Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #436
-- 5/19/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
BORDER
FEARS
The
president
says
that
sending
6,000
National
Guardsmen
to
the
border
won't
militarize
it.
But
militarization
can
work
in
subtle
ways,
and
the
pull
to
use
that
many
troops
once
they're
there
may
be
irresistible.
- FEATURE:
DRAMATIC
DEATH
TOLL
IN
SAO
PAULO
AS
DRUG
GANGS,
POLICE
CLASH
More
than
160
people,
including
at
least
75
police
and
prison
guards,
have
been
killed
in
a
series
of
prison
uprisings
and
urban
attacks
led
by
drug
trafficking
organizations
in
South
America's
largest
city.
- FEATURE:
NEW
JERSEY
MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
BILL
TO
GET
HEARING
Efforts
to
pass
a
medical
marijuana
bill
in
the
Garden
State
are
moving
at
a
glacial
pace,
but
they
are
moving.
- FEATURE:
MARIJUANA
REFORM
EMERGES
IN
IRELAND
Ireland
is
a
country
that
is
famous
for
drinking,
but
like
everywhere
else
in
the
world,
Cannabis
Nation
has
a
toehold
in
the
Emerald
Isle.
- DRCNET
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REVIEW:
"BETWEEN
TWO
PAGES:
CHILDREN
OF
SUBSTANCE,"
BY
SUSAN
HUBENTHAL
AND
GRIEFNET
PARENTS
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$22.95,
pb.)
For
a
parent,
losing
a
child
is
one
of
the
greatest
and
most
bitter
sorrows
imaginable.
Losing
a
child
to
a
drug
overdose
or
some
other
form
of
drug-related
death
is
even
worse.
"Between
Two
Pages"
tells
the
stories
of
some
of
those
lost
offspring
and
the
suffering
parents
they
left
behind.
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public
official
dealing
with
[the
drug]
issue."
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- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
A
missing
evidence
investigation
in
Delaware
and
a
missing
evidence
sentence
in
California;
more
sticky-fingered
cops
in
Tennessee;
a
would-be
porn
king
with
a
bad
temper
in
Denver,
and
some
perverse
traffic
cops
in
Baltimore.
- SEARCH
AND
SEIZURE:
BUSH
NOMINEES
COULD
PROVIDE
SWING
VOTES
IN
SUPREME
COURT
SEARCH
WARRANT
CASE
In
an
unusual
second
oral
argument
before
the
US
Supreme
Court
Thursday,
justices
sparred
over
a
Michigan
case
that
tests
previous
rulings
generally
requiring
police
to
knock
and
announce
themselves
before
entering
a
residence
with
a
search
warrant.
- EUROPE:
BRITISH
POLICE
DEMAND
BAR
PATRONS
SUBMIT
TO
DRUG
TESTS
Police
in
Sussex
are
broadening
a
program
that
requires
people
wishing
to
enter
pubs
to
submit
to
random,
on-the-spot
drug
tests
--
and
warning
they'll
detain
people
who
refuse
to
take
them.
- SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
US
COUNTER-DRUG
CONTRACTOR
KILLED
AS
AFGHAN
FIGHTING
INTENSIFIES
An
American
civilian
anti-drug
contractor
was
killed
and
two
other
Americans
wounded
in
a
suicide
bombing
in
western
Afghanistan
Thursday.
- AUSTRALIA:
LONE
SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
DEMOCRAT
MP
EVEN
LONELIER
--
BUT
UNBOWED
--
AFTER
COMING
TO
ECSTASY'S
DEFENSE
Member
of
Parliament
Sandra
Kanck
is
her
party
leader
and
only
MP
in
the
state
legislature,
but
the
party
is
moving
to
dump
her
after
she
stood
up
in
parliament
to
say
that
Ecstasy
"is
not
a
dangerous
drug"
and
could
have
been
used
to
ease
the
trauma
of
victims
of
last
year's
killer
bushfires.
- AUSTRALIA:
HEALTH
MINISTER
SAYS
MARIJUANA
AS
DANGEROUS
AS
HEROIN
--
CALLS
FOR
NATIONAL
TOUGHENING
OF
LAWS
Australian
Parliamentary
Secretary
for
Health
Christopher
Pyne
announced
Monday
that
all
state
and
territorial
governments
had
signed
on
to
a
federal
plan
to
create
a
tough,
uniform
set
of
marijuana
laws
as
part
of
a
crackdown
on
cannabis.
In
making
the
announcement,
Pyne
also
made
the
bizarre
claim
that
marijuana
is
"as
dangerous"
as
hard
drugs
like
heroin
or
cocaine.
- WEB
SCAN
Shipping
Off
Hawaiian
Women
Prisoners,
Two
Very
Different
District
Attorneys,
Drug
Truth
Network
- WEEKLY:
THIS
WEEK
IN
HISTORY
Events
and
quotes
of
note
from
this
week's
drug
policy
events
of
years
past.
- JOB
OPPORTUNITIES
Syringe
Exchange
Program
Coordinator
and
Specialist,
Harm
Reduction
Coalition,
Oakland,
California
- JOB
OPPORTUNITY
Program
Manager,
Criminal
Justice
Policy
Foundation,
Washington,
DC
- JOB
OPPORTUNITY
Program
Coordinator,
Sensible
Colorado,
Denver/Boulder
- WEEKLY:
THE
REFORMER'S
CALENDAR
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