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5/12/06
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May 14, 1932: "We Want
Beer" marches against alcohol prohibition are held in cities across America
-- 15,000 union workers demonstrate in Detroit alone.
May 15, 1928: Birth
of Arnold Trebach, father of the modern drug policy reform movement.
May 15, 1988: Baltimore
Mayor Kurt Schmoke calls for a national debate on decriminalization of
illicit drugs. Schmoke is quoted in the Washington Post: "Decriminalization
would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate,
the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets."
May 15, 1997: Conclusions
from a comprehensive, long-term study by Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, CA)
show no substantial link between regular marijuana smoking and death, but
suggest that marijuana prohibition may itself pose a health hazard to the
user.
May 16, 2001: Regina
McKnight is convicted and sentenced to 12 years in South Carolina for using
crack during a pregnancy that resulted in a stillbirth. It is the
first time in US history that a woman is convicted of homicide for using
drugs during a pregnancy.
May 17, 2001: Canada's
House of Commons passes a unanimous motion to create a committee to examine
the issue of non-medical drugs in Canada. Members of all five parties
say they intend to discuss legalization, or at least decriminalization,
of marijuana as part of a sweeping look at the country's drug strategy.
May 18, 1971: Tapes
released years later reveal that sometime between 12:16 and 12:35pm, President
Nixon says to entertainer Art Linkletter, "... radical demonstrators that
were here... two weeks ago... They're all on drugs, virtually all."
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Issue #435
-- 5/12/06
Editorial:
Another
Spectacle
of
Unreason
in
the
Drug
War
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Feature:
DEA
Montreal
Confab
Greeted
by
Counter-Conference
|
Feature:
"2020
Group"
Begins
Building
an
International
Drug
Reform
Movement
|
Feature:
Marijuana
Activists
Take
to
Streets
for
Annual
Global
Marijuana
March
|
Offer
and
Appeal:
Important
New
Legalization
Video
and
Drug
War
Facts
Book
Available
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Feedback:
Do
You
Read
Drug
War
Chronicle?
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This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Politics:
Albany
DA
Ignites
Firestorm
By
Calling
Drug
War
"Lucrative"
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Sentencing:
New
York
Assembly
Passes
Rockefeller
Law
Reform
Bill
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Marijuana:
In
Reversal,
Alaska
House
Passes
Recriminalization
Bill
|
South
Asia:
India
Supreme
Court
Says
Time
to
Prohibit
Alcohol
|
Southwest
Asia:
Afghan
Eradication
Campaign
Takes
Deadly
Turn
|
Web
Scan:
Buffalo
Legalization
Talk
--
Twice,
Flash
Animation
on
Two
Years
for
One
Joint,
Cannabinoid
Chronicles,
U-Mass
v.
DEA,
World
Prison
Populations
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This
Week
in
History
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Job
Opportunity:
Office
Administrator/Book-keeper,
MPP,
Washington
|
Part-Time
Job
Opportunity:
Cannabis
Action
Network,
Berkeley,
California
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The
Reformer's
Calendar
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