INTERFAITH
DRUG
POLICY
INITIATIVE
Unitarian
Universalists
for
Drug
Policy
Reform
(a.k.a.
Interfaith
Drug
Policy
Initiative)
seeks
a
paid
summer
intern
to
assist
in
reaching
out
to
religious
leaders
on
issues
of
drug
policy
reform.
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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up
at
an
event
can
be
the
best
way
to
get
involved!
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out
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week's
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