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6/9/06
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June 9, 2000: Human
Rights Watch releases a study finding that Illinois is the worst state
for racial disparity among jailed drug offenders.
June 11, 2001: In a
case relating to indoor marijuana-growing operations, the US Supreme Court
rules that the use by the police of a thermal imaging device to detect
patterns of heat coming from a private home is a search that requires a
warrant.
June 12, 1998: US drug
czar Barry McCaffrey announces at the United Nations his plan for drug
warriors to dominate the Internet.
June 13, 1994: The
RAND Corporation releases a study finding that drug treatment programs
are seven times more cost effective for reducing cocaine use than law enforcement
efforts, 11 times more effective than border interdiction and 23 times
more effective than source country efforts.
June 14, 2000: Bestselling
author, cancer and AIDS patient, and high profile medical marijuana activist
Peter McWilliams is found dead in his home in Los Angeles, California.
McWilliams, barred by a federal court order from using marijuana to counteract
the extreme nausea caused by his AIDS drugs, is found choked to death on
vomit, slumped on his bathroom floor.
June 15, 1998: Random
House publishes Mike Gray's "Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and
How We Can Get Out."
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Issue #439
-- 6/9/06
Feature:
ACLU
Files
Suit
to
Block
Alaska
Marijuana
Recriminalization,
State
Says
It
Will
Wait
on
Litigation's
Results
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Feature:
Turning
the
Corner
in
Baltimore
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DRCNet
Book
Review:
"Burning
Rainbow
Farm:
How
a
Stoner
Utopia
Went
Up
in
Smoke,"
by
Dean
Kuipers
(2006,
Bloomsbury
Press,
$24.95
HB)
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Book
Offer:
Burning
Rainbow
Farm:
How
a
Stoner
Utopia
Went
up
in
Smoke
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Alert:
Still
Time
to
Lobby
Congress
on
Colombia
Vote
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Alert:
Important
Medical
Marijuana
Vote
Coming
Up
in
Congress
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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Europe:
British
Home
Office
Proposes
Tough
Presumed
Drug
Dealing
Thresholds
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Europe:
Swiss
Harm
Reduction
Policy
for
Heroin
Results
in
Less
Problematic
Heroin
Use
|
Sentencing:
US
Conference
of
Mayors
Comes
Out
Against
Mandatory
Minimum
Drug
Sentences
|
Methamphetamine:
Number
in
Treatment
Skyrockets
in
Last
Decade,
But
Much
of
Increase
Linked
to
Criminal
Justice
System
|
Methamphetamine:
Illinois
Governor
Signs
Meth
Bills,
Will
Increase
Penalties,
Create
Meth
Maker
Registry
|
Elections:
Alabama's
Nall
to
Continue
With
Write-In
Campaign
After
Falling
Short
on
Signature
Drive
|
Web
Scan:
Dueling
Vigils
for
Lost
Promise,
Things
About
Drugs
Top
Ten
List,
Pain
Articles
in
Reason
and
Medical
Economics,
Drug
Czar's
Meth
Mispronouncement
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