Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #433
-- 4/28/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FEATURE:
A
PERFECT
STORM
ON
THE
US-MEXICAN
BORDER
AS
DRUG
AND
IMMIGRATION
AND
TERROR
WARS
CONVERGE
This
week,
the
US
Senate
voted
to
divert
nearly
$2
billion
dollars
from
the
Iraq
war
effort
and
instead
use
the
money
to
increase
enforcement
on
the
border.
But
whether
that
stops
or
slows
illegal
immigration,
it
certainly
won't
stop
drugs.
- FEATURE:
DPA
"CITY
STRATEGY"
TAKES
AIM
AT
DRUG
WAR
IN
THE
NATION'S
CAPITAL
With
open
air
drug
markets,
a
prohibition-related
"crack
war"
that
raged
murderously
through
the
1980s
and
1990s,
and
high
levels
of
heroin
and
crack
use
--
and
with
large
numbers
of
young
black
men
behind
bars
on
drug
charges
--
DC
is
an
apt
target
for
a
concentrated
drug
reform
effort.
Now
it's
going
to
get
one.
- FEATURE:
NORML
MARIJUANA
REFORM
CONFERENCE
WRAPS
UP
The
annual
conference
of
the
National
Organization
for
the
Reform
of
Marijuana
Laws
ended
in
San
Francisco
Saturday
afternoon,
wrapping
up
three
days
of
intensive
panel
discussions,
vendor
hawking,
and
hallway
networking
among
the
more
than
500
people
who
showed
up
for
the
annual
confab.
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- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
An
Oregon
city
pays
--
again
--
for
the
actions
of
a
criminal
cop,
a
border
crime
family's
ties
reach
into
law
enforcement,
another
border
drug
cop
goes
bad,
and
a
crooked
deputy
in
a
crooked
Tennessee
county
heads
for
the
federal
slammer.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
BIPARTISAN
HOUSE
COALITION
CHALLENGES
FDA
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
FINDING
A
week
after
the
FDA
issued
a
one-page
opinion
claiming
marijuana
has
no
proven
medical
uses,
a
bipartisan
group
of
24
House
members
led
by
Rep.
Maurice
Hinchey
(D-NY)
has
called
on
the
agency
to
explain
its
reasoning
and
offer
scientific
proof
for
its
position.
- LEGALIZATION:
BUFFALO
POLITICIAN
IGNITES
FIRESTORM
BY
USING
"L-WORD"
In
comments
that
continue
to
reverberate
through
upstate
New
York,
Erie
County
Chief
Executive
Joel
Giambra
called
last
week
for
a
serious
discussion
of
legalizing
drugs.
- HARM
ENHANCEMENT:
ADULTERATED
BATCHES
OF
HEROIN
KILLING
USERS
IN
CHICAGO,
ON
EAST
COAST
One
of
the
perils
of
prohibition
is
playing
out
among
heroin
users
in
Chicago
and
on
the
East
Coast,
especially
Philadelphia,
and
it
is
the
users
who
are
paying
the
price.
- MEDICAL
MARIJUANA:
ED
ROSENTHAL'S
FEDERAL
CULTIVATION
CONVICTIONS
OVERTURNED
A
three-judge
panel
of
the
US
9th
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals
has
thrown
out
the
January
2003
conviction
of
"Guru
of
Ganja"
Ed
Rosenthal,
finding
the
verdict
was
tainted
by
a
juror's
phone
call
to
an
attorney
friend.
- SOUTHEAST
ASIA:
MALAYSIA
BANS
MARIJUANA
MAGAZINES
Citing
a
threat
to
national
security
and
morality,
the
government
of
Malaysia
has
banned
the
venerable
"High
Times"
magazine
and
two
of
its
younger
competitors.
- CANADA:
VANCOUVER
MAYOR
WANTS
DRUG
MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM
In
a
wide-ranging
interview
with
the
Vancouver
Sun
last
Friday,
Vancouver
Mayor
Sam
Sullivan
said
he
wants
to
begin
a
program
to
provide
drugs
for
addicts
in
the
city's
Downtown
Eastside
--
and
he's
willing
to
risk
his
political
career
to
do
so.
- WEB
SCAN
Slate,
Scientific
American,
The
Economist
and
Rush
Limbaugh
on
Medical
Marijuana
and
the
FDA,
In
These
Times
Book
Reviews
- 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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