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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
3/31/06
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April 1, 1909: The
Opium Exclusion Act takes effect.
April 2, 2003: US Rep.
Ron Paul asks the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate
whether the Office of National Drug Control Policy violated the Congressional
ban on spending funds on publicity or propaganda.
April 3, 1953: With
the support of Allen W. Dulles, director of Central Intelligence, Richard
C. Helms proposes funding for a biochemical warfare research program named
MKULTRA, which among other things administered LSD to its unwilling participants.
April 6, 1995: ABC
News airs a special entitled "America's War On Drugs: Searching For Solutions"
in which legalization is presented as an alternative to the failing war
on drugs.
April 6, 1998: Dr.
Dennis Rosenbaum's six year study of 1,798 students, "Assessing the Effects
of School-based Drug Education: A Six Year Multilevel Analysis of Project
DARE," finds that "DARE had no long-term effects on a wide range of drug
use measures," that DARE does not "prevent drug use at the stage in adolescent
development when drugs become available and widely used, namely during
the high school years," and that "DARE may actually be counterproductive."
April 6, 2000: The
First National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics convenes at
the University of Iowa.
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Issue #429
-- 3/31/06
Feature:
Angel
Raich
Tries
Again
on
Medical
Marijuana,
But
Judges
Sound
Skeptical
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Feature:
Department
of
Education
Backs
Down
in
Face
of
Freedom
of
Information
Act
Lawsuit
Seeking
Drug
Provision
Data
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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Law
Enforcement:
Mississippi
SWAT
Team
Injures
Elderly
Couple
in
Botched
Methamphetamine
Raid
on
Wrong
Home
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Marijuana:
Cincinnati
City
Council
Votes
to
Recriminalize
|
Drug
Testing:
Virginia
County
Drug
Tested
Sewage
at
Drug
Czar's
Request
|
Pain
and
the
Drug
War:
Sentence
Cuts
for
Myrtle
Beach
Pain
Doctors
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Europe:
British
Police
Using
Thermal
Imaging
to
Catch
Marijuana
Growers
|
Southwest
Asia:
Rep.
Souder
Berates
Administration
as
Soft
on
Afghan
Opium,
Confuses
It
with
Heroin,
Demands
Aerial
Eradication
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Iraq:
Officials
Complain
of
Rising
Drug
Use,
Trafficking
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Latin
America:
US
Puts
$75
Million
Bounty
on
Colombia's
FARC
Leaders
|
Media
Scan:
Tony
Papa
on
Rockefeller
Reform
for
Alternet,
Ryan
Grim
Knocks
Post
on
Meth
Story
for
the
City
Paper
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This
Week
in
History
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Paid
Internship:
Unitarian
Universalists
for
Drug
Policy
Reform/Interfaith
Drug
Policy
Initiative
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Calendar
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