Drug War Chronicle
(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #437
-- 5/26/06
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Phillip S. Smith, Editor
David Borden, Executive Director
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL:
MAKING
SURE
DRUGS
KILL
Often
people
object
to
drug
legalization,
at
least
for
drugs
other
than
marijuana,
because,
as
they
say,
"drugs
kill."
But
the
phenomenon
is
often
a
self-fulfilling
prophecy.
- FEATURE:
NUMBER
OF
PEOPLE
BEHIND
BARS
IN
AMERICA
INCREASING
BY
MORE
THAN
A
THOUSAND
A
WEEK
Despite
half
a
decade
of
sentencing
reform
efforts,
America's
jail
and
prison
population
is
increasing
at
a
rate
of
more
than
a
thousand
per
week.
- FEATURE:
FENTANYL
DEATH
TOLL
MOUNTS
AS
AUTHORITIES
BELATEDLY
ACT
A
wave
of
fatal
drug
overdoses
from
the
highly-potent
masquerading
as
heroin
that
has
killed
dozens
of
people
in
recent
weeks
struck
Detroit
with
a
vengeance
over
the
weekend.
Harm
reductionists
are
asking
why
authorities
took
so
long
to
react
to
the
public
health
emergency.
- DRCNET
REVIEW
ESSAY:
DRUG
POLICY
AND
PROHIBITION
IN
CONTEXT
Chronicle
editor
Phil
Smith
reviews
"Decade
of
Nightmares:
The
End
of
the
Sixties
and
the
Making
of
Eighties
America"
and
"The
Devil's
Picnic:
Around
the
World
in
Search
of
Forbidden
Fruit."
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or
public
official
dealing
with
[the
drug]
issue."
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- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
THIS
WEEK'S
CORRUPT
COPS
STORIES
Two
stories
from
New
York
City,
a
cop
peddling
"cocaine
cookies"
in
Alabama,
a
Delaware
State
Trooper
with
a
drug
problem,
and
a
very,
very
ugly
recording
are
on
tap
this
week.
- HEMP:
NO
FARM
ON
THE
PINE
RIDGE,
SAYS
FEDERAL
APPEALS
COURT
A
federal
appeals
court
May
17
rejected
a
bid
by
South
Dakota
Oglala
Sioux
Tribe
member
Alex
White
Plume
to
grow
industrial
hemp
crops
on
his
land
on
the
Pine
Ridge
Indian
Reservation.
- SEARCH
AND
SEIZURE:
HOUSE
BILL
AIMING
TO
LOWER
STANDARDS
FOR
STUDENT
SEARCHES
INTRODUCED
A
bill
whose
sole
purpose
is
to
lower
the
threshold
for
allowing
schools
to
search
students'
lockers
and
bags
for
drugs
and
other
contraband
has
been
introduced
in
the
US
House
of
Representatives.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
COLOMBIAN
SOLDIERS
ACCIDENTALLY
KILL
TEN
COLOMBIAN
NARCS
Colombian
soldiers
operating
near
the
town
of
Jamundi
in
the
Valle
region
shot
and
killed
ten
undercover
anti-drug
police
and
their
civilian
informant
in
a
case
of
mistaken
identity,
Colombian
officials
reported
Monday.
- LATIN
AMERICA:
BOLIVIAN
PRESIDENT
WINS
VOLUNTARY
LIMITS
ON
COCA
PRODUCTION
Bolivian
President
Evo
Morales,
himself
a
former
coca
growers'
leader,
announced
last
weekend
he
had
won
an
agreement
with
peasants
in
the
Yungas
region
to
voluntarily
limit
their
coca
growing.
The
move
came
as
part
of
an
emerging
two-pronged
strategy
by
Morales
to
deal
with
the
coca
issue.
- EUROPE:
BRITISH
REPORT
CALLS
FOR
SAFE
INJECTION
SITES
--
HOME
OFFICE
TO
CONSIDER
An
independent
working
group
sponsored
by
the
influential
Joseph
Rowntree
Foundation
has
called
for
Britain
to
open
safe
injection
sites
for
hard
drug
users
on
a
trial
basis.
- MARIJUANA:
SMOKING
IT
DOESN'T
CAUSE
LUNG
CANCER,
STUDY
FINDS
A
study
at
UCLA
by
a
team
led
by
one
of
the
most
prominent
marijuana
researchers
has
found
no
link
between
marijuana
smoking
and
lung
cancer.
- LAW
ENFORCEMENT:
DRUG
TRUTH
NETWORK
AWARDS
FIRST
TIN
FOIL
HAT
AWARD
TO
DEA'S
TANDY
The
Drug
Truth
Network
has
unveiled
its
new
Tin
Foil
Hat
Award
(an
image
commonly
associated
with
whacked-out
conspiracy
theorists),
and
selected
its
first
prize-winner
--
Drug
Enforcement
Administration
(DEA)
head
Karen
Tandy.
- 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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